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Two Scams I must tell you about and I think they are urgent.
From Don Roach The Car Secrets Guy
http://www.carsecrets101.com (Book Site)
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These are not car scams but nonetheless they are very important.

#1 The last several days I have been getting “mail returned” notices. The first one seemed familiar but I was not curious enough to open the attachment to see who I had sent it to.

I thought I must have replied to some ad and it returned a message to let the sender know I had opened the mail and it not really being important I just deleted it. Note it showed that it was from my regular e mail.

The next day I received another one. This time it was supposedly sent from an email I hardly ever use as far as the domain goes BUT it was also a name@ that was not registered to that domain. That got my suspicion up.

That is when I realized that someone is trying to get to open an attachment. A few years ago I opened an attachment from a friend and it destroyed my computer operation, lost all my records and literally trashed the machine.

Keep an eye out for this scam and don’t let curiosity cost you your computer.


#2 This one happened yesterday while I was working at my computer. The phone rings. I always look at the caller ID. It show “Private caller”. Aware but I won’t hold that against them.

A young (probably 19-20 years old) girl says “your dog is in my pool” I was shocked and said “ my dog is on a chain, then after a quick thought I remembered that she has broken the chain several times and escaped so I said wait a minute and I’ll check.” This being a portable phone I was on my way to check on our dog, Sky, and continued to carry on a conversation. She said she was a neighbor. When I asked her what her address was she avoided it with a question about my address. I stated you may have the wrong number, she replied with my number and at a somewhat louder more forceful voice said again that she was my neighbor.

I, not wanting to tick off a neighbor (but in all honesty I really don’t know my neighbors. I have met and talked to the close ones but I’m thinking with the accent she could be a couple of blocks away.) I asked her where her pool was and she said in her backyard. I asked her where her backyard was and she said in my neighborhood.

I am now out with my dog Sky and she is still chained. ( we keep her chained due to her rummaging through the trash at the across the road gas station and dragging beer bottles and empty beer containers back to the yard ) We have thought about getting her into AA but they have rules that you must be able to understand English or something like that. She is still animate about my dog is in her pool. I tell my dog is right here and on a chain, do you want to talk to her? She said yes! Are we both crazy?

I pet Sky and coax her to say something but she just breathed into the phone. By this time I had had all the fun I wanted from this call and I told her she had the wrong number.

Thinking I was then getting ready to leave she blurted out her underlying intention.
“I have some nude pictures of me an a CD in jpeg that I will send you for $5.00”

I told her I was not interested and I hung up the phone.

I then got thinking (don’t want to do that too often)
Her scam was to make me think she was a neighbor.
That would keep me on the phone.
Use a variation of the “lost puppy” scam used to lure kids into trouble. (uses your emotions)
Temp the victim with nude pictures of probably a minor and get their credit card number.
Go on a spending spree with their card or sell it on the black market.

There are as many scams as there are people so BEWARE!!!

Till the next time ..................... The Car Secrets Guy

Don Roach
www.carsecrets101.com