Scam Awareness: Gold Mine Fortune
November 11, 2007
Check out this scam letter
Please don’t fall for this crap.
Be sure to talk to your parents or older relatives to help them be on the lookout for scam artists trying to prey on their kindness. As outrageous as these idiotic emails are, someone always falls for them.
Tell-tale signs:
- Ridiculously too good to be true.
- Bad grammar and punctuation.
- Conveniently too far away to verify in-person.
Just flag it as Junk Mail and delete it. Never respond!
The scam artist will con you into making a money transfer. He’ll need some amount from you as either a sign of good faith or to pay a supposed tariff or storage fee. Then you’ll never hear from him again.
Don’t be tempted by this nonsense and make sure to educate your parents and elderly relatives who might fall for something like this.
As always, please share your tips.
-BD
Those of us who’ve been online and using email for years have gotten used to spam, but our parents can be naive about things like this. Thx for the reminder.