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"Sedgie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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We don't sell email addresses - the only advertising is banners in the
site.
But you *do* spam Usenet, so I will never see your advertisers' messages because I won't visit your site.
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
You mean that's a scam??!!
B*gg*r it! There goes another get rich quick scheme.
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
There's a new spin on this one seemingly doing the rounds at the moment, along the lines of "X died intestate and relation-free, with thirty million quid in his Post Office Savings account. If you would like to pretend to be X's long-lost cousin, we'll split the difference". I had one such from what appeared to be a genuine Barclays Bank e-mail address the other day...
"Sedgie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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We don't sell email addresses - the only advertising is banners in the
site.
But you *do* spam Usenet, so I will never see your advertisers' messages because I won't visit your site.
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
Concerning which I have precisely one thing to say; BWahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Just zis Guy said:
"Sedgie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
We don't sell email addresses - the only advertising is banners in the
site.
But you *do* spam Usenet, so I will never see your advertisers' messages because I won't visit your site.
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
to my way of thinking, they got what they deserved. they tried to get rich stealing someone else's money.
"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
I saw that on the BBC website. I couldn't work out whether we were supposed to feel sorry for the woman whose proposed solution to debt was a dodgy get-rich-quick scheme, or feel smug that we read about the 419 scam long enough ago that we'll never be taken in by such a scam.
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
I don't really understand who falls for that scam. Let's paraphrase teh offer: "I am a fraudster, please give me full details of your bank account". Hmm, enticing.
"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
I saw that on the BBC website. I couldn't work out whether we were supposed to feel sorry for the woman whose proposed solution to debt was a dodgy get-rich-quick scheme, or feel smug that we read about the 419 scam long enough ago that we'll never be taken in by such a scam.
Surely most people are savvy enough to realise this is a huge con, even if they've never come across this particular one before? After all, when was the last time someone came up to you in the street and gave you a carrier bag full of money?
-- "The road to Paradise is through Intercourse." The uk.transport FAQ; huge.org.ukFAQ.htmlOpen ↗ [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk]
I don't really understand who falls for that scam. Let's paraphrase teh offer: "I am a fraudster, please give me full details of your bank account". Hmm, enticing.
Judging by the story on the BBC website, people with no financial acument who are already in debt (presumably due to falling for the old "free credit" scam as offered by the Sons of [censored] et. al.) and see this as a likely get rich quick scheme.
Of course, the fact that every get rich quick scheme in history has been a scam should be some kind of clue, but some people think the world owes them a living I guess.
"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Tony Raven said:
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
It seems a perfectly reasonable proposal to me although I must say they are taking their time sending me my cut. Now, when is that nice gentleman going to finish tarmaccing my drive?
Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
I don't really understand who falls for that scam. Let's paraphrase teh offer: "I am a fraudster, please give me full details of your bank account". Hmm, enticing.
regards, Ian SMith
And the other thing that people don't figure out with this scam is that if the money really existed Nigeria would be wealthier than the USA...
I don't really understand who falls for that scam. Let's paraphrase teh offer: "I am a fraudster, please give me full details of your bank account". Hmm, enticing.
But remember you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones they're after.
Actually these days they are more subtle. They need advances to bribe officials, starting small and getting bigger as the victim has more invested. The strange thing is most of them keep paying thinking if only they can just clear this one last hurdle the moneybags will open. Even in my own office when this first started people were discussing setting up clean bank accounts etc to outwit the fraudsters. Even they honestly believed the money was really there and they just had to be smarter than the con men to gain access to it. I despaired.
Even in my own office when this first started people were discussing setting up clean bank accounts etc to outwit the fraudsters. Even they honestly believed the money was really there and they just had to be smarter than the con men to gain access to it. I despaired.
This is the cleverest bit of the advanced fee fraud. The "letters" are carefully crafted with the odd error etc so that the victim thinks they can outwit the conmen because they are a bit stupid.
I did see one that was for USD 2. I did wonder whether that might be for real :-)
Tim.
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Same policy here. Unfortunately though enough people obviously do respond to make spamming worthwhile which is why Interpol is currently dealing with over 300 Europeans who have lost everything trying to help launder money out of Nigeria.
I don't really understand who falls for that scam. Let's paraphrase teh offer: "I am a fraudster, please give me full details of your bank account". Hmm, enticing.
But that isn't what they do. Once you've replied they ask for some money upfront to start oiling the wheels. Then they ask for more money for bank charges or whatever. Finally, if they think you are enough of a sucker, they ask for a lot of money for local taxes. At each stage is the promise of 10% of several millions. There was a story on BBC online on Monday about a teacher who was taken in. It was only the final request for £100,000 to cover taxes that made here think, by then she'd given them over 30 grand in cash by taking the money to Amsterdam and handing it over personally. She claims she was being altruistic---she intended to give the proceeds to charities---rather than greedy. She also claimed that *anyone* could be fooled by this scam---I doubt that.
