I'm gonna be a millionaire & retire...

[zeitghost]

According to the nice Chinese person who sent me a letter offering me a share in 8.3M USD.

People are so kind...

[DimPrawn]

It's a scam.

HTH

[BoredBloke]

You know some people always see the glass half empty. Give it a whirl. You stand to gain a fortune and what have you got to lose. It's a win win situation

[BrowneIssue]

According to the nice Chinese person who sent me a letter offering me a share in 8.3M USD.

People are so kind...

When I'm REALLY bored - which is all the time - I make a point of replying to these scams, ignoring the instructions to send personal info and instead:

"WOW! That's great you managed to find me!!! I had had about the death and wondered if I was due something. What do I need to do now???"

from a dummy email address that just bounces.

Only a teeny annoyance to the scammers, I'm sure. But it amuses me.

Likewise the phishing ones - before reporting them as web forgeries I do like to fill in all the boxes with random numbers and made up names. That must be REALLY annoying for them. At least, I hope so.

[DimPrawn]

When I'm REALLY bored - which is all the time - I make a point of replying to these scams, ignoring the instructions to send personal info and instead:

"WOW! That's great you managed to find me!!! I had had about the death and wondered if I was due something. What do I need to do now???"

from a dummy email address that just bounces.

Only a teeny annoyance to the scammers, I'm sure. But it amuses me.

Likewise the phishing ones - before reporting them as web forgeries I do like to fill in all the boxes with random numbers and made up names. That must be REALLY annoying for them. At least, I hope so.

What would be nice is a system or set of scripts where I can point it at a Phishing site and it will fill it up with millions of bogus usernames and random passwords, so that the bulk of their Phishing is full of tulipe.

Phishers and scammers deserve the death penalty without trial.

[BrowneIssue]

What would be nice is a system or set of scripts where I can point it at a Phishing site and it will fill it up with millions of bogus usernames and random passwords, so that the bulk of their Phishing is full of tulipe.

It was called Blue Frog. The spammers won. Be appalled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog

Phishers and scammers deserve the death penalty without trial.

I disagree absolutely and utterly. They should have a trial. Then executed. (You're thnking of Brazilians.)

[Jog On]

419 eater is where these people get dealt with

[tim123]

Likewise the phishing ones - before reporting them as web forgeries I do like to fill in all the boxes with random numbers and made up names. That must be REALLY annoying for them. At least, I hope so.

Yep I do that as well.

I really think that the people advising about avoiding being phished should recommend it to everyone. The fact that a made up name and password is validated as correct is 100% indicator that something is a phish (is the the right word?)

tim

[tim123]

I'm gonna be a millionaire

I've got an easier way,

Just take one dollar to the Bank of Zimbawbe for instant millionaire status.

tim

[KathyWoolfe]

[quote=DimPrawn;366551Phishers and scammers deserve the death penalty without trial.[/quote]


The death penalty is too good for them.
They should be made to sift through the millions and millions of emails circulating on the web for spam or malicious content and then trace what they find back to its source - all while being eaten from the toes upwards by voracious worms which excrete a substance which prevents the death of the culprit until they reach a vital part.
When this vital part is reached they then secrete a virulent acid which causes extreme agony and which prevents endorphins being released in the culprits' system which may provide anaesthesia.