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Thread: What is this rubbish??
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20th November 2007, 03:10 PM #16
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?
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20th November 2007, 03:23 PM #17I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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21st November 2007, 10:56 AM #18
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
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21st November 2007, 11:50 AM #19
It amazes me that some people are taken in by these things. I mean its so obvious that its a scam and a fraud.
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
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21st November 2007, 11:53 AM #20I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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21st November 2007, 05:59 PM #21
Waldo,
I got you email thank-you and the perpetrator has been dealt with!Have a nice day - Cheers
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21st November 2007, 09:17 PM #22
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22nd November 2007, 06:09 AM #23SENIOR MEMBER
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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.
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