13 years
419 scams
Yeah, the message/profile is so impersonal and stilted. Doesn't feel natural at all. Them being a feeder and PMing other feeders wouldn't help either. 
13 years
419 scams
Hmmm, and the other guys argued with me when I accused "her" of being fake...
Lust really is an incredibly blinding and stupefying emotion.
Lust really is an incredibly blinding and stupefying emotion.
13 years
419 scams
scrambledegg wrote
I really like the list idea!
This one was quite canny in that it wasn't asking for money straight away, and although very wordy, compared to some I've seen in the past, the English / grammar wasn't too bad.
However.....
I just logged into that spam account again. It had 9 messages in the inbox yet it was clear last night (which was when I first logged into it). So in the last 24 hours or so, 9 people from this site had messaged a person who's name was set to '419 Nigerian Scammer' and who's profile CLEARLY listed them as a scam profile that been taken over by a site moderator (me).
The 9 messages were not questioning the name or anything, they were replying to the original scam emails sent by this person! If people are that dumb to reply to a person with '419 Nigerian Scammer' as their name, then I'm not sure a list is going to help! Some people are clearly just unbelievably stupid!
juicy wrote
I wonder if it would be helpful to post a list of 'warning signs.' A lot of perfectly reasonable people were fooled by this one, but those of us who see too much could see it immediately.
Why don't we start a list here that could turn into a help section?
I wonder if it would be helpful to post a list of 'warning signs.' A lot of perfectly reasonable people were fooled by this one, but those of us who see too much could see it immediately.
Why don't we start a list here that could turn into a help section?
I really like the list idea!
This one was quite canny in that it wasn't asking for money straight away, and although very wordy, compared to some I've seen in the past, the English / grammar wasn't too bad.
However.....
I just logged into that spam account again. It had 9 messages in the inbox yet it was clear last night (which was when I first logged into it). So in the last 24 hours or so, 9 people from this site had messaged a person who's name was set to '419 Nigerian Scammer' and who's profile CLEARLY listed them as a scam profile that been taken over by a site moderator (me).
The 9 messages were not questioning the name or anything, they were replying to the original scam emails sent by this person! If people are that dumb to reply to a person with '419 Nigerian Scammer' as their name, then I'm not sure a list is going to help! Some people are clearly just unbelievably stupid!
lmfao, I love it!
Would it be terribly inappropriate to name and shame the incredibly stupid?
13 years