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irishemigrant
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ParaNoid
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Location: Looking for Steward.
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:26 am |
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Are you sure??? |
_________________ Gold Coins here
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"If I get mad at you, please just understand me. I am just being ParaNoid because I love you so much." - unknown
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irishemigrant
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:32 am |
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^^ Don't get me started, you remember what happened last time |
_________________ SeniorNet NZ Local Branch ongoing workshops about internet scams
http://www.scamwarners.com/ For when you want to remember why we bait
Goodbye Mike (Paranoid) Friend, confidant, partner. Till we meet again.
Personal Message From The Axeman
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Mortal
Baiting Guru
Joined: 02 Jul 2009
Posts: 3473
Location: Smarter than your smartphone™
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:56 am |
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The only effective way how to fight scam is educating population.
Sadly, nobody ever told me how to spot internet scam, save for this community. |
_________________ x87 x5
Ugly Duckling with Mountain Goat and Osazee : Cameroon -> Nigeria
Paul with Just Cold: Benin -> Lagos -> Abuja
George: Accra -> Togo I really want to do business with you, because i know you are an Angel send to rescue me by God.
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GOD PUNISH YOU, GOD PUNISH YOU, GOD PUNISH YOU. Mr. Olisa
Every night a phonecall from you, you talk rubbish. Mr. Olisa
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irishemigrant
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Mortal
Baiting Guru
Joined: 02 Jul 2009
Posts: 3473
Location: Smarter than your smartphone™
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:20 am |
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^^ Luckily enough, I like both, but I'm a bit scared touching PF's anything |
_________________ x87 x5
Ugly Duckling with Mountain Goat and Osazee : Cameroon -> Nigeria
Paul with Just Cold: Benin -> Lagos -> Abuja
George: Accra -> Togo I really want to do business with you, because i know you are an Angel send to rescue me by God.
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GOD PUNISH YOU, GOD PUNISH YOU, GOD PUNISH YOU. Mr. Olisa
Every night a phonecall from you, you talk rubbish. Mr. Olisa
Juan's hidden fries! |
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Jeannette
Baiting Guru
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 2158
Location: Stalking Nick Riewoldt
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:09 am |
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Maybe the lady was an immigrant from a non English speaking country, so she had more problems to spot the obvious. |
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Sister I was even filling the form with pains - Mariam Abacha
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Jim Morrison
Elite Baiter
Joined: 12 Mar 2010
Posts: 1848
Location: Taking a face from the ancient gallery
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 10:31 am |
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^^ Immigrant or not, people should learn that nobody gives anything for free |
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BRUIN's WIMP Modality, Lomé - Accra
have i offended you before on why you do this to me?
God go hammer all your generation. say
amen. - reverend
are you joking or your tormentor? (I am tormentor )
Gommer basterd your mama is a prostitute, am a full niger delta boy and i must bomb your mamas toto with ak47 riffle... |
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Boris_YELLsome
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 03 Mar 2011
Posts: 872
Location: Nowhereville
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Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:05 am |
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^^^^^^^^
I give smiles and hugs for free.
I honestly think, it's exacerbated by the gloominess of the world, sometimes people just want to believe. I haven't found a job in over a year, my money is wearing dangerously thin and so is my morale, now I won't fall for a scam (because hopefully I know better by now), but I do catch myself daydreaming at times about something miraculous. |
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C0nv0y/P4tr1ck Co-Bait with Baitsamurai: Lagos - Abuja - Lagos - Cotonou
Cannot confirm nor deny I am part of any club having to do with Todgers
<i>"I am so sorry if i sound rude,please pardon me for God's sake"</i>
"please i will not like a situation whereby you call this innocent man funny names"
"let us try to tell our selves the truth sometimes, despite all lawyers are liars."
"I AM A VERY BUSY MAN AND HAVE NO TIME FOR FOLLY"
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ScammedOut
Elite Baiter
Joined: 19 Jan 2009
Posts: 1440
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Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:27 am |
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Sadly, nobody ever told me how to spot internet scam |
Me either. I never touched a computer until 2001 and had never heard of internet scams. When I got my first one, I took note of the fact that someone who didn't know my email address or name and called me "Beloved" wanted to give me a lot of money so kind of figured it might not be genuine.
There is no free lunch. |
_________________ "FUCK U....MBESILE. FUCK OFF AND STOP SENDING ME EMAIL,IDIOT.
YOUR MOTHER IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCKED."- Rev.1an H0rgan
You are very stupid PIG.-Mr. Samuel Koff0ur
YOU GO SLEEP YOU NO GO WAKE UP AGAIN
SEE YOU ASS IN HELL fucking tax payer ..
REJOICE IN HELL - Jack L1n (Mr.)
Enough fooling around with yourself. Your parents and family are Fucking scammer!
You are a white baboon,that doesn't even take
shower.
-Miss Gbagbo, Christian.
I NEVER SEE ANIMAL LIKE YOU. Your papa be castrated so he no make more like you!
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ParaNoid
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Location: Looking for Steward.
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Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:32 am |
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People have been scamming each other for as long as people have had interactions.
There are so many ways to scam someone. There is a phrase caveat emptor which kind of means buyer beware.
We all can be vulnerable to scams. Desperation, loneliness, stress, "love", desire to help others (philanthropy), magical thinking and a desire to get ahead by taking advantage of a perceived good deal.
I hope we don't move into blaming the victims.
Education is good. There are so many variations of scams (see ScamWarners) it is hard to educate about each one of them. Then there is phishing and begging and bad business practices where people get taken advantage of every day.
Scammers suck. |
_________________ Gold Coins here
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"If I get mad at you, please just understand me. I am just being ParaNoid because I love you so much." - unknown
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Chugg
Wannabe Baiter
Joined: 19 May 2011
Posts: 86
Location: Right Here
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Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:05 am |
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I have to agree with ParaNoid above.
As soon as the first gold coin was invented in Egypt (or Greece, or maybe Buffalo, I'm not sure), someone in the room said "there's gotta be a way I can get more of these, and I don't mean by working". And thus the first lad was born. It's been going on since then, and the internet is just another way to do the same things that have been done a million times before.
The first 419 I ever encountered was received by fax, and it was largely the same idea: Congratulations, shitload of money for free, just send WU transfer. If I recall correctly, it was even done in capitals.
As long as there are people to buy their stories, scammers will exist. Since we can't kill all the scammers, the only hope is to educate their would-be victims. And it's hard to convince some people.
I'm pretty sure that caveat emptor means "the cave is empty" though. |
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