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15 years ago

They sure do Richard. The world is full of gullible people.

I watch those infomercials, where they are selling weight lose equipment, or knifes that cut through shoes, or those horrible snuggy blankets, and think to myself, how can they afford to run a 10 minute commercials, and do you know they can? Because people are actually dumb enough to buy that rubbish.

It is also human nature to try and take a short cut with everything they do.

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TheMagicShow

15 years ago

If they didn't fall for it, this crap would not keep hitting the inbox.

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Nick Lotter

15 years ago

Wow

You're rich!!!

Hey, can you send them my details too? I could also do with a cool £1.5million from a random email competition that nobody knows about.

Maybe then my luck will turn.

I always happen to be the 999,999,999th visitor to a website, but I still have never received my prizes

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Richard Van

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Nick Lotter

Wow

You're rich!!!

Hey, can you send them my details too? I could also do with a cool £1.5million from a random email competition that nobody knows about.

Maybe then my luck will turn.

I always happen to be the 999,999,999th visitor to a website, but I still have never received my prizes

Ha ha! Yeah I sent them all my details, I even sent through my bank details and passport number so they could send it to me without any hassle. Just resigned from my job too!!!

Its so amazing, they even forgot that when you use a full stop the next word should begin with a capital letter, in the subject line. No dear mr... or from....

It was so pathetic I'm still laughing about it now!

PeePee I'm well aware its a scam. It's the brazen obviousness that its a scam that I'm laughing about!

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addice

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Nick Lotter

Wow

You're rich!!!

Hey, can you send them my details too? I could also do with a cool £1.5million from a random email competition that nobody knows about.

Maybe then my luck will turn.

I always happen to be the 999,999,999th visitor to a website, but I still have never received my prizes

This is quite funny! Haha!

I've been getting emails saying he is rev so and so, from some unknown and unheard church name in some unheard country, asking me to partner with them, and asked for "donation", and can be up to a few million dollars. Use credit card to pay them etc.

Sometimes I wonder, why do people actually believe in these kind of scams? :\

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rosetrees 15 years ago

Originally Posted by addice

Sometimes I wonder, why do people actually believe in these kind of scams? :

Because they want to.

I run an anti-scam blog and the majority of people who contact me and tell me their stories of falling victim to a scammer are people in poorer countries, who don't speak English very well and who want to believe it.

Often they tell me that their friends and family told them it was a scam - but they wanted to believe.

This is the latest scam story I received just a few days ago. Tagged Promotions Victim Scammers and Phishers. The scam took place over a month and the victim is too embarrassed to go to the Police - she lives on a small island in the Caribbean.
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Edk

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I've just had an email, The subject line was.....

Congratulations!! Your Email id has won £1.5 Million Pounds.send below info for claim

Then in the email it said exactly this...

Name..
Address..
Country..
Phone..

Nothing more, nothing less.

Really makes me want to just give them all my details, especially knowing theres over a million waiting for me (!!!???):rolleyes: Whats really scary is people must respond to this crap and actually send in their details. Does anyone know what does happen or is the info just flogged off to spammers?

Unbelieveable.

The one thing I've come across worse than that is where one of these scammers was scammed, all recorded on mp3. I don't clearly recall if the guy was induced to pay out but he was made to travel the length of the UK and wait and wait and wait... There may have been some international travel too involved. But what bothers me are the lesser scams I'm able to spot. $77-00 for a bunch of lies. So plentiful those, alas. Thankfully we have some good dudes around too

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PaulSolid

Banned 15 years ago

first of all, Thank your God you didn't provide your details to the.

Secondly, that email is a scam mail from scammers. all they do is to get your information and use it against you.

lastly, we all should avoid being greedy, trying to reap where we didn't sow.
how can i win a million dollar if i didn't do any million dollar project.

Be careful and delete that kind of email immediately.

Cheers.

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spearce000

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I've just had an email, The subject line was.....

Congratulations!! Your Email id has won £1.5 Million Pounds.send below info for claim

Then in the email it said exactly this...

Name..
Address..
Country..
Phone..

Nothing more, nothing less.

Really makes me want to just give them all my details, especially knowing theres over a million waiting for me (!!!???):rolleyes: Whats really scary is people must respond to this crap and actually send in their details. Does anyone know what does happen or is the info just flogged off to spammers?

Unbelieveable.

Sadly, yes they do fall for it. I'm sure it all gets sold to spammers, scammers or identity thieves - or worse. That's one of the reasons spam filters were invented: To protect the gullible from themselves!

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luckystepho 15 years ago

I get loads of these- plus emails requiring me that there has been a problem with my log in to a bank account- funnily enough I haven't even got an account at most of them!
Wish people would stop falling for these then we may stop getting so many!
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Gary King

15 years ago

Yes. Yes they do.

And the cost to deliver is far cheaper than any other advertising medium by a huge margin.

FWIW, also in my spam quarantine currently:

Pharmacy
Replica Watches
Enlarging products for men
Education (college degrees without study)
Male performance
Some type of Business register offering
Term life insurance
Pilates
Diabetes treatment

People want cheap, fast and easy. Even if it goes against their best judgment.

I'm not saying become a spammer, but we can learn marketing lessons from this. I can't credit the marketer that said this off the top of my head, but he stated he LOVED getting spam. He STUDIED it and learned what hot-buttons they pushed, what things made his pulse race and what things made him consider action - even for a second.

All success,

Gary

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Richard Van

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Gary King

Yes. Yes they do.

And the cost to deliver is far cheaper than any other advertising medium by a huge margin.

FWIW, also in my spam quarantine currently:

Pharmacy
Replica Watches
Enlarging products for men
Education (college degrees without study)
Male performance
Some type of Business register offering
Term life insurance
Pilates
Diabetes treatment

People want cheap, fast and easy. Even if it goes against their best judgment.

I'm not saying become a spammer, but we can learn marketing lessons from this. I can't credit the marketer that said this off the top of my head, but he stated he LOVED getting spam. He STUDIED it and learned what hot-buttons they pushed, what things made his pulse race and what things made him consider action - even for a second.

All success,

Gary

Oh I get tons of spam too and I think what your saying is true. People are always looking for the silver bullet, I also agree you can learn from spam but this is so bad. It's just the way its gramatically incorrect and not even remotely believeable. Surely "dear owner of such and such email address, you lucky human etc etc" then make a quick one page site with bells and whistles and "please leave you details here to claim your winnings instead of...

Name..
Address..
Country..
Phone..

Just 4 words?!! It's just so amateur it hurts. But like you and others have said there are people desperate and not quite bright enough who fall for it. I'd also like to know who flogged them my email address!

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KimVerhaegen 15 years ago

It's just the same with the flickering 'congratulations, you have won a brand new BMW' banners.

We all know the offers aren't real, but CTR's are much higher than on any normal banner/textlink. This still proves that there are a lot of people out there that will give their contact info to marketeers that use these types of creatives. And as long as this remains, these campaigns will keep popping up.
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Will Edwards

15 years ago

I'm rich too - just waiting for a chap from Nigeria to deposit $5 Billion into my bank account right now

Will

PS No offense intended toward honourable Nigerian Warriors

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good2go4

15 years ago

I have been one of the really lucky ones - I win the European Lottery at least once a week. I have also been getting a disturbing number of male enhancement product emails as well - makes me wonder where they get our email details from, LOL. I did email back to one of the lottery ones once (I did know it was a scam) and asked if it was possible for one of my british relations could pick up my winnings - wonder why I never got a reply??
I am off to dream about my winnings

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forfun_cash

15 years ago

Maybe they did this to confirm which emails are responsive and they can cut down sending emails to those who are not?

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Richard Van 15 years ago

Originally Posted by forfun_cash

Maybe they did this to confirm which emails are responsive and they can cut down sending emails to those who are not?

Or maybe they're just really crap.
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Marhelper

15 years ago

Why? In a word "Desperation."

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Ray_Barnes

15 years ago

Ive been offered a percentage of unclaimed millions so many times maybe i should accept ha .... but the sad reality is people do fall for it and lose thousands :-(

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NutraJay

15 years ago

Wow, preying on the downtrodden and desperate. These ppl must be so proud of themselves.

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AlTheGr8

15 years ago

Just to give you an idea on how many people fall for these scams look here - Poodwaddle 2010 World Clock click on "More" and watch the counter for "Nigerian Scam"

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