They have never heard of giving up, going away, or doing something productive with their lives. In fact, all they really have to live for is what they do. I speak of course of the internet scammers and spammers. Spamming our blogs and email with random pointless spam. Blogger usually filters out the spam comments (all while continuing to regularly shunt actual comments to spam too. Come on, Blogger, how long does it take you to sort that out?) The internet scammers who send us too good to be true nonsense, such as the following, which ended up in my email one day. Take it for the lie that it is.
Attention Please,I am Edwin Castro the winner of the world's greatest jackpot in a national lottery $2.05 billion (ё1.79 billion).SEE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS LINK:https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/2/winner-of-biggest-ever-lottery-jackpot-revealed-after-bagging-2-billion-ticket-738096
I am giving the sum $800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars) each to some selected individuals as donation.You have been luckily selected via mail system to receive the sum of $800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars).Note that you are required to contact Mr. Raymond Bradson with your donation code and personal contact details.THIS IS YOUR DONATION CODE: ED-CASTRO-$800-2023You have to contact him directly with the information below.Name : Mr. Raymond BradsonEmail : raymondbradson@aliyun.comBest Regards,Edwin Castro.
Oh, sure, right, that's believable. Yes, there is an Edwin Castro who won a Powerball lottery. And if you look up his name, there's some controversy about his win. But there's also notice of an internet scammer posing as him and sending, well, the above email. To a half million or more people, no doubt.
Because this isn't Edwin Castro. This is the cover story of a long line of email addresses that lead to some dark corner of the world with no extradition treaties.
Not a lottery winner.
Because a lottery winner wouldn't be handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars to select random people. No, they'd either be burning through it, getting annoyed by long lost relatives they haven't spoken to in years looking for handouts, finding themselves in a sudden relationship with a gold digger looking to score the big payoff....
...or saying absolutely nothing about it to anyone, banking the money, continuing their job, and being very discreet.
The lottery winner scam is a pretty old trick, casting along the standard story of wanting to share the wealth to some deserved individuals, giving the name of a standard case worker, in this case the totally real Richard Bradson. They will promptly take your personal contact details, including social insurance number, credit card numbers, and banking numbers and passwords, and proceed to wreck havoc with your entire life before vanishing into the wind.
Nice try, numbskull, but let's face it, I've seen this before, and I know your methods.
Why don't you do the world a favour? Travel to Skull Island and make the acquaintance of a cranky giant ape.
I have to constantly check my spam box to make sure actual bloggers did not write and get sent there by mistake.
ReplyDeleteSame here- and they include my own comments, some from years ago.
DeleteI don't see how people fall for this one. Why would any random starnger give large sums of money to other random strangers? They should think "If I won the lottery, would I give away large portions of money to people I don't know?" And of course they wouldn't.
ReplyDeleteNo, but one or two in that list of 500 000 email addresses is gullible enough to believe it.
DeleteAre you saying people don't randomly give away large sums of money over the internet? But it seems so plausible!
ReplyDeleteOf course not!
DeleteHow can anyone fall for such blatant BS?
ReplyDeleteLove the Minion!
Gullibility.
DeleteThere is no cure for stupid. It can pounce on a person like a mosquito bite, with nary a symptom, no rash, no headache, no runny nose, no cramps. I was stunned numb when I met a real live person that fell for a scam.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately it happens.
DeleteSome of the spams I get are pretty tricky. I've had to send them to my son-in-law to tell me what's what.
ReplyDeleteI quickly see them for what they are.
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