Seems legit...

[Tango589]

Attention Dear Esteemed
Your 2 payment $5000/$5000 each was sent to you today out of your total US$2,5M through Money Gram and this is the information to picked them up, No Question? No Answer, Senders Name; Sabrina Costa: ref#: 58655005/ second payment/ Senders Name : Dazshaleek Utsey : ref#: 34466857,however,you need to contact Roberto Patrick, with sum of US$59,00,to use it retrieve those your Ref Numbers, before you can picked the payment for you on his email ( vie33.laurent@laposte.net (emailvie33.laurent@laposte.net) ) Or call him immediately you pick up the 2 payment on this phone (+)229-98-142-735 for him to send you another 2 payment, Best Regards
Mrs. Rose Morris


I seem to be getting a lot of these sort of things recently, from relatives I didn't know i had, to US soldiers and high-ranking Nigerian officials, and my personal favourite so far, one from the Great Britain Lottery stating I had won £1,950,000 and that the EU and IMF where both in agreement that I should receive this life-changing sum of money!



Is anyone else being plagued by these or is it just me on AOL being singled out?

[Buddahaid]

I never get them.

[Catfish]

I never get them.

I can give you a chance, i will just provide your eMail addy in a response to them all, if you would be so nice as to post it here ..
:D

[Tango589]

I can give you a chance, i will just provide your eMail addy in a response to them all, if you would be so nice as to post it here ..
:D

That would just be mean, but oh so funny...:yep:

[Jimbuna]

Some people have all the luck.

[Armistead]

What's shocking is the amount of nuts that answer these things. Saw a story where a lady had sent more money to one of those nut tv preachers as a seed, then she got a miracle from Nigeria.....and ended up with her bank account empty.

[TarJak]

[QUOTE=Tango589;2146871]
me on AOL /QUOTE]
There's your problem. ;)

[Father Goose]

I seem to be getting a lot of these sort of things recently, from relatives I didn't know i had, to US soldiers and high-ranking Nigerian officials, and my personal favourite so far, one from the Great Britain Lottery stating I had won £1,950,000 and that the EU and IMF where both in agreement that I should receive this life-changing sum of money!

Is anyone else being plagued by these or is it just me on AOL being singled out?

If you are a senior citizen...you're in their target sites. Very difficult to catch. Scam is world-wide. Hundreds are reported every day in US. Usually need to be six figures before they are investigated.

What's shocking is the amount of nuts that answer these things. Saw a story where a lady had sent more money to one of those nut tv preachers as a seed, then she got a miracle from Nigeria.....and ended up with her bank account empty.

They "fish" for seniors preying on the ones with dementia or naive greed.

[Admiral Halsey]

I say prank them. It's always fun playing pranks on these scammers.

[August]

If you are a senior citizen...you're in their target sites. Very difficult to catch. Scam is world-wide. Hundreds are reported every day in US. Usually need to be six figures before they are investigated.



They "fish" for seniors preying on the ones with dementia or naive greed.


They're very persuasive. My mother calls me at least once a week excited to tell me that she has won a pile of money on a contest she didn't know she had entered.

I have to repeatedly point out the "if you've won you could get..." buried amidst the detailed and flashy description of what the prizes are.

[Red October1984]

Some people have all the luck.

:rotfl2: :yeah:

[Herr-Berbunch]

I say prank them. It's always fun playing pranks on these scammers.

I remember reading about a bloke a few years ago who replied with a 'I want to help but I've heard about some scams, could you forward a token $1-2 to my account to prove you're genuine!' and it occasionally worked.

There is an add-on for Firefox (maybe others) called Mask Me, it gives an option of inputting a gibberish email address which will then notify you or forward to your real email address when you get an email to it so you can check if it's genuine or not without giving your address to the world.

[Tango589]

If you are a senior citizen...you're in their target sites. Very difficult to catch. Scam is world-wide. Hundreds are reported every day in US. Usually need to be six figures before they are investigated.



They "fish" for seniors preying on the ones with dementia or naive greed.


Senior citizen? The cheek of it, I'm only 32! Ok, some days I might feel like a wreck, but i'm still not that old...:cool:

[Sailor Steve]

Senior citizen? The cheek of it, I'm only 32! Ok, some days I might feel like a wreck, but i'm still not that old...:cool:
I'm sure your kids (or any relevant neighborhood kids) think you are. On the other hand since one of my kids is two years older than you, you have my sympathies. And I started late!

[Tango589]

I'm sure your kids (or any relevant neighborhood kids) think you are.

This is true. I see the school kids coming home and sometimes think to myself "Is it really that long ago that I was doing the same"? Sometimes this does have its benefits, as when I heard on the radio that knife crime between 16 - 22 year olds had risen, it was with a feeling of relief that I realised it no longer afffects me!

[Sailor Steve]

I would like to announce that I have never fallen for one of these scams. Nigerians, Nicaraguans, Nepalese and New Zealanders will never get my money.

I hate those scammers so much that when our very own FBI sent me an email asking me to help catch these people, I cheerfully handed them all my money as quickly as possible. I consider it my sacred duty to support our law enforcement in every way possible to stop this sort of thing! :smug:

[Tango589]

^:har:

[soopaman2]

Dude, they are so easily pranked.

Just buy the story, and delay, ask for silly photos, like the guy who made his scammer post a pic with a loaf of bread on his head, you can bait them for years if you are good enough, they are dumb as rocks. Esquire my ass.

419 eater will gladly host any conversations you have, I wish some ass would try this with me, I would play them like a Stradivarius.

Trolling is kinda a specialty of mine :)

[Jimbuna]

I would never have realised :doh:

[Father Goose]

Is anyone else being plagued by these or is it just me on AOL being singled out?

Senior citizen? The cheek of it, I'm only 32! Ok, some days I might feel like a wreck, but i'm still not that old...:cool:

Sorry dude! :oops:
I'll have to fall back to "it's just you on AOL being singled out". :O:

[Tango589]

Sorry dude! :oops:
I'll have to fall back to "it's just you on AOL being singled out". :O:

No probs, I'm very hard to offend!:up:

Fortunately all these emails land in my spam inbox, so I can just sit down and laugh at them at my leisure.

[Aktungbby]

No probs, I'm very hard to offend!
Fortunately all these emails land in my spam inbox, so I can just sit down and laugh at them at my leisure.

All the better with a Hamm's; whether yer hard or not!:har:

[stoppro]

I get these hispanics with heavy accents saying they are from mircosoft saying something is wrong with my OS and they want me to turn on my computer and get access to 'fix' it. sure I get these about once every two months. Sounds like they are calling from a large boiler room lots of talk in the background.I don't know how anyone can fall for this.I can barely make out what they are saying. but I guess some do.

[Jimbuna]

I get these hispanics with heavy accents saying they are from mircosoft saying something is wrong with my OS and they want me to turn on my computer and get access to 'fix' it. sure I get these about once every two months. Sounds like they are calling from a large boiler room lots of talk in the background.I don't know how anyone can fall for this.I can barely make out what they are saying. but I guess some do.

We also get that here in the UK...someone must be falling for it to make it worth their while.

[Platapus]

It is amazing that people do fall for these stories. :doh:

Datapoint

A few years ago, The Frau was working at a computer security company. This company's business was educating other businesses on safe computer/E-mail practices and in the designing of more secure networks.

Back when the "I love you" virus came out, her company's E-mail was computerized. Evidently, many (not just several) of the employees of this computer security company, opened up the virus E-mail. :/\\!!:/\\!!

The Frau was livid. How can people who work for a computer security company, whose business areas is keeping businesses safe from viruses, fall for this virus attack!

It is bizarre. :nope:

[Tango589]

It is amazing that people do fall for these stories. :doh:

Datapoint

A few years ago, The Frau was working at a computer security company. This company's business was educating other businesses on safe computer/E-mail practices and in the designing of more secure networks.

Back when the "I love you" virus came out, her company's E-mail was computerized. Evidently, many (not just several) of the employees of this computer security company, opened up the virus E-mail. :/\\!!:/\\!!

The Frau was livid. How can people who work for a computer security company, whose business areas is keeping businesses safe from viruses, fall for this virus attack!

It is bizarre. :nope:

You can try and make a system fool-proof, but there are some very determined fools out there!