i 'played along' with one of these a few years ago, to the point where i told the person i would indeed deposit her money order in my account and then send her back 80% of that money by wire.?? soon she was sending threatening emails demanding her money because she sent me a money order - (she never sent one).? i was wondering when i might see a big thug bang on my door demanding money.? thankfully i had used my business address and none of my personal info - still, one wonders how good they are at locating ip addresses or whatever.? i guess the bogus money orders are pretty hard to detect and take a long time to return as fakes.? best to just ignore these 'too good to be true' opportunities for the cheaters they are. Dave from AZ
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 6:16 am Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] about scammers-phishers and online web thieves. This has become BIG BUSINESS, for many undeveloped or underdeveloped countries will few laws and a need for dumb monies from RICH countries like North America and Europe. Ten of millions of spam scam are sent daily to lure a small percentage of people who fall prey to the lure. Kind of like putting a million hooks on a fishing line.? If you only catch one big fish... its worth it.? And then there is tomorrow. ? Best Wishes ? In a message dated 1/24/2008 7:01:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all.....are you guy's getting lots of scam mail, saying you won a lottery, a financial windfall from an oversea's country, your web number was chose and you won a million bucks or you are needed for a great paying job? All these want all your personal information and are by scam artists. My question is this----why do they send so many of these? Do some people really fall victim to these e-mails ? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Dan H. Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year. ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
