TSB
General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: Dottonedan on January 21, 2014, 02:12:14 PM
-
Now this is a different approach. LOL.
FROM: info@worldbank.org
WORLD BANK SWITZERLAND
SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PROGRAM
FOR.2000/2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/ 2011 / 2012
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654.
AMOUNT: USD$ 4.5 MILLION DOLLARS
Dear Esteemed Beneficiary.
This office has sent many notification email to you regarding your scam victim compensation sum of USD$ 4.5 awarded to you and all other scam victims whose EMAIL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION was found in the hard disk of a trick-star arrested by the FBI. But we have not receive any response from you.
We were surprise to received an email from one Mr. Dave Rodriguez today, who claim that you have authorized him to claim your compensation money sum of USD$ 4.5 on your behalf. Are you aware of this person?
We urgently await your response to this mail before this office kick start the fund release procedure.
Yours in service,
Mr. Andy Williams
Andy-Williams@accountant.com
WORLD BANK SWITZERLAND
-
You know it's spam... Andy Williams is dead. :'(
-
@accountant.com sounds legit, I'm emailing this guy right now, I want my money.
-
how hard would it be to track these guys down? I mean for a little redneck justice, not legal intervention.
-
I've got a fish on the hook right now. It's the classic over charge the credit card and send them a money order for the over charge since the shipping company doesn't take CC's :) I can't believe people still fall for this crap. How did it happen more than once or twice is beyond me. I've got the CC # coming today so I'll turn it in to the CC company so they can figure out where the breach happened and then take one more card # from their arsenal. Then I'm going to string this guy along for as long as I can. Any ideas as to what and how we should waste as much time of his as possible? I want them to get as close as possible to getting the money only to have the rug pulled out from under them. I know that nothing will ever be done to these people but I'm entertained, so there's that.
A guy that works here used to work for a Honda ATV/Motorcycle dealership and he said that back in the 80's he made a big sell for some generators to Guatemala and the whole shop was so pumped that they sold 30 generators to one person and they charged the CC, shipped the generators and the rest of the story is history.
-
Just for shits and giggles see if you can get them to send you a picture of themselves for your records or verification. Whatever terminology you want to use. Have them hold a sign with some stupid saying on it. I have seen this done before, it is very funny.
-
Just for shits and giggles see if you can get them to send you a picture of themselves for your records or verification. Whatever terminology you want to use. Have them hold a sign with some stupid saying on it. I have seen this done before, it is very funny.
I am going to do this. I'll see if I can get him to send a pic of him holding up a hand sign of some sort along with something embarrasing that they might not know is ridiculous. Any suggestions on the sign or gesture?
-
Lots of good ones here:
http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm (http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm)
-
OMG!!!!! DO NOT click on that link at work unless you are a boss! Absolutely hilarious stuff on there! Watch out for coffee shooting from your nose! I LOVE this thread! Mebbe have them mime "I'm a little teapot" ROTFLMAO!
-
Lots of good ones here:
[url]http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame.htm[/url])
Ahh, yes. Old "Shiver Metimbers" at work . . .
-
That is the website that gives me all my ideas. ;)
-
I would just keep tell them the cards are declined and asking for more. Burn through however many they have stolen before they get wise, passing them along to fraud departments as they are sent to you. The idea of having them verify with a picture is hilarious too, but might make them look elsewhere for an easier mark.
-
I've got 2 card #'s already, who do I contact as a merchant with a supposed stolen card? I've found info on calling if I have lost or have my personal card stolen but can't find the right place to contact from a business that might have accepted a stolen card. I'm going to see how many #'s he'll give me. He's called twice already so I don't know how many more times he'll fall for it but I'm trying.
-
Oh yeah, heavy Somalian or Nigerian accent. Heck of a nice guy too :), I almost feel bad...almost.
-
Every credit card company should have a fraud department, but you may have to call the general contact number to get transferred.
-
Actually the concept of the original email isn't that far off. Senior Sentinel, an FBI operation aimed at targeting phone
scammers of the 90's, found that many of the old timers that had been bilked of their life savings were then offered
the wonderful opportunity to have it all given back for the low low price of $10K or whatever they had left or could borrow.
FWIW taking advantage of the elderly like that is right up there with animal abuse in my opinion.
-
Actually the concept of the original email isn't that far off. Senior Sentinel, an FBI operation aimed at targeting phone
scammers of the 90's, found that many of the old timers that had been bilked of their life savings were then offered
the wonderful opportunity to have it all given back for the low low price of $10K or whatever they had left or could borrow.
FWIW taking advantage of the elderly like that is right up there with animal abuse in my opinion.
One of our employees had his mother put into one of the early Alzhiemers homes but not the full on nursing home and he said there would be sales calls to her room on numerous occasions and he'd grab the phone and try to see what they were selling and they'd immediately hang up on him. That tells me it wasn't just some telemarketer hitting auto dial on their call system. I think I could muster up the guts to choke one of those people to death and not feel that bad about it. It's no different than harming a baby or a.
-
For awhile someone (a woman) was calling my grandmother and saying "hey grandma it's me, my car broke
down and I don't have any money...."
It takes a certain kind of evil to pull chit like that.
-
For awhile someone (a woman) was calling my grandmother and saying "hey grandma it's me, my car broke
down and I don't have any money...."
It takes a certain kind of evil to pull chit like that.
A quite common scheme to rip off grandparents of young people is "you" emailing asking grandma for help because you got in trouble in Mexico and you don't want your folks to know.
Please send money to*** who will help get you out of jail.
-
Warning: Green Clean Chemicals. Or something like that. Via phone. Mr Chatty going on and on about sending me Sony earbuds in celebration of their anniversary. Starts chatting about golf and everything under the sun. This guys good. Next you know: "Okay the we'll get a drum of hand cleaner out your way. You don't have to pay right away" I tell him hold up (name is Alex) no way we don't work that way. Then this: "Okay then I understand we'll send you a trade show sample bucket. It's only five gallons." Told him no we don't do anyrthing without a purchase order and hung up.
Waiting for that fiver to show up on the dock. I can almost guarantee this will happen.