money by scam
By Suminundu
@Suminundu (192)
Malaysia
August 14, 2010 8:04pm CST
The beauty of scamming to a scammer is he manages to lure respondents or recipients to paying him a certain amount of fee in return for a big amount of money he promises due to be received by the respondents. However, in actual fact, that promised money is non-existent and would never arrive to the respondents. The process whereby the money is going to be transacted to the prospective recipients is done in a very convincing way that it leaves no doubt on the part of the respondents. Do you receive or have you ever received in your e-mail things like an announcement stating that you have won USD money through the lottery e.g. USD50 millions. All you have to do is to choose what way would you like the money be paid to you, for example, through your bank account or a cheque...the only problem is you have to pay the sender an amount of money as the cost of transaction or delivery, etc. I stopped the deal up to paying the fee because honestly I have no money to pay it. I even requested that the sender should help me with the fee payment so that we share the money when I would receive it. That message stopped and not long after that there came some more similiar messages announcing that I have won several millions of USD. I aswered "Oh thanks, I would be very grateful to receive that but why should it be me to be given such a big amount of money for nothing work I have done?" In a scam business, I think the amount of fee a scammer collects from one respondent may not be much but a pretty amount can be collected from a hundred respondents. What do you understand about scam business? Have you become a victim?
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3 responses
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
17 Aug 10
There have been times that I have been a target of a scam, but there have never been times that I have been a victim of a scam. The reason for this is that I've never been one that will jump on any and every opportunity that I see. When I see something telling me that I've won a lottery or something like that, I know that it can't be true because I've done nothing to enter into such a lottery. In those sorts of situations I will simply throw away the letter or delete the email because I know there is not truth in it.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
16 Aug 10
I have never been fooled because I don’t see how I could have possibly won a huge prize in a lottery I didn’t buy a ticket for and I don’t understand why a person I have never met who lives on the other side of the world would leave me a lot of money in their will. I saw an old lady on TV once who had been scammed by some guys in Nigeria for years; the poor thing kept sending them money and was still waiting for the big cheque to arrive It wasn’t until her grandson found out what had been going, contacted the police and with a detective travelled to Nigeria where the whole operation was busted. The really sad part was that the old woman was still convinced it wasn’t a scam! It it sounds too good to b e true it usually is!
