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Silly me -

Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:30:25 PM): Hi there
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:30:33 PM): how is the trip going?
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:30:37 PM): hello
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:31:02 PM): its fine just that i have been busy taking care of my auntie in the hospital
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:31:30 PM): she is sick then - last you told me was she sent for you and you where unsure why
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:31:49 PM): yes
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:32:09 PM): what state you from?
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:32:29 PM): am from ohio
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:33:02 PM): ahh - you are missing a massive snow storm then - it has already dropped 20 inches on nebraske
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:33:29 PM): yeah i am
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:33:37 PM): nebraska and up to south dakota
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:33:43 PM): but i dont have a chioce on this
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:33:57 PM): true - will she be OK?
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:34:17 PM): or rather why is she in the hospital
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:34:38 PM): yes she will but they have to undergo an operation on her
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:34:47 PM): for what?
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:34:57 PM): or is this personal
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:35:10 PM): a KIDNEY problem
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:35:35 PM): ouch - that is a tender organ. I had stones 3 times now over the years
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:35:49 PM): oooh my
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:36:16 PM): is it one or both that are in trouble
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:37:33 PM): well the drs that will be working on that are asking for such amount that i never thought off when coming and now i have to look for a way to get that and her clients are ready to help but they issued checks here and am told that its not cashable
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:38:00 PM): ahh geeze
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:38:15 PM): and now i dont know what to do
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:38:38 PM): cos i dont want to lose her she is all i have got to look on too
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:38:43 PM): I have no suggestions either
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:38:47 PM):
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:39:15 PM): well right now all i want is someone to trust
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:39:53 PM): and someone that will give me hope in this
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:41:32 PM): wish I could help but I know nothing of these matters
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:41:45 PM): i know
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:42:52 PM): i dont know if you canhelp me out in the check stuff lol?
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:43:08 PM): nope - I am house poor
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:43:28 PM): will be 10 years before my properties are worth anything
julia pullman (3/20/2006 6:44:57 PM): well am not asking you out for money here i mean can you help me out in cashing the check i mean ?
Cuda68 (3/20/2006 6:46:09 PM): oh @#$% no


Put her on my ignore list after the @#$% no

was this some random IM person trying to scam you?

Yea - this took place over a 2 week period. Started out as a friendly chatting and we thinging of hooking up but she got called away to Africa to see her sick Aunt. I kinda knew what was coming after that but played it out anyway.

\"sure, I can help you out. Let me work it into my schedule... how bout tomorrow afternoon, right after I get 'SUCKER' tattooed on my forehead?\"

Yep, heard about this kind of scam at work. Some of our customers fell for that crap.

I know that trick wouldn't work on me.

Like most college students, I'm flat broke!

i tried to read that but i'm durnk.s

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Wow. I don't remember posting that.

Anyway, yeah that's pretty shitty of someone. ★■◆●ing people.

I this is the justification I used to block all random IM's...anyone not on my list can't get to me.

The lengths people go to screw over their peers is pathetic.

I got a similar type of e-mail from someone at random. I was thinking about stringing them along and updating the progress of the situation on my blog. Hmmm, that might be fun

Whenever I get random IM's I ask them to identify themselves- if I don't already know who they are, they get blocked. They get blocked, too, if they refuse to identify themselves.

Admiral Thrawn wrote:I was thinking about stringing them along and updating the progress of the situation on my blog. Hmmm, that might be fun

If you like that idea, check out http://www.419eater.com/.

My favorite bait is probably The Tale of The Painted Breast
But Harry Potter & The Well of Scammers certainly has it's own appeal.

Don't try this at home kids, these folks are DANGEROUS and have an annoying tendency to murder people.

These scams are getting interesting. What do they expect you to do? Does she mean to send you checks and have you cash them into their account? I don't get how that is supposed to work.

Xamindar wrote:These scams are getting interesting. What do they expect you to do? Does she mean to send you checks and have you cash them into their account? I don't get how that is supposed to work.

Those kind of checks look real and hard to find anything that reveals it's not. Only a well trained teller or a smart teller will have the common sense to call the bank's number that is printed on the check to make sure it is real.
When you recieve the checks you go to a bank and cash them then send the money to that person i.e. someone from Africa. When the bank you cashed the money in finds out the checks are fake, you have to pay them back or you'll be in big trouble. It could be thousands of dollars worth of checks or hundreds of dollars... either way, you have to come up with the money to pay the bank back.

CUDA was very smart to not fall for the trap. Anytime anyone from the internet starts having problem cashing checks and want to send checks to you so you can cash them and send the money to them, DON'T DO IT!

I still think I'd be tempted to say ok and them just burn/throw away the checks and keep feeding them excuses as to why they havn't gotten their money yet. The only thing is I would have to figure a trace-proof way to recieve the checks under a fake alias. I'd might even take the check to a bank, tell them I recieved it and think it's fake, and have them check it- when it comes up as a fake, or bounces, tell the scammer the truth about the check and let them fume. (Again, this all relys on being able to keep your identity private... I don't want people hunting me down.)

Admiral Thrawn wrote:I got a similar type of e-mail from someone at random. I was thinking about stringing them along and updating the progress of the situation on my blog. Hmmm, that might be fun

heh I actually did that with a Nigerian 419 scammer. I got about two replies out of him and then they stopped coming.


"am told that its not cashable"

lol, when i saw this the red flag shot up like a rocket.

I told one I knew a shady arms dealer in the area, and that he might be of assistance to use in our collective bilking in of the local government... never heard back.