I am FILTHY RICH!!!!!!! WHAHOOOOOO!!!!

[FutureMagOwner]

Originally posted by painTech
its a scam.

i know i was being sarcastic lol but hey remember if you do get it i want it

[PyRo]

The scammer was too dumb to ask for the information :)

[BobTheCow]

Originally posted by PyRo
The scammer was too dumb to ask for the information :)

It's on the honor code.

[Steelrat]

Thats a variety on a common scam. Usually it has something to do with a lottery. At some point they ask for a bank account to transfer the money to. Thats when they clean you out. Usually the scheme involves some jibberish about needing to send the money to you because they cannot take it out in their home country for whatever reason. These kinds of scams are commonly knows as "Nigerian scams."

As a word of warning to everyone, I heard something rather disturbing from another paintballer today. His friend has some sort of Spyder AMG listed for $150 or so. Someone offered to buy it for $200, by sending a $3000 money order, having his friend keep $200, and sending the remaining money back to him. This was most definately a counterfeit money order. There are a variety of check and money order schemes that rely upon the "ringleaders" having people go deposit large checks into their bank accounts, then giving the money back to the ringleader in exchange for a cut of they money. They do this to insulate themselves from the actual negotiation of the check, which makes it more difficult for law enforcement to find them. If someone makes this offer to you, please say no. People are doing time in jail for participating in these schemes.

[PyRo]

Its even more common with cars and people in other countries for much larger sums of money. The worst part is that if you fall for it, you can go to jail for depositing the false check. Go to www.fbi.com, or .gov whatever it is. They have an artical on this.

[WicKeD_WaYz]

I got scammed once. Some kid in my school talked me into doing this pyramid thing with different levels. It costs $20 to join and you give it the the person in the pyramid ahead of you, and they give a percentage to the person ahead of them, or something like that. And eventually if enough people join below you, you can make a bunch of money I guess. The problem was nobody joined.

[Paintball_4_Fun]

Originally posted by Steelrat
Thats a variety on a common scam. Usually it has something to do with a lottery. At some point they ask for a bank account to transfer the money to. Thats when they clean you out. Usually the scheme involves some jibberish about needing to send the money to you because they cannot take it out in their home country for whatever reason. These kinds of scams are commonly knows as "Nigerian scams."

As a word of warning to everyone, I heard something rather disturbing from another paintballer today. His friend has some sort of Spyder AMG listed for $150 or so. Someone offered to buy it for $200, by sending a $3000 money order, having his friend keep $200, and sending the remaining money back to him. This was most definately a counterfeit money order. There are a variety of check and money order schemes that rely upon the "ringleaders" having people go deposit large checks into their bank accounts, then giving the money back to the ringleader in exchange for a cut of they money. They do this to insulate themselves from the actual negotiation of the check, which makes it more difficult for law enforcement to find them. If someone makes this offer to you, please say no. People are doing time in jail for participating in these schemes.

I played stupid once up to the part were they overnight fedexed me a counter fit Money order. i knew it was all B.S. but i made them pay out $53.00 bucks to fedex over night. heheh then i turned the M.O. in to the cops.

Me = One
Them = Zero & and 53 bucks in the whole.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by PyRo
I'm confused, where does it ask for your bank account number or similar info?
God why cannot these scammers use spell check.

Thats a darn good question. I thought about that a while and I just finaly figured that since they did not say anything at all about contact that they figured you might think it was legitimate and hit the Reply button. If thats so then its a clever "leave off" of a typical scam set up to make you think twice about it being a scam? And then later after they see your replying they set up the scam further. Pretty clever I think... but... I dunno.

[RamboPreacher]

HAY
I got that same exact email!
what gives!

[cphilip]

LOL! meh.....

Guess I need to cancel that order on that new Harley Davidson eh?

[RamboPreacher]

maybe we could split it? could be we are the only ones, right?! heheeee

[cphilip]

Suuuuurrrrrre!

What color do you like?

[RamboPreacher]

I like fucia, think I could get mine in fucia?

[1stdeadeye]

Wow. This is an old scam. The way it usually works is that it is a corrupt gov't official in Africa. They basically ask you to launder money for them. Then then either ask for your account info or send you a cashier's check to deposit. If they have you info, ACH or counterfiet check fraud right away. The cashier's check comes with a caveat that you wore money back the next day to them. The catch is the cashier's check is no good and takes a week or so to bounce back to your bank and you are on the hookk for the money. Almost never works because bankers like me stop the wires!

[UltimatePaintballer]

YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!

you arn't going to do it?! give me her email address i want to get in on this, i call dibs. i can't believe you are not going to do this. i have my bank accoutnt # right here in my hand. once i get this money i will be laughing my head off at you people for not doing this when im playing paintball on my new field with my new gun and apparel...