[bonzdee]

Since advertising my business online, I have attracted not only genuine interest towards what I promote, but also interest from internet scammers, the so called nigerian elite scammer squad, but in reality these scammers array from anywhere in the earth, not only nigeria.

Would you believe nearly 20 to 50 e-mails a day from them, all saying about the same thing, "You have inherited 10 million" or "Please We Need You To Be The Next Of Kin To Receive The Sum Of 20 million", I got back to that one saying how can I be the bloody next of kin, if I don't even know who the heck Dr David Marshall is. Damn idiots!!. Next thing they send the same e-mail but with a different name and e-mail address.

But I add there addresses to my outlook got over a hundred of them now, write a business e-mail about joining me and putting their efforts to better use than scamming people and e-mail blast the lot of them, one hit...lol.

Even some of them have gotten back to me saying, could you please send me more info...damn hard case. I say look you must change your ways and be legit in this business, because you can make more than you could ever dream of and for life, so put those e-mail skills to use and build an income for life.

6 weeks ago I got a business letter from the company, you know automatically when some one new signs up just congratulating me on my efforts and giving me the name and e-mail details of the person who joined so as to contact them and welcome them to the business and low and behold, a person from south africa, now I don't know if they were part of the scammer squad and am not about to ask, but if they were, good on them for taking that step in the right direction and wanting to be a law abiding citizen of their country. I'm all for correcting peoples ways.

So next time a scammer tries to scam you, offer them a solution to the madness, ya never know, they could turn out to be one of your biggest players in your downline and blow your income of the charts.

[BarnzG]

It's just as bad as the emails asking "Do I want a bigger dick or something to improve my sexlife?" I don't mean to blow my own trumpet but I don't need to and if I was, I would go to the doctor.

[bonzdee]

Originally Posted by BarnzG

It's just as bad as the emails asking "Do I want a bigger dick or something to improve my sexlife?" I don't mean to blow my own trumpet but I don't need to and if I was, I would go to the doctor.

I think you only get those e-mails if you entered your details into wanting to know more about enhancing your dick size, and I don't mean to blow my own trumpet, but I think thats the only way you get those kind of e-mails...

[edshuck]

Another form of the Nigerian letter came to a friend of mine living in Nevada. He owns a computer store and here came an order for 50 modems. With a check. He sent the check to the bank and ordered the modems.

The check bounced.

But the modems had arrived and he was on the hook for a modem design that the company would not accept back in their inventory.

Bottom line. It cost him 10,000 dollars and for months the Nigerians demanded their modems. He was even taken to court by a hired lawyer.

Yep, his check bounced also.

[bonzdee]

Gosh now that is one scam you would of never expected, I think anything in any e-mail which says or mention that the person is from africa or any country known to be of scamming origins to delete, delete, delete.

[edshuck]

Originally Posted by bonzdee

Gosh now that is one scam you would of never expected, I think anything in any e-mail which says or mention that the person is from africa or any country known to be of scamming origins to delete, delete, delete.

I worked on anti phreaking for a while. All the top phreakers agree that the easiest way to steal telephone service is by social engineering.

Same with the Nigerian letter. And the modem scam.

Always be skeptical. Always.

I have had many people send me eMail from my new account in bank xyz that I had never heard of. They must have just spammed a few million and I happened to be one.

Same for eBay and pay pal. There is always something wrong with my account - NOT.

But when they do it enough, someone bites.

[hanyo]

Well if you have time you can teach them a lesson, & make them work for you like on 419baiter.com/games.html
It's just hilarious and its nice to see scammers get scammed

[edshuck]

I am in San Francisco, California and there is a new commercial on TV countering the Nigerian Scam.

I would imagine that if the public would vote for Bush, they would just box up their money and send it to the scammers.

On a bus, this guy approaches a lady and does the speil. Camera scans the somewhat down on his luck person and informes the public that in person it is not so good and that is why it is on the internet. Good thought.