Re: Re: Nigerian oil scams
| From: | Brad Bonkoski | Date: | Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:08:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Nigerian oil scams | ||
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Of course Identity theft is another issue....
Classic email scam to get people's bank account numbers. I think I have seen such
on this mailing list about 2-3 times over the past couple of months.
Jason Wong wrote:
> On Friday 13 December 2002 06:58, Russ Taylor wrote:
> > Got to love people who use all capitals.
> >
> > How would the scammer profit from this? I guess given your full details and
> > bank number they can do what?
>
> They ask you to put some money upfront. Believe it or not, some gullibles mugs
> have been fallen for it.
>
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