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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Location: Sydney / NSW
Registered: March 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 13:10
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do it Rob...do it...FOR SALE ST162 ...need funds to get share of $450M ....
LMAO...these guys never stop trying....i got a letter in the mail once saying I have inherited $40Million. from someone that has never existed in out family tree. RRRRIIIIIPPPPP , straight in the bin.
seriusly tho. ignore it.
Karl
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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 13:13
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I ignored it .5 of a millisecond after I saw it.
You mean I shouldn't follow through? hehehehe
I just thought this was so darn funny.
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Location: NSW - Blue Mountains
Registered: June 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 13:43
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follow through with and see what they say.
its calling for one of those P-P-P-Powerbook moments
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Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 13:48
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This is funny.
I always seem to read these "nigerian" scam letters with a curry muncher accent in my mind.
But even when I saw it said russian, I still couldn't stop the accent.
Another funny is it's supposed to be confidential, yet you're a complete stranger to them.
Maybe you should also just for shits and giggles, forward the email to yuko's oil (yes, it's a real company), and let them know some possible theft of their money is going down.
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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 13:54
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Ah P-P-P Powerbook so funny. B
Apollo wrote on Sun, 01 May 2005 23:48 |
Maybe you should also just for shits and giggles, forward the email to yuko's oil (yes, it's a real company), and let them know some possible theft of their money is going down.
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DONE
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Location: Sydney
Registered: September 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 13:59
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I have an email saying, i am getting your emails in my account, i have a file saved for you with all your emails i received, i am scepticle about opening it .
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Location: Perth, WA
Registered: December 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 14:00
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RobST162 wrote on Sun, 01 May 2005 21:54 | Ah P-P-P Powerbook so funny. B
Apollo wrote on Sun, 01 May 2005 23:48 |
Maybe you should also just for shits and giggles, forward the email to yuko's oil (yes, it's a real company), and let them know some possible theft of their money is going down.
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DONE
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BAHAHA
fucking GOLD!
just email them back every once and a while and waste their time or something...
Eldar.O.
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: February 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 14:07
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i seem to be getting more of the western union scam letters (they send money into our account, you send it on via western union, they then reverse original transfer and western union does nothing to retrieve the money - or similar kind of scam)
to get around spam filters, they're now sending the text as a GIF file
gee.. i've always wanted to work for the international medical corporation - whose email address is actually: <fcoamwbchiyp@yahoo.com> or <tovkadqmatn@yahoo.com> who actually live at <as1-200-52-2-241.mtyxl.axtel.net> which is actually in mexico!)
fuken hilarious...
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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 14:08
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thechuckster wrote on Mon, 02 May 2005 00:07 | i seem to be getting more of the western union scam letters (they send money into our account, you send it on via western union, they then reverse original transfer and western union does nothing to retrieve the money - or similar kind of scam)
to get around spam filters, they're now sending the text as a GIF file
gee.. i've always wanted to work for the international medical corporation - whose email address is actually: <fcoamwbchiyp@yahoo.com> or <tovkadqmatn@yahoo.com> who actually live at <as1-200-52-2-241.mtyxl.axtel.net> which is actually in mexico!)
fuken hilarious...
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hehe yay for headers!
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Location: Sydney
Registered: September 2003
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Location: Perth
Registered: August 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 14:11
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i get these all the time. basically they want u to send them money so they can send you money.
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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 14:12
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smt_007 wrote on Mon, 02 May 2005 00:09 | Rob, imagine what 450 million dollars worth of mods could do for your ST162 .
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it's already perfect! what could they possibly tempt me with? A Celsior perhaps? umm well yes actually heheh
I wonder if I will get a reply from the oil company!? Will post it right up here if I do.
Should I take out a hotmail account and reply to the dude? hmmm nah can't be bothered too much hassle
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Location: Sydney
Registered: September 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 14:19
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RobST162 wrote on Mon, 02 May 2005 00:12 |
smt_007 wrote on Mon, 02 May 2005 00:09 | Rob, imagine what 450 million dollars worth of mods could do for your ST162 .
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it's already perfect! what could they possibly tempt me with? A Celsior perhaps? umm well yes actually heheh
I wonder if I will get a reply from the oil company!? Will post it right up here if I do.
Should I take out a hotmail account and reply to the dude? hmmm nah can't be bothered too much hassle
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Yes get new hotmail account.
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Location: 1st street on the right
Registered: November 2002
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Sun, 01 May 2005 20:52
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Get some hints from 419eater.com
Good for a laugh and how to deal with these types
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Location: Campbelltown
Registered: November 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 00:10
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what you wanna do is get fake id's and everything and set up an account with no money in it, and new hotmail account etc, so when they try and fleece your account there is no money in it anyway, just for shits and giggles.
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Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: April 2003
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 00:13
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heheh that sounds like a LOT of work
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Location: Sydney
Registered: September 2003
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Location: Adelaide, SA
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 00:52
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smt_007 wrote on Sun, 01 May 2005 23:29 | I have an email saying, i am getting your emails in my account, i have a file saved for you with all your emails i received, i am scepticle about opening it .
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Thats a worm - delete it and do not open it.
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Location: Rockhampton QLD
Registered: July 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 03:03
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lumpy wrote on Mon, 02 May 2005 10:52 |
smt_007 wrote on Sun, 01 May 2005 23:29 | I have an email saying, i am getting your emails in my account, i have a file saved for you with all your emails i received, i am scepticle about opening it .
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Thats a worm - delete it and do not open it.
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open it at an internet cafe
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Location: Land of Oz
Registered: June 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 05:00
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Hi,
Can you actually find out where these emails are coming from?
I've got about 3,000-odd SPAM emails in my SPAM folder and I'd like to be able to send all these emails to the source.
It'd be amusing that for each SPAM email I get I send a few thousand SPAM back to them.
seeyuzz
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Location: Sydney
Registered: February 2005
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 06:01
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lol, tell him.."...No....you send ME the money and ill give YOU 450million"
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I Supported Toymods
Location: Sydney
Registered: December 2002
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Mon, 02 May 2005 10:07
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We got a nigerian scammer try to rip us off at work.
The guy enquired about a bunch of expensive products supposedly to be delivered to the US and then tried to order via credit card.
We promptly told him to get stuffed and send a bank cheque drawn on an oz bank.
He then sent a Wells Fargo cashiers cheque for 12,000USD... the stuff he wanted was only $8,000AU so he wanted change via T/T.
I banked the cheque and thought f'ck him he can wait until the cheque clears.
About a week later I get an email saying he wants the stuff sent to Nigeria.
The cheque cleared about two weeks after that and the bank offered our financial controller cash because it was a cashiers cheque but she just signed it over to our bank account.
I refused to send the goods despite our operations manager and financial controller telling me I should send them now.
About a month later the bank sent us a letter telling us that the cheque had been refused by Wells Fargo and that they had retracted the funds + interest + some BS fee's.
We got the cheque back and it had about 20 little stamps on the back showing all the banks it was routed through until it got to Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo were the only ones to realise the cheque was fake and they claimed they knew because the spacing of one of the blocks of numbers down the bottom was about 3mm too far apart.
The cheque had a perfect watermark and was in special textured paper and everything.
We let the bank take the funds back but told them to shove the fee's and interest up their arse!
Amazing that a fake cheque can pass through so many banks before someone realises the cheque is a fake.
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Location: Canberra ACT
Registered: November 2002
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Tue, 03 May 2005 05:11
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The scary part is that there are dumb-asses out there that fall for this crap.
You only need to watch ACA to see all the morons being seperated from their money by scammers like this. And then they cry to ACA about being ripped off! I would be too embarrassed to admit that I was that stupid and greedy
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Location: Melbourne
Registered: June 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Tue, 03 May 2005 05:18
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That's just annoying dude.
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: February 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Tue, 03 May 2005 05:53
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smt_007 wrote on Sun, 01 May 2005 23:59 | I have an email saying, i am getting your emails in my account, i have a file saved for you with all your emails i received, i am scepticle about opening it .
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I had the sam thing, scanned the attachment, and to my suprise oh look, a worm virus, cant remember what it was called, but yeah, dont open it.
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Location: Perth, WA
Registered: December 2004
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Re: Money Scam Email - Look what I just got!
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Tue, 03 May 2005 06:03
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i wonder what happens when scammers send each other emails?
do they ignore each other?
or do they start talking to each other sharing tips etc?
Eldar.O.
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