scams ...scams.... scams

[chicken_china_mom]

That sounds like another African scam. The second I read Cameroon my radar went off. If the birds are suppose to be coming from Alaska, why would Cameroon have anything at all to do with it? Delete the e-mail and don't look back. It sounds like it's as bad as those letters people get from long lost rich relatives that want to make you their sole heir to their fortune, but first you have to send THEM money. Too many scams on the internet nowadays....

 

[Intheswamp]

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Sadly, there's lots of people that fall for the scams and usually the folks that can afford it the least.

Ed

 

[PunkerTechnoRoo?ter]

I tell them my name is Captain Stubing.

 

[English Chick]

PunkërTeçhñöRøø§ter :

I tell them my name is Captain Stubing.

I would tell them I was Margaret Thatcher (former PM of UK).........aka The Iron Lady! ..................then tell them to Run Forrest Run...........................

 

[thewarriorchild]

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you can report them but the BBB doesn't do anything to them.
I bought a phone jack that was to save me money, company took my money and then ran- so don't buy a chatterbox from walmart!
magic jack is probably the same thing but I don't want to find out.

Hey my MJ works fine!! Once in a while it is flaky but for the price I can not complain. Mostly it has to do with the internet service issues. You can buy them at Radio Shack/CVS so they must take returns?

 

[crait]

Anyone?
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/spam_crackdown_threatens

 

[chickencoop31320]

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Sadly, there's lots of people that fall for the scams and usually the folks that can afford it the least.

Ed

All I have to say is: there is a sucker born every minute... and if a scam didn't work, it wouldn't exist!

 

[Cetawin]

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OMG the scammer and the solicitors are a break from a boring day...my husband says constantly..."dear just hang up on them". I reply with "Oh hell no, they have driven me crazy all day and this one is all mine!" muahahahahahaha

 

[ParkfieldFarm]

I'm sick of scams, too. The most recent was someone wanting to buy my wedding dress for their future daughter-in-law in South Africa.

 

[kingmt]

I get spoof mail all the time for eBay & PayPal. They are getting good at it also. I got one for PayPal the other day & it even had the P icon in the address bar. The email looked very legit & other then a few of the links not being clickable it was a good knockoff. I normally go into there directory & see how many people gave them there info but this one was password protected.

I got a eBay spoof one time & after contacting about 60-70 people that I got there info from the spoofer I decided to contact Ebay & turned over the thousands (& I do mean thousands) of user names & passwords I had take from the site. They didn't contact one of them but they did shout down the site.

Out of the people I contacted & reviled there user name & password to them so they know that they had been scammed only about half changed there passwords & none sent a thank you for me saving there eBay account from the scamers. There was even one girl that had 5 eBay accounts & sence she couldn't get in with one she used all 5 about 5 times each. I was inside of a lot of accounts where I could change shipping info, buy, or even sell from there account with payment going to me.

I even had the account of the big time seller that they was defrauding to spoof others. No thank you from the 10000 star power seller ether.

Is it really worth the time invested to shout these people down so the ungrateful suckers don't get hurt?

I normal get to help shout down three or more sites a week but I don't try to keep up with all of the suckers info & contact them anymore. It is just to much work & I'm sure it is illegal for me to go in there account to get there contact info even if I am trying to do a good thing.