Are the FBI watching you???

14 years ago

Lol, thats actually quite humorous. Would have been funnier if they actually asked you if you had penile erection problems, then sent you the promo links.

Chris

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steven90210 14 years ago

LOL I get lots of people from some African countries asking if they can trust me or not. Whats up with that?
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- Richard Van 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by steven90210
  
  LOL I get lots of people from some African countries asking if they can trust me or not. Whats up with that?
  
  Nothing really.
  
  How did these unknown Africans get your number though? There's nothing up with it but I'd find it odd, if say, lots of people from France started ringing me up and all saying "Hello, can I trust you?"
  
  sbucciarel - lol ... you had to look, didn't you?
  
  Course I had to look, I thought the FBI were onto me.......whooops.
  
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kbgold

14 years ago

That was classic. Not.

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writeandreview

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Kent

btw you know what's also curious? Look at your avatars? You are both wearing the same shirt and jacket

I thought the same thing - three men in black. Maybe it's not the FBI we should be worried about!

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Richard Van 14 years ago

Kbgold - Change your shirt to white, then it's official.
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- kbgold 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Richard Van
  
  Kbgold - Change your shirt to white, then it's official.
  
  Thanks for recommendation Richard. I will work on that.
  
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parg

14 years ago

Hi Van

Thanks for sharing. At least it is a new way to grab attention.
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Richard Van 14 years ago

Originally Posted by nick123

thanks for sharing the news......

No worries.

By the way, the links you've got in your signature go to a "page not found" page, so you're not actually benefiting from making all these splendid posts .

Rich Struck - You should never open attachments like that btw.

A very good point. I went onto a very old PC that's due to be binned shortly, curiosity got the better of me. It's a .exe file and I'd never open one from an unknown source (Except this one )
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Marvin Johnston

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I get to the office this morning and open my email, I have one from the FBI.

Naturally I'm intrigued, it must be important, they've sent it twice.

Only twice? I must be quite important as I'm getting 30 - 40 per day of that email.

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Rich Struck

14 years ago

I got the same one. You should never open attachments like that btw.

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affilcrazy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

The FBI now do great deals on Viagra!x od geq

Looks like the FBI are handing out "stiffer" sentences!

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magnates

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

The FBI now do great deals on Viagra!

Who'd have known...:rolleyes:

Lol

Rolling up here . Don't you just love these types of email

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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by alyonafrendo

Joking apart tough.... the fbi might really be watching you....

Oh I'm sure the FBI can see more than we think, the question is, are they going into the Viagra market?

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paulie888

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Oh I'm sure the FBI can see more than we think, the question is, are they going into the Viagra market?

The spammers and scammers tend to have a bad habit of using the names of authorities to scare you into submission/compliance with their wishes - it usually tends to have the opposite effect, though.

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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulie888

The spammers and scammers tend to have a bad habit of using the names of authorities to scare you into submission/compliance with their wishes - it usually tends to have the opposite effect, though.

It was the...

Please answer our questions!

...bit that got me, like the FBI would plead with me to answer their questions :rolleyes:.

Nevertheless, I can imagine quite a few, less web savvy computer owners falling for it...Come to think of it, I wonder how many people will actually think the FBI sells Viagra after this? If people fall for the "Dead extremely wealthy relative in Nigeria" scam, they'll fall for this one

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paulie888

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Nevertheless, I can imagine quite a few, less web savvy computer owners falling for it...Come to think of it, I wonder how many people will actually think the FBI sells Viagra after this? If people fall for the "Dead extremely wealthy relative in Nigeria" scam, they'll fall for this one

Richard, this just goes to show how sales of any kind (even the kind that scammers perpetrate

) is a numbers game. Send out enough emails/letters or make enough calls, and you'll eventually find someone interested in your Viagra or vast (fake) inheritance!

Paul

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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulie888

Richard, this just goes to show how sales of any kind (even the kind that scammers perpetrate

) is a numbers game. Send out enough emails/letters or make enough calls, and you'll eventually find someone interested in your Viagra or vast (fake) inheritance!

Paul

It's incredible Paul.

What's odd is that the receiver thinks he/she's been busted for looking at dodgy sites, why would they then, in their relief, buy some Viagra off someone who's just blatantly lied and scared you into opening it? It's like me dressing up as a cop, pulling my gun on you, then, when I've got your attention, seeing if you like to buy some bananas, or whatever.

This is the first time I've seen this one, though I've had 5 more since I got in this morning.

The FBI is being very insistent I buy some of their gear.

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paulie888

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

It's incredible Paul.

What's odd is that the receiver thinks he/she's been busted for looking at dodgy sites, why would they then, in their relief, buy some Viagra off someone who's just blatantly lied and scared you into opening it? It's like me dressing up as a cop, pulling my gun on you, then, when I've got your attention, seeing if you like to buy some bananas, or whatever.

This is the first time I've seen this one, though I've had 5 more since I got in this morning.

The FBI is being very insistent I buy some of their gear.

Richard, I agree that this is absolutely absurd.

Maybe they're split testing several of their scam "offers" at the moment, and this is why you're seeing this type of insane "offer" all over the internet at the moment...lol.

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KenThompson

14 years ago

Richard,

I get at least half a dozen a week from them. Been going on for months.

The thing that really kind of intrigues me is they don't give up. They keep
sending them. I guess they feel one day I'll give in and order viagra, or the
other stuff they send. Hoping against all hope I'll crack and say, "Ok, you
win, I'll buy."

Some of those emails are long, too. I'd like to meet one of those people just
to get an idea of what they're like.

Ken

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

In a moment of silliness, I open the attachment.

Guess what?

The FBI now do great deals on Viagra!

Who'd have known...:rolleyes:

gx od geq

lol ... you had to look, didn't you?

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brendan9971 14 years ago

Hahahaha thats pretty funny! how did they work out you owned 40 sites though? do you?
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- Richard Van 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by brendan9971
  
  Hahahaha thats pretty funny! how did they work out you owned 40 sites though? do you?
  
  Sir/Madam, we have logged your IP-address on more than 40 illegal Websites. Important: Please answer our questions! The list of questions are attached.
  
  They said I'd been on 40 illegal sites, not that I had 40.
  
  It was a generic email that gets sent to lots of people - lots and lots and lots of people.
  
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ejb2059

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I had to share this classic.

I get to the office this morning and open my email, I have one from the FBI.

Naturally I'm intrigued, it must be important, they've sent it twice.

In a moment of silliness, I open the attachment.

Guess what?

The FBI now do great deals on Viagra!

Who'd have known...:rolleyes:

gx od geq

LOL ..FBI's moonlighting as viagra salesman in the UK?

Here in the States they are authorizing billion dollar ATM cards from the Central bank of Nigeria Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Gotta love these knuckle head scammer / spammers eh?

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bretski

14 years ago

Originally Posted by alyonafrendo

Joking apart tough.... the fbi might really be watching you.... did you hear about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)

Altough if you saw the movie Swordfish you might be interested in knowing that the cool australian hacker (forgot his name!) destroyed their system (at least in the movie!!) LOL

You don't hear about this too often any more but once you learn a little bit about internet protocols and what can be done even with free tools you will be a little freaked out. Just after the Gulf War you would hear news reports about "security analyists picked up 'chatter' from terrorists cells..." blah blah blah. It wasn't until I was working in IT that a friend of mine clued me in that they were talking about "chaddr"... and the Patriot Act?

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Rose Anderson

14 years ago

Too bad the government doesn't sell Viagra...they might be much better off financially

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Gary King

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

In a moment of silliness, I open the attachment.

Guess what?

Just in case you didn't know, there are versions of this message (and similar) that actually load spyware (or attempt to) on your pc when you open the attachment.

Resist the temptation to open an attachment from anyone you don't know and didn't expect to receive...

Same for web site links - sites are hacked to download malicious software to visitors every day (lol, more like every minute).

Just don't want anything bad to happen to ya.

Gary

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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Gary King

Just in case you didn't know, there are versions of this message (and similar) that actually load spyware (or attempt to) on your pc when you open the attachment.

Resist the temptation to open an attachment from anyone you don't know and didn't expect to receive...

Same for web site links - sites are hacked to download malicious software to visitors every day (lol, more like every minute).

Just don't want anything bad to happen to ya.

Gary

I completely agree Gary.

I did mention earlier, I have an old computer in my office that's due to be removed that hasn't been turned on for some time. I purposefully turned it on to see what this was.

I don't for one minute recommend anyone else opens this stuff and I certainly wouldn't risk opening one on my trusted bread winners

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Thanks for looking out for me though and your offline course incidentally, is excellent. One of very few WSO's I've bought that very much delivered and was monstously underpriced in my opinion (product plug over

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Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Thank you for opening the attachment so I don't have to.

I wondered what the scheme was. I just deleted them all.

In your case Dan I believe that was a genuine FBI email regarding your no doubt overzealous early morning search activity, look closer, your one says you've visited hundreds of filthy sites!

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Aussie_Al 14 years ago

The scary thing about the Nigerian inheritance scams is that some poor souls actually fall for them

The guy that does that "To catch a Predator show" (Chris Hansen??) did one of these types of scams and even people who should know better have been fleeced of hge amounts of money - thats why these scum bags keep trying it - because as much as us lot laugh it off, some people sadly do fall for it
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Gary King

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Thanks for looking out for me though and your offline course incidentally, is excellent. One of very few WSO's I've bought that very much delivered and was monstously underpriced in my opinion (product plug over

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Sure man, and thanks for the kind words - I'm glad you found it of solid value - that's the goal, to help people.

I did see the old computer part, just making sure.

Cheers,

Gary

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

In your case Dan I believe that was a genuine FBI email regarding your no doubt overzealous early morning search activity, look closer, your one says you've visited hundreds of filthy sites!

I have no control over how frequently webmasters bathe and shower.

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E. Brian Rose

14 years ago

Under Obama's new healthcare plan, the FBI will be utilized to help fight terrorism AND erectile dysfunction. Didn't you guys read the bill?

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Dan C. Rinnert 14 years ago

Thank you for opening the attachment so I don't have to. I wondered what the scheme was. I just deleted them all.

Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose

Under Obama's new healthcare plan, the FBI will be utilized to help fight terrorism AND erectile dysfunction. Didn't you guys read the bill?

The people that passed it didn't even read it. Why would we?
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Scott Burton

14 years ago

I see that sort of thing all the time... But you know, if they're going to push Viagra, don't you think that's more a job for the DEA? I mean it's their job to handle the drugs isn't it?

But seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if they are watching. I go through enough bureaucratic red tape in a week, I should own stock in the red tape manufacturers

I'm constantly digging into things, finding out things, asking questions, and generally being an annoyingly persistent little buggar when it comes to ferreting out what I want to know.

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andybeveridge

14 years ago

I had 40 of those emails this morning. Didn't open any so I did not know they were about viagra. It is nice to think that the FBI care so much about my erectile dsyfunction.

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Jill Carpenter 14 years ago

It's the Federal Bureau of Irrection.
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  Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter
  
  It's the Federal Bureau of Irrection.
  
  Better still - For Boner Improvement
  
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Richard Van

14 years ago

Originally Posted by andybeveridge

I had 40 of those emails this morning. Didn't open any so I did not know they were about viagra. It is nice to think that the FBI care so much about my erectile dsyfunction.

I think it's nice you admit live on the forum you have the problem!

On a serious note, if you did (and I'm not saying you do) have an erectile dysfunction, they just shot themselves in the foot because you would have been in fact, a targeted prospect, who might have bought it

It would make better sense to spam people emails with some thing along the lines of...

"Can't get it up? Don't let it get you down....Discount Viagra!"

Rather than tricking them into thinking the FBI was monitoring ones sordid search activity.

Still, some mugs must be buying it.

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AgentHomes

14 years ago

Good to know that the FBI has some agents into IM.

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CyberSorcerer

14 years ago

On normal people that might work, but me being an ex-hacker I know better.

The FBI wouldn't send you an email, they would be knocking on your door.

But it is still funny, and I love the comment "Their stiffing there sentencing" LMAO.

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GlobalTrader

14 years ago

I subscribe to the FBI's E-scam ezine which is generally only published when a new scam comes to their attention. Here is a link to their website, the sign up for their ezine is in the upper right side of the web page:

FBI — New E-Scams & Warnings

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JamesGw

14 years ago

I don't think the FBI would have gotten into contact with you via email. Haha.

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Chri5123

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I had to share this classic.

I get to the office this morning and open my email, I have one from the FBI.

Naturally I'm intrigued, it must be important, they've sent it twice.

In a moment of silliness, I open the attachment.

Guess what?

The FBI now do great deals on Viagra!

Who'd have known...:rolleyes:

gx od geq

LOL They are doing this more and more to put people off having to spend a night in cells... :p

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andybeveridge

14 years ago

Just for the record. I have no problems with the old chap. Fully functioning, although not so active as he once was.

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ThomM 14 years ago

Originally Posted by andybeveridge

Just for the record. I have no problems with the old chap. Fully functioning, although not so active as he once was.

That reminded me of something that happened with my father.
When he was 80 he had a stroke that closed his esophagus and the docs put a feeding tube in his stomach and gave him 6 months to live.
Anyways when he was around 84 or so I went to see him in his bedroom one morning. He was sitting there with a big smile on his face. I asked him what was up, the smile got bigger and he said when he woke up that morning he had a h**don. Then he got real sad looking so I asked him what was wrong. He looked at me and said, "I couldn't remember what to do with it".

As for the FBI, they stopped watching me around 35 years ago:rolleyes:
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Pauline60

14 years ago

Pleased to hear its not just me - I have had at least 20 emails from the FBI about the sites I supposedly visit this week.

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realpph

14 years ago

ahaha!!! That is TOO funny!! Is there even such a thing as an "illegal" website?

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14 years ago

I guess you know that is a virus?

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seasoned

14 years ago

Any questions the FBI is likely to ask me are ones I do NOT want to answer in email. I would call the FBI, and ask to speak to that officer. If they aren't there, I might forward the email to them!

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Russell Barnstein

14 years ago

Yes, the FBI ARE watching you. They're moving in on your bad grammar.... ;-P

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Floyd Fisher

14 years ago

You still opening emails claiming to be from the FBI?

Come on people, if the FBI really wanted to talk to you, they would come down and have a chat with you....certainly they would not want to contact you via an method of communication that could be read by almost anyone with the 'proper equipment'.

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