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November 14, 2008, 07:59:30 AM »
I have no sympathy. This is what happens when people's greed is stronger than their intelligence.
MY former mother-in-law got taken in by one of these. I laugh. Apparently she had a relative who died on the Concorde crash in France. He was buried in South Africa where he happened to own a diamond mine. Nice!! She stood to inherit millions of dollars. She was clever though, she got legal advice. They recommended a good lawyer for her to work with.
I figure she's out a good $25-$35k
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I thought everyone was familiar with these scams, they've been around for awhile.
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Re: Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists
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My parents got something similar last year.
Apparently, they had won a couple of million dollars playing the Spanish Lottery.
They've never been to Spain, they don't know anyone in Spain.
Whaaaaaaaaaa?
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For shits n' giggles, they called the guy to see what was up. He said that for $8,000, he would wire the money first thing in the morning!
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Last year someone called my grandfather in the Las Vegas area, claiming to be ME. He said that "I" was in Vancouver on a fishing trip and had gotten into trouble with the game warden and was arrested. He asked if my grandfather could wire "me" $3000 to help out. Luckily my grandfather asked me why I wouldn't call my parents for such a request (I hardly ever call my grandparents so it was certainly out of the blue). He claimed he didn't have the money to help me out and "I" hung up. It was weird.
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That's so lame that they harass old people.
Shadows, have you gotten a call from these people yet?
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Quote from: Axl Rose's Bicycle Basket on November 14, 2008, 10:50:40 PM
That's so lame that they harass old people.
Shadows, have you gotten a call from these people yet?
Haha!
Seriously though, stupidity and greed is a very dangerous combination...
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Could have been scammed a couple of years ago, put a car for sale on a website, a guy from out of state replied and wanted to by it site unseen except for web photo. Said he would be sending his attorney to us to make all transactions, and have car shipped. That never happened, however a couple of weeks later we recieved a envelope in the mail. He had sent money orders or whatever, he had even sent more than the asking price of the car lol. They all looked legit, but we called the bank they were drawn from and every one had already been previously issued. We had even taken them to our personal banker and even he was fooled by them. All I can say is it's a good thing we did our homework, before signing title over, and whose to say we couldn't have just scammed him, as he sent cash first, with no promise of a return, bold move. In the end we still tried to keep communications with him, as we wanted to catch him, but he ended up bugging out, obviously he knew we were on to him.
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Re: Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists
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The thing about these scams are that they are the oldest ones in the book. How anybody can be so stupid to fall for these is beyond me. If it sounds too good to be true, it is!!! Always, no exceptions.
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Here is the worst part:
"She wiped out her husband?s retirement account, mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car. Both were already paid for.
For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted."
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Re: Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists
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Quote from: Republican Jesus on November 15, 2008, 09:43:35 PM
Here is the worst part:
"She wiped out her husband?s retirement account, mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car. Both were already paid for.
For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted."
Unfuckingreal!!!!
Her work as a registered nurse, Spears also teaches CPR and is a reverend who has married many couples. She also communicates with lightning-fast sign language with her hearing-impaired husband.
And.
Janella Spears doesn?t think she?s a sucker or an easy mark.
That's the unreal part. This is not some flunkie. Still..
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She's a utter fool who I have no sympathy for. I do feel sorry for the husband though, for both losing that much money and being married to such a loser.
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Stupid greedy bitch... I can understand if she sent money once, but this is ridiculous.
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those bastards have been sending me an email everyweek for the last 4 years
can't we find them and kill them?
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Re: Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists
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Quote from: CHINESE DEMOCRACY eventually on November 16, 2008, 08:00:02 PM
those bastards have been sending me an email everyweek for the last 4 years
can't we find them and kill them?
Why don't you log off and go look for them?
I support you 100%.
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so anyone seen there where someone fuck these scammers over;
Here's one.
http://www.scamorama.com/smurf.html
I remember reading another story, where the guy scammed them back with a story where his uncle got greedy and killed the guy who orginally got the letter, then sent a pic of the body to the con artist and finally when he didn't get the money (he claimed he'd paid the 20k the con artist wanted) sent assasins to johannesburg, which he found out via some ip or something, it was funny as hell.
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Best scambait ever is Wilson Tarbuckles, Martins Cole, and the Anus Laptops.
http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109&pp=25
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hhahahhaahahh hhahaah HHAHAHHAHAH that is just SICK! simply BRILLIANT!
a long read but worth it!!! (and i'm only still on page 1)
take that you bastards!!!
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Check out this e-mail I received!
From: Maxwell Collins,
Country: Ivory Coast
Location: West Africa,
Dear One,
I know this mail will come to you as a suprise since we have not meet or had a previous correspondence please bear with me.i will realy like to have a good relationship with you, and i have a special reason why i decided to write you because of the urgency of my situation here
I got your contact informations through site and decided to contact you, hoping that by Almighty God grace, you will successfully assist me out from my situations after seven days of prayer and fasting over seeking for an overseas guardance. I am Maxwell Collins ( 22 years old ). The only son of late Chief Nana Collins, who was a famous and wealthy cocoa and gold dealer base in Abidjan, the econimic capital of Ivory Coast
My father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby and since then, my father took me so special. Before he he died, he secrectly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of ($10,500, USD ).Ten million, five hundred thousand united state dollars. Deposited in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin.
I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.I am seeking your urgent attention to help me transfer the sum into your account for an investment purposes, Such as real estates and stock markets business. And i want you to help me invest this money in your country and help me to locate a nice school to continue my education in your country.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your urgent assistance to me, immediately after the transfer of the fund into your account in your Country. I will be waiting for your urgent and favourable response.
Yours Sincerely,
Maxwell Collins.
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Quick, man, take it, that seems like a good offer!
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