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Sarah_Jayne · 06-12-2008, 05:49 AM

I am not talking a super clever scam or even a phishing bank scam but people that fall for the 'you have one the lottery' type scams. I just watched a bit on the news about how more and more of such scams are being run out of England and Holland (for some reason) rather than Nigeria. The story focused on some guy from Greece who got one of the emails about winning some lottery somewhere and he replied and through the course of the scam he ended shelling out over 200k pounds (about 400k American dollars). Okay, the guy was about 60 but is that really an excuse to fall for something like that so deeply? Am I just being cold?

06-12-2008, 05:49 AM
Sarah_Jayne Now with more Jayne Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 40,077	Do you feel much sympathy for people that fall for email scams? I am not talking a super clever scam or even a phishing bank scam but people that fall for the 'you have one the lottery' type scams. I just watched a bit on the news about how more and more of such scams are being run out of England and Holland (for some reason) rather than Nigeria. The story focused on some guy from Greece who got one of the emails about winning some lottery somewhere and he replied and through the course of the scam he ended shelling out over 200k pounds (about 400k American dollars). Okay, the guy was about 60 but is that really an excuse to fall for something like that so deeply? Am I just being cold?