Yes, clearly there are enough gullible people, since the practice continues.
“There’s a sucker born every minute” seems to be true.
Greg
The best way is what we did one time… Copy the mail on a Flash dr. Get there address to send money to from a Library computer and send them Monopoly money ( Ours sent was $50,000.00 bucks.) and thank them with no return address for another state. Works every time. lol. Did that last year. Wonder why no reply to sender?.
It’s fun to play with them. One of them, where I had “instructions” on how to collect my “check” for a million… I replied “thanks, already cashed the check and bought a house and a boat”, invited him to come and stay with me, gave him the address of the FBI headquarters…
The more I claimed to have gotten the money and thanking him for it, the crazier he became… He finally cursed me out and went away forever… it was pretty fun. (and effective).
Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
It’s fun to play with them. One of them, where I had “instructions” on how to collect my “check” for a million… I replied “thanks, already cashed the check and bought a house and a boat”, invited him to come and stay with me, gave him the address of the FBI headquarters…
The more I claimed to have gotten the money and thanking him for it, the crazier he became… He finally cursed me out and went away forever… it was pretty fun. (and effective).
Greg
Ha Ha Ha… good for you…
If you’d like hours of entertainment try visiting the http://www.419eater.com/ site. I find it amazing the lengths that both sides will go to.
I had a caller one night that insisted that I won a big prize, if only I would send him a small $150 processing fee. I told him to take it out of my prize. He told me it doesn’t work that way. I said, sure it does, just send me the authorization forms and I will fill them out and mail them back right away. Then I hung up. Never heard from him again.
Anther “company” kept calling, insisting that I still owed them for a subscription I had paid for years ago. It got to the point where I explained that the matter was resolved many years ago, and if they felt that wasn’t the case they could talk to my attorney about it. If you will hold the line I will get his phone number…
in our country phone card credit is used widely for payments of any kind.
(instantly transferred from anywhere to everywhere, so it is popular)
got a call from our local sheriff some months ago, he told me, that he was with his sick son in a hospital at the capital.
he asked me to cooperate, by lending him a considerate sum in phone credit for his son to be atended.
only funny thing was his voice. it had changed. (i had many phone contacts with him, when i still was fire chief)
well, i phoned him on his official phone, he atended in his normal voice.
it came out, that the false sheriff had called every businessman listed in our towns phonebook.
three had already payd up,some more were earnestly considering.
as i had held him at arms length, to call me again, we could trace the call. - result: it was an inmate in the national jail, who was doing this dirty little trick nationwide.