Can you help me out my friendly hubbers please

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   tlcsposted 9 years ago

   I have just received an odd email, can anyone tell me please what vta commissions are? This e-mail is well odd, stating a huge some of money! I haven't opened the e-mail yet, but am tempted! Any of my fellow hubbers know what this is?

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      SheilaMilneposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      vta appears to be Valley Transportation Authority so either it's been sent to you in error or it's a phishing scam, though I can't find any evidence of that being used anywhere else.  Either way, I'd delete it

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      If I remember correctly, VTA refers to income adjustments related to non US sources. None of this makes any sense, so I would just delete the email.

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      brakel2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I would suggest you never open such emails. People have been duped into sending money in order to receive larger sums of money. The elderly sometimes comply and lose a lot of money that way. I delete emails when I am unfamiliar with the sender. If someone verifies your email address, they can wreak havoc on your computer. Thanks for asking for advice and have a great day.

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      peachpurpleposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      It should be a virus email. Don't open unless you want to format your hard drive

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   Neil S Hallposted 9 years ago

   Hi tics. I've never heard of "vta commissions", and if you're being offered a huge amount of money then I would suggest you view the whole thing as thoroughly suspicious. If you are entitled to a large amount of money then you will be informed about it in a more formal way, not by an incomprehensible email. I would suggest that you delete it unopened.

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   NateB11posted 9 years ago

   Sounds like a scam to me; scams often offer huge sums of money. Especially if you get an email like that out of the blue from an unknown source. Although scammer will masquerade as a known source too. I'd be very cautious, I'd even be hesitant to open it; definitely wouldn't click on any links.
   
   Also if you Google something about the email, like "vta commissions", you will likely find forum threads and articles about it being a scam. That's what I usually do with an unusual email.

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   tlcsposted 9 years ago

   Thanks everyone, decided to delete it.

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   souvikm16posted 9 years ago

   This is a scam for sure. You would first me promised a huge sum of money. In the next step you would be asked to deposit a certain amount of money to a designated bank account for the so-called 'Processing fees'. Once that's done, you would again receive a mail after a few days citing problems with processing due to certain laws pertaining to your country because of which you would again be asked to deposit a certain amount to overcome these fresh obstacles. This would go on for a few days and by the time you realize,  you would have been siphoned off of your hard-earned money. These kind of scams have been around for a long long time now. My suggestion would be to boost up the scam filters of your e-mail, so that next time you receive such a mail, it would automatically go to your Spam folder and get deleted.

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      NateB11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You're very correct that these scams have existed for a long time; even long before there was an Internet; just took different forms; even done through snail mail.
      
      Google "green goods scam" to learn about an old scam run via flyers. The confidence game is an old one, for sure.

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   tlcsposted 9 years ago

   Dont worry guys and gals, I did delete the message without opening it, that said, would have been nice if the amount he had mentioned was in my account! Thanks again.

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