Zimbabwe Scammers

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:55 pm

Just got this weird Zimbabwe Spam/Scam email. It said that 19 million dollers is left for them, and I am supposed to help them. I remember reading about this somewhere. Where do I report this type of thing?

Post by **gannon** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:03 pm

You don't, you're supposed to email them back with your SS # and all your personal info/credit card #s

joelanders · Post by **joelanders** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:05 pm

vb_master wrote:Just got this weird Zimbabwe Spam/Scam email. It said that 19 million dollers is left for them, and I am supposed to help them. I remember reading about this somewhere. Where do I report this type of thing?

I see those all the time when I look in my spam folder. I don' think it is worth reporting as they probably send them out to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people at a time and I'm sure many others have reported it.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:09 pm

http://www.419eater.com

No way to really report it, but you can have some fun with it. Inky from AtariAge should be able to help you out a bit

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:15 pm

Yeah, Inky was all about those scammers!

Post by **marshallh** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:01 pm

If you want to read about a funny scam, read about the powerbook.

www.p-p-p-powerbook.com

sam · Post by **sam** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:49 pm

marshallh wrote:If you want to read about a funny scam, read about the powerbook.

www.p-p-p-powerbook.com

Are there anymore of these, I read that one a while ago, and just re read it for fun. Peace.

joelanders · Post by **joelanders** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:05 am

There are some stories floating around where people reply and lead these guys on for months... I remember this one story (somewhere on zug.com I) think) and the lady was trying to get the scammer to pay for her plane ticket so she could meet him, making him pay for long distance calls... It went on forever. The lady did mysteriously disappear one day...

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:13 am

joelanders wrote:There are some stories floating around where people reply and lead these guys on for months... I remember this one story (somewhere on zug.com I) think) and the lady was trying to get the scammer to pay for her plane ticket so she could meet him, making him pay for long distance calls... It went on forever. The lady did mysteriously disappear one day...

Yeah, I've heard stories from the UK about a guy who fell for one and got all his money (many thousands) taken out. Went over to Nigeria where the email came from to try and get it back and....... well nobody's heard from him and he still hasn't come back!

number 1033 · Post by **number 1033** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:02 pm

Spamer wrote:Help smuggle $2,000,000 out of Beligum! Just give us your bank account number, social security number...

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:03 pm

Hah! That one demands a moment to think!

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