Am I a total fool?
By TheCatLady
@TheCatLady (4691)
Israel
January 14, 2010 2:26pm CST
I received this today. I recive something like this every day, so it's nothing new. How does anyone fall for this nonsense? They do, but you really have to be gulible to fall for it.
ATTENTION
How are you today? I write to inform you that we have already sent you
USD6,000.00 dollars through Western union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment total sum of USD800,000.00 via western union by this government. I was calling your telephone number to give you the information through phone but you did not pick up my calls throughout that yesterday even this morning. Now, I decided to email you the MTCN and sender name so that you will pick up this USD6,000.00 to enable us send another USD6,000.00 today as you know we will be sending you only USD6,000.00 per day. Please pick up this information and run to western union to pick up the USD6,000.00 and call me back to send you another payment today, My direct phone line is +22998713097
Manager Mr JERRY KING Email: (deleated at qatar.io)
call or email me once you picked up this USD6,000.00 today. Here is the western union information to pick up the
USD6000.00;
MTCN : 6380909224
Sender's Name: KENNETH MIKE
Text Question: HONEST
Answer: TRUST
Amount: USD 6,000.00 I am waiting for your call once you pick up this USD6,000..00, Please email me your direct telephone number because I need to be calling you once we send any payment for the information s. Thanks
Ben Smith
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17 responses
@katsalot1 (1618)
•
14 Jan 10
What worries me most is that presumably some people must respond to this sort of thing, otherwise nobody would do it! You would think that people would have got the message about these things being scams by now, but obviously not.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
Some people do send money. And unfortunately they send a lot of money. Or sometimes they send authorization for their bank account and the scammers take everything.
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@smileonstar (4007)
• United States
14 Jan 10
Hello,
hahhahaha.... did you pick up the money yet? lolz... I used to get an email said I won lottery and such but I never believe either. If you want to believe or not then you can try to check those conformation number out and see if they really sent you $6000. If you did, then let me know... I want to pick up some of those free money too :)
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
Since I was late, there were 5 checks there. LOL ya right. It would solc a lot of problems tojustrecive one check, but I don't see that happening.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
14 Jan 10
I get these type of emails everyday. I do not even open them as they might have some kind of virus attached. I can tell from the sender and often misspelled title that it is another scam.
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
Unfortunately everything is downloaded automatically. I don't worry if there is an attachment I have to open it myself, My computer scans it before it opens it.
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@BarBaraPrz (45511)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jan 10
So who's sending you the money... Jerry, Kenneth or Ben? And who are these guys? Do they have an extra $6000 for me?
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@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
Don't know who they are. But arn't I lucky that they picked me to give the money to.
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@kttribal (252)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Its funny how common these things really are. My mom gets fake money orders in the mail all the time with stuff like this all over it. She also gets the ones that send her money orders and expect her to send 95% of the money via money transfer to someone completely different.
We got one of these too so my mom wrote the numbers down and we went down to the local money transfer location. The numbers are not real or anything.
Also we get check too when we try to call the institution to let them know there is someone sending out their checks they dont seem to care.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
They don't care becaue it's not really their checks. The routing number is probably wrong, making it not their problem.
@kttribal (252)
• United States
15 Jan 10
It's funny how when someone has canceled checks that are stolen from a personal account will screw over your bank account when someone tries this.
But When the checks come from a bank then nothing ever happens to them.
Sometimes I feel that the bankers are behind the damn thing anyways.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
15 Jan 10
These scams are pretty popular so someone, somewhere must fall for them. There are always news stories about people who have lost hundred of thousands of dollars to scammers. Unfortunate, but you do have to be pretty stupid to fall for them. Maybe it is just Darwin's Theory being proven over & over again.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
16 Jan 10
Unfortunately we can't take the fools out of the gene pool. If we could, the rest of us would have a nicer life.
@anilcsapre (77)
• India
15 Jan 10
I get at least 10 in a month on two my ids. This is a racket with few of people sending spam to lot others and waiting for some fool to come in the net.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Hi catlady,
I've gotten those too. Sadly there are people out there that do fall for them which is why they keep on trying. Sooner or later someone will be desperate enough to bite. It's really too bad but people do fall for some crazy stuff without asking questions or even thinking it over.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
16 Jan 10
It sucks. I would love to receive a windfall of money for free from a total stranger. It's like winning the lottery without playing.
@wildcatsthree (289)
• United States
23 Jan 10
It's sad that some people fall for this and other schemes like it every day. As the old saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
28 Jan 10
Well I'm not a fool. I'm a skeptic. I don't believe anything like that unless it is proven. By the way, is that a Chihuahua? I want one so bad.They are scarce around here. I've wanted one ever since I pet sat for a really cute feisty senior Chi. She has chilled now that we are friends, but oh boy she used to try and bite. It was all an act to show how tough she was. She also gave kisses as soon as I picked her up to carry her outside for pee pee.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
18 Jan 10
Isn’t it interesting that we can win a lot of money from a lottery we never bought tickets for? I have hundreds of spam every single day and I can honestly say that every third one or so is from someone informing me that I have won a great deal of money. I don’t know anyone who has an email account that hasn’t received one of these scam mails at least once or twice! My parents don’t use the Internet and they received their scam letter by snail mail. The letter informed them that they had won a huge sum of money due to a winning lottery ticket in some Spanish Lottery. Needless to say nobody here has ever heard about it and the letter was rightfully ditched.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
18 Jan 10
They'll get you anyway they can. Thankfully I don't receive much junk mail in my paper in box. One the computer it's another story. I receive enough to go over my in-box limit.
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@shell2784 (752)
• United States
15 Jan 10
I get those all the time. I think when the first started their rounds... oh, 7... 6 years ago there were more people falling for them.
I did, however, get caught up in a scam similar. I had a car listed online for sale and (mind you, I was 19 and needed to get rid of this car ASAP for other reasons) and I had a guy email me that he wanted to buy the car for $6100 but he was sending me a higher amount and to western union the amount to the transportation company. It should have made red lights go off in my head, but it didn't. Sure as hell, I got a check for $11800. I went to western union the balance but luckily I forgot to give the guy the code or whatever to pick it up. So he didn't get his money.
I did, however, have to pay another guy for part of the car (because of those other reasons I was telling you about) and I had back rent and such that needed caught up on... so I gave back so much to the bank... and now I have to make $50/month payments on the rest of it.
Fun.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
16 Jan 10
People get taken all the time. At least you can make payments and will soon be free.
@cindy27 (130)
• Philippines
15 Jan 10
Me too Its never ending scam on my email.. i don't open it anymore im afraid it has some virus as others are saying
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
I have virus protection, so I don't ever worry. I don't open the ones that go to spam.Some go to my inbox and I see them as I hit delete.
@chdsandeep (397)
• India
15 Jan 10
Well i think it is fake system but nothing wrong in trying so you can go to some western union and ask them for this payment if they pay you then enjoy.... got a jackpot...he he... but i think most probably its fake system which i also get so many times but they don't say it by western union this way so you can try calling them or by email after confirming your amount from western union.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
16 Jan 10
There is no money. Sometimes they will send a phony check then ask you to deposit it and send them a percentage. Of course when the bank finds out it's phony, you get fined and you are out the money you sent them.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Yikes these scammers don't give up do they? Oh and I just love the Text Question: HONEST and Answer: TRUST. I think by now a lot of us are wary of these emails where we're informed of getting a windfall of money and especially anything that mentions Western Union. My most memorable one, was an email of a windfall of money and the ones giving it to me was the FBI
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
With Honest and Trust as the question and answer they must be nice trustworthy people. LOL I think I would trust you kitty to guard a nice juicy steak before I would trust these guys.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jan 10
hi thecatlady no you are an intelligent woman who knows a scam
when she sees one, for one thing these scammers never use our user names at all and send the same message
out over and over'
so a person would have to be really stupid to fall for this'
scam. they want money and if you are dumb enough to sent
it you will never see them or the money you supposedly had won. delete,delete,delete as soon as you get this sort of garbage . 
out over and over'
so a person would have to be really stupid to fall for this'
scam. they want money and if you are dumb enough to sent
it you will never see them or the money you supposedly had won. delete,delete,delete as soon as you get this sort of garbage . @TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
Or play with them. Get a new yahoo account and make them jump through hoops. These people are such fun to play with. I love baiting them. They think they have a hit, but I'm just yanking their chain.
@sweetie1026 (1718)
• Philippines
15 Jan 10
I also get these e-mails almosot everyday. if they were all true then i would have been a millionaire.I do not even bother to open and read them, i just delete them or report them as spam. But they still keep on coming....
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
15 Jan 10
They will keep coming forever, or at least as long as there are fools in the world. Well that's forever. There will never be a shortage of gullible people who think they can recive something for nothing. .
