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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 188244" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>The trouble is that the people doing this may not even be on the same continent as you are! Some of these are amost impossible to track down and prosecute. They keep coming up with new schemes.</p><p> </p><p>We got a really crude attempt in the mail at work yesterday! It was almost laughable, especially since it was sent to a State agency! On the envelope it said ... Name: NO NAME. Address: NONE. And then the name and ZIP code of the tiny little town our offices are in. It claimed to be from a financial firm in the Netherlands (by way of Singapore!) informing us that we were one of the lucky beneficiaries of a large amount of cash! (From where? They didn't exactly say) But we wouldn't actually get the money ... this "financial firm" would invest it for us (lucky us!) and then we would share in the profits that could be as much as $15 million! Of course there is a small processing fee of $14.95. which can conveniently be paid by credit card - just write your card number in the little boxes, along with the expiration date, mail it back to them, and then just sit and wait for the money to come rolling in! The sad thing is that there are probably people gullible enough or greedy enough to actually try it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 188244, member: 1883"] The trouble is that the people doing this may not even be on the same continent as you are! Some of these are amost impossible to track down and prosecute. They keep coming up with new schemes. We got a really crude attempt in the mail at work yesterday! It was almost laughable, especially since it was sent to a State agency! On the envelope it said ... Name: NO NAME. Address: NONE. And then the name and ZIP code of the tiny little town our offices are in. It claimed to be from a financial firm in the Netherlands (by way of Singapore!) informing us that we were one of the lucky beneficiaries of a large amount of cash! (From where? They didn't exactly say) But we wouldn't actually get the money ... this "financial firm" would invest it for us (lucky us!) and then we would share in the profits that could be as much as $15 million! Of course there is a small processing fee of $14.95. which can conveniently be paid by credit card - just write your card number in the little boxes, along with the expiration date, mail it back to them, and then just sit and wait for the money to come rolling in! The sad thing is that there are probably people gullible enough or greedy enough to actually try it! [/QUOTE]
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