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Power Femme
How Do You Identify?:
Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme
Preferred Pronoun?:
She
Relationship Status:
Married to a wonderful horse girl
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Lat: 45.60 Lon: -122.60
Posts: 1,733
Thanks: 1,132
Thanked 6,842 Times in 1,493 Posts
Rep Power: 21474852
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cara
One of the Trustees I work for got a scam letter in the mail from Malaysia today. It was a letter about working for a bank and finding a gazillion dollars of uninherited money and if we send them all sortsa information and not tell anyone we are doing it, they will give us 30% of the money they've found. Do people really respond to these letters?
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Actually people DO respond and make sport out of seeing how far they can string these folks along. It's called Scambaiting. I've done it a couple of times from my Yahoo email account (since the only email I get there is spam). I've had people try to send me 'certificates' allegedly showing how I'm supposed to be the recipient of some fantastic amount of money. What's really funny about that is that I've completely sanitized that email address--so the name is blank, just the email address but I have a quote from Michael Shermer and I attribute it as such so they think that is my name (even though my email address is *obviously* feminine--ladyfractal).
http://www.419eater.com/index.php
Cheers
Aj
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