Nasty threat scam

[Sean C]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Next time tape over the computer camera lens.

I told my mother-in-law to do that and she used clear cello-tape.

Originally Posted by STEED

Most of us can spot dumb scams but some don't and it's them these vermin pray on.

The drummer in my band came to practice one day all excited. He told me that he and his girlfriend had received an email telling him that if he sent US$500 to the sender, he would get something like $5,000 in return. I laughed and said "You didn't send it though, right?" He had a puzzled look on his face and replied "Yeah, we did. ... Why?"


I asked him if he was serious and he said he was. He didn't seem to understand why I was questioning the idea at all. I had the unfortunate task of explaining to him that his money was gone forever and that he would never see one cent in return. I felt really bad for the guy. He's a good man and I couldn't believe that he fell for it. We were fairly young and that was probably the majority of his savings at the time.

[JU_88]

Damn^ poor guy.

Well if you need cheering up there is no shortage of Youtube Videos
Showing Scammers getting scammed or people just generally playing along while messing with them and driving them completely nuts.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Nathaniel B.

I told my mother-in-law to do that and she used clear cello-tape.





The drummer in my band came to practice one day all excited. He told me that he and his girlfriend had received an email telling him that if he sent US$500 to the sender, he would get something like $5,000 in return. I laughed and said "You didn't send it though, right?" He had a puzzled look on his face and replied "Yeah, we did. ... Why?"


I asked him if he was serious and he said he was. He didn't seem to understand why I was questioning the idea at all. I had the unfortunate task of explaining to him that his money was gone forever and that he would never see one cent in return. I felt really bad for the guy. He's a good man and I couldn't believe that he fell for it. We were fairly young and that was probably the majority of his savings at the time.

Some people only learn lessons in life the hard way unfortunately.

[Reece]

There's an old saying, "If it's too good to be true then it's too good to be true!"

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Reece

There's an old saying, "If it's too good to be true then it's too good to be true!"

Windows 10 free for the first year.

Nothing is free.


I would suggest if you are getting lots of spam and scams change your email address and stop giving it out to the world.