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 ) 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]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

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 ..

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Catfish

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 ..

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

[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]

Originally Posted by Tango589

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Father Goose

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]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Some people have all the luck.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

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]

Originally Posted by Father Goose

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...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Tango589

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...

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]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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!