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BEWARE! WHATSAPP VOUCHER SCAM!

Bambino — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:37:55 GMT

Just saw this on the BBC website. Looks very malicious. Be aware of what you click on.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41900814

Re: BEWARE! WHATSAPP VOUCHER SCAM!

MI5 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:41:21 GMT

It's been going round facebook for years unfortunately and still the gullible fall for it.

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Cleoriff — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:43:39 GMT

Wow...thanks for the heads up @Bambino These scams are getting quite sophisticated and are extremely worrying...

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Bambino — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:46:35 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
It's been going round facebook for years unfortunately and still the gullible fall for it.

Yes I've seen it on Facebook many many times, but it's now surfacing through WhatsApp, so I thought it best to give people a heads up. So many scams these days, you have to keep up and be very savvy.

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MI5 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:50:55 GMT

For sure mate.

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Cleoriff — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:52:27 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
@MI5 wrote:
It's been going round facebook for years unfortunately and still the gullible fall for it.
Yes I've seen it on Facebook many many times, but it's now surfacing through WhatsApp, so I thought it best to give people a heads up. So many scams these days, you have to keep up and be very savvy.

If honest I have never seen it on FB before...I belong to various FB groups so don't often look at my timeline/news feeds etc. I am grateful for the heads up...particularly as Tu is now disappearing...

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jonsie — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:53:15 GMT

It's a little worrying because people always want something for nothing and these scams do look convincing.

all caps became closely identified with "shouting" and may be consider rude

MercedesS — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:40:05 GMT

Thanks for sharing @Bambino! It is great to see you back

Please remember 'Netiquette' generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online: With the advent of the Bulletin board system or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour and may be considered rude.

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viridis — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:08:15 GMT

@MercedesS wrote:
Thanks for sharing @Bambino! It is great to see you back

Please remember 'Netiquette' generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online: With the advent of the Bulletin board system or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour and may be considered rude.

Actually highlighting topic titles with capitals is very much accepted and also is used to convey urgency and loudness of text, usually used when important messages need to be posted in a manner that alerts people to the topic. Ergo, yes it is attention seeking, for a purpose.

It is also considered rude with the advent of bulletin board systems to publicly try to point out people's grammatical errors, especially when the system in place allows the use of private messaging systems (PM) in order to alert a user to their possible error.

If we can all remember this going forward, that'd be grand.

Re: all caps became closely identified with "shouting" and may be consider rude

Cleoriff — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:38:37 GMT

I agree with @viridis The caps used in the topic title were, in this instance, used for a purpose.

To seek attention of forum members. Alerting them to a possible costly scam.

The remainder of the post was written as it should be, normal font, without 'shouting'

I see nothing wrong with the post or the manner in which it was written.

As a Facebook user it certainly alerted me to the scam.

Re: all caps became closely identified with "shouting" and may be consider rude

Bambino — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:47:12 GMT

@viridis wrote:
@MercedesS wrote:
Thanks for sharing @Bambino! It is great to see you back

Please remember 'Netiquette' generally discourages the use of all caps when posting messages online: With the advent of the Bulletin board system or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour and may be considered rude.

Actually highlighting topic titles with capitals is very much accepted and also is used to convey urgency and loudness of text, usually used when important messages need to be posted in a manner that alerts people to the topic. Ergo, yes it is attention seeking, for a purpose.

It is also considered rude with the advent of bulletin board systems to publicly try to point out people's grammatical errors, especially when the system in place allows the use of private messaging systems (PM) in order to alert a user to their possible error.
If we can all remember this going forward, that'd be grand.

You took the words right out of my mouth, @viridis, and thank you for pointing this out. The topic of this thread was deliberately posted in caps, as I wanted to make people aware of the potential dangers of a current scam making the rounds which has the potential of possibly spreading viruses to phones, and in the worst possible scenario, costing people money by inadvertently clicking on a link that would put charges on people's accounts. It was in no way shouting in any sense of the word, nor was there anything grammatically incorrect in me doing that.

Anyone here can plainly see how long I've been a member of this community, and I take great offense in being lectured publicly by anyone within this forum of my use of "Netiquette". It most definitely was attention seeking, and I'm happy to have done it.

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Glory1 — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:13:45 GMT

Very good points made and well said @viridis and @Bambino 👍