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I worked at a small town bank until last March and we saw several of these scam checks coming in. We (thank God) never allowed any of our customers to cash them, but OH did a few get ornery while we explained that they were being scammed!
One of our branches DID cash a bogus money order for $3000 and had to later turn around and bill the person who had gotten the bogus MO for that amount. The person had lousy credit, would normally have never gotten a loan at ANY bank, but had to be given one at that bank just so he could pay it back. It was awful for all concerned. That one had been placed on an 11 day reg cc hold too but didn't come back as bogus till after that.
So be careful, 'cause if you get scammed you will have to pay... fair or not.
One of our branches DID cash a bogus money order for $3000 and had to later turn around and bill the person who had gotten the bogus MO for that amount. The person had lousy credit, would normally have never gotten a loan at ANY bank, but had to be given one at that bank just so he could pay it back. It was awful for all concerned. That one had been placed on an 11 day reg cc hold too but didn't come back as bogus till after that.
So be careful, 'cause if you get scammed you will have to pay... fair or not.
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Hi you all: That was such a funny post about the pay back to the scammers. They deserve everything they get! Leslie I am going to try to explain how the Google e-mail works and I hope this makes sense! I'm not too good at explainig how I did this. Any way, as for using the Google e-mail I just had my e-mail forwarded to my new address at Google. I did have to open a new e-mail account with Google but I still have my old account and address. I had a computer melt down last year and couldn't access all my e-mail accounts for a few days until my new part came so I started forwarding all e-mail to Google and was pleasently suprised to see that they filter out all the spam! I love it. You can access you e-mail from any computer all you need is your address and your pass word. You could keep your old address and have everything forwarded and then slowly change every one over to your new address. I'm assuming you are using it for business and maybe have it on business cards and such. I hope this helps.
Hi you all: That was such a funny post about the pay back to the scammers. They deserve everything they get! Leslie I am going to try to explain how the Google e-mail works and I hope this makes sense! I'm not too good at explainig how I did this. Any way, as for using the Google e-mail I just had my e-mail forwarded to my new address at Google. I did have to open a new e-mail account with Google but I still have my old account and address. I had a computer melt down last year and couldn't access all my e-mail accounts for a few days until my new part came so I started forwarding all e-mail to Google and was pleasently suprised to see that they filter out all the spam! I love it. You can access you e-mail from any computer all you need is your address and your pass word. You could keep your old address and have everything forwarded and then slowly change every one over to your new address. I'm assuming you are using it for business and maybe have it on business cards and such. I hope this helps.
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Sue, I'm still not sure how I would forward my current address to a new one. But I'd want to keep the old address for sentimental reasons as well as convenience, because the original ISP was an environmental activitist's foundation. I'm not sure whether anyone would still recognize it because it's been out of the email business for so long, but I like having it. Also, having used the same one for so many years, it's nice to know that people can contact me out of the blue even if I haven't "chatted" online with them for a very long time. I just got an invitation to a party from a Mac user group that I haven't belonged to for almost as long as I've had that address! The sender's computer had crashed and he had to revive an ancient address list - and I was on it!
Does gmail ever filter out mail that's not really spam? Sometimes the filters aren't that selective.
Glad you liked the "playing with the scammers" site. The original one I saw was even funnier and rather subtler than this one, but I couldn't find it! The page that the one I sent comes from had a tally of how much the "player" had cost the scammers in various fees, and it was satisfying to see that!
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Does gmail ever filter out mail that's not really spam? Sometimes the filters aren't that selective.
Glad you liked the "playing with the scammers" site. The original one I saw was even funnier and rather subtler than this one, but I couldn't find it! The page that the one I sent comes from had a tally of how much the "player" had cost the scammers in various fees, and it was satisfying to see that!
Leslie
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Leslie, since I started using Gmail I did find one of my customers in the spam box. I check the spam box now just in case but haven't found any others. If you do find one in there just mark it as not spam and they will not put it in there again and the same for spam. Once in a while some spam gets into my in box so I just mark it spam and the sysytem filters it out. As for keeping your old address you could still keep it and just open a new address for new business and slowly switch everyone over. Just send an e-mail to my web site and I will send you an invatation to join gmial. You could try it and see if you like it and still keep your old one as well.
Leslie, since I started using Gmail I did find one of my customers in the spam box. I check the spam box now just in case but haven't found any others. If you do find one in there just mark it as not spam and they will not put it in there again and the same for spam. Once in a while some spam gets into my in box so I just mark it spam and the sysytem filters it out. As for keeping your old address you could still keep it and just open a new address for new business and slowly switch everyone over. Just send an e-mail to my web site and I will send you an invatation to join gmial. You could try it and see if you like it and still keep your old one as well.
Okay - I became inspired by the website Leslie posted. I decided to, um, mess with the scammer a bit. I emailed him again (even though I told him to get lost) and he responded and still "wanted puppy".
I responded with this - THIS IS ALL UNTRUE, OBVIOUSLY:
Great - What information do you need? I am very happy to know that the puppy will be going to a good home. Which one did you want again?
Are you okay if the puppies hair is falling out when it arrives? They have come down with a rare disease and the medication is making their hair fall out. The puppy will be okay and healthy, but the hair may not come back. I may give you a small discount for a bald puppy.
Let me know!
I'll keep you all posted if he responds.
I responded with this - THIS IS ALL UNTRUE, OBVIOUSLY:
Great - What information do you need? I am very happy to know that the puppy will be going to a good home. Which one did you want again?
Are you okay if the puppies hair is falling out when it arrives? They have come down with a rare disease and the medication is making their hair fall out. The puppy will be okay and healthy, but the hair may not come back. I may give you a small discount for a bald puppy.
Let me know!
I'll keep you all posted if he responds.
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