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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 188254" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>That's the trouble I think Donna. Too many people will be suckered in by this sort of approach and this is enough encouragement to keep it all going. Those Nigerian scams (although these days Nigeria isn't necessarily the source any more) might send out 1000 emails, but they only need a 1&#37; hit rate and that's 10 people they can bleed of money.</p><p></p><p>I like to do some quiet digging and find out more about these, but I've never replied to any of these or made my enquiries with any chance of being identified. I've had my experiences of online stalking and cyber-bullying years ago, so since then I'm very fussy about covering my tracks (less fussy here). Most of my digging is more like studying what has been sent (as well as what is reported about these and similar scams) and quietly listing to myself exactly what are the obvious hallmarks of a hoax or a scam. It was learning techniques like this that helped me identify the cyber-bully who was hassling me a few years ago.</p><p></p><p>husband is meticulous about protecting us not only from spam, but from the slightest risk of identity theft. He's made sure the kids are just as careful, even difficult child 3. This has upset difficult child 3 a lot more than I expected, because HE now understands about being careful to be safe from identity theft and has been worrying that this fraud was connected to identity theft in our case, and that this would spill over into other accounts (including his).</p><p></p><p>That's why this has been such a shock - no matter how careful you are, things like this can still happen.</p><p></p><p>But BECAUSE we are always careful, we were onto this fast. I don't think the crooks expected this to be discovered so soon.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 188254, member: 1991"] That's the trouble I think Donna. Too many people will be suckered in by this sort of approach and this is enough encouragement to keep it all going. Those Nigerian scams (although these days Nigeria isn't necessarily the source any more) might send out 1000 emails, but they only need a 1% hit rate and that's 10 people they can bleed of money. I like to do some quiet digging and find out more about these, but I've never replied to any of these or made my enquiries with any chance of being identified. I've had my experiences of online stalking and cyber-bullying years ago, so since then I'm very fussy about covering my tracks (less fussy here). Most of my digging is more like studying what has been sent (as well as what is reported about these and similar scams) and quietly listing to myself exactly what are the obvious hallmarks of a hoax or a scam. It was learning techniques like this that helped me identify the cyber-bully who was hassling me a few years ago. husband is meticulous about protecting us not only from spam, but from the slightest risk of identity theft. He's made sure the kids are just as careful, even difficult child 3. This has upset difficult child 3 a lot more than I expected, because HE now understands about being careful to be safe from identity theft and has been worrying that this fraud was connected to identity theft in our case, and that this would spill over into other accounts (including his). That's why this has been such a shock - no matter how careful you are, things like this can still happen. But BECAUSE we are always careful, we were onto this fast. I don't think the crooks expected this to be discovered so soon. Marg [/QUOTE]
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