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Old 12-24-2007, 02:29 AM
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south africa scams

I opened my mail- had 3 money scams from South Africa! I am getting them constantly- is there a place to forward this crap?
Old 12-24-2007, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by ilmbg
For ****** *****! I opened my mail- had 3 money scams from South Africa! I am getting them constantly- is there a place to forward this crap?
I know, I got 53 of them this AM. It's almost as bad as swearing, everyone is doing it!

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Old 12-24-2007, 07:41 AM
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That and I wish they would realize that I'm too old to want to make my three times bigger
I'd like to know why they think that if they send me the same email 5 times, (In the same mailing!), I'll be more inclined to buy their product!

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Old 12-24-2007, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ilmbg
I opened my mail- had 3 money scams from South Africa! I am getting them constantly- is there a place to forward this crap?
Yeah forward all the scammers the others' e-mails
Actually you should not open e-mails from unknown senders .
Old 12-24-2007, 03:56 PM
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Sure is irritating.
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We get the same stuff at work but they also pretend to be religious affiliates. All kinds of crazy scams going on over there. All that work they do scamming, imagine what they could get done for themselves actually working, instead of stealing
Old 12-24-2007, 04:41 PM
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All that money they are trying to free up too......And people are still starving on that continent.

Used to get hand written letters from Nigeria. What a laugh those were. Dr. Mumbamba? needs to free up $25 million for research. I can keep the interest. Just give us your acct #.
Old 12-24-2007, 07:21 PM
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Sad thing is, even after all this time, the scam still works enough for them to keep doing it.
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Here is a link to a Wikipedia article about the 419Eater website which scams the scammers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419eater.com

Be forewarned, although the Wiki article is profanity-free, the 419Eater site itself has some bad language...Ben
Old 12-26-2007, 11:43 PM
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That was an interesting link. Never heard about them but I like what they are doing.
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Check out this scambaiter site!

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Old 12-27-2007, 05:08 AM
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Guys, please be careful with the any links links you may post. Before posting it, please look it over and make sure that posting the link will not violate the rules in anyway.

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Old 12-27-2007, 09:50 PM
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Yeah, I am getting better at not opening them- sometimes I just forget and open.
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