What is this rubbish??

[Rossluck]

How on earth could anyone be taken in by these scams? I mean, you'd have to be a bit dopey wouldn't you? I wouldn't send them $5.00 if they sent a stamped/addressed envelope.

I remember the first one I received, well before they were famous, and I just read through three quarters of it, laughed, and went about my business.

A part of me says that people who get sucked in by these things deserve it a little. Am I being harsh?

[Gra]

How on earth could anyone be taken in by these scams? I mean, you'd have to be a bit dopey wouldn't you? I wouldn't send them $5.00 if they sent a stamped/addressed envelope.

I remember the first one I received, well before they were famous, and I just read through three quarters of it, laughed, and went about my business.

A part of me says that people who get sucked in by these things deserve it a little. Am I being harsh?

These things have been around for ever, I remember receiving them via telex at my first job. Even as a green mail boy I figured it was a scam... Some people are just greedy, see the money and nothing else

[ubeaut]

We are doing our best to eradicate this stuff but the buggers are getting really cunning. Thanks to these scumbags the members can only send 1 pm or email at a time and with 5 minute intervals between each. This is the only way we can stop the mongrels from flooding the pm and mail of members.

I am currently trying to work on a more permanent fix for the problem but the only one so far would involve a 24 hr moderator watching all new members and that just isn't on.

Cheers - Neil

[munruben]

It amazes me that some people are taken in by these things. I mean its so obvious that its a scam and a fraud.

[Gra]

It amazes me that some people are taken in by these things. I mean its so obvious that its a scam and a fraud.

people as a group are stupid and greedy. you will always find someone greedy enough to ignore their instincts and chase one of the scams

[Wood Butcher]

Waldo,

I got you email thank-you and the perpetrator has been dealt with!

[Waldo]

Waldo,

I got you email thank-you and the perpetrator has been dealt with!

[pawnhead]

,,,
http://www.419eater.com/html/ethics.htm

,,,
The irony is that the scammer is so willing to believe what he's being told.
Gaz.

Yeh, 419eater is a funny site. Some of the reverse scams that he pulls are a riot, but I think the most famous one on the web was the p-p-p-powerbook scam.
A scammer tries to steal a laptop that's being sold on eBay by using a fake escrow service that he's set up himself to pay for it. The guy selling the laptop saw through the dodgy payment method, and he ended up making the scammer pay a lot of import duty for this package (note the 'bluetooth' mouse )

edit: BTW, none of the mirrors on that site lead to the story. It's quite a long read, but if you're interested you can read about it in this pdf.