| ??? 05/05/06 17:15 Read: times |
#115703 - All too common! :-( Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Payam Soltany said:
I mean where exactly their trap is? As Jez says - very common indeed. Also known as "Advance Fee Fraud" - the trap is that they will ask you for certain "fees" in advance to facilitate the transaction. Some people have actually paid these "fees" and lost thousands!! There's one born every minute!! See: http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=107101 |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Inexplicable emails from Africa | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| its a common con | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| link | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| All too common! :-( | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| This one was the funniest. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Bwahaha | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Or Your Bank Account Number | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I got by snail mail too | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Fax | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| its amazing how many do get stung | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| on snail-mail | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| How do they clean out your bank account? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Several ways | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
con men | 01/01/70 00:00 |