Nigerian Texts...

nesf

Anyone else getting strange spam like texts from Nigerian numbers? Or calls?

It's striking me as a very expensive habit to have tbh...

InFront

Not personally. You must have a number that resembles a Nigerian person's number, maybe.

nesf

InFront wrote:

Not personally. You must have a number that resembles a Nigerian person's number, maybe.

That is what I figured from the calls. But just got a text off them was just strange.

*shrugs*

Rb

Are they claiming to be heirs to the throne of Africa and want to give you bazillions of euros to help them complete a simple financial transaction?

scojones

They have phones in Africa now?

Feral Mutant

rb_ie wrote:

Are they claiming to be heirs to the throne of Africa and want to give you bazillions of euros to help them complete a simple financial transaction?

Got an email one of those yesterday. Not that unusual except they'd made a mistake. According to the message, someone I never heard of died and left me 13.5 dollars.

Victor

sjones wrote:

They have phones in Africa now?

Yup, in many developing countries land line systems have been largely bypassed and many people's first phone have been mobiles.

Devon

It's another scam I'm afraid! They just need to you send them a text back. That's all, plain and simple. What they don't tell you is it's a premium rate text service! Beware!

mukki

Devon wrote:

It's another scam I'm afraid! They just need to you send them a text back. That's all, plain and simple. What they don't tell you is it's a premium rate text service! Beware!

but if you dont reply you wont get the bazzillons :rolleyes:

de5p0i1er

Just delete them and complain to your service provider if it keeps up.

Ruu_Old

Tell them to call you immediately (at the local Garda station number).

Victor

mukki wrote:

but if you dont reply you wont get the bazzillons :rolleyes:

But they are from Nigeria, not Brazil.

Black Swan

How about some iceberg beach property?

Adam

Victor wrote:

But they are from Nigeria, not Brazil.

I can almost here the groans... :rolleyes:

gucci

Victor wrote:

Yup, in many developing countries land line systems have been largely bypassed and many people's first phone have been mobiles.

they probably have better broad band than us in ireland too:(

Stephen

Yep, lots of developing countries now have all wireless local loops, because every time the telcos laid copper it got dug up and sold!

Victor

In Somalia, it was the mobile phone companies that pushed for the Islamic Courts - fed up with shakes downs from militias.

Stephen wrote:

Yep, lots of developing countries now have all wireless local loops, because every time the telcos laid copper it got dug up and sold!

Surprisingly true 150Mb/second in 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4020259.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/19/ndiary119.xml

fastedmund

Was a labour, became a pain and now a serious threat. Thats effectively what has happened with spam in the past year.

I have two email addresses. My own one is an eircom one and I payed them a small fee to protect it from spam. No real difference. It stops some but far from all.

In work we have an account with spamseal.com
This works perfectly on my work email address but they cant or wont filter my eircom account. They will only filter private domains. The work domain is irishmedical.com and they stopped literally all spam on that. Does anyone know of a similar service (which works as well) for the likes of eircom, hotmail, yahoo etc?

Linoge

fastedmund wrote:

Was a labour, became a pain and now a serious threat. Thats effectively what has happened with spam in the past year.

I have two email addresses. My own one is an eircom one and I payed them a small fee to protect it from spam. No real difference. It stops some but far from all.

In work we have an account with spamseal.com
This works perfectly on my work email address but they cant or wont filter my eircom account. They will only filter private domains. The work domain is irishmedical.com and they stopped literally all spam on that. Does anyone know of a similar service (which works as well) for the likes of eircom, hotmail, yahoo etc?

lol, gotta love noobs!!!:D

Firstly, the OP is talking about texts! Besides that, there are loads of ways to protect yourself from spam for free. Get a proper email account like gmail and also stop signing up for loads of crap on the internet:)

Of course your question would be better off in BB forum.....

DilbertPartII

Feral Mutant wrote:

Got an email one of those yesterday. Not that unusual except they'd made a mistake. According to the message, someone I never heard of died and left me 13.5 dollars.

my!an acquaintance also received that kind of crap.:mad: the sad thing is, they are trying to extort $10,000 to process the papers, they say.:(

Fanny Cradock

sjones wrote:

They have phones in Africa now?

You should have watched Newsnight last, eh, night.

InFront

Why are some poeple more susceptible to spam than others? I have never received spam emails, despite using email about 6/7 days in the week. Do you have to give your address to some disreputable company to receive them? I must say I feel a bit excluded. Nobody has ever offered me a princely inheritance.
It's making me paranoid.
If I am receiving no spam then - maybe - I am the spammer:eek:

Fanny Cradock

InFront wrote:

I must say I feel a bit excluded. Nobody has ever offered me a princely inheritance.

OK, I'm €1,000 short of the sum needed to assemble a crack team of hunters and trackers to find the leprechaun that stole my lucky charms. If you give me this €1,000, and the team is successful in reclaiming what is rightfully mine, I'll give you a magical coin that returns to the purse each time it is paid out.

There you go. Happy?

Capt'n Midnight

de5p0i1er wrote:

Just delete them and complain to your service provider if it keeps up.

why should they care, they take a bigger cut than the scammers :mad:


fastedmund get spambayes to block local spam or setup several email addresses, a private one and a public one for signing up to stuff that you don't mind being spammed out of it.

Lust4Life

Man! Now they've moved on to the Text Market looking for fools?
Amazing.

InFront

Fanny Cradock wrote:

OK, I'm €1,000 short of the sum needed to assemble a crack team of hunters and trackers to find the leprechaun that stole my lucky charms. If you give me this €1,000, and the team is successful in reclaiming what is rightfully mine, I'll give you a magical coin that returns to the purse each time it is paid out.

There you go. Happy?

Cheers! Just let me know you're bank details, send me a photocopy of your passport with your current address and back sort code, and I'll have the money with you by Monday:cool:

BanzaiBk

Wow...just wow. I can only imagine what I'd do if I got one:rolleyes:

InFront

we posted that at the exact same time you know. I clicked ok and I was already behind in the queue...

BanzaiBk

InFront wrote:

we posted that at the exact same time you know. I clicked ok and I was already behind in the queue...

Lol me? I was always a one for stealing the thunder.