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I didn't realize until recently how many hard-hit people there were--especially in Africa--who stood to inherit billions of dollars. Sadly, they can't obtain their inheritance money without my help.
All I need to do is give them my full name and my bank account number. Then they can get their money, and I will get a huge chunk of it--or all of it!
Yay! We can retire!
I get about an email a week about some poor person, sick and dying (usually within the next two weeks), and through the grace of God they found me, and I have the power to save them--well, at least their money.
Just the other day I stood to receive 18.5 million! You'd think they'd pick a more realistic number.
Who believes this stuff? Do folks really fall for these scams?
What scams you are sick and tired of?
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What's to lose? You could get 18.5 MILLION dollars!!
ReplyDeleteI know, right? I should just do it.
DeleteI'm pretty tired of that Nigerian scam. I kind of feel that if you don't know it's a scam by now that maybe, just maybe, you deserve to be taken. But that's probably not very nice of me.
ReplyDeleteHa! You have a good point!
DeleteYeah, that one. I also get lots of e-mails to pay my At&T wireless bill. Funny. Not my carrier - and that's the one bill that's not my responsibility. I do wonder where they find us and if the scams have worked on anyone. Sort of Sad, the scamming.
ReplyDeleteI get some crazy phone calls from unknown numbers. When I pick up, a recorded voice tells me there is a problem with my credit card, and could I please enter my credit card number and wait for an operator to assist me. Thing is, they never say the actual name of the credit card company. Hmmmm...
DeleteScams really irk me, especially ones that target the elderly. I mean, what is wrong with you that you're trying to take money from someone's grandmother?! Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteThat's the sad part, when some elderly person gets taken in and loses everything.
DeleteI keep getting the one about Bill Gates wanting to share his money. And when I was going to grad school a few years ago, one of my professors forwarded that to me. Seriously. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious. I haven't gotten that one yet. I can't believe they duped the professor!
DeleteIt seems like some people must fall for it or the scam artists would stop doing it. Kind of like telemarketing. I've never gotten one and I'm feeling left out! Maybe they just go to straight to my junk email. I could go for 18 million dollars right now.
ReplyDeleteI get a lot of emails from banks, telling me that there's something wrong with my account and I need to give them my details so they can sort it out. It would be more believable, I'm sure, if they weren't supposedly from banks that I've never had an account with.
ReplyDeletePlease, Send me money, I am dying and do not have enough money to fund my hospital bills! BALONEY!!!! That kind of stuff is why I am glad I don't get those kind of emails at all, I think....
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