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Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: Scam scam scam

I received this today in repsonse to an add I placed

Spot the scam Laughing

Below is an inquiry about your classified ad

gracejohnson200@yahoo.com
From Miss Grace Johnson
Avenue45 Rue 56 Macory Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire
Email: gracejohnson200@yahoo.com

My dear,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into long time relatioship and financial transaction for our mutual benefits hence I write with due respect .I am Miss GRACE JOHNSON and I inherited an important sum of money from my late father who died in a recent crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. I wish to request for your assistance in investing this money in a lucrative venture under your directives and guidiance in your country. I want you to assist me for the transfer of this sum of Five million, Three hundred thousand United State Dollars.($5.300,000)to your account designate hence I will give you the contact of the bank where the money is so that you can contact them immediately and discuss with them since I do not know much about financial issues. I will give you some resonable percentage from the total sum for your assistance while I pray that you do not betray me at last. Please it is important you contact me immediately for more clarifications on the next step hence it is my wish to relocate to your country as soon as this transaction is concluded.
Awaiting your immediate response via this email address: gracejohnson200@yahoo.com

God bless you.
Miss GRACE JOHNSON
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955i · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:18 am Post subject:

Sounds like a winner Rick!!

I would get in touch pronto so she can put the money in your account Laughing

peaches · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:22 am Post subject:

Are they actually people dumb enough to do this Question

I assume there must be, otherwise surely they would stop!! Laughing

Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:53 am Post subject:

It is sad but true yes some people do fall for it, another well known one is we want to buy all your livestock blah blah, will send payment in advance plus extra to cover the handling fees shipping fees etc, pay the extra to my agent, six months later you find out the cheque was stolen and bang you've lost the money you gave to their agent, and the money from the original payment is withdrawn by the bank as the cheque was a dud!

They mainly originate from Nigeria the scam emails.
They come in different guises but basically all follow a similar theme. it work as the email appeals to some peoples greedy nature.

Fraud is rife and with the advent of the internet is simple to do from anywhere in the world!
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ReptileResort · Key Member Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 216

my mum had the same thing but she replied stupidly and they send her a check for £30000 say put it in your bank and so on , i told her to take it to the police instead , and they said the same it was a stolen check and so on , they were investigating it further lol
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Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:29 am Post subject:

yeah that show it works. You put cheque think way hay then pay their shipping agent etc then bank revokes cheque further down the line cause its a bent one! Hey presto you've lost your shipping payment.
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Jan O · Key Member Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 360

Good Grief,is "dear" Grace still around!!!. She sent me an identical email last year when I had a sales ad up. I can't believe shes still at it. I wonder what it is about us English that makes all these scammers think were totally thick?The latest one seems to be a friend in London owes them £1000 so he will come and collect the for sale item, give you a cheque for the 1000- you deduct the cost of the snake or whatever and give him the change- yeah right! But people have fallen for it.I wonder what happens to all the innocent unwanted animals caught up in the scam- bet they end up on the classifieds too.
love Jan O

Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:08 am Post subject:

negri · CaptiveBred Addict! Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 585

lol you should check out 419eater.com for details of what you can do with the scammers emails .

these guys make the scammers jump through hoops to waste their time so real people dont get involved .

some of the things they have made there scammers do for the promise of money is crazy . getting tattoos , hand writing the harry potter books and hand drawing scale maps are just a few things Very Happy

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Rickeezee · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

Now that appeals to me Twisted Evil

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