07-01-2011, 06:01 PM
Unfortunately we get these sort of emails DownUnder as well.
Various Australian 'banks' send me emails telling me to update my details via a link. Even my own bank has been troubled by such activities as I carefully noted when logging in. Often a very easy telltale giveaway is their poor language and grammar skills, thank goodness.
I do wish that these knuckle heads would do something constructive with there computers and their skills.
On a similar vein I was 'chatting' to a 'woman' on a dating site who claimed in her profile to live in another part of Melbourne and her 'story' was quite a spin.
She claimed that she was working on an executive contract in Europe which had finished and she was paid by cheque and somehow [this was a few years ago so the details are foggy] had got stuck in another city and her credit card was maxed out and needed help to buy a ticket for a flight home.
Now if she was such a 'high powered executive' then how come she had managed to mismanaged things to such a degree that she was requiring the help of a stranger via the internet?
She always seemed to have an answer or a reason why she was in her predicament, but I kept questioning her and when I asked some more pertinent questions about where in Melbourne she was from she became quite defensive.
What, dont you trust me? Yada, yada, yada, till finally she broke off.
I knew she was a spammer and given I was a free agent at the time, I figured that if I occupied her time, it would mean that there was less time for her to be working on some poor sap.
I reported the details of her account to the operators of the website and hopefully they shut her down.
Unfortunately these types prey on the lonely and isolated and do find them.
Mark
Various Australian 'banks' send me emails telling me to update my details via a link. Even my own bank has been troubled by such activities as I carefully noted when logging in. Often a very easy telltale giveaway is their poor language and grammar skills, thank goodness.
I do wish that these knuckle heads would do something constructive with there computers and their skills.
On a similar vein I was 'chatting' to a 'woman' on a dating site who claimed in her profile to live in another part of Melbourne and her 'story' was quite a spin.
She claimed that she was working on an executive contract in Europe which had finished and she was paid by cheque and somehow [this was a few years ago so the details are foggy] had got stuck in another city and her credit card was maxed out and needed help to buy a ticket for a flight home.
Now if she was such a 'high powered executive' then how come she had managed to mismanaged things to such a degree that she was requiring the help of a stranger via the internet?
She always seemed to have an answer or a reason why she was in her predicament, but I kept questioning her and when I asked some more pertinent questions about where in Melbourne she was from she became quite defensive.
What, dont you trust me? Yada, yada, yada, till finally she broke off.
I knew she was a spammer and given I was a free agent at the time, I figured that if I occupied her time, it would mean that there was less time for her to be working on some poor sap.
I reported the details of her account to the operators of the website and hopefully they shut her down.
Unfortunately these types prey on the lonely and isolated and do find them.
Mark
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