Most BELIEVABLE SCHEMES that SCAMMERS could make you FALL for them
By aaronfyzeon
@aaronfyzeon (1919)
Philippines
July 25, 2010 7:32am CST
Beware!
i know you are aware of the scammers out there who are just waiting for their prey.
Before the scammers dwell in Africa, Nigeria and some third world countries. they would tell you that they are the Vice president of the banks from their country and they would ask all your details then tell you that you will be able to get a cut from the dead depositor they have. some scammers would send you emails telling you that you won in an online lottery! sounds good to be true! they would ask money from you for you to be able to redeem it because of the tax etc. Of course you would just ignore all of those messages and just delete them.
Now they have taken up to the next level! Just like the technology which can also be upgraded. They would now pretend to be in the rich countries we know.
From the long list of the poor victims they have.. there comes MY MOM!
Recruitment in UK being a nanny! it came from a popular social networking site (not Facebook) One member with a picture of a wholesome family with cute kids, the adorable wife and the main guy himself who is a British (or just pretending to be one) sent my mom a message telling her that he will hire her as his Kid's nanny. this guy has UK mobile number, land line and fax number. they exchanged messages for quite some time until he sent documents for recruitment. The document has a seal of the London Court! but then i looked into the details of those documents and it was all erroneous in grammar which made me suspicious. I told my mom that it's a scam and she just stopped communicating with him.
second attempt after that instance was when my mom encountered again a British guy is that same site courted my mom for a few days. he told my mom that he will be sending 10,000 UK pounds to her along with the ring, necklace and documents for the invitation to go there in London. but then he will be out in the ship. so he told my mom he already sent the package and the site of the bogus logistics carrier and after a few days, somebody from Malaysia called my mom and then telling her that the package was confiscated because there was an insertion of money in the package and was not declared. they were asking $800 US for the package to be released because it is against the law it there is a cash insertion. My mom called this guy who is in the ship and told him all about it. He told my mom he can do nothing about that so she will be the one to produce the $800. my mom is not able to produce that sum of money so he makes my mom feel guilty about it OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
I just want to share these things guys for us to create an awareness of these schemes these scammers are doing. please share some thoughts or some other schemes that would make us know these things.
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3 responses
@aaronfyzeon (1919)
• Philippines
26 Jul 10
Good for you. yes we know to ourselves that we firmly adhere to that principle of not giving out money! but my MAIN CONCERN here is awareness and not a selfish reason for me not to be fooled by anyone. but for my friends and the people who will be able to pass by and read my warning! anyway, thank yo for sharing your thoughts and posting your principle.
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
25 Jul 10
Hi aaronfyzeon, great discussion you started, it is so important to help stop these scammers and make people aware of their different tricks. Unfortunately there are still many people who fall prey to the fake emails trying to rob money from them. It is good you alerted and stopped your mom from one of those scams.
@aaronfyzeon (1919)
• Philippines
26 Jul 10
Thank you howard. Yes there are still lots of people who fall for them because of their believable schemes. most of these people who are not aware of these blog sites where in there are discussions about that. so i really am making this awareness to them.
@carrine (2743)
• Philippines
25 Jul 10
I myself receives a lot of an email with the same content. telling that they are in need of a nanny. or their telling that they will send me money and the stuff. what i did? i delete the mail automatically. because its pretty obvious that its a real scam. how do they knew my email address and all my info. so i dont trust those mails.
@aaronfyzeon (1919)
• Philippines
25 Jul 10
they would know all of your info from the site that you have logged into before wherein you have registered with your name and your details. example: when you log in or register in Friendster and some other sites. these info are being collected as LEADS and being sold out to these people so that they would now send each of the lead messages. and who ever respond to it, it would be now their PROSPECT.



