Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Scam Alert

Today I received a message that my e-mail Id had won $ 250,000 Great Britain Pounds Sterling. To claim it I was to send all my information to an E-mail address. I am not LOL I am angry. It just seems that people don't think we know enough not to reply and give out our idenity.
What you get for nothing is nothing. Don't fall for these scams. Times are tough but this will not make it better.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh, there are very nice ones. A lady from Africa tries for a long time to convince me that I have to help her to regain her late husbands fortune, just by sending all necessary bank data ...

The very best scam-story was that of the African astronaut from the beginning of the 90s, shortly after the end of the USSR.
As you know the USSR was helping other states to develop communism. And in their successfull space-program they always put in a member of a friendly nation. In the last mission of the USSR the first Angolan kosmonaut took part. But sadly the USSR collapsed and so did the Russian space agency. So they are still circling the orbit. A private initiative, his loving wife and the five children and all his friends, started to collect money to enable the Russian technicians to bring back the capsule. You can help by donating money. Just sent all your bank data, or better: just sent the money! - and bring the poor sod home!

Yes, I liked that very well, somewhere I should have the original email.