April-22-2010
Has anyone else noticed an increase in “Nigeria scam” type emails? Do you know anyone ever falling for it?
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Sometimes they land in my bulk folder, sometimes in regular folder, but I have been receiving an increased number of these through my AT&T and Hotmail emails. I usually check my bulk folder because some legitimate emails are stuck there at times. I have noticed that the tone of these emails is changing too and some of them are demanding my attention and are rude (I only look at the first sentence to make sure it is junk and then just click DELETE).

I do not know anyone that ever fell for these scams – I am realistic and do not think money will fall out of the blue sky and if it is too good to be true, it is a scam.

Have any of you ever heard about anyone falling for this, not only personally, but maybe in local media? I just cannot think of anyone being so greedy and so silly, nicely said, to fall for it.

I am just not sure why the junk mail operators think we will fall for it, or we all need drugs, or enlarging something, or buying a fake diploma, etc., but some people must be falling for it or buying if they keep on emailing.

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Soma Holiday on April 25th, 2010 at 10:06 am #

I haven’t fell for them but receive them all the time. I also got one that said they worked for the fbi and I was being investigated for monetary crimes

NeoNerd on April 27th, 2010 at 10:39 am #

They’re just as common as ever. I remember when I got letters promising exactly the same thing.

Chronic Answerbater on April 30th, 2010 at 5:19 am #

My mother fell for it, and she regrets it.

Jake Rather on May 1st, 2010 at 12:16 am #

Lots of people fall for the scams, but some people have fun with them.

Check it out!

Who Hee!- Michael Jackson on May 1st, 2010 at 11:56 pm #

Actually I had a scammer that claimed to be related to our family (long distance no relative) and our cousin, he was in the army that time, didnt get anything back. thats when i learned when my mother said, “IF YOU HAVE TO GIVE $ THEN ITS A SCAM”. this happened when it was ripe in its age of the nigerian scams.

I recently got a message though my facebook page, they claimed to be a christian. i tried to give them a dirty message back but i blocked them first before i could send a message. Duoh!

I heard one story of a lady giving away all her lifesaving but thats was months ago but in this year.Now with some people they are scamming them back. Like i read one thread on a bullentin board, of a guy sending crap like bricks and broken computer monitors and claiming he was sending a playstation. they true-scammer kept coming back for more. it was hilarious.

Jisan F on May 4th, 2010 at 4:15 pm #

I never do that since many people that I know has done it and some of them get into a trouble. I manage about 12 different e-mails for different purposes, my business, my family, and of course the one that I give to the stores that I “sing in” for discounts or coupons but unfortunately some of them sell your e-mail to third parties and so on. so I usually open the one that I know or trust and the rest I mark as scam or spam depends of the server. so I did already let go my “great great great grandpa heritage that he deposit in Africa (lol) also the lottery that ” I won in Europe” hey wait a minute, maybe I did really win! you never know. hey! there’s also that ***** looking for me! I’m irresistible ;-)

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