People must be falling for this stuff. Just look how convincing they are now !

[LNSvince]

this crap really drives me crazy. We need to fight back........... Somehow ????

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[LNSvince]

You gotta love the statement that says
"Misplacement of this Certificate may warrant charges"

 

[JCcypress]

 

[Emperor]

Yes, there are very stupid people in the world. But there are also elderly people who are scared about their financial situations or they may be widowed and the spouse did all of the monetary planning, or any number of reasons they would fall for this. Dimentia for example.

If you have your mental faculties and you fall for this you are probably a dummy, but if it didn't work; the scammers wouldn't keep trying it.

What is more disturbing to me is why they can't be stopped before some unsuspecting elderly person is ripped off?

 

[Lurker]

Wouldn't they get the grammar and spelling correct on an official document? Just sayin

 

[LNSvince]

I totally didn't think about the elderly. You are correct. or possibly people with borderline mental issues.
Goodness, This is when you need someone like Batman to go after these guys.
It cant be hard to trace them.

I really wish there was something we all could do to catch these ****ers.

 

[LNSvince]

Here is another good one !
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From The Desk Of Mrs. Janet Napolitano
Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security Washington D.C.


Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance.

Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation and International Monetary Fund

The Cyber Crime Division of the Homeland Security gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these

Imposters.

As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us.

We have negotiated with the United Nations that your payment totaling $27,500,000.00 will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $20,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere

in the world for for withdraw or transaction.

We have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it’s more guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake cheque last year 2011.

We have perfected everything in regards to the release of your $27.5 million United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect citizens of the United States of America. (This is as a result of the mandate from

US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as he has always believed

“Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen”).

To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to abide to the insutruction below to enable the shipment of the Premium Visa Credit card and it back up document and the charge fee required to to pay the shipping and security insurance fee which is $355

only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken care of by Federal Government; custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $355 only which is for the shipping and security insurance fee.

Fill in below with your personal information.
Full Name..............
Full Address..............
Phone Number...............
Sex..........
Occupation.........
Country...............
Age.......

Please get back to me with your personal information and also a confirmation email to know if you are sending down the fee which is $355 to me or not,so that i can send down the payment information in which you are to use in making the payment of

$355 down to me.

Once again i am so 100% sure of you receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty to monitor everything in other to cub cyber crime that is perpetrated by those impostors.

Thanks.
jantptano@rogers.com
Mrs. Janet Napolitano
Secretary of US Department of Homeland Security
Address: 245 Murray Ln Sw # 14, Washington D.C.
About Me website: http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1232568253959.shtm

 

[LNSvince]

gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)

 

[headspace]

There's a beautiful plus to these sort of scams and scammers you guys are either ignoring or just haven't thought about.


If you catch one in the act.... You get to beat the ever living crap outa them for FREE!!

 

[flamatrix99]

I totally didn't think about the elderly. You are correct. or possibly people with borderline mental issues.
Goodness, This is when you need someone like Batman to go after these guys.
It cant be hard to trace them.

I really wish there was something we all could do to catch these ****ers.

My 86 year old mom has been scammed before. My sister had to change my mom's phone number. They would call from Jamacia and talk to her like they knew her. They would describe the house. She doesn't know about google earth. so to her they were local and she was going to win something.

 

[AustinBR]

At the bank I work at we do have people coming in occasionally believing that they have won X million dollars. Often these people get very irate when you try to tell them they are being scammed which makes it even worse. I read a study a few months ago that as people age their brain starts to produce (or not produce) some chemical that causes them to be very trusting of people and just not question things in general. This causes older folks to not see what would be seen as an obvious scam... Whenever people come in and we tell them that they shouldn't wire money or mail a check to someone who is promising them the money, they just don't understand why - they don't think that someone would really lie to them. It really sucks... and we can't do much about it. Best advice ever: "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."

 

[sixgundunn]

I think I met that guy when I was down in Nigeria or maybe he drove me to the airport in hiscab. He sure looks familiar.

 

[LNSvince]

AFter reading flamatrix99 & AustinBr, I guess I need to change my language by the way I describe those people.
Interesting stories, and I can see it happening like that. WOW I guess a scam artist is just that. He's gonna find someone to trust him just enough to get a few $$$
Scammers have been around since the beginning of time, and I guess they will never change. The thrill of a quick score will never go away.
Maybe Ill start making small talk with my elderly customers to make them aware of what is going on out there.
IM gonna print those last 2 emails that I posted up and hang them in the office at work. Ill use them to strike up a conversation with my elderly customers to get a feel for
how they view things like this, or if they are aware...............................

 

[CEHollier]

My bank called me and asked who I was and then preceded to ask for my SS and account numbers. I told the guy I would not and went down to my local branch to see what was going on. It was legit. They did this not once but twice. I was like

 

[oleheat]

This guy made the scammer pay HIM.


Dumbasses!

http://postarchives.entensity.net/040105/scam.htm

 

[doc ace]

If you want hours (seriously hours) of great reading and laughs with one man declaring war on these guys:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/Ablert_Fred1.html

Make sure you go to the main menu and see ALL of the dialogue. F#%*+in hilarious. Mr. Bukkake! There's even a page with all of the scammers pictures.

Doc

 

[jchebert1979]

Despite me warning my 85 year old grandmother multiple times, when she got one of these letters she had my little cousin secretly take her to a check cashing center to borrow the money that the scammer wanted. She did this because we have taken over her bills and we would have known. We have since re-routed all of her mail and we take care of everything. She also would get a call originating from Jamaica. She said this guy would call her numerous times a day and had even begun threatening her. He made the mistake of leaving his number with her so I took it. Since it is from out of the country there is nothing that can be done but I have fun with him from time to time. I'll call him up every now and then and take up as much of his time as I can before calling his mother some extremely vulgar things. It's really funny, he always tries to make the sale up to a certain point and then he gets angry and starts cursing up a storm.

 

[Emperor]

Despite me warning my 85 year old grandmother multiple times, when she got one of these letters she had my little cousin secretly take her to a check cashing center to borrow the money that the scammer wanted. She did this because we have taken over her bills and we would have known. We have since re-routed all of her mail and we take care of everything. She also would get a call originating from Jamaica. She said this guy would call her numerous times a day and had even begun threatening her. He made the mistake of leaving his number with her so I took it. Since it is from out of the country there is nothing that can be done but I have fun with him from time to time. I'll call him up every now and then and take up as much of his time as I can before calling his mother some extremely vulgar things. It's really funny, he always tries to make the sale up to a certain point and then he gets angry and starts cursing up a storm.

Give him the Red X Arms customer service e-mail!

 

[oleheat]

My bank called me and asked who I was and then preceded to ask for my SS and account numbers. I told the guy I would not and went down to my local branch to see what was going on. It was legit. They did this not once but twice. I was like

That has happened to me, as well. I did the same thing you did. I requested that next time, they should try not to sound so much like a scammer and just ask that I come in from the start....

 

[jchebert1979]

Another thing that my Grandmother received was a legitimate looking check with instructions to call a particular number. We didn't call but I looked it up online and I think when you do they try to get all of your banking information. If you would try to deposit the check I don't think it would go through. The only reason that I caught it was because it came from and oil company called Chesapeake that we do work for.

Another thing that all of these scammers do once you fall for it is that they sell your name and contact information to the other scammers to get put on a "suckers" list. Our bank told us this when we were closing out my grandmother's accounts and opening new ones in our name for her. The problem for my grandmother is she is the sweetest old lady that you will ever meet that will never have a bad thing to say about anyone. She gets by fully independent on a very small retirement and social security. At 85 she only recently retired from full time work a few months ago. She gets by but does not have much money at all. It's not that she is extremely gullible but I think like a lot of older people, she thinks that the world is safer than it is and if it's illegal to do something then people wouldn't be doing it.