Looks good to me......

[handejector]

I received this email titled "URGENT" to the Support account----

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Hello support,
Urgent Opportunity
One of my clients, a Russian Oligarch, just contacted me this morning through his financial consultant requesting that we move his money out immediately because the European and USA Governments are seizing all his assets.
He wants the money to be moved out through Bitcion to avoid any trace to him. The amount is over NINE HUNDRED MILLION EURO, and he recommended an investment platform to help move the money out to individuals that can manage/ keep the money safe for him. The owner wants this to be an investment for up to 10 years.
If you are interested in this please let me know.
Regards
jacin norah

[email protected]

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It looked legit to me, so I sent my banking info.
I'm not doin it for tha money, jus tryin to help the guy out.
Does the grocery store take those EURO thingies?


Seriously, it saddens me that there might be even one person alive dumb enough to fall for this junk.
WE get numerous emails each week along these lines. A really common one is supposedly from an officer of a foreign bank offering big bucks to receive the money belonging to a dead client- actually an offer to supposedly steal the millions the dead guy left behind.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I'll go halfsies with you . . .

 

[ladder13]

No BITCOIN spoken here, I'm safe until the Nigerian calls on me.

 

[Rustyt1953]

To review:

 

[dmn57]

Seriously, it saddens me that there might be even one person alive dumb enough to fall for this junk.

Same here, but given the number of things of this nature someone must be taking the bait. Even my 92 y.o. dad is together enough to wonder who would be gullible enough to fall for them.

 

[Onomea]

Years ago I read a pathetic, and hilarious, article about some guy in Kuala Lumpur who fell so deep into the Nigerian prince scam that a party of Nigerians showed up in KL where he wined and dined them for a week before they disappeared into the sunset, leaving him with no money and a fistful of bills...

I remember back in the day those scams showing up in my in box at work as snail mail...

Then ya got the "send this letter/email off to ten other people or you're all gonna die" nuts.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Seriously, it saddens me that there might be even one person alive dumb enough to fall for this junk. . .

In the immortal words of George Carlin . . . "Think about how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that . . . "

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[coltle6920]

They aren't scams. You folks just don't understand the legalities involved with the transfer of large amounts of cash. Be patient and you will be rewarded with wealth beyond your dreams.

At least that's what I was told in an email from FTX.

 

[444 Magnum]

Years ago I was a commercial lender. I had a customer with whom I had made considerable construction and R/E loans. I got a call from him one day. He was in London and needed me to wire him $400,000. Here's the story I found out after questioning him and his local R/E backer. For the sake of the story, I'll call the gullible fool "Bill" (no offense to anyone) and his local R/E backer "Tom".

Apparently Tom had been approached by some agents of a telecom construction company. They had laid fiber optics across the Atlantic Ocean to Nigeria. This was a $100 million plus contract that had been completed but funds could not be released until a $400K tax was paid to the Nigerian government.

The telecom construction company was willing to pay $1.2 million to whomever would pay the $400K tax and get the contract funds released. All the agents needed was $20,000 to make the introductions and get the ball rolling.

Tom told me he introduced these men to Bill to give him a life lesson. He had no way of knowing Bill would fall for it. So, $20,000 later and a plane ticket to London, I get the call asking for an additional $400K. Bill didn't have that much liquidity or approachable equity and this would have required an unsecured loan without a live signature. It wasn't going to happen.

To make a long story shorter, I told him no and suggested he get out of there while he was still alive. His response, "I knew you wouldn't do it!"

Bill came home and I dug answers out of him and his R/E backer to piece the story together, and then began the process of phasing out our financial relationship.

 

[turnerriver]

 

[Beemerguy53]

Same here, but given the number of things of this nature someone must be taking the bait. Even my 92 y.o. dad is together enough to wonder who would be gullible enough to fall for them.

With the next-to-nothing cost of mass emailing, it takes only one sucker to make it worthwhile to the scammer. And with millions sent out, if only one in 10,000 people falls for the scam, that makes for a pretty nice payday...

 

[pharmer]

Like the Powerball, doesn't even get my attention until it's at least a billion. Joe

 

[9mmPatriot]

Seriously, it saddens me that there might be even one person alive dumb enough to fall for this junk.

HEY!!!! That's SERIOUSLY mean and offensive!


Jeez......I'm sitting right here and ya couldn't wait till I wandered over the Reloading Forum before ya started talking about me?

 

[SmithNut]

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.

For the record, I'm still waiting for Bill Gates to sent the money that was promised to me years ago.

 

[Stevens]

I still have a collection of those, usually nigerian, "scam letters" from the 1980s and 90s. Some hilarious. The company where I worked used to get plenty of them. We sold equipment all over the world including nigeria, the most corrupt country of all, as far as I know. We knew them well, all sales of equipment & spares were paid for before the equipment was shipped.
Steve W

 

[Rlg#17]

They are out there. I don't get them very often any more, but used to get several daily.

What I see more now is the scam websites offering to sell something like primers or powder at pre nonsense prices. I know 3 people personally that have been taken, two for several hundred, one for over two grand. The cs rep just kept offering bigger discounts and free shipping and hazmat…. Two of those 3 I told don't do it, the other never asked for advice.

Money gone down the drain.

Regards, Rick Gibbs

 

[Krogen]

They are out there. I don't get them very often any more, but used to get several daily.

What I see more now is the scam websites offering to sell something like primers or powder at pre nonsense prices. I know 3 people personally that have been taken, two for several hundred, one for over two grand. The cs rep just kept offering bigger discounts and free shipping and hazmat…. Two of those 3 I told don't do it, the other never asked for advice.

Money gone down the drain.

Regards, Rick Gibbs

Sad to hear. There are common red flags, though. How did these folks pay? Presumably not with a credit card.

 

[Tom S.]

Sad to hear. There are common red flags, though. How did these folks pay? Presumably not with a credit card.

These places do not accept credit cards, which should be a HUGE red flag to anyone with more than two brain cells. Instead they ask for cash forms of payment like Zelle and even Bit Coin.

Sometimes it's hard to feel sorry for someone who falls for such a obvious scam.

 

[Jinglebob]

Auction site scam

If you list something on an auction site and a bidder offers to pay more than the offered purchase price via cashier's check corporate or personal check, DON'T.

Upon receiving the scammers counterfeit check, you are conned into sending the difference back through a bank wire. Then you have to pay the bank back in full once the fake check bounces.

Never accept payment for more than your selling price.