Get Rich Quick/Scams and schemes

[Jax]

Just curious. Has anyone actually done any of these get rich quick scams? I get e-mails all the time, and have never done any (and it is unlikely I will) but kinda want to try one just to see 'what happens'.

So has anyone ever done one? If so can you share your story?

[Aqua]

I have never done any, but I have heard the people that make money from these schemes are the ones that sent the email.

Would be interesting to hear stories regarding these schemes though.

[sodaklostsoul]

I did one that was advertised in a newspaper once. It said for $25 it would show you how to make money by mailing info out. What I got was about 7 sheets of paper telling me how to put ads out like the one I read and resonded too and how to photo copy the sheets I got and send them out to those that respond to the ad.


Also the one's that say be a mystery shopper.....read the fine print, cause you have to pay to be on the list to join up. I never did thank god.

[BIBI]

I just got an email telling me that someone in Nigeria with the same last name as me had died and that I must be the next of kin.....there's millions I tell ya!

All I have to do is send them my name(thought they knew it already)my address and my banking info and they will deposit it ALL into my account except a finders fee of 20%......

[Lilith]

Hopefully you guys are reporting the scams where they ask for your personal info!

[cherrypie7788]

Earthlink HAS to be the worst ISP in the world for junk email. I clean out probably 10 a day out of my normal box. Anyway, I get those all the time, like the nigeria scam. I also get two or three a day of people trying to get my account info. I've never done one, and I never would.

[PantyFanatic]

Hopefully you guys are reporting the scams where they ask for your personal info!
To whom? :confused:

This isn't the government mail. It can't be reported to the Inspector Postmaster.

[Lilith]

If we all reported them to the DOJ they'd be too busy to come after us dirty pornographers :D

[wyndhy]

damn! i thought this was a how-to thread :D:p

unless you win some freak i-only-played-this-one-time-and-won 65327896534265347million-dollars-in-the-lottery, there is no such thing as getting rich quick. they are all scams....hence the term applied. stay away from them

[Aqua]

Earthlink HAS to be the worst ISP in the world for junk email. I clean out probably 10 a day out of my normal box. Anyway, I get those all the time, like the nigeria scam. I also get two or three a day of people trying to get my account info. I've never done one, and I never would.
Ten? Consider yourself lucky. I know some people that would kill to only have to deal with ten a day. They get hundreds, occasionally over a thousand, daily. :eek:

[wyndhy]

To whom? :confused:

This isn't the government mail. It can't be reported to the Inspector Postmaster.
http://www.fraud.org/internet/intset.htm

i knew i saw it somewhere today......coincidence, once again...my life seems to be full of em lately.
aaaaaanyway.......it was on a thread lil started a while back and jseal provided the link....i just cut n pasted.

[Oldfart]

The best I've seen lately was a fax scam where if you connect to a certain fax number

they will fax you the auction lists for the Police and Customs auctions in your state.

They will provide the service, but a scratch at the fine print shows that it will cost you

about five bucks a minute for the six to eight minutes the list takes to send, added to your

next phone bill.

Personally, I'm still waiting for my genuine Howard Hughes Will to be retrospectively

probated so we can have a Pixies party on the Spruce Goose.

[gekkogecko]

And I say, if you all want to participate in a get rich quick scheme, you should all send me your money. It's not a scam, I'm not promising anything that would be fradulent. But it would make me rich quickly.