August 14, 2003

Some stupid new con I found in my email

It seems someone is targeting me for some reason, or this may be going to several other people. I am not sure. I actually got a previous message from this same email address, and had thought I saved it someplace. I have not been able to locate it in a saved text file, on my list of received emails, on my list of deleted emails or anywhere else. I must have deleted it. The first one asked me if I was in the child pornography business or some other business that needed money laundering services. I, at first, thought it was a joke that someone was playing on me, and then thought it might be some stupid law enforcement trick. I likely did delete it through ICQ, which would have erased it off of my mail server. As such, it may likely not exist. Well, today I got another message:

Posted by Tiger at August 14, 2003 06:37 PM | TrackBack
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Yeah, my Mom and Dad just got through wrangling with a similar load of crap--with some employees at a Sam's Club, in fact. Apparently some dental insurance company that operates out of Sam's has a habit of taking old, expired ATM numbers and seeing if they can charge money on them by making the expiration date current again. Apparently, it's just on the edge of legal, but heavily frowned upon and good fodder for the BBB.

They got the situation straightened out, and my mother proceeded to curse the b*tch up one side and down the other. But needless to say, this has not helped my mother's paranoia about identity theft...

--TwoDragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at August 14, 2003 07:08 PM

You think that email came from Nigeria?

Posted by: Susie at August 14, 2003 08:55 PM

What do you get if your cross a helicopter with a rhinoceros?

Posted by: Tiger at August 14, 2003 09:26 PM

...a very P.O'ed rhino? ;-)

--Twodragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at August 14, 2003 09:29 PM

And that telephone number is in Uruquay...

Posted by: Kathy K at August 15, 2003 07:37 AM

Yep I got that piece of she-ite twice over the last few days.
I have entered 100% bogus credit card info into em starting with 0123456 etc
just to see what happens.
Don`t mind if someone offers to wash me dosh and somehow produce more than I started with...but I`ll be buggared (up the ass by a gorilla) if I`m gonna fall for putting in my bloody credit card details!.
Hope no-one got caught by these low-life muppets!.
Nice site by the way Tiger!

Posted by: Gonadthe Librarian at September 23, 2003 04:47 PM