Failed Scammers

I've decided to create this thread so we can share experiences and stories about how we detected a scam and avoided it.

Every little story helps, so don't be shy and help BHW family.

Let me start things up.

This is an e-mail that I've just received

ECOBANK PLC No 25 Victoria Highland, Lagos Nigeria, Email- [email protected] Attn.Beneficiary I hereby send to you the information submitted by Mr. TIMMY CROSS U.S.A of Florida group Ltd, with an application to receive your payment on your behalf. Please as a matter of urgency, you are required to verify the following information and inform us if you are aware or know anything about this. This morning Mr. TIMMY CROSS came to the office claiming that you have instructed him to come and receive the payment on your behalf with some representatives. I have ask them to come back tomorrow as they did not provide any power of an attorney from you which will proof that you thoroughly send them, This was to enable me contact you to verify how genuine this people are to you. 1.Did you instruct one Mr.TIMMY CROSS of USA Florida group Ltd. whose information in his favor thereby making him the current beneficiary with the following account details: Account Name: Timmy Cross Group Ltd, A/CUSD114-1025567-8, Bank Name: Standard Chattered Bank Florida Swift Code: SCBL 11K111. Finally, you are hereby advised to indicate to this honorable office with immediate effect, if you are the person that instructed Mr.Timmy Cross to come for the claim of your fund worth of $10,500.000.00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars),to enable us endorse for the final payment approval order on his behalf. Endeavor send your reply for urgent attention. We shall be waiting for your urgent and prompt response. Sincerely, Mr. Rabiu Aliu Email- [email protected]

Skype - iweb12
selling adwords, adcenter, fb vouchers

big scam - geting money and then nothing in return.
He has some accounts here in BHW and sends this skype for detailed conversation with him

This type of scams get alot of attention but its nothing compared to what the big global companies are doing to the average consumer daily. Companies collude to fix prices of raw materials and goods and services so you pay more, banks fix lending rates so you pay more, politicians claim excessive expenses and waste money on stupid projects all thanks to taxes they collected from you and worse they send you or someone you know to fight, kill and be killed in wars all about making a profit from oil and gas contracts!!!

This post will never end if it is about scamming
I Have got scammed couple of time and I Hate it, but seems like it is a part of the Game

bestmate said:

This type of scams get alot of attention but its nothing compared to what the big global companies are doing to the average consumer daily. Companies collude to fix prices of raw materials and goods and services so you pay more, banks fix lending rates so you pay more, politicians claim excessive expenses and waste money on stupid projects all thanks to taxes they collected from you and worse they send you or someone you know to fight, kill and be killed in wars all about making a profit from oil and gas contracts!!!

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If you go to the brazillian goverment website you can check everything that is bought with taxes money, some nice itens are

A hammer - $ 40.000
A microphone - $ 20.000
A toilet - $ 75.000

Probably politicians didn't noticed that the brazillian currency hyperinflation ended on the 90's

Not exactly a scam but I wanted to buy a voucher for 1 year spotify premium and the seller claimed it will show up as premium for a month and it will 'renew' itself, he showed me a screenshot and I never went on with the deal, he even got banned, a sl is there.

i won 1 million last week coca cola message me already at least 10 times

No.RuleZ said:

i won 1 million last week coca cola message me already at least 10 times

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You are now officialy the world's poorest millionare

I could go on an on about all of the times i got scammed. One that comes to mind, years ago i got a few servers from a guy i met on a forum i paid him via paypal.

Long story short there was a crisis in the mailing community (the only reason i even dealt with someone i didnt know well) and there was a shortage on servers. They were going down as fast as you could get them (then honey pot checkers were invented and the crisis was over). Anyways i paid the guy 2500$ and it all ended up being a scam.

The guy would give you a login to a test server. If you like, then send half the money, he gives you login to the all the servers after "set up" you send the rest of the money. After he was sent all the money he actually gave me logins to all the servers, kept me happy for a few days. Then they all went down. Few days later ithey all come back up BUT i wasnt able to login.

This is when i learned a very important lesson about paypal. Always mark "good" and not service. I market service and could not dispute it. Had i marked it good he would have had to send proof that he shipped something to me and i signed for it.. Really tho that was the last time i used paypal.

They make roadways that should be 40 mph into 30 mph, then post traffic cops to hand out speeding tickets. It's ALL corrupt.

The OP just paid me $10,000 to tell him how I noticed a scam and stopped it. I'll see you all in a few months. I'm taking a trip!

bestmate said:

This type of scams get alot of attention but its nothing compared to what the big global companies are doing to the average consumer daily. Companies collude to fix prices of raw materials and goods and services so you pay more, banks fix lending rates so you pay more, politicians claim excessive expenses and waste money on stupid projects all thanks to taxes they collected from you and worse they send you or someone you know to fight, kill and be killed in wars all about making a profit from oil and gas contracts!!!

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Sad thing is normal people can't do anything against such multi national corperations.