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You’ll be pleased to know I’ve found my Prince...

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BeautyQueenIamNot · 07/04/2021 14:14

All I need to do is transfer him some money Hmm surely my Prince Charming should have enough money to pay for his flight

And I’ve also been watching porn and someone is going to send a video to all my contacts if I don’t pay £1000...

Where the heck do these people get my email address from?!?

Feel like I’m part of the club now I’ve got the emails

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Hazelnutlatteplease · 08/04/2021 10:36

Both Facebook and fat face have had big data breaches recently

Unsuremover · 08/04/2021 11:46

@Eggsley I can highly recommend, but there’s not an elegant sophisticated way to do it. And you definitely need to wash your face after.

Eggsley · 08/04/2021 11:53

@Unsuremover off to Tesco to get some mars bars...will report back.

@BeautyQueenIamNot who knew such good would come from your Prince Charming Grin

InsanityRocks · 08/04/2021 11:53

[quote Unsuremover]@Eggsley I can highly recommend, but there’s not an elegant sophisticated way to do it. And you definitely need to wash your face after.[/quote]
Have you tried biting each end off a twix and sucking up the coffee? It is the best!

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 08/04/2021 11:54

@expectopelargonium

One of my customers at work emailed me the other day saying they had tried to pay and the bank had rejected their payment, so could I please click on this link and fill in all the bank details etc again.

"Oh yeah?" I thought. What gave the game away was that this customer never pays on time, let alone early. Grin

🤣🤣🤣

Just as well they accidentally picked an obvious one!!

Eggsley · 08/04/2021 11:55

@Unsuremover I also don't really do anything in an elegant and sophisticated way, so that's not a problem for me Blush

@InsanityRocks Shock like it's a straw? I will add to my shopping list!

MagpiePi · 08/04/2021 11:58

@fairydustandpixies

I had an email today telling me that my HSBC bank account had been accessed by an unknown device and to click on the link if it wasn't an authorised payment. I was quite excited as I don't bank with HSBC but they obviously have some money in an account for me 😁
I had that one too!

Lloyds are also desperate for me to click on a link to check out my non-existent account.

InsanityRocks · 08/04/2021 11:58

[quote Eggsley]@Unsuremover I also don't really do anything in an elegant and sophisticated way, so that's not a problem for me Blush

@InsanityRocks Shock like it's a straw? I will add to my shopping list! [/quote]
Exactly like a straw Grin

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 08/04/2021 12:00

@Spied

There's a parcel waiting for me at Royal Mail. I just need to send them my bank details so they can take the 1.99 handling charge.....
They're not going to be able to move at my local sorting depot for parcels waiting gir me!

Amazon/PayPal/Nigeria & poem and that's just this week 🙄🙄

Apparently they have recorded me from my phone camera doing unspeakable things which are illegal & against God, I'm apparently filthy but beyond help 🤣

LadyCatStark · 08/04/2021 12:01

My bank accounts keep getting breached all the time. I wonder how much is in these bank accounts that I never knew I had?

Unsuremover · 08/04/2021 12:03

@InsanityRocks hmm, I’m not a huge fan of a twix but for scientific purposes I’ll give it a bash.

I’m almost sad now I don’t have to explain to everyone in my mailing list why I was dipping a mars bar. Honestly was the best part of that job.

viques · 08/04/2021 12:06

I am having to type very very quickly because apparently BT is about to pull the plug on my internet connection. honestly, it could happen at any mom

viques · 08/04/2021 12:11

@Spied

There's a parcel waiting for me at Royal Mail. I just need to send them my bank details so they can take the 1.99 handling charge.....
I wouldn’t bother, it’s probably one of my many pairs of Nike trainers that Amazon keep telling me someone has bought using my account. Or you could get lucky, it seems I also buy lots of i-phones.
Echobelly · 08/04/2021 12:11

LOL, I entertained myself for a week or by accepting a FB friend request from a guy who I could just tell from the picture would turn out to be... yes, you guessed it, a doctor working for the UN in Afghanistan (widowed, of course).

I was interested to see how these guys do it - I can't imagine this guy (well, it's probably a bunch of guys) had much success, he was rubbish, his English was terrible and quite boring! He even actually voice called me which it made it very obvious he was not American. All he did was just say how much he loved me and missed me and give the occasionally homily from a list of cliched sayings about love. Oh, he did ask me if I had 'had sex ones'. Barely asked me any questions about my life otherwise, so completely unengaging.

I couldn't see how this would work on anyone - maybe a really, really lonely woman who didn't speak English well either so couldn't tell how crap he was?

I lost patience before he got to asking me for any money and I told him he needed to find another job as he was lousy at this one.

Echobelly · 08/04/2021 12:15

Soooo many text scams at the mo - had lots of parcel ones, and yesterday a 'Have you set up a transfer to Mrs K Adams?' and a link to HSBC. I do have an account with a subsidiary of HSBC and I do get texts to say I've set up a new transfer, but they don't look like that. It was quite a sneaky one - I quickly checked my transfer list on my app to be sure and no K Adams there.

expectopelargonium · 08/04/2021 14:24

[quote BeautyQueenIamNot]@Eggsley no I haven’t had that one yet I shall look forward to my long lost relatives contacting me Grin

@expectopelargonium glad you didn’t pay!! That’s the kinda one which I would fall for[/quote]
It wasn't me paying them, they owed money to us and apparently they had tried and their payment had been rejected, so please could we click on the link to give them our bank details. As if I was going to fall for that one.

They already have our bank details and have paid their bills late for years. There was no way I was going to believe that they were going to pay early!!

Hoppinggreen · 08/04/2021 15:29

[quote Eggsley]@Unsuremover Mars bar dipped in coffee actually sounds quite nice! [/quote]
Dirty dirty bastards

jannyapple · 08/04/2021 16:52

@Echobelly I had this every single day on Fitbit ... these widowed surgeons/ soldiers / engineers .. one kid ... no regular WiFi but desperate for you to go to hangouts or Google mail.. filling in love in 5 minutes ... desperation ! How to people fall for this ? I changed my picture and am now an old ugly goat , funnily enough all the friend requests have stopped lol

amusedbush · 08/04/2021 17:02

Ugh, nobody ever tries to give their fortune to me. Thankfully I have loads of horny Russian women in my area to cheer me up.

Theunamedcat · 08/04/2021 18:06

I've apparently bought an all new iPhone 6 for a thousand pounds on amazon press 1 if I didnt

And my Internet is going to be cut off if I don't pay $400 dollars to reinstate it (im im England) when I pointed out I was in England she said BT was an American company so I needed to pay in dollars....British Telecom is American? No BT IS AMERICAN COMPANY YOU NEED TO MAKE PAYMENT NOW naaa sugar take me to court (still waiting on court papers)

CoolCatTaco · 08/04/2021 18:12

Warren Buffett wants to give me $1.5m because he's a billionaire philanthropist and shit.

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 08/04/2021 18:20

I have 2 parcels waiting for me as soon as I give royal mail my details.

Something at HSBC even though I bank with Lloyds.

And there's a warrant out for my arrest because someone used my ni number fraudulently. Not sure why that means I get arrested, but to honest if going to jail means someone cooks for a change then I'm all for it.

Hoppinggreen · 08/04/2021 18:23

Microsoft recently phoned me to offer to help with some viruses that were on my machine. When I explained I had a Mac the customer service representative replied with “fuck you bitch”
I really think Microsoft need to have a look at their staff training.

jannyapple · 08/04/2021 18:23

I'm quite new to MN but this is one of the best threads I've found so far
Thank you OP ! Wink

Theunamedcat · 08/04/2021 18:23

I had loads of friends requests from a "villing lee" im assuming she is related to the hot Russian women from my inbox and the Japanese lady who said she is having triplets with my husband my email address is strange its a place name from a book so they are emailing me things like dear "Mrs divergent"

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