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To paraphrase Dennis Miller....
You gotta be a real piece of Samsonite to answer this email...
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Chris Hansen had a show about catching an internet scammer and they found a guy in upstate New York who had been convinced that a hot babe was doing a mail order business in the US and needed his help in shipping packages. He would receive expensive items in the mail and forward them to her in Benin and pay all the postage. He believed he was going to profit from this business and marry the hotty who had sent him photos of herself. The photos had been found on some website of course and the guy was a near Elmer Fudd on the babe magnet scale. He was planning to leave his wife to go off with his business partner babe and had exhausted much of their savings by the time Hansen pointed out to him that he was being had. He was doing the 'dang, how can that be' routine. Imagine the conversation he had with his wife when he told her about it. Probably got some money from Hansen and team for allowing his story to be used. I suspect his wife had left him by then anyway.
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i have seen were people send those scammers old washing machines, broke electronic stuff
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Too late as I have the babe and money. I just asked the wife if she wanted two million dolllars and some help around the house.
Actually I can see an insecure and unknowing person responding. As the first letter would seem a threat to some. As stated the same basic scams have been present for years so they must still catch some fish. Perhaps some scams are dropping off at the same time as we have not had the kind offers to fix our computers as much if at all as of late. I tried to be original when answering their calls. Things like I already have one Nigerian gentleman repairing it as we speak. As you are aware though money is everything. So if you send me fifty dollars you can replace him. Just send me a cheque for a milion dollars and being honest I will just take my fifty dollars out and send you the balance. |
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They prey on old people and morons. Plenty of them around. Most of the present members here excepted, of course.
Scare the bejeezus out of them pretending to be from the IRS. An associate of mine has an elderly couple as clients who fell for it....twice in the same day. . Go to Big Lots and send a payment draft to xxxx. Are you kidding me? Then they reeled them in a second time as soon as the first payment was made. Stupidity and fear (or greed): a winning combo for thieves. |
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It is amazing the shamelessness of scammers who prey on the elderly. I've read of plenty of this sort of thing happening in bank parking lots, using some ruse of being a bank examiner who needs this stalwart's citizens help in ferreting out wrongdoing.
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I used to get some of those eMails. Last was from the 'FBI' about 10 years ago, informing me of a child-porn investigation and that I better supply them with all my vital information 'or else!'
But lately it's been by phone. Last year someone from 'Publisher's Clearing House' called (from Jamaica), insisting I had to send a $3400 money transfer via Walmart to verify my ID, in order to collect my 'million dollar prize'. Had alot of fun stringing this dirtbag along while I taped the conversation. Even got him to call back so I could tell him to go and (deleted) someone else. Then this January, 'Agent Rodriguez' with the 'IRS' (California area code) called me at my Virginia Beach address to demand payment of an $8400 judgement in order to prevent immediate seizure of all my assets! When I questioned why the IRS would call me at a number that wasn't my official residence, and then told this creep that he was a scammer, he replied "Well, smart-mouth, just you wait there for the sherrif!" I'm still waiting. I'd swear the 'Publisher's Clearing House' and 'IRS' scammers sounded like the same person. Pity I didn't have my recorder handy this time. Happy Motoring, Mark
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I better go wade through that spam email folder before I gets me arrested !
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