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Title: A swindle on the internet?
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URL Source: http://www.healthiertalk.com
Published: Sep 6, 2008
Author: Jenny Thompson
Post Date: 2008-09-06 00:10:47 by richard9151
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If you receive a check for a large amount of money from a stranger and you're asked to return part of the payment right away – beware. Chances are you're getting scammed. This swindle takes several forms. You may receive a check that overpays for a rental property you've advertised, and you'll be asked to send the balance to cover the overpayment. Or maybe you've posted something on eBay and a buyer "mistakenly" sends you a check that's much higher than the amount required. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) has intercepted more than $2 billion in counterfeit checks involved in such scams. A Good Morning America report about this scheme featured the tragic story of a young woman who needed money to pay medical bills. She received $90,000 as the winner of a European lottery (which she had not entered), and was asked to return a substantial amount to cover taxes and fees. She deposited the $90,000, the check cleared, and she sent off a check for $40,000. Her bank later informed her that the first check was returned for insufficient funds and she was unable to retrieve her $40,000. In despair, she committed suicide. This con game has victimized so many people that the USPIS has launched a consumer awareness campaign. You can read more details about how this scam is perpetrated and how to defend yourself against it at this website: fakechecks.org Please forward this e-Alert to your friends and family so they'll be on the lookout for this malicious con. www.healthiertalk.com ">Click for Full Text!
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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)
The vast majority of these scams come out of Nigeria. They're referred to as "419" swindles, named after the section of the Nigerian penal code that refers to these crimes. The Nigerian government has been promising to do something about this for years and years now, but has in fact done nothing whatsoever since the revenues from these scams have become a significant part of their GNP. Gosh, it sure would be just terrible if, some fine April 19th, a huge group of hackers were to unleash a massive coordinated hack/bot attack on every server in Nigeria and melt their entire IT infrastructure into liquid slag. The resulting gut laugh from the rest of the planet would be loud enough to be heard all the way to Saturn.
 | Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#2. To: richard9151 (#0)
True story: About ten years ago, I received notification from some Las Vegas outfit that I had won $10,000--only had to send an administrative fee of $300 to "claim" this prize. I copied the notification and wrote a note thanking them with great excitement over winning the award and requesting that they simply deduct the $300 from the $10,000 forwarding the $9,700 at thier earliest convenience. They wrote back! Send the $300 first. I again wrote replied: No, just take the $300 out of the $10 K and send me the difference. Nothing after that. The BBB in SC and NV and Consumer Affairs Departments and Attorneys General of SC and NV were informed. I heard nothing again.
AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA & HOLLYWOOD: Oh, those Islamofascists.
#3. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
I used to get these Nigerian scams all the time at my old email address, so I would mess with them, telling them I hired a hitman in Nigeria who I paid five dollars to kill you, because that was the going rate in Nigeria to kill someone. I never received any responses.
Freeper: I read, but do not understand, write, but make no sense, think, but nothing happens.
#4. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
Yeah, wouldn't that be just awful? I sure would hate for something like that to happen. And of course I would hate for anything like that to happen to some of our fine government agencies here too--it would just hurt me, cut me to the quick as they say. I don't know if I could go on but I would try.
Gosh, it sure would be just terrible if, some fine April 19th, a huge group of hackers were to unleash a massive coordinated hack/bot attack on every server in Nigeria and melt their entire IT infrastructure into liquid slag.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#5. To: Turtle (#3)
LOL! Very creative. I have read some exploits of people who answer the scammers and pretend to go along with them but there is always something amiss. And they ask them for proof of who they are and to please send a picture holding some bs sign--always something way goofy. Makes some fine entertainment.
I used to get these Nigerian scams all the time at my old email address, so I would mess with them, telling them I hired a hitman in Nigeria who I paid five dollars to kill you, because that was the going rate in Nigeria to kill someone. I never received any responses.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
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