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How do people fall for this stuff?


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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 06:30 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I got a Nigerian Scam letter today, I was amused enough to share it.

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I am Michael Wang Lee, Principal Assurance manager for the China Trust Commercial Bank,China. I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of a deceased client, and an investment placed under our banks management 9 years ago.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of this communication. In 2000, the subject matter; Alfred Abbott came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 18.350 million United States dollars, which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.

Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at over 2 million United States Dollars. In mid 2002, he instructed that the principal sum (18.35M) be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Hong Kong. We got in touch with the Dah Sing Bank which is a specialist bank in China, with a foreign representative branch in Hong Kong who agreed to receive this money for a fee and make cash available to Alfred. However Dah Sing Bank got in touch with us last year that this money has not been claimed. On further enquiries we found out that Alfred was involved in an accident in Mainland China, which means he died intestate. On further investigation we found out that Late Alfred left behind no next of kin and this is the reason I am writing you.

What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, and I can make you the beneficiary of
these funds. My bank will contact you informing you that money has been willed to you. On verification, which will be the details I make available to my bank, my bank will instruct Dah Sing Bank to make payments to you. You do not have to have known him. I know this might be a bit heavy for you but please trust me on this. For your assistance I propose that we split the money in half. In the banking circle this happens every time. The other option is that the money will revert back to the state.

Nobody is getting hurt; this is a lifetime opportunity for us. I hold the KEY to these funds, and as a Chinese National we see so much cash and funds being re-assigned daily. I would want us to keep communication for now strictly by email, as time goes on I shall furnish you with my telephone number, so you can also reach me by phone. My spoken english is not too good, but you should be able to understand me.

Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to the consequences, because I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this. Please if you accept my proposal respond back to me immediately via the above email.

I await your positive response.

Michael Wang Lee.
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Anyone want his e-mail? Very Happy
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THE FURY
Joined: Oct 10 2009
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 06:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

(I am a douchebag. Ignore me.)
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 06:53 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I normally don't even bother opening stuff from anything I don't know where it came from or what business it has with me.


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Aqua Hedgehog
Joined: Nov 02 2008
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 07:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Good thing Hotmail redirects this bullshit to my junk mail. The only reason I check junk mail is for forum activations and shit like that.
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BowCastingWookie
Title: Cat of Ulthar
Joined: Oct 01 2009
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 09:08 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I received one of these recently. In all of my six year history of being an internet user, I had not ever gotten one up until about a month ago. Never even one of those "chain e-mails" or feigned "warning notes." I must be special. It was immediately discarded.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 09:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Get at least 2 per day @Syd_Lexia
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
Joined: Aug 11 2009
Location: Massachusetts
PostPosted: Oct 10 2009 11:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

That is ridiculous, I get responses for shit like this all the time when I am selling stuff on craigslist.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
PostPosted: Oct 11 2009 09:28 am Reply with quote Back to top

Well, the question in my topic still stands...how the hell do people fall for this? Particularly now when -everyone- knows about the Nigerian Scam?

"Oh, this guy is Chinese, he must be legit!"

It just blows my mind how this is complete bullshit anyone could see through, and yet people buy it.

(I'm sharing it because it somehow managed to slip past my spam filter, and it intrigued me)
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Oct 11 2009 11:03 am Reply with quote Back to top

I think the people who fall for it do so not just because they're ignorant, but because they harbor a wish of obtaining the golden ticket so to speak. Coupling this desire with an erroneous belief that the universe operates on some sort of checks and balances system and a feeling that they've taken enough bites out of the metaphorical shit sammich causes them to overlook common sense and take the Baiting.

Plus they're fucking stupid.



 
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Char Aznable
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PostPosted: Oct 11 2009 03:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

China is here, Mr. Burton.


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Aqua Hedgehog
Joined: Nov 02 2008
PostPosted: Oct 11 2009 04:19 pm Reply with quote Back to top

People these days really are fucking tools, and scammers try to take advantage of them. End of story. Thinking about it, one of you could have been suckered into buying something completely useless and posted about how it's useless and how only idiots buy it here. I'm not attacking anyone here, just pondering the possibilities.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
PostPosted: Oct 12 2009 11:25 am Reply with quote Back to top

I actually hadn't heard of this until I received one a few months ago. I fell for it in the sense that I sent a response along the lines of 'I'm sorry for your dilemma but I can't help'. Then I looked it up. When I recieved another e-mail I sent them one back asking them to eat a dick, to which they sent a thank you for my generosity. Confused


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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Oct 12 2009 02:46 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Well at least they're courteous and well mannered scam artists.



 
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
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PostPosted: Oct 12 2009 03:26 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Indeed. That's the first time anybody has thanked me for giving them directions to a dick-feast.


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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
Joined: Aug 11 2009
Location: Massachusetts
PostPosted: Oct 12 2009 03:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Well, if it was a chick, maybe she wants the dick.
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Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
PostPosted: Oct 12 2009 04:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

If ever you are bored and have time to kill, check out:
http://www.419eater.com/

It's a collection of people who have scammed the scammers and have documented all the weird shit they do the scammers.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
PostPosted: Oct 12 2009 04:27 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Looks perfectly legit to me. You guys are missing out.

I should hear back about my $18M any day now.


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lavalarva
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PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 01:07 am Reply with quote Back to top

Knyte wrote:
If ever you are bored and have time to kill, check out:
http://www.419eater.com/

It's a collection of people who have scammed the scammers and have documented all the weird shit they do the scammers.

Laughing Still only reading the first one, but I found it really funny when the scammer got so annoyed he called just to yell at the guy for 10 minutes.
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SoldierHawk
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Joined: Jan 15 2009
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PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 03:44 am Reply with quote Back to top

Lmao.

I remember getting my first Nigerian scam like this. I had heard about them for so long, I actually printed the thing out, I was so excited to finally get one lol. Laughed my ass off.


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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 02:02 pm Reply with quote Back to top

If we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything. NINE-ELEVEN! NEVER FORGET!
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SoldierHawk
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PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 07:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
If we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything.


That's one of my all-time favorite songs <3.


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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 08:58 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I'm still expecting to get one of these from my Archaic E-Mail account on Yahoo... so far I've gotten about over 9000 (no pun intended Razz) Viagra supplements e-mails on it. How exactly did you get this e-mail Satsui?
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
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PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 09:21 pm Reply with quote Back to top

SoldierHawk wrote:
Syd Lexia wrote:
If we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything.


That's one of my all-time favorite songs <3.

thats more Malcolm X than anything.


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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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PostPosted: Oct 13 2009 09:44 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Slayer1 wrote:
I'm still expecting to get one of these from my Archaic E-Mail account on Yahoo... so far I've gotten about over 9000 (no pun intended Razz) Viagra supplements e-mails on it. How exactly did you get this e-mail Satsui?


No clue. Never got one before, that's why I was curious when it ended up in my non-spam box.
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