Scam watch: an apparent heir’s big promise

Yes malcolm , the Nigerian Scam is well known to US authorities for a decade or so, coming from a Nigerian “Prince ” who wishes to deposit funds in this country to keep it out of the reach of his many wife’s and like worded scams . Its so well known in the States jokes are made about it. I have zero confidence in any initial arrests from those scams unless you are a prominent personality or millionaire. It costs the UK too much money in time and resources and HMG has admitted that. My email scams relate to BT,s leaky BT Mail and US third party contacts because of taking up a new contract with them . We have already had several convos on this subject which achieved ???? Is it not about time “Call-Centre India was taken to task as thats where many UK citizens have complaints against ? But it wont happen –trade talks going on unlike the USA who even send the FBI etc to India to route out the scammers .

I also get the dodgy BT emails and have reported them to BT and Sky (my Broadband provider) with no reaction of any kind. Why BT allow this imitation of their corresondence to continue is beyond me.

Charles , BT dont own BT Mail its an American company , that company uses BT customers & others as “cash cows ” by selling data to third parties in the USA.

You can use E4ward email addresses for that. you can create an email with that stem to let you know with whom you’re using the email. For example

honestronsbookmakers @ e4ward. com (I’ve separated the terms so no one sends email accidentally to it)

That way you know immediately when you start to get spam who’s sold your email address on.

I see I am not alone Marie , my confidence in BT,s security has dropped sharply and its down to money as when you apply to the sales dept. your details are provided to third parties , normally in the USA .From then on its “normal practice ” for them to scam you . Do you have an email client like Thunderbird ? , if so go into the filter programme and input part of the URL in the “use part of the message ” as a filter . If the URL says BT EMAIL copy that exactly -upper and lower case and confirm that as a filter. Dont put down just BT as then you will not receive genuine emails from BT. Yes its very convincing , those US hackers are getting good , that BT allow this to happen to its customers is disgraceful and a slight on BT itself but its an American company that owns the service and they allow third party interference there. Get back to me if you need help making a filter.

I studied your post for a while before it appeared on Which? wondering what sort of reply to give as this could be controversial in some peoples eyes . You did the right thing forwarding them to Action Fraud. Many attempts over the years have been made by “certain parties ” to get me to click onto porn websites — they all failed . I knew that they wanted leverage against me , they didnt get it and eventually gave up . For the record I have NEVER visited a porn website but this presents a moral problem as a heterosexual male I am naturally attracted to females even so if they were able to log me watching porn online my answer would be —-so what ? -publish and be dammed . I have off-line stored away a long list of MP,s -ex MP,s -famous people- actors/actresses- titled people -millionaires – lawyers- accountants – big -shots in the City doing much worse than look at porn . Where -quote-its not in the publics interest keeps coming up to cover their actions . I have visited many brothels/massage parlours working for BT , spoken to the “workers” , got on well with them because I did NOT judge them , to them its a job and payed many times my wages at the time , living in flash flats in a big city, new cars- top end clothes , jewelry etc. They were very angry at anybody trying to tell them to stop it now. This is real life , not conjecture , maybe,if or buts , if females want to make a lot of money this way –well good luck to them , they weren’t downtrodden , browbeaten etc , very outspoken , very sure of themselves and they were run by females not males.

I have to agree with you here, duncan. Who cares? As long as it does not result in guilt and attempting to cover it up when it might be revealed.

It’s the current scam doing the rounds Just ignore it.

I am sorry here of your problem Judith but I have to say –going by your post that your troubles are not over – this was taking hours – quote. They have deposited trojans.viruses .malware on your Windows 10 computer ,they will require removal by going into Regedit etc and will be deposited all over your computer . You must remove them or get somebody well versed in malware removal as they have now created “open doors ” to your computer . As a matter of fact I advise a re-installation which is what some experts , even Windows recommend . If you want I can take you through it but it is detailed and technical and takes time as well as tracing them . By allowing them access you have overcome the inbuilt virus protection , I would not delay in getting this done .