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Posted: Sun May 29, 2016 2:31 pm

REASON 365 - Why I love Eater

I just sent this to my Mentor - speaks for it's self
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I am curious about my first lad photo... but more my tool

https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2259237#2259237

Yes I am kinda proud that my WUC security sshtick worked
but I am a byproduct of Eater and all the wisdom that flows around here

So if I ever use the word I - it's short for Eater

Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 5727

The funny thing is, I consider many of the folks on this board more an expert in advance fee frauds than I do the so-called authorities who are supposed to handle this stuff. Case in point - many years ago a scammer sent me a bank account located in Atlanta in the good old U.S. of A. This was back in the day when bank accounts were reported to a person outside of Eater who was not a mod. I was convinced that the lad had an accomplice in Atlanta and attempted to contact the Atlanta p.d. Ha! For starters they had no idea what the scam was and I had to explain to them in length about the scam and baiting. Then I was informed that they do not handle these types of things. They gave me phone number for a fraud department Turns out that they did not handle these things as well. Very frustrating. I have had the most success contacting Law enforcement in small towns, or as I call them the "Mayberrys" (not that I contact them often). Anyway, I am off the point, which is the folks on this board are genuine heroes. This s going to sound arrogant, but we on this board do more to combat these crimes than all of law enforcement, and I am proud to be a member.

Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 8:29 pm

^I totally agree. And I think the same applies to Internet giants like Google. From time to time I get the most typical 419 letter and Google displays the following alert:

Quote:

"Be careful with this message. Many people marked similar messages as phishing scams, so this might contain unsafe content."

No, not phishing, this is advance fee fraud, which is different. Once the potential victim finds out it's not a phising attempt, he/she might go on.

Blogger / Blogspot (google) also don't have a specific way to report fakes, you have to mark them as spam or phishing, which is very inaccurate.

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