Hey I'm not that stupid. If the guy start asking me for my info and asking me for money. Then I know it's a total scam and I wouldn't even far for that. Since I know the first email to was to lure me in and ease my mind but I wouldn't fall for it when someone start making stupid demand. But I find it funny.
So because they didn't demand info or money up front, that means that there's a CHANCE it's legit?? The word FAIL just doesn't do this justice.....
Lately, I've been receiving phone calls from a company "selling" magazine subscriptions. They call your cell phone and ask for a name that doesn't correspond to your own. Once you say that they have the wrong number, they say that someone signed you up in a contest and that you have won. So, they go through a series of routine business talk and offer three free months of specific magazines. It sounds legit until you consider that the number isn't an 800 number. Once you say that you've changed your mind ,they hang up on you. The funny thing is that they've forgotten that I know it's a scam and keep calling me back. They need to take my number out of their registry. Damn fools. I would Chris Brown all of them if given the chance.
i get like 3 - 4 emails like that every week...pretty obvious it's a scam...sadly i guess some people do believe in it.
I've won the MSN/Yahoo lottery four times already because of my visits to Google. I'm amazed every time that 3 competing companies would get together and form a lottery for my benefit.
I received a fax this morning from Dan Clive, Independent Payment Facilitator..United Nations Ombudsman -Europe Office. Apparently I had some money that was coming to me from either Nigeria or other african countries that were supposed to come to me but the money "stalled here in Europe or at the Central Bank of Nigeria as a result of red tapism and corruption." Good thing Mr. Clive is on my side as he conducted investigations and found out that the money was supposed to come to me. All this time the money was going to one Mr. Van H. Volks of Switzerland. That b*stard! I am going to fly over and kick that neutral's ass as soon as I get some of my rightful money transferred to my proper account. Good times are a coming for me folks I cant wait.
Don't let the naysayers stop you Cowboy, when my long lost ancestor Prince Rashmon passed away without heirs, I stepped up when they located me. I now type this post from the veranda of my yacht while sipping from a cocktail with the coolest little paper umbrella.
I feel so bad for you that I want to give you $100 just for suffering all this criticism.. I sympathize with your belief, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to claim an ancestors money.. Meet me up at Galleria sometime this weekend, and the $100 is all yours homeboy.. we can go drink after.
i had to bump this. it would be too great an injustice to allow this thread to die at a mere 2 pages...
Money Mule. He'll give you the bank account number of some other dude's that he hacked, ask you to pull out cash, keep some, and western union the rest to him. the bank will find out, you'll be accountable for tens of thousands of dollars once they reverse the transaction, and end up in jail. good luck.
Anyone think this is legit? It was in my email this morning. I've already started spending the $28 million in my head I am Johnson Wahab, an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine has bequeathed you as His Heir, who died as a result of Heart-Related problem due to the death of all the members of his family in the Gulf Air Flight Crashes in Persian Gulf near Bahrain Aired August 23, 2000 - 2:50 p.m. ET as reported on: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/23/bn.08.html. I understand that through Internet is not the best way to link up with you because of the confidentiality which my proposal demands. However, I have already sent you this same letter one month ago, but I am not sure if it did get to you since I have not heard from you, hence i am constrain to reach you through the Internet which has been abused over the years. I'm contacting you as the Heir to approve the release of the money left behind by my client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this deposit valued at twenty Eight million dollars (US$28 million dollars)is lodged. This bank has issued me a notice to contact you (Heir), or the account will be confiscated. My proposition to you is to seek your consent and approval as the Heir and beneficiary of my late client, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you as His Heir. All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's Heir will be provided. All I require is your approval about this and your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. If this mail proposition offends your moral values, do accept my apology. I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter extraordinary confidential, whatever your decision is,while I await your prompt response. Please contact me at once to indicate your approval. EMAIL: (b-johnson44@live.com) TEL: +60164279256 Best regards, Barrister Johnson Wahab., ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
The thing about these scams is that even if 0.1% of the people fall for it, they're still rich. There's almost no investment involved. Btw, here's a cute scam I heard about. I'm not sure if it's common, but it's pretty appropriate for a sports forum. A guy gets an text message(probably work as an email too) from someone who's claims to be a sports betting genius, and tells him which team to bet for that night's game. He scoffs at the scam. A few days later, he gets another message with another prediction, and remember that the previous prediction was correct. A few days later, another correct prediction. This continues several times until the guy truly believes the scammer, and decide to buy his "prediction service".
but what happens when the prediction is wrong in one of the first few times when the scammer is trying to bait the scammee?
Actually, if you think about it like a pyramid, all you would need to do is simply keep track of which predictions went to which numbers.. send out lots of duplicates, and over a few weeks, you will have eliminated most of the numbers, but some will remain where you hit right each time. The fallacy, the con, comes from the recipient thinking that he was the only one receiving the 'erroneous' texts, and also from believing that those particular predictions were the only ones being made. Classic con, very clever, and extremely hard not to fall for. A lot of magic tricks are based on this kind of sleight-of-hand trickery.
yea.. i heard about this... they call half of a set of people and give them a prediction on one team, and then call the other half and make a prediction on the opposing team. then the next week, they do it again on the winning group. if it's too good to be true, it probably is.
