WARNING: Member fraud - Page 3

Tao_Equus · 07-28-2007, 05:06 AM

Had no scam mail or a confirmation from them yet.

Muslimwoman · 07-28-2007, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Had no scam mail or a confirmation from them yet.

Thank heavens for that. I didnt get a confirmation or a reply to my request for information - perhaps why they only have 4000 signatures in so long?!

greymare · 05-11-2008, 08:51 AM

got a new scam mail today........... apparently I have won 500,000 pounds in a yahoo/bank of scotland lottery. not freaking likely.... and all they wanted was my account details to deposit the money in...........ooohhh ......... Do I look that stupid? (dont answer that). be aware.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine · 05-11-2008, 09:14 AM

greymare:

How do you like your coffee? And, do you want regulars, lights, menthols and what brand of cigarettes?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

greymare · 05-11-2008, 10:03 AM

lol, dont smoke anymore although i do get the craving when Im drinking. and two heaped teaspoons of coffee, half a teaspoon of sugar and just a dash of lite milk,(its gotta look like mud)

Garnet · 05-29-2008, 09:03 AM

I got a letter from a Nigerian lawyer offering me zillions of dollars.
Well, not exactly me.
I used the name of an old toy, a rabbit puppet named J. Sidney Lawrence, to track how my information was used when I signed up for an e-something or other.
"Sid" received a letter from a Nigerian lawyer who told him that a millionaire whose last name was also Lawrence had died in a trgic accident & left no heirs. He did not ask for a bank account number or anything like that, initially he just wanted confirmation that his email was received. Being the considerate person I am, I corrected it & returned it with the suggestion that he get his secretary's computer a spell-check program.
He wrote back insisting that his offer was legitimate & contiinued to insist that, even after "Sid" claimed to work for the FBI International Fraud Division.
He emailed me several times to describe how real the zillions of dollars were, & each time he used a different email address. He also was promoted from attorney to a government official, "Attorney Minister".
I finally got rid of him by pretending to be Sid's secretary & claiming that Sid had gone undercover to investigate Nigerian banking fraud & couldn't be reached.
I received a couple in my own name from persecuted Iraqi Christians offering me millions if I help them escape from Iraq.

17th Angel · 05-29-2008, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Garnet

I received a couple in my own name from persecuted Iraqi Christians offering me millions if I help them escape from Iraq.

You good at that?

Garnet · 05-29-2008, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex P

You good at that?

Nah...usually I can't make it from the kitchen to the library without following one of the cats.

The "persecuted Iraqi Christians" didn't even want a map, just my bank account info so they could "transfer funds the anti-Christian government wanted to confiscate".

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine · 01-20-2009, 07:39 AM

I recently got one by an alleged victim of the latest Ponzi scam (I can't recall the ex-Wall Street broker who was the mastermind, but you guys might remember.

) Luckily my e-mail account caught it, sent it to the spam folder, and let it "ferment" (unlike the e-account I have through school that lets almost all spam through, including "Increase your *ahem* size/output" enuram.)

*pours a cup of decaf, adds a couple shots of Irish cream and a half teaspoon of sugar, then searches for a "light" cigarette (I don't smoke, so. . .)*

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

17th Angel · 01-20-2009, 08:59 AM

I downloaded the entire Dateline NBC series/shows... There is one called 'To catch a con man.' and in this series they take you into the world of these theives... And how it all starts from a simple email offering you, you know the "usual" YOU'VE WON TEH PRIZE!!! Some African lottery you didn't even enter! You have won, the chances of that!

Or we have X million pounds and they are stuck in a bank lulz and we for some reason cannot access them, but you a total stranger you can put them in your bank!!! Just pay these bank fee's lulz....

Anyway, they "bite" to the emails and arrange meetings.... And it's a real good show to watch, they typically try to play your heart strings with terrible english, me no wel me neeed huspital bed me sick and neeed muny fir oparations! pwease pay for me!

Then they meet them and they are your typical/average dumbass criminal..... As of the "laws" and "justice" there is all this evidence... From emails to letters to phone conversations to the video conversations, yet nothing can be done and they walk away, and the classic bit is these ***** are destroying lives.... And what did the FBI rep say? basically 'we can't be assed to do anything about it' lulz he was saying it isn't a big enough problem... But, it is....

It is also classed with credit card fraud... And that is ever growing, yet you can get away with it.... You can even have the stolen goods delivered to your own front door.... Untouchable... Trust me, I know.

So at the end of the show, the con man smiles and just, walks away...