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Mars candy heiress wants to give me some of her fortune! (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Raider Nation
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ChiefD
Footballguy
Niles Standish
Footballguy
Honestly this is probably a scam. But pretend it's 85% likely this is a scam and 15% likely it's not. All she wants is name/age/occupation/address. As far as I know she can't do anything without bank info or social (if it is a scam). I think I take the risk if I'm in your position. Hell she could probably get all that info if she looks you up in the phone book.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
It's her but I bet she's broke. When was the last time anyone here actually ate a Mars Bar?
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Tell her you've been corresponding with her cousin Bruno, and he's offering you 30%.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
And when she says she doesn't have a cousin named Bruno, blame the dementia.
(HULK)
(Smash)
If you're familiar w/ psychology, you would know that there is power with asking people to do smaller things before asking them for big things.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Raider Nation said:
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
roadkill1292
Footballguy
It's hard separating reverse schtick from outright tomfoolery in this thread.
Tom Servo
Nittany Beavers
mquinnjr
Footballguy
If there is any where near 15% chance this is real, give me that #####es email address.
Vike Me
Footballguy
Niles Standish
Footballguy
Exactly the math makes sense to take the chance. I think you definitely respond with the info and ride this one out. We all take a 2nd look if she suddenly asks for a social security number or bank account number. At that point I think it's a matter of feeling because then there's risk.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
I would assume that any of those things are common clues for re-setting passwords or other verifications. Like when you go to annualcreditreport, one of the verifications is to show you 4 addresses and ask if you've lived at any.
top dog
Footballguy
I once had an interaction with one of these guys. They emailed my personal email to which I copied the email text and address to a garbage email account I had and proceeded to screw with them using the name Harris Krotum. I had a few laughs mixing stories of Harris being a lama farmer with bad memory since the accident. This went on for a number of exchanges, probably 4 or 5 emails back and forth where they kept trying to get info.
Was all fun and games until I logged onto that email and discovered I had a ton of bounce backs where "Harris Krotum" was in trouble and needed his friends to Western Union some money. Damn spammers hacked the email account and sent a ton of emails through the account. It was a "junk" email account so the password was fairly simple. Unfortunately I forgot that a long time ago I had sent a couple emails to an old college friend and professor using that account. Oops.
Even now if you search that email address in the sites that will tell you if that account was compromised by the Gmail breach, it shows up. They immediately threw that login and password out there.
Well played Nigerian prince... Well played..
Was all fun and games until I logged onto that email and discovered I had a ton of bounce backs where "Harris Krotum" was in trouble and needed his friends to Western Union some money. Damn spammers hacked the email account and sent a ton of emails through the account. It was a "junk" email account so the password was fairly simple. Unfortunately I forgot that a long time ago I had sent a couple emails to an old college friend and professor using that account. Oops.
Even now if you search that email address in the sites that will tell you if that account was compromised by the Gmail breach, it shows up. They immediately threw that login and password out there.
Well played Nigerian prince... Well played..
George Jefferson Airplane
Footballguy
Sue Ellen Mischke?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
There isn't a 15% chance this is real though. There is NO chance that it is real.
Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
Speaking of dating website scams....so I have a 27 yo nephew that is apparently a career student...gets his grant/student loan money and sends large portions of it to some sweet non-US citizen chick living in El Paso. She is like 40, < 5' and > 200 lbs. He takes whatever minimal classes he needs to take to keep the grant with no long term plan to graduate and sends money intended for education to this troll. Eventually the gig will be up and he will have to pay back all of this money without the benefit of a job attained through the degree(s) he is supposed to be pursuing. Kid won't listen to reason, but he is like 6'4, 350+ with no social skills so maybe this is the best he can get. This stuff is REAL man.
Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
have you at least offered her T&P for her dementia?
bshell27
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Tell her you have a better offer from Hershey's on the table and she'll need to do better than that.
Das Boot
Footballguy
Even if there's a .1% chance, it's worth doing.
A .[SIZE=13.63636302948px]1% chance for $30M... heck yeah![/SIZE]
And surely there's a .1% chance it's real.
Johnny Rock
Footballguy
Tell her to get a tattoo of BlackEyedJoe and send pics and THEN you'll do it.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Sounds like a scam.
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Just pick a charity and tell her to give to the charity. Bonus for her - It's tax deductible
