The African Con...(trying to get you to send cash)
My boyfriend/girlfriend has stolen all of my money and I am stranded in Africa. Please send to me $500 and when I get back to the states I will make it up to you.
The Bank Con...(trying to get your bank account number on the bank of the check when you cash it)
I have a check that needs cashing and I cannot cash it because I don't trust the people here, abroad. If I send to you my check, will you cash it and send the money back to me ?
Ever had the experience of being tried...or the victim of a con game. What did you do ?
2006-06-05 11:50:36 · 9 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Sign up for a free Spamcop.net account and report the email.
You see, in the underlying stuff (headers) it reports where the email came from. SpamCop reports it to the relevant Internet Service Provider (ISP) and they will follow it back, especially with email cons.
I haven't been a victim myself, but I know a little more than the average user about them. Make whoever sent the email pay.
2006-06-05 11:56:00 · answer #1 · answered by JC 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, being me, I tend to send a message back that's something like this.
'Thank you for contacting me, and please, accept my condolences, for you, as well as Pete, Jeseph, Martin, Greg, Alan, Foster, Julia, Akav Hamad, Xi Quing, Gordon, and the roughtly 27 other men and women stranded at your current locale. I advise you, rather than trusting your money to a compleate stranger, to instead band together and
(contact your local embassy which will gladly transfer your funds for you/locate via Yahoo maps a sutable working establishment)
Me and messing around with people...
2006-06-05 19:12:25 · answer #2 · answered by sorrythisusernameistaken 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i got neither but i was sent the african bank con about ten times by different people who I SUSPECT WERE WORKING TOGETHER.
one of the times i just lost it and sent them an angry email and they didnt answer back until about three months later but it was a different guy so i got NO COMMENT
they have no backbone; I MEAN COME ON WHEN ONE OF THE GUYS YOU SEND IT TO ACTUALLY RESPONS YOU CANT GET OFF YOUR F#%KING @$$ AND EMAIL BACK; BUNCHA SCARED MORONS!
but i suggest just ignoring them like how i did with all the other ones i received who THINK I'M REALLY THAT GULLIBLE; TO THOSE OF YOU CON ARTISTS READING THIS: get a life
2006-06-05 19:41:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what you are talking about, but I am stranded in Phoenix Arizona and its over 110 degrees outside.
Can you please send me some money that I can use to buy a plane ticket to a cooler climate.
I promise to pay you back, please?
hehehehe
2006-06-05 23:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by fasn8n_67 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, the old con game's been tried on me.But it didn't work. My theory is if its too good to be true it probably is.I ignore these type things.
2006-06-06 13:27:54 · answer #5 · answered by prettycoolchick38 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't open any thing I'm not expecting you may get more than just a con!
2006-06-05 18:54:31 · answer #6 · answered by lainey lain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
deleted it, get 3 or 4 a day
2006-06-05 18:52:29 · answer #7 · answered by butchell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ignore it
2006-06-05 18:52:05 · answer #8 · answered by (Yahoo! ID) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you even ask ??
2006-06-05 18:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by jen6688 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋