Scam

[loquere]

I’m an unusual person. I love reading those scam emails. Some of them are quite creative, some not so much. I get a laugh out of them. What are some great ones that you can share?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I’m an unusual person. I love reading those scam emails. Some of them are quite creative, some not so much. I get a laugh out of them. What are some great ones that you can share?

Just from reading the first line, I know it's a scam, and I delete it right away. Sometimes I don't even read that much.

 

[lovecraft68]

I’m an unusual person. I love reading those scam emails. Some of them are quite creative, some not so much. I get a laugh out of them. What are some great ones that you can share?

I like the ones that claim some person in a foreign country left me money.

 

[TinyBeth]

My husband got one recently that wanted to pass him off because his name was "close enough" to the one they needed. So they not only supposedly had money, but wanted us to commit fraud to get it.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I had one from a woman who was "inspired by God" to share her "inheritance" with me. I did have to pay to sponsor her as my wife for immigration, "but that would be in name only." It would all cost no more than $10,000 and then I'd get my God-inspired share.

 

[lovecraft68]

My husband got one recently that wanted to pass him off because his name was "close enough" to the one they needed. So they not only supposedly had money, but wanted us to commit fraud to get it.

I admit that on one of these I got curious and dialed the number.

An actual person did answer and from the accent most likely from that part f the world. He said he was an attorney and he could place this money in my account and he get's 40% of it.

he then of course added that all I need do is give him all my banking info.

I read somewhere that these are legit to a degree, you could in fact get some money.

However it is laundered money illegally obtained and you will be tracked down and jailed while the "lawyer" vanishes.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

I've been getting a series along the lines of:

Hello! I am a pretty woman. I live next door to you. I would like to meet you.

The funny thing is that "pretty" changes to smart, clever, loyal, good-looking, etc. And "next door" changes to "in the next flat", "over the road", "up the hallway" and so on.

So it's like they message is really:

Hello! I am a (adjective) woman. I live at (location). I would like to meet you.

Then there are the "family pack" of Viagra. It's like "hey, everyone in your family could use this!".

 

[TinyBeth]

I admit that on one of these I got curious and dialed the number.

An actual person did answer and from the accent most likely from that part f the world. He said he was an attorney and he could place this money in my account and he get's 40% of it.

he then of course added that all I need do is give him all my banking info.

I read somewhere that these are legit to a degree, you could in fact get some money.

However it is laundered money illegally obtained and you will be tracked down and jailed while the "lawyer" vanishes.

Yeah that is essentially what I figured, especially with this one. It sounded so beyond shady even for a typical email scam I suspected it might be "semi-legit" in that the money was real, but being obtained illegally. Sounds like maybe I should have forwarded that one to the FBI rather deleting it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I read somewhere that these are legit to a degree, you could in fact get some money.

However it is laundered money illegally obtained and you will be tracked down and jailed while the "lawyer" vanishes.

Sounds a bit like the money order fraud: you're offered a $200 commission for cashing $1000 money orders and passing on the other $800. Only, when it turns out that it's really a $100 order that's been altered to increase its face value, you're liable for the remaining $900...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Sounds a bit like the money order fraud: you're offered a $200 commission for cashing $1000 money orders and passing on the other $800. Only, when it turns out that it's really a $100 order that's been altered to increase its face value, you're liable for the remaining $900...

My wife had something similar, who wanted to hire her as what they called a "mystery shopper." She was supposedly investigating Westren Union and the scammer sent her a bank draft for about $5,300, and she was supposed to cash it and send $5,000 through WU to an address in Atlanta. The draft was drawn on the Bank of Buffalo, so I called them and was told the draft having the number of the one we had, had been cashed long ago. In other words, we had a bogus draft, and would have been out five grand if we had fallen for the scam. Since everything had been Fedexed to us across state lines, I faxed all the documents to the FBI, and I don't know what happened then. I suspect the FBI did nothing about it.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

When people knock at my door telling me they can "save me lots of money" I ask myself: who would pay people to doorknock thousands of people just to get less money? There's always a catch.

 

[loquere]

A couple years back my neighbour got hit with this cruiseship credit card scam. They called said she won, gave her credit card number for some reason. Then she was taken for a long ride.

 

[Beatnic_jazzman]

Here's one of the best I ever got

Subject:
FINAL WARNING: YOU WILL BE ARRESTED AND JAILED IF YOU FAIL TO READ THE ATTACHED E-MAIL AND COMPLY
From:
"ROBERT S. MUELLER III, FBI DIRECTOR"<huttoking@aol.com>
Date:
23/06/2012 02:10


To avoid arrest.txt

Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001








Attention: Beneficiary








This is the final warning you are going to receive from me, do you get me? I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to you.








We have warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our e-mails or because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested and today if you fail to respond back to us with the payment details below, then we would first send a letter to the MAYOR of the city where you reside and direct them to close your bank account until you have been jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by the FBI, CIA and other enforcement agency. We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get you fired until we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not supposed to be working for the government or any private organization.








Your ID which we have in our database have been sent to all the crimes agencies in America for them to inset you in their website as an internet fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you. This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the CERTIFICATE ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were instructed in the e-mail below. This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) am writing in response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have been given a mandate. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to this directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties will be seized and bank account will be confiscated too.









You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and that was the reason why we didn't hear from you, as our director has already been notified about you get the process completed yesterday and right now the WARRANT OF ARREST has been signed against you and it will be carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the FBI director. We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity and right now your ID is placed on our website as a wanted person, I believe you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family because after then it will be announce in all the local channels that you are wanted by the FBI.








As a good Christian and a Honest man, I decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not be happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated all because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent transactions, i called the EFCC and they directed me to a private attorney who can help you get the process done and he stated that he will endorse and stamp the document at the sum of $98 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.







You need to do every possible thing today and tomorrow to get this process done because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of arrest has been signed against you and once it has been approved, then the arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learnt that you were the person that forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account which is valued at the sum of $10,500,000.00 only.








I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 6/30/2012 so that you could get this process done because i learnt that several e-mails has been sent to you without getting a response from you. Bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face the law and its consequences once it had befallen on you. You would make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.






NAME: DURU VINCE

ADDRESS: LAGOS, NIGERIA

TEXT QUESTION: BETTER

ANSWER: BEST

AMOUNT: $98

Senders Full Name:

Sender Full Address:

Direct Phone Number:

MTCN:







Send the payment details to me as stated above and make sure that you didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $10.500,000.00 usd which was supposed to have been transferred to you all this while.






Note: All the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are given a grace today to make the payment for the document after which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try anything funny because you are been watched.






Expecting your anticipated- Co-operation.



Yours in service,



Robert S. Mueller
FBI DIRECTOR


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It is so unbelievable i just had to save it.

 

[TinyBeth]

Wow, just wow. That is the silliest one yet. Because I'm so sure Robert Mueller personally emails people suspected of fraud and informs them they are going to be arrested. Lol. Geesh, with all the oddball typos I suspect it was written in another language and run through a translation program.

As for the cruise ship scam, we used to get phone calls for that every day at our old place. Once in a great while we STILL do. We didn't get caught in that one because we don't have a credit card, but my husband did do the survey that was supposed to get us the cruise as a prize. Ugh. We shouldn't have even been that dumb.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

I get people coming to the front door. They start off by saying "We have a plan to help you save money on your power bills. You want to save money, don't you?"

The look on their face when I say "no" (I don't want to save money) is priceless.

"But, we can save you money ..."

"Not interested."

"You don't want to save money?"

"No, goodbye!"

"But ..."

"Do you speak English?"

 

[Handley_Page]

I have an acquaintance who just loves to wind these idiots up.

 

[EdwardMidweston]

I’m an unusual person. I love reading those scam emails. Some of them are quite creative, some not so much. I get a laugh out of them. What are some great ones that you can share?

I get 15 or 20 phone calls a week from "Rachael at Cardholder Services"offering to lower my credit card interest rates. When I didn't fall for that, she started trying to tell me that one out of five of their customers wins "instant (sic) erasal" of credit card balances. It's amazing they have such extraordinary ability when they're too stupid to realize that my hundreds of hang-ups may be a good indicator that it's a waste of time to keep calling me.

I've filed complaints, but the Attorney General's office tells me that many of the calls come from outside the U.S.

 

[TE999]

That these scams meet with any success gives credence to the saying 'There's a sucker born every minute'.

Hats off to the people who invented spam filters and answering machines.

 

[Boxlicker101]

That these scams meet with any success gives credence to the saying 'There's a sucker born every minute'.

Hats off to the people who invented spam filters and answering machines.

There's also a saying, "You can't cheat an honest man" because most scams require the victim to do something illegal. Not all, but most. If I claim I have been cheated, and admit I tried to lie and collect an inheritance that I had no claim to, I am also setting myself up for prosecution.

Of course, some of the scams ask the victim to do something not at all dishonest, such as the "mystery shoper" scam I mentioned earlier.

 

[rjordan]

I have an acquaintance who just loves to wind these idiots up.

I've done it myself. Here is a short funny story I wrote after one incident. It isn't how it went. It's how I wish it had gone.

http://www.literotica.com/s/telemarketing

My only Green E story.

rj