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[Varche]

Heading My Outright....Help needed


"Hello,
I Hope you get this on time, i and my family made a trip to Melitopol(Ukraine) for a Conference Meeting and am having financial difficulties here because Our bags stolen from us with Our Mobile and personal effects therein. I don't know if you can help me with some loan, the bad news is Our flight will be leaving very soon.
let me know if you can be of my help.I promise to refund you once i return back home and am sorry if i am inconveniencing you.
Hope to read back from you soon.
Kind regards,"

Does anyone ever fall for this stuff? Not even written using good English. As a result I only sent a tenner.  

[The Sheriff]

It wouldn't make it to my inbox.

[Varche]

I think someone had taken over Gary's address book. I bought some guinea fowl eggs mail order 4 years ago off him. So it is accepted as genuine mail.

[tigers_gonads]

Tenner received, thank you 

Anyway, what's wrong with my English 

[zirk]

Seems straightforward enough, they need some extra cash for their holiday, you send them money, they get on a plane and enjoy their holiday.  End off.   

[Terbs]

Heading My Outright....Help needed


"Hello,
I Hope you get this on time, i and my family made a trip to Melitopol(Ukraine) for a Conference Meeting and am having financial difficulties here because Our bags stolen from us with Our Mobile and personal effects therein. I don't know if you can help me with some loan, the bad news is Our flight will be leaving very soon.
let me know if you can be of my help.I promise to refund you once i return back home and am sorry if i am inconveniencing you.
Hope to read back from you soon.
Kind regards,"

Does anyone ever fall for this stuff? Not even written using good English. As a result I only sent a tenner.

Unfortunately, they do.
I know of one instance within our family (an older member) where money was paid out, but thankfully the money was returned by the bank/card company.
I have tried and tried again to install it in family members brains not to respond, same with phone calls.

Sadly I see cases on the TV where people have been fiddled out of money, and unfortunately, I have no sympathy with some of them. People that should have more sense.!!!!

[ronnyd]

Wouldn,t you want to get your backside out of Ukraine ASAP?

[Olympia5776]

I got one last week for Paypal reimbursement of return postage costs ,checked with PP and it was a scam. The e mail and return form was full of typo's and written in such poor grammar that it screamed scam at you.
I did a little search though and several sites over here were taking it seriously .......
An old E mail address of mine that was discontinued by the provider after they sold out to a major player  is still active in that I get incoming mail . It is absolutley inundated with fake invoices , pleading letters and offers of shares. I guess the former provider has sold the e mail addresses onto a third party . 

[ronnyd]

Oh the joys of t,internet. thats why i won,t do on line banking. Or am i being paranoid?

[EMD]

Oh the joys of t,internet. thats why i won,t do on line banking. Or am i being paranoid?

There is a risk , but the banks do cover you for any fraud or money losses . I think your more likely to be robbed or scammed at a cash point , just as my auntie was to the tune of £6000  but the bank gave her the money back . Still traumatic though 

[05omegav6]

Talking of banks... the fekwits at Lloyds changed their pay in policy last week, but forgot to tell anyone... you now need a pin number to pay money IN  

Wtf is that about? And to think some daft moron has just paid Mr Osbourne £500 million for shares in that shower