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RPCA Newsgroup A Heads up
On 12/07/2012 4:45 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
Cheryl wrote: On 2012-07-12 1:14 PM, Matthew wrote: Snip tale This is certainly a scam. I got a couple of these - one, a year or so ago almost word for word the same supposedly from an aquaintance who was actually out of the country at the time, so some people in our circle panicked a bit, although I think no one sent money. All it means is that someone's managed to fake an email from Winnie. One of the ones I got was actually a bit funny, when you stopped to think about it - this person was supposedly in dire straits and absolutely penniless and without ID, but could still send emails and make arrangements to receive money... W-e-l-l--- there ARE "internet cafes" and Western Union, but why would anyone but family or a really intimate friend be likely to lend money in such circumstances? (Also, that's one reason developed countries maintain embassies - to assist citizens who have that kind of misfortune.) But Internet cafes and Western Union tend to want payment or ID or both from the 'penniless' person! I suppose you could make an international collect call, but you still have the problem of being able to identify yourself to get the money, and of course you can't get on a plane these days without at ticket AND ID! Getting repatriated as a distressed citizen isn't all that easy either, especially if you're not near an Embassy, but naturally a real victim would be dealing with the local police, the Embassy (if they're in a capital city with one - I think this one wasn't) their insurance, their immediate family, etc. And I must admit that although one of my first thoughts when I got that one purportedly from a friend who was in the country although not the city named, was 'Why on earth would she email ME? We've always been friendly, but she's got lots of friends and relatives who are much closer to her and most of them probably have more money than I do'. And then I thought, it's in good English, but doesn't really sound like her... So I wasn't at risk of sending money to a crook, and since a lot of the addresses that had been stolen were for people in a smallish group, it was easy to get word out that it must be a scam, and then word directly from our friend, horrified that someone had broken into her email account. -- Cheryl |
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