Seems legit...
 

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?

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

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

Some people have all the luck.

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.

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There's your problem. ;)

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.

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

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.

:rotfl2: :yeah:

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.

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!

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!

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:

^:har:

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 :)

I would never have realised :doh:

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