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07-19-2005, 04:16 AM
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Originally Posted by boo's daddy <snip>
The way it worked was that there is a bit of emailing back and forth and all seems to be going smoothly, then they ask you for a small (say £100) payment for some fee or charge or other. If you pay up, all goes fine for a bit then they ask you for more. Then more, and more, and basically they keep asking for more until you stop paying.
<snip> | Saw a program on danish TV some years ago when these letters started to surface, where the procedure was as I wrote in my initial post. Naturally - that is the more severe cases where blackmail and almost kidnapping is involved.
These scams over e-mail, are usually less severe then the ones where you get actual snail-mail letters and have meetings with actual people. |
07-24-2005, 12:40 PM
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| | | I've also got these e-mails. First time, I wondered how to react, so I didn't do anything, just saved that mail. Next day I got another mail. The only difference between these two mails was the story, everything else were same (the amount of money, how to react etc.). Next day I got 2 mails that were same excluding the story. Now I just delete if I get those kinds of mails.
BTW, maybe a bit offtopic, but are those Internet Lottery -mails the same series? I've already got about 200 such Lottery Win -mails, and it just came to my mind if these mails comes from same group?
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07-24-2005, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Kipi <snip>
BTW, maybe a bit offtopic, but are those Internet Lottery -mails the same series? I've already got about 200 such Lottery Win -mails, and it just came to my mind if these mails comes from same group? | Anything you haven't requested directly (and even then some) is a scam, only attempting to either lure credit-information from you, or getting you to buy something. |
07-25-2005, 02:20 AM
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| | | Yes, I know. Was just wonder if those mails came from same source 'cause mostly the amount of money is same.
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07-25-2005, 02:27 AM
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| | Some of them no doubt does, but these letters are mostly reused as well. It is easy to take somebody else scam and just change af few things  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Rate This Thread |  Linear Mode | | 
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