Email Scam

[happylabs]

LOL! Love your sense of humor Richard.

[pomtzu]

I can't fathom how anyone with even one working brain cell, could fall for any of these scams. Evidently they do tho, as the spam marches on.

I get a kick reading some of them. And no - I don't respond or follow any links. And the ones that ask if I'm dead or alive??? - so tempted to send back and tell them that I'm dead so pass the word to everyone else and stop junking up my mail, even tho Google is good and catches most every one and sends it directly to my spam box and not my in box. Geeze - I have won millions and millions and millions thru on line email drawings, been willed outrageous sums by total strangers, been propositioned to partner with bank officials who have millions in undetectable accounts, asked to help move millions of Sadam's secret hidden money out of the country by our servicemen, pleaded with by orphans and widows and those dying of cancer with no one to leave their millions to - please take my money and use it for the downtrodden and unfortunates - please help me get to "your country" - and most everyone evokes the name of Our Lord God or the like, to help the cause along. Such scumbags - every one of them!

They all need to pass English 101 too - their composition and use of some words is nothing short of pathetic and laughable at the same time! I got one a few days ago - a very long and drawn out one - in all capital letters and all one rambling sentence. It gave me a headache just looking at the mess, without trying to actually read it!.

And of course Robert Mueller, head of the FBI must have really taken a liking to me. I get at least one email each day from him, assuring me that these Nigerian officials are on the up-and-up, and it's okay for me to send what money they are asking for to release the mega millions to me.

[Medusa]

I think the worst is when they bring pets into it. I got one that said a woman is dying and in need of finding a home for her little Yorkie. She would send me money to be able to have the Yorkie sent to me if I'd send her my complete address and bank account info. I didn't open the email directly but went into "properties", etc. and read it that way. They're shameless.

[Marigold2]

Richard you are too funny.


Who falls for this? The elderly, the uneducated, the people that believe in pearchers like Jim Jones or any of the thousands of weird and out there groups of people who swear they have found the true path to God.

Mostly it is the old, sitting at home, with no family close by. Those that remember suffering and hardship, those who are good of heart, kind of soul and a bit short on brain cells due to age.

It is shameful and these people should be punished by a horrid beating who cheat old people out of their life savings.

[pomtzu]

I have to "politely" disagree with Marigold, as she makes it seem that the old/elderly have diminished brain cells, and thus are less than par in the reasoning/intelligence department, and would therefore fall for these scams. Most truly elderly people would never even see an email scam, since most don't even have a computer.

True - some that play into the hands of these scumbags are elderly - but the majority are just ordinary people who see a way to make some easy and big bucks - probably quite under-educated - trusting and confident that this is the real thing - and just not wise to the ways of the world.