Scams like these

[UP4014]

It must be my lucky day. I am about to receive a million bucks



FACEBOOK PROMOTION
(Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg)
Headquarters: 1 Hacker Way (at Bayfront Expy.), Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Good Day,

We (Facebook Lottery Team) proudly announce! That you have been selected as one of the beneficiaries of Facebook and United Nations Program and the sum $1,000,000.00USD (One Million United State Dollars) have be documented on your behalf with a serial number FB/2015/575061725.

Wow, Facebook and the United Nationals.

I did receive and email which I wished I'd kept to post here, it told me they could get back money if I had been scammed in Nigeria, all I had to do was provide my bank details so they could return it.

Matt

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I have several thousands of dollars unclaimed in Australia due to reasons I won't go into, but a slack registry, and slow mail delivery to me feature.

The scum companies who are now mailing me to tell me I have unclaimed funds are remarkable. The letters all look official and indicate they are doing me a favour. Out of the two I've received so far, one made out they are awesome private detectives and we're employed to find me, the second claim they are awesome accounts and do people favours to return their funds.

Scum. Absolute scum. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for my registry to respond to a letter I sent in early Dec....

sure but... in my case I didn't even know I had the unclaimed money. without one of these guys writing to me I would have had nothing. so they serve their purpose.

 

[Mal]

sure but... in my case I didn't even know I had the unclaimed money. without one of these guys writing to me I would have had nothing. so they serve their purpose.

However, it's the words they use and the way they say it that annoy me. They tend to imply they are officially requested to perform this job, with a nice commission too (5pc for the second, first didn't quote their cut) They are as bad as the (now relatively stamped out) speculative share offer companies that were around 5 and more years ago.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

However, it's the words they use and the way they say it that annoy me. They tend to imply they are officially requested to perform this job, with a nice commission too (5pc for the second, first didn't quote their cut) They are as bad as the (now relatively stamped out) speculative share offer companies that were around 5 and more years ago.

perhaps so. but what else can they say? we have found money for you, which you could easily claim yourself in 30 seconds via the following website?

i guess it's a bit of a lottery for them as well. for every 100 letters they send out, some will bite, some will go claim it themselves. and is suppose so e won't bother.

but I'm certainly better off!

 

[albatross710]

Elsewhere I've been reading that the scam letters have to be written in a gullible way to succeed. If you are wanting to attract gullible people, then you have to write in a language they understand. I'm sure there is a marketing term for that perhaps, "matching your target audience".

With internet scams there is a large wastage factor, so while we might think the letter from Canada Bank is hilarious, the one percent of Canada Bank customers whom have just resolved a dispute/customer service issue with them today might read the letter as relating to their issue and the 1% of those might be gullible enough to respond. A small percentage of respondents.

The calculation though is made possible by the low marginal cost of sending the 20,000,000 emails per day. It doesn't cost that much for the scammers to send this many emails and then have 1% of 1% 2,000 people engaged.

I don't think that sending 'bank details' as such is going to allow a fraud, but it does start the conversation through which they glean more and more information.

Beware.

Alby

 

[Boris spatsky]

A mate just put his car on gumtree for sale. Contacted by a female saying she wanted it (without viewing it) and that she would pay via paypal or EFT andthat she was offshore on an oil rig in NZ so she would get a courier to pick up the car. After asking a few more questions he realised it was a known scam - apprently they pay to your paypal but once they pickup the car they dispute the paypal payment and make paypal refund it under their 21 day dispute resolution process.

 

[Walter_Plinge]

perhaps so. but what else can they say? we have found money for you, which you could easily claim yourself in 30 seconds via the following website?

i guess it's a bit of a lottery for them as well. For every 100 letters they send out some will bite, some will go claim it themselves and is suppose so he won't bother. But I'm certainly better off!

I got a letter a couple of years ago from an unclaimed money business. I had an idea from a letter over a decade before that there might be something out there for me but all the usual searches turned up nothing - and I searched thoroughly. What the heck, I thought, give it a go.

Result: for a $150 fee I got $1,000 I wouldn't have got otherwise. Satisfied customer.

 

[robd]

I got a letter a couple of years ago from an unclaimed money business. I had an idea from a letter over a decade before that there might be something out there for me but all the usual searches turned up nothing - and I searched thoroughly. What the heck, I thought, give it a go.

Result: for a $150 fee I got $1,000 I wouldn't have got otherwise. Satisfied customer.

You paid out the $150 before getting the $1K? What made you think it was legitimate?

 

[Walter_Plinge]

You paid out the $150 before getting the $1K? What made you think it was legitimate?

No - with my permission they took the commission out of the proceeds and paid me the net amount. No result - no fee.

 

[JohnK]

We've limited access to your PayPal account.

Customer - We’ve Iimited your account access.

Your account has been Iimited.

As you’ve been informed previously, there will be changes to our Buyer Protection program, effective 18 November 2014. This is part of our = security process and helps ensure that PayPal continue to be safer way to buy online. While your account is Iimited, some options in your account won't be available.

Why my account access is Iimited.
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How to remove my limitation.
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Scam right? Notice the Iimited? Weird. And email address looks suspect as well PayPaI ([email protected]).

Oh and I don't have a PayPal account.

 

[Quickstatus]

Went to buy a car today

Passat Alltrack diesel wagon.

The usual

Negotiation
Tell fibs about why you dont have any more spare cash
agree on price
shake hands
sign on dotted line

they then always get a female employee in next.

she was the "pre delivery manager"

sign rego papers
then tried to sell me window tinting.

conversation:

"we have a duty of care to inform you of potential of UV damage to skin, we would strongly recommend window tinting and additionally window tinting prevents glass from shattering into a million pieces"
'No dont want tinting or leather protection or paint protection"

"Why not"
"No i dont want anything like that"

"Why not"
"Er actually No means no"

"Its important you understand the benefits"
"Actually Australian design mandates all automotive window to be laminated so glass may shatter into tiny pieces but it will be held together by laminate and all automotive glass eliminate 98% of UV without tinting, so no"

"Window tinting eliminates 99% of UV"
"I dont think extra 1% will make me a walking melanoma and you cant tint the front windscreen"

"Are you sure, it will keep your new vehicle interior from fading in sun"
"interior wont fade"

" Ok just making sure you understand the options available"
" yep I prefer the option to say No"

 

[amaroo]

So did SWMBO .... the dealers were all shut! Gotta love the Qld way of doing things. Saved me a $hit load of money

 

[Quickstatus]

So did SWMBO .... the dealers were all shut! Gotta love the Qld way of doing things. Saved me a $hit load of money

when i go buy cars, I always go on Sunday at 4pm

Because most dealer sales persons have monday off and therefore they have incentive to close a deal.

I always stretch it past 5pm. today I managed to go to 530pm. This always stresses them out.

 

[amaroo]

when i go buy cars, I always go on Sunday at 4pm

Because most dealer sales persons have monday off and therefore they have incentive to close a deal.

I always stretch it past 5pm. today I managed to go to 530pm. This always stresses them out.

LOL we went at 2pm - dead as a dodo. They must have went for a surf.

Next time will be the end of the month (unless I can stall further ) .... they're always looking for deals to square the monthly budget.

 

[Quickstatus]

LOL we went at 2pm - dead as a dodo. They must have went for a surf.

Next time will be the end of the month (unless I can stall further ) .... they're always looking for deals to square the monthly budget.

Ah-ha!!! so next time go at 1pm and linger past 2pm. They may decide to lower their price in order to make the last few waves of the weekend.

 

[amaroo]

Ah-ha!!! so next time go at 1pm and linger past 2pm. They may decide to lower their price in order to make the last few waves of the weekend.

Maybe, I'm thinking they don't even bother to open the doors on a Sunday. Gotta love the QLD way of life...

 

[JohnK]

when i go buy cars, I always go on Sunday at 4pm

Because most dealer sales persons have monday off and therefore they have incentive to close a deal.

I always stretch it past 5pm. today I managed to go to 530pm. This always stresses them out.

LOL. In Brisbane car dealers are shut on Sundays so they can go to church.

 

[Quickstatus]

LOL. In Brisbane car dealers are shut on Sundays so they can go to church.

Must be an honest bunch then

 

[amaroo]

LOL. In Brisbane car dealers are shut on Sundays so they can go to church.

Most likely drinking the profits, or riding waves ... probably both.

 

[get me outta here]

Usually these come in emails, but I got nice printed letter today (post mark France), from a Roman 'solicitor at law', addresses in Roma and Paris. My family member Dr Daz (my last name), who died along with his whole family in a "ghastly motor accident" in Rome, had 10 million in Euro and property, who'd thunk it.