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    Posted: Jan 30 2013 at 9:17pm

I just wanted to warn people about a new scam on the internet involving email.

This one involves getting an email from a familiar person—someone who you may have exchanged dozens of emails with—claiming that they are stuck in a foreign country (this one was France) and that all of their money, identification, credit cards, cell phones, return plane tickets, and the like were destroyed when a fire burned their hotel smack dab to the ground.

Now their only means of communication is email, and they desperately need you to send them a couple of thousand Euros (Pounds, Drachmas, Rupees, Dinars, Yuan, Krona, Pula, or Rubles) or some other equivalent of two or three thousand US dollars so that they can just return home.  Of course they absolutely promise to repay you the instant they step off the flight back to the good old USA.

So…if any of you even begin to fall for this scam, PLEASE, just send the money to me.  I’ll handle all the transactions for you, and absolutely guarantee to return 90% of this “loan” back to you.  (I’ll keep a very reasonable 10% as a “tutelage fee” for teaching you “How NOT to be a Sucker” after I prove to you that your acquaintance is safe and sound and it was all a big LIE!!!) 

“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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Let me make myself perfectly clear!!!!  I didn't mean to imply that the "familiar person" who the email is seemingly "from" is in any way involved in this scheme.  The internet scam-sters have found a way to not only highjack the persons email address and contact list, but also to intercept any emails that you might send to the person to verify things.  They intercept your response not only if you simply hit "reply" but also if you compose a new email and actually type in the "familiar person's" email address in the "TO:" window.
“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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This is why its important to change ones passwords frequently when using yahoo,gmail,hotmail etc...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Pacman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Jan 31 2013 at 7:19pm
Sooo,

Just how much money are you out Mike?? LOL
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(((Pacman)))Hug
 
You made it back from Budapest safe and sound!!!!  Thank goodness!!!
 
When will you be reimbursing me the 550,000 Hungarian Forints  ($2,500)???
 
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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Mike,

I'm blind and still lost! Send more money!! :D

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Originally posted by Pacman Pacman wrote:

Mike,

I'm blind and still lost! Send more money!! :D

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OK...but this time I'll deliver it in person instead of trusting Western Onion!!!
 
What was that address in downtown Budapest again??? LOLLOLLOL 
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In person would be better. You know where I'm at...
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Okay...but I go to the doctor Monday...let's try for a day later in the week.
 
I'll call you!!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Pacman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Feb 04 2013 at 6:54pm
Sounds good, I have an appt Thursday in AM. Getting hard to keep track of these damn appts.

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