[Leica] OT: Playpal scam

[bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)]

This is funny, after getting the scam email this morning, I just received
an email from paypal asking me to fill out a survey.  This one appears real
(is addressed to me, has a real paypal link) but damned if I'm going to
follow up on it.

-dan c.

At 06:58 PM 24-01-05 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Damn, Mark, you, too, have an lost uncle in Nigeria?! I figured I was
>the only one. :-)
>
>I got a great one the other day - supposedly from a woman planning a
>wedding in Vt. She wanted me to come to take snap shots for six hours,
>and then she and her honey would order 160 prints, and they were going
>to take the photos to the society magazine in the town, which would
>publicize the photos. Well, she said she and her fianc? were about to
>leave on a pre-wedding trip to Israel, so if I'd just send my bank
>information, they'd  deposit my fee. 
>
>You can't make this stuff up! Oh, wait - someone's making it up, aren't
>they? :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Mark Rabiner
>Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 4:34 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Playpal scam
>
>
>the email starts off "Dear Valued Customer" or some similar
>> version
>> it's bogus.
>> Never, never click a link imbedded in an email.
>> 
>> jm
>> 
>> 
>I've gotten countless such fake emails from supposedly Playpal, eBay, my
>bank and every other bank in the known universe plus my ever loving lost
>uncle from Nigeria who keeps my posted on the million bucks he needs to
>keep in my bank for awhile after I suppose I send him a couple grand
>bank holding fees.
>
>So how have the real emails I think and hope have somehow managed to
>make themselves self evident and gotten through and answered?
>
>It has gotten to the point however that when you send an email to an old
>friend and they don't email you back it's not because you had said the
>wrong thing or otherwise offended them. It's because they've
>inadvertently trashed or otherwise blocked your email with the
>thundering throngs of scams and spam's. So I don't get all personally
>hurt until they slam down the phone on me.
>
>We even have the government doing something about it despite the fact
>that it might conceivably be construed as somehow bad for business.
>Smart because we're all out here voting and getting spammed, scammed and
>called during dinner every day. They made great progress in the hearts
>and minds of the American people with this national tele-soliciting call
>register thing. The phone is no longer ringing off the hook.
>
>I have a secret theory that the reason Nixon was impeached had nothing
>what so ever to do with Watergate Plumbing tools or Scotch or his dog's
>ears or the Enemy List or the Cuban trust fund.
>
>It was because he lowered the speed limit.
>
>You can't hurt us where we live.
>
>Mark Rabiner
>Photography
>Portland Oregon
>http://rabinergroup.com/
>
>
>
>
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