{"id":3,"date":"2006-11-29T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-12-01T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T23:00:25","slug":"todays-sorry-scam-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2006\/11\/todays-sorry-scam-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Sorry Scam Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to break some bad news to a very nice, normal, professional lady in San Jose, California today. I got possession of a scammer’s email account and read with horror the scam unfolding. The story was the same as usual, some good Christian person with a large fortune wanting it to go to a good home.<\/p>\n

Email after email kept the story going, lots of backup photos and other bona fides and suitably business-like verbiage made this seem more and more genuine until she had given them the sum of $24,400 and was looking to refinancing her house to get as much as $70,000 more.<\/p>\n

When I saw that was what she was about to do, I contacted her by phone. Luckily she had listed her phone number on ONE of the emails.<\/p>\n

Whenever I call someone like this, I am expecting one of about four scenarios:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Phone number is not real.<\/li>\n
  2. The person knows it’s a scam and is just ‘playing along’ for fun.<\/li>\n
  3. I get through to the FBI who tell me to do nothing and go away.<\/li>\n
  4. I break the bad news.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In this case, the lady seemed almost releived to be told that it was a scam – she suspected all along but being a good person, she believed what other people told her.<\/p>\n

    The important thing is that this lady was a responsible adult, she knew about the ‘Lottery’ and ‘Nigerian’ scams, but this one drew her in….. there’s a scam for everyone out there, it just needs to know what strings to pull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I had to break some bad news to a very nice, normal, professional lady in San Jose, California today. I got possession of a scammer’s email account and read with horror the scam unfolding. The story was the same as usual, some good Christian person with a large fortune wanting it to go to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}