Community Chat

[Cats3000]

This is one of the best of these I've read about, heard about or seen.  Were it not so dangerous, it'd be roaring laughable.

[qualitygal]

These scammers know  no boundaries.  What lengths they go to.  

[Istru]

I'm your grandmother and I need $50,000.00 to pay bail and bribes to the foreign authorities! Don't let your granny linger in jail right before Christmas! 

[noodleann]

The problem with this particular pitch is that, as I pointed out in my tongue-in-cheek response, David Bowdich is a real person who holds that position in the FBI. Putting in a checkable, real fact might induce someone to believe it's real and follow up. I don't know what next steps were indicated, but assume sending bank details or actual money would be part of it.

It was a little strange that someone would include the ZIP code of JFK. But scams work because the mark wants to believe badly enough that he or she suspends disbelief and disregards the warnings that the pitch is fraudulent. It works that way in romantic scams, from what I've read. 

[Still Raining]

Good one!!

All have is the IRS and the police on my case.  Just leave the porch light on...

[chickenbutt]

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@MamaWick wrote:

I won $12.00 on Mega Millions last week.  I'm rich, too!

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Woo hoo!  More carrots.     

[chickenbutt]

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

@Icegoddess LOL! The scammers are too stupid to have these emails written by someone whose first language is English!

Many errors -- a dead giveaway if nothing else.

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Well, these days it might be hard to tell since they seem to have stopped teaching grammar, spelling, sentence structure, verb conjugation, and pronoun use in this country. 

[Porcelain]

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@Icegoddess wrote:

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@Porcelain wrote:

Sounds like a trap. You don't have any unpaid parking tickets do you? 

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@Porcelain I think they usually save that tactic for drug dealers and murderers.

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Ohhhhh. No wonder they kept having the dog sniff me and kept trying to get me to drink out of a paper cup.

[Suziepeach]

I told one last week they'd called the answering service for a funeral home and unless he had a body to pick up to remove this number & that the call was being recorded for reference..  He hung up..  they just won't stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

[JudyL]

@Icegoddess you know that long lost relative on the West Coast that you've been looking for forever - It's me.  I'm your relative and would be more than happy to help you count your millions.  HAHA