Interesting fraud techniques
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provoke_me
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thats pretty weird. it could be a movie plot or a tv show plot.
philologus
Subgenius
I always get the crap about wanting to \"verify\" my banking info. I also got a few of those money from Africa con-mails.
Infidel Castro
New member
His name is an anagram of Samurai. How cool is that?
Astorderire
New member
Not by e-mail but...
As I own a shop, I am often phoned and reminded by unknown charming persons to pay ( around 300€ ) for ads (in martians publications I suppose) I didn\'t order. They think my name is Smiou (?) and are always shoked that I didn\'t recall agreeing their -can\'t be refused- deal. I\'m still waiting for the horse head in my bed...
As I own a shop, I am often phoned and reminded by unknown charming persons to pay ( around 300€ ) for ads (in martians publications I suppose) I didn\'t order. They think my name is Smiou (?) and are always shoked that I didn\'t recall agreeing their -can\'t be refused- deal. I\'m still waiting for the horse head in my bed...
Dragonsreach
Super Moderator
What is really sad, is that there are still some people dumb enough to fall for it.
This kind of Scam has been around for a few years now.
This kind of Scam has been around for a few years now.
I also just got one from the \"wife of the former doctor of Saddam who just happened to get blown up in Madrid and is now in need of money, please will you invest in .... blabh, blah, blah\".
It\'s one of the many scam attempts in the style of the other \"419 scam\" attempts.
If you want to read more about this, hop over to the 419legal forum:
http://www.419legal.org/index.php?sid=45fae7e2b7d67b3e990a009440bebc7e
A lot of information, links and some funny stories by scambaits. I think I already posted the one where one scambait pretended to be under siege from followers of Chthulhu a while ago.
It\'s one of the many scam attempts in the style of the other \"419 scam\" attempts.
If you want to read more about this, hop over to the 419legal forum:
http://www.419legal.org/index.php?sid=45fae7e2b7d67b3e990a009440bebc7e
A lot of information, links and some funny stories by scambaits. I think I already posted the one where one scambait pretended to be under siege from followers of Chthulhu a while ago.
freakinacage
New member
Originally posted by Avelorn
Well I won a few million dollars.. couple of times. I guess I\'m very lucky, especially since they apparantly drew my Email randomly. But I didn\'t answer, thought someone else could need the money more. I\'m such a nice guy.
me too!! just goes to show how lucky you can be
anyone seen matchstick men with nic cage? great film. as mr cage says:
\'i\'m not a thief, i don\'t steal peoples money, they give it to me\' (or something like that)
No Such Agency
New member
I don\'t get nearly as many 419 e-mails as I used to, maybe that particular scam is trailing off now that it\'s so widely known?
/still a million scams out there
/still a million scams out there
What always shocks me about these things is that both a lawyer and his/her secretary just never seem able to spell \'their\' correctly.
\"there lives\" is so totally wrong.
This email, and/or emails like it, have been bouncing around the internet for years, now. Ignore them. Delete them.
\"there lives\" is so totally wrong.
This email, and/or emails like it, have been bouncing around the internet for years, now. Ignore them. Delete them.
I wish it was an \"original\" attempt. Personally I hate the outright plagurism more than I hate the attempt to steal information by the most lamest trick in the book.
(I would give more examples, South Africa is commom, as is Saudi Arabia, but alas I tend to delete my spam regularly.)
(I would give more examples, South Africa is commom, as is Saudi Arabia, but alas I tend to delete my spam regularly.)
Einion
New member
The best thing to do with this sort of attempt is to string them along and waste their time, I once had a guy on the hook for a good three or four weeks before he twigged I was never answering his requests for banking details :lol:
Apparently some guy did this so well they agreed to meet him in person and the arranged location was near a street webcam so he had the pleasure of seeing two guys in suits waiting for him never to show up!
After you\'ve had your fun you can then foward on one or more of the messages to the abuse@ or admin@ email address of the source IP.
Einion
Apparently some guy did this so well they agreed to meet him in person and the arranged location was near a street webcam so he had the pleasure of seeing two guys in suits waiting for him never to show up!
After you\'ve had your fun you can then foward on one or more of the messages to the abuse@ or admin@ email address of the source IP.
Einion
Shawn R. L.
New member
Seems it\'s usually some old person or someone naieve-kindhearted person who gets hit. All it takes is one or two people to fall for it and the person hit\'s the jackpot.
I used to get one from a \'prince\' in Nigeria looking to move a mountain of money. Could he please use my bank number?
By the way, another little note on the 419 forum I mentioned. You can also use it to report 419 and other scam mail. Especially new variations are of interest.
The forum was originally set up by somebody from the South African police to fight these scams and now have people from different countries going after these people. Several scam artists have been arrested already and many others have been exposed.
The forum was originally set up by somebody from the South African police to fight these scams and now have people from different countries going after these people. Several scam artists have been arrested already and many others have been exposed.
darthfoley
New member
I have heard of one, but never seen it, in which the person claimed to be a representative of the Kingdom of Rohan.
Drake Farstrider
New member
I get a lot of this type of crap from people claiming to be from eBay and PayPal. I just report them and delete them.
QuietiManes
New member
Lol, I always give these jackasses all the info they want. Let them work and dig and hack into my bank account to see how truly broke I am. That\'ll teach em to mess around with me again, booya! lollollol
