Another scammer story (PG-13)

[Managarm]

I find that an even better one than Hotmail is to get a webmail account with Goth.net. It's free to set up and you're guaranteed at least five or six emails a day promising you a fortune.

There's two posts on the forum at the moment about scammers and reading them is kind of worrying. I only opened an Ebay account myself to buy Amiga stuff and so far have found all the sellers to be really, really good. Efficient and willing to answer idiot questions after I've bought the items. Is scamming really that rife?

[Managarm]

In a way this reminds me of an expose documentary I saw about a Canadian lottery scam about a year ago. People in the UK were receiving letters saying that they'd won the Canadian lottery and if they sent a certain amount of money to some p.o box they'd get their millions of dollars. The programme sent an undercover crew over to Canada and the general tone was one of outrage against these evil fraudsters.

Surely though it has to be said that in this (as with the Nigerian scams) that they wouldn't work if there wasn't some sort of greed on the part of the person being scammed. Not that I'm condoning this sort of thing but surely alarm bells must ring if a total stranger in another country is telling you that you've won a lottery you've never entered or they want you to be the recipient of an oil baron's legacy?  

[Managarm]

Wow, I stand corrected. There was me thinking it was purely people trying to get your bank account number. It seems these scammers have lots of fingers in lots of dirty pies. I suppose it's not really the sort of thing that's going to go away either.

[Managarm]

I suppose I should be pretty safe then, I don't plan selling any Amiga stuff. I actually got a load of my crappiest games together to sell once but backed out at the last minute. You can never have enough beer mats and games like Space Ace may come back into fashion one day.

Perhaps that scammernaut is eating cheese.