Email Scam

**Medusa** · 01-27-2011, 07:07 AM

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** · 01-27-2011, 08:45 AM

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** · 01-27-2011, 09:15 AM

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.

**RICHARD** · 01-28-2011, 10:52 AM

Still no reply.

**moosmom** · 01-28-2011, 11:16 AM

RICHARD,

I'm SURE she's at the bank getting a bank check cut for you...NOT!!!

**RICHARD** · 01-28-2011, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by moosmom

RICHARD,

I'm SURE she's at the bank getting a bank check cut for you...NOT!!!

YOU just don't want me to get a new truck......

**Catty1** · 01-28-2011, 07:49 PM

If only it was a real person, you MIGHT have a chance!

A program (spider, bot, crawler) on the Internet that gathers e-mail addresses to send spam to. There are countless e-mail addresses on Web site "contact us" pages as well as on blogs and newsgroups. Since they are typically coded in the "mailto" format, which when clicked, causes the address to open an e-mail message window, they are easily located

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_te...i=57361,00.asp

**Laura's Babies** · 01-28-2011, 08:37 PM

There is a web sight somewhere that I have been to several times where people who got those scam emails, played along with the scammers and string them along for a long time... It's a web sight where they post what they tell the scammers and how they string them along and some of it is some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. Wish I could find it now!!

**Freedom** · 01-29-2011, 03:10 PM

I thouht of this thread just now.

I was "browsing" through craigslist, the farm and garden. Someone is selling a Craftsman ride on tractor mower, with a plow attachments, and all sorts of accessories for $550.

Anyway, he ends the posting by saying you need to be able to come pick it up, I can help you transport it, and no I do not want to ship it to your uncle in Nigeria.