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I think it’s all over the place not just forums, I visit ‘Attheraces’ everyday and do all the competitions on there, there are hundreds of thousands of members signed up, I got the same ad on there too.
A few weeks ago up popped a sign saying I had been selected as a prize winner, all I had to do was make a choice of three prizes (An iPad, mobile phone, and something else) and answer a racing question, well it was a horse racing channel after all, I selected the iPad and answered the question, next up came another pop telling me all I had to do was pay for the postage, bang! that was it, I was out of that like a light.

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I was wondering what you were talking about, the so called 'serves' in that thread were pretty mild to the point of non existent.

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But the tone was there Bruce which was not either helpful or very friendly considering how Carol was answered when she had a similar problem. Just struck me as very different.

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Non existent, no one said it serves you right.

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The implication was there. But lets move on it was a while ago and as I said several people no longer seem to post or may have been banned so it's over as far as I am concerned.

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Really, Julie I don't know who that would be

All the members posting in that thread are still here and post regularly if you check their profiles.

I don't think any of them had a 'serves you right' attitude .
I guess you may be thinking of another site to which you belong where the members are not so nice as ours

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I've just a spoof e.mail this evening from someone pretending to be paypal.
They said my account had "been logged in to from a computer or mobile device I had never used before", and provided a link for me to click on!
I didn't click on it of course, but I did phone paypal and they said it was a spoof e.mail and to forward it straight to them, which I did. I also changed my password straightaway too.
This sort of thing really worries me, so I hope I don't get anymore like it.

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I don't worry about them Mups like many of the cold calls we get on the phone these days they are randomly generated and the sender doesn't know who the recipients are . The senders just bank on someone responding to one of the many mails .
I am afraid they are part of life these days, annoying traps we just have to get used to stepping over .

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But how do they know my e.mail address Meg? Can they tap into my e.mails now?

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I don't know Mups I think there are lists of email which are bought and sold and circulate between scammers .
Very often the recipient isn't actually named in the email itself.