Chain Emails : People still fall for them

[TheLemming]

Ive just had an email from a friend who seems to have fallen for the oldest chain email in the book.

The classic "Bill Gates will give you $250 for each person you forward this email to" spam.

To make it worse, his forwarded message was "Im not sure if this is true or not...."

I thought that anyone who was even vaguely net literate would have heard of the classics such as this and the various scams asking for your bank account details etc.

How even anyone who hadnt heard of it could fail to see that its a wind up is beyond me.

[robp]

Have you seen the one with the 'ill' baby picture?
It suggests that microsoft will donate to the sick childs hospital a small sum for everyone you send the email to.
A classic that most women fall for!

[Deester]

Spammers paradise!

[Psychobert]

There are a few around a litle more serious than this. Relative of a friend fell for the I'll give you a large amount of cash if you let me use your bank account to move it out of Nigeria or somewhere into the UK. He was desperate as his business was failing and they not only did their research to find this out, but took him for quite a lot of cash..

Guys behind this one are serious gangsters..

[GreenV8S]

He was desperate as his business was failing

took him for quite a lot of cash..

If he's gullible enough to fall for that sort of thing, it's hardly surprising his business was in trouble!

[gary_tholl]

I get the Nigerian scam offer quite often.

Am I the only one who wants to open another account, with suitable 'Absolutely No overdraft' rules, just to see what happens??

Haven't actually taken the time or effort to do it, probably won't, as it's obviously a scam, but something I think of every time I see it.

Gary

[nevpugh308]

Ive just had an email from a friend

I hope you suitably reprimanded them

[Psychobert]

GreenV8S said:
If he's gullible enough to fall for that sort of thing, it's hardly surprising his business was in trouble!

Harsh, but my thoughts exactly.. The no overdraft account thing to see what happens I'd not recommend; the scam is you part with cash upfront and from what I've heard, these guys are real gangsters. Not the type I'd like to mess around with as I presume they do have friends over here..

[deltaf]

OOOps! I sent them an email back telling them to go FCUK themselves......
Its ok...im all right.....i used an anonymous mailer...

[TheLemming]

Psychobert said:

GreenV8S said:
If he's gullible enough to fall for that sort of thing, it's hardly surprising his business was in trouble!

Harsh, but my thoughts exactly.. The no overdraft account thing to see what happens I'd not recommend; the scam is you part with cash upfront and from what I've heard, these guys are real gangsters. Not the type I'd like to mess around with as I presume they do have friends over here..

Considering the current immigration policies (or lack thereof) it wouldnt suprise me if they were over here already...

[duncanreally]

Now I want to see the email, could someone send it to me? Ahhh, nevermind, I found it with Google.

D

http://nopa.net/Useful_Information/419/index.html

This one shows the emails sent back and forth between a scammer and someone who decided to lead them on...

www.geocities.com/lapetitelesson/cs/conversation.html

>> Edited by duncanreally on Wednesday 15th January 17:09

[robp]

Run by gangsters?

More like a speccy spotty gimp sat in his bedroom getting some kind of sick pleasure from it.........

dad, stop it!

>> Edited by robp on Wednesday 15th January 17:05

[SGirl]

robp said: Have you seen the one with the 'ill' baby picture?
It suggests that microsoft will donate to the sick childs hospital a small sum for everyone you send the email to.
A classic that most women fall for!

Errr.... no. Not at all.

[Big_M]

Well I am going to have bad luck for the rest of the year as I didn't forward on the lucky email I received today with the four leaf clover picture.

[ATG]

I thought a new mail virus was out last week as my inbox suddenly filled up ... turned out it was a foolish mate forwarding that same e-mail you got, and then everyone he sent it to sending him back some abuse, and CCing all the other recipients in so we'd join in too.

[squirrelz]

SGirl said:

Errr.... no. Not at all.

Heh, but to be fair SGirl, you're not most women. I've heard that you can actually parallel park

[Fatboy]

I usually just 'reply all' with some abuse for forwarding such shite on. I don't get much of it anymore