The Price of Internet Scams

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The Price of Internet Scams

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There has been a campaign circulating around the internet in recent days that is just disgusting.

I lost infinite memories that is priceless with the loss of my email due to email scams saying I was kidnapped in London.

Since then, I lost my friends and lost my soul... am feeling lost...

Is it just me or do Christians seem more gullible to these email scams. When I was a major Christian back in high school, I remember getting a whole bunch of ridiculous emails scams and spams and all forwarded by my Christian friends. Nothing too damaging though but it got me prepped for all the Internet scams in today's world.

I would be suprised by anyone who is donating to Haiti who doesn't check things out first.

No, I also have Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist friends who are also kind of gullible. No offence meant...

I also know fervent Christians who can smell a rat in scams miles away.

Scams affect EVERYONE, regardless of race, sex, creed, or what have you. It is particularly important to spread this story as much as possible to people on the spectrum since we seem to be much too trusting. Not to be cynical or anything, but we are easy prey for these scams and we need to look out for ourselves.

I'm sure if you e-mail the authors, or post a request on their blog, they will let you copy and repost the blog entry in their entirety provided you give them credit.

Thanks for sharing with me the sad fact about life.

Rumor has it there will be a follow up blog post soon...

Do keep us updated then.

I will be happy to donate money just as soon as that nice young Nigerian orphan sends me the three million dollars.

For me, same as above, except I want 3 million British sterling pounds.

This was posted on Facebook today:

The inflationary price of internet scams

"One of the biggest internet scams to affect the autism community" was such a successful blog post that MIC feels compelled to elaborate more on internet scams, especially after being requested to do so by numerous private e-mailers.

Tonight at 12:00 AM EST, Midnight In Chicago will post a NEW special blog entry at http://midnightinchicago.wordpress.com/

"The inflationary price of internet scams" will provide additional details about the biggest internet scams to affect the autism community. More suggestions will be given about where to go for more information.

Tell all of your friends, and be sure to watch the Midnight In Chicago blog for tonight's posting!

P.S. If we are a little bit late in posting, don't worry. Though the post is already drafted and being edited as we speak, we may be doing a bit of polishing at zero hour as new facts come in.

GREETINGS FELLOW FORUM MEMBERS!

I have kept this a secret, but I'm finally letting it out... I am actually the CEO the National Bank of Nigeria! I happen to have US$20,000,000 to transfer to your bank account! All I require are your bank account details, address, phone number, mother's maiden name, credit card PIN and passwords!

I've recently come into a lot of money too. Apparently one of my long lost relatives who I've never heard of has died in a plane crash in Nigeria and left me twenty million dollars. I'll get my hands on all the money just as soon as I've paid a small release fee of around a 1,000 dollars to someone at the bank there.

It must be my lucky day because I've also won the European lottery despite it not existing and not buying a ticket for it. I just need to phone a premium rate number to claim my win.

Sadly these scams still work. On the French news today were details of some elderly man here who has lost his life savings to one of these scams that most of us just laugh at when they land in our inbox.

I got one of those letters by snail mail. It was written by a "lawyer" who used phases like, "you guys". It said I had a long lost relative who had died with a whole bunch of money. Well, the long lost relative part isn't that far-fetched, given that I come from a family in which no one has the social skills necessary for actually acknowledging each other's existence. But the idea of any of them being able to amass a large amount of money, legally or otherwise, is a bit of a stretch.

It's good to beware of letters from lawyers with bad grammar/spelling. Also beware of things that say you won a million dollars in sweepstakes you never entered.

I went to the internet and typed in a random, badly spelled passage from the letter, and immediately saw that many other people had gotten the same thing.

Why would you want to give the money to me? (Deletes the scam mail)

Looks like they just put up the next one:

The Ongoing Price of Internet Scams

The response to our first blog post on Internet Scams was overwhelmingly positive. The post is popping up all over the net and is being forwarded like crazy! What this means is that people are protecting others who may be vulnerable to a scammer’s finely polished con game.

Read all about "The Ongoing Price of Internet Scams" on the Midnight In Chicago blog if our follow-up post.

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