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Does everyone get potential scam-merchants' messages coming up on their e-mails, or am I just the lucky one?
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My fave was the lovely lady in Nigeria (of course) asking if she could buy my chicken farm (how did she know my secret?) and would I send her money to register her interest. Brilliant idea - course I did and am now the proud owner of 930 million chickens in Lagos.....as if....
Have a look at http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/poultrymagnate.htm for how to answer the scams. If you have time, read some of the ongoing communication - they really are a persistent bunch of morons but it beggars belief that people do really send money to them........so who are the idiots, really?
Yes I get spam from Barclays and Halifax and the rest - but I don't know the detailsls as I just delete without opening them.
If I don't know the person, or am not expecting the e-mail / subject is blank (or some gobbledegook) then it gets a big X vote and is deleted without reading. I recommend the same treatment by everyone else.
I've had the Halifax and Barclays ones here at work, and I work for BT. We have some of the most sophisitcated spyware available, which means that these are not supposed to get through, but they do. I am prevented from replying because then our screeing kicks in and identifies them as hoaxes.
As for Se7en's assumption that his friend is targeted because of 'dodgy' surfing - that's not how i was targeted, our censoring software is so sensitive that it kicked me off the net for looking for a site with the word 'adult' in it - I was looking for an adult learning course at my local college!
Ironically, my home e-mail which has a bog-standard free spyware package has never ever been spammed in nearly nine years!
Good evening, All,
Thanks for replying - it is comforting to know one is not alone!
dot.hawkes, yes I've had all the banking and building soc. ones too, and their logos are so professional-looking, arent' they, it could fool some I guess.
don1 (Don Juan!) glad you saved your 5 Grand!
Se7en, the wording on the African ones gives 'em away. A Mary Udodo writes it has taken her 4 mouths to contact me 'cos her husband, friend of their King, has been assassinated. She will give me 30% of her $15million fortune, ain't that nice of her!
Thanks for replying - it is comforting to know one is not alone!
dot.hawkes, yes I've had all the banking and building soc. ones too, and their logos are so professional-looking, arent' they, it could fool some I guess.
don1 (Don Juan!) glad you saved your 5 Grand!
Se7en, the wording on the African ones gives 'em away. A Mary Udodo writes it has taken her 4 mouths to contact me 'cos her husband, friend of their King, has been assassinated. She will give me 30% of her $15million fortune, ain't that nice of her!
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nickmo, thanks for the great website, and don't forget to feed those chickens, they depend on you...!
brachiopod, very wise not to open them. I prefer spam in a sarnie, not being e-mailed to me, but there it goes.
Alan2, have you sent off your 5 Grand yet?
Toureman, yeah, the spammers will get us if we don't watch out. andy-hughes, lucky you not getting the spams at home.We have had hundreds so have now invested in better spyware.
CT, don't go buying any chicken farms, now! Bye everyone.
nickmo, thanks for the great website, and don't forget to feed those chickens, they depend on you...!
brachiopod, very wise not to open them. I prefer spam in a sarnie, not being e-mailed to me, but there it goes.
Alan2, have you sent off your 5 Grand yet?
Toureman, yeah, the spammers will get us if we don't watch out. andy-hughes, lucky you not getting the spams at home.We have had hundreds so have now invested in better spyware.
CT, don't go buying any chicken farms, now! Bye everyone.
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