Comments on: A $400K Lesson About Greed

By: NigelT

NigelT — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:05:28 +0000

Hi there,

Enjoy reading the site.

For those interested there is a website devoted to scamming the ‘scammers’. There was an NPR story on the whole thing. It is truly a sophisticated organization with very elaborate schemes to trap and ‘bait’ the scammers. Whether you agree with the ethics or not….well that’s up to you. Here is a link to the website that has the NPR audio and is also the link to the 4 month blog that the story is about.

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133890&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=415bb33e666d2ad0b7f8460cbb851c77

By: Shaodx

Shaodx — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:25:24 +0000

I am amazed that people still fall for this. It’s true what they say, there is one born every minute.

My philosophy: this is economic darwinism. If you are stupid enough to fall for such a scam, you probably got it coming.

By: ChristianPF

ChristianPF — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:52:06 +0000

The thing that amazes me about those scams is that they aren’t even that clever – yet. I mean once these guys become good I think a lot more people are going to fall for it. But on the other hand email doesn’t cost a penny, so even if only 1 in 10,000 falls for it, they are still making money.

By: Lord

Lord — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:46:12 +0000

We should send her an equally sized bill to pay for all the spam the rest of us have to deal with because of her. Some have embezzled from their employers to do so. My sympathy has run out.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:36:23 +0000

Great article Jim. I agree that if a money order or wire transfer is involved, it usually is a scam. It’s so easy to get caught up in a scam, especially when there are either huge savings or something for free.