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Neutronbeam wrote:Or you could send me a certified check to my post office box address in Nigeria and I could pay for you with my card . I'm just glad to help out a fellow gerbil.
whm1974 wrote:Neutronbeam wrote:Or you could send me a certified check to my post office box address in Nigeria and I could pay for you with my card . I'm just glad to help out a fellow gerbil.
SCAM ALERT!!! PERFECTLY LEGIT DEAL ALERT!!!1!!
DrDominodog51 wrote:whm1974 wrote:Neutronbeam wrote:Or you could send me a certified check to my post office box address in Nigeria and I could pay for you with my card . I'm just glad to help out a fellow gerbil.
SCAM ALERT!!! PERFECTLY LEGIT DEAL ALERT!!!1!!
FTFY
As a Nigerian Prince, I can vouch for Neutronbeam's reliability. He paid for the transfer fees for his inheritance.
Neutronbeam wrote:Or you could send me a certified check to my post office box address in Nigeria and I could pay for you with my card . I'm just glad to help out a fellow gerbil.
whm1974 wrote:DrDominodog51 wrote:whm1974 wrote:SCAM ALERT!!! PERFECTLY LEGIT DEAL ALERT!!!1!!
FTFY
As a Nigerian Prince, I can vouch for Neutronbeam's reliability. He paid for the transfer fees for his inheritance.
Right, a Nigerian Prince vouching for another Nigerian. What is next, An a MP of India calling me vouching for that dude from India who tried to scam me last year?
Captain Ned wrote:True story. I walked into a branch of my credit union and overheard an intoxicated man hectoring the service rep because she was questioning his need to wire money to a bad place so that he could get more money. It was on a Friday (and I don't work on Fridays) and I was a bit scruffy, so I pulled out my work ID and told the customer that he was being scammed.
Dude got the point (finally), and I made sure to contact the CU management so that the poor girl on the desk got some props for trying to tell him he was being scammed.
Captain Ned wrote:The sad part of Nigerian scams is that they work. I've spent time working the complaint phone at the day job and the stupidity (or greed) of my fellow citizens astounds me.
True story. I walked into a branch of my credit union and overheard an intoxicated man hectoring the service rep because she was questioning his need to wire money to a bad place so that he could get more money. It was on a Friday (and I don't work on Fridays) and I was a bit scruffy, so I pulled out my work ID and told the customer that he was being scammed.
Dude got the point (finally), and I made sure to contact the CU management so that the poor girl on the desk got some props for trying to tell him he was being scammed.
Captain Ned wrote:The sad part of Nigerian scams is that they work. I've spent time working the complaint phone at the day job and the stupidity (or greed) of my fellow citizens astounds me.
True story. I walked into a branch of my credit union and overheard an intoxicated man hectoring the service rep because she was questioning his need to wire money to a bad place so that he could get more money. It was on a Friday (and I don't work on Fridays) and I was a bit scruffy, so I pulled out my work ID and told the customer that he was being scammed.
Dude got the point (finally), and I made sure to contact the CU management so that the poor girl on the desk got some props for trying to tell him he was being scammed.
Redocbew wrote:If Ned pulled out the badge while wearing the BBQ shirt that just makes the story even better.
Captain Ned wrote:The sad part of Nigerian scams is that they work. I've spent time working the complaint phone at the day job and the stupidity (or greed) of my fellow citizens astounds me.
True story. I walked into a branch of my credit union and overheard an intoxicated man hectoring the service rep because she was questioning his need to wire money to a bad place so that he could get more money. It was on a Friday (and I don't work on Fridays) and I was a bit scruffy, so I pulled out my work ID and told the customer that he was being scammed.
Dude got the point (finally), and I made sure to contact the CU management so that the poor girl on the desk got some props for trying to tell him he was being scammed.
NovusBogus wrote:Captain Ned wrote:The sad part of Nigerian scams is that they work. I've spent time working the complaint phone at the day job and the stupidity (or greed) of my fellow citizens astounds me.
True story. I walked into a branch of my credit union and overheard an intoxicated man hectoring the service rep because she was questioning his need to wire money to a bad place so that he could get more money. It was on a Friday (and I don't work on Fridays) and I was a bit scruffy, so I pulled out my work ID and told the customer that he was being scammed.
Dude got the point (finally), and I made sure to contact the CU management so that the poor girl on the desk got some props for trying to tell him he was being scammed.
Another true story: I was at a Microsoft sponsored developer conference shortly before Windows 8 launched, and to sell the crowd on the new MS app store the keynote speaker actually semi-seriously compared it to the Nigerian scam to explain how even a very low percentage of users buying the app could make you rich given the huge install base of Windows. Don't remember who it was, not Ballmer or Sinofsky but still fairly high up the org chart.
It was at that moment I realized that Windows 8 was totally screwed.