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Hello I'm New here! Joined: 02 May 2013 Posts: 4

I have been in contact with a scammer who is pretending to be an Egyptian army general who must get a large amount of money out of the country. He told me to contact his bank in London (same IP as the general) to facilitate the transfer, which is to be made by ATM card. The bank is going to mail me the ATM card now that I have given him my (phony) home address.

Trouble is, I have not been hit up for any money yet. No "transfer fee", ATM card fee, etc. I don't get it.

Also, his IP address shows as being a Microsoft site. His English is poor enough that I am fairly certain that he is not in North America, but I cannot track him further. I thought I once read here about how scammers could hide their IPs, but I cannot find that info any more. Suggestions?

Kip

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:08 pm

Don't worry--you will eventually be hit up for the fees.

So far as the email--it depends on which email provider they use. GMail and Hotmail mask/hide the IPs. If it's going to microsoft, then I think he's using hotmail (which I believe is now Outlook).

You can try programs such as WhoReadMe to check IP addresses.

http://www.whoreadme.com/

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:17 pm

The fees ought to be hitting you really soon if you have agreed the logistics of the ATM card. There are various ways they might present you with fees but whichever way, they are most likely to get in the way of your actually receiving the card.

Sometimes they direct you to a fake bank site where you can see evidence of the massive amount of $$$$$$$ right there in "your" account, ready for you to withdraw the very minute you get the ATM card. If this happens be sure and post a link to the fake so the site killers here can get it wiped out.

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 10:34 am

Yeah, this scam is quite common. Very soon you will be getting options for the delivery of your card, a selection of various courier companies that, apparently, ridiculously charge several hundreds of $s to deliver a credit card. You lad will pay these charges on your behalf once you send him the monies via Western Onion or MoneyGrab...

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 02 May 2013 Posts: 4

Sure enough, there is a fee for activation of the ATM card. Go figure.

He wants me to send the money via Western Union (no surprise) but the address he wants me to send it to is misspelled. The closest correct spelling points to a school in New York city.

Naturally I have sent the money. When it doesn't arrive, I will query WU, who will tell me (over the course of a week or two) that the address is misspelled and then that the people at the school refuse the money because they don't know why it is being sent.

This actually is a somewhat boring bait, although I have kept the lad going for 5 weeks or so now.

Tim

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