It's National Consumer Fraud Week! Don't get scammed!

Madam Cholet said :

This title to me sounds like it’s the week where you are encouraged to de-fraud a consumer. Can’t they come up with something that is a better descriptor – Consumer Fraud Awarenes Week would be marginally better. The current one makes it sound like a fraud free for all with no recriminations.

You’re expecting a lot from a mob who doesn’t know when to use Attorneys General.

This title to me sounds like it’s the week where you are encouraged to de-fraud a consumer. Can’t they come up with something that is a better descriptor – Consumer Fraud Awarenes Week would be marginally better. The current one makes it sound like a fraud free for all with no recriminations.

If anyone’s been scamming the electorate it’s Corbell!

Barcham said :

devils_advocate said :

Barcham said :

Ahem he WANT’s you not to be scammed…

Still no good, champ.

Ahahahaha I’m going back to bed. We’ll try this all again tomorrow.

I saw that too, but I didn’t want to kick you while you were down, so to speak :p I’m sure you’ll have it together after a nice sleep.

devils_advocate said :

Barcham said :

Ahem he WANT’s you not to be scammed…

Still no good, champ.

Ahahahaha I’m going back to bed. We’ll try this all again tomorrow.

Barcham said :

Ahem he WANT’s you not to be scammed…

Still no good, champ.

I’m sure Simon wouldn’t approve but there’s hours of scambaiting fun to be had here:

http://www.419eater.com/

My personal favourite is the “Tale of the Painted Breast” under the Letters Archive.

FarrerGirl said :

We recently had our car for sale on gumtree. We got a grand total of four enquires – all text messages and all from people on oil rigs that could not personally view the car

Same – just took mine off (luckily it sold!) after being on there for a week. Within the first two days it was scammer after scammer messaging me. They gave up by the third day. It’s easy to see though how older people could fall for it. But then I felt bad the way I doubted some genuine people because I initially thought they were a scammer.

We recently had our car for sale on gumtree. We got a grand total of four enquires – all text messages and all from people on oil rigs that could not personally view the car – they would need to do the transaction via direct bank deposits blah blah blah…Classic scam. It was such a timewaster – I sometimes yearn for the good old days when selling a car involved the classifieds and a telephone. There must be 1000’s of these scammers trawling the internet to find gullible punters!

p1 said :

DrKoresh said :

he wan’t you not to be scammed.

Another sign of online scams, is grammar/spelling/language which does not what you would expect based on how the person represents themselves.

Dan’t click on the ‘worried about you’ hyperlink. We’re onto you, Hamcrab.