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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 91039" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The Aussie current affairs shows have been dealing with this in the last week - in Australia, they aren't getting prosecuted as they should and as they are in other countries. These guys were filmed posting letters like this from an Internet cafe in Sydney - the cafe owner had no idea but these guys literally did a runner (the reporter was ready for them, he began the report by putting his running shoes on, which he clearly later got a lot of use out of). After the scammers had run off, back in the cafe the screen showed exactly what they'd been doing - posting loads of these emails.</p><p></p><p>The dangers of this are not just possibly losing your money - they will probably ask you to send some money to pay bank transfers, local taxes, whatever they want to call it. All it takes is a 1% response rate to 2,000 emails to keep them in business financially. More emails - a smaller success rate will make it pay, any more brings in big bucks. And every person who responds gives them a 'live' email address to sell on to other scammers.</p><p></p><p>But the big dangers also come with identity theft.</p><p></p><p>Before you even try stringing these people along, read "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffery Deaver.</p><p></p><p>The poor grammar - some of it is feigned.</p><p></p><p>The other nasty scam to watch for (or your husbands to watch for) is the "Russian bride". These girls apparently get together once a week and compare letters and responses, coaching each other in getting a better response rate. They basically beg for money to come to "your wonderful country" and be free at last, maybe to find a kind man who will love them and treat them nice without berating them like their daddies used to do...</p><p></p><p>Depending on where they are mailing from, you can sometimes track them. But you need to be good at what you do. This is how the reporters are finding them, plus tip-offs from the public with the correspondence history.</p><p></p><p>Nasty stuff. Yet one more reason why we need to maintain personal privacy on this site and any others.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 91039, member: 1991"] The Aussie current affairs shows have been dealing with this in the last week - in Australia, they aren't getting prosecuted as they should and as they are in other countries. These guys were filmed posting letters like this from an Internet cafe in Sydney - the cafe owner had no idea but these guys literally did a runner (the reporter was ready for them, he began the report by putting his running shoes on, which he clearly later got a lot of use out of). After the scammers had run off, back in the cafe the screen showed exactly what they'd been doing - posting loads of these emails. The dangers of this are not just possibly losing your money - they will probably ask you to send some money to pay bank transfers, local taxes, whatever they want to call it. All it takes is a 1% response rate to 2,000 emails to keep them in business financially. More emails - a smaller success rate will make it pay, any more brings in big bucks. And every person who responds gives them a 'live' email address to sell on to other scammers. But the big dangers also come with identity theft. Before you even try stringing these people along, read "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffery Deaver. The poor grammar - some of it is feigned. The other nasty scam to watch for (or your husbands to watch for) is the "Russian bride". These girls apparently get together once a week and compare letters and responses, coaching each other in getting a better response rate. They basically beg for money to come to "your wonderful country" and be free at last, maybe to find a kind man who will love them and treat them nice without berating them like their daddies used to do... Depending on where they are mailing from, you can sometimes track them. But you need to be good at what you do. This is how the reporters are finding them, plus tip-offs from the public with the correspondence history. Nasty stuff. Yet one more reason why we need to maintain personal privacy on this site and any others. Marg [/QUOTE]
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