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09-18-2008, 03:07 AM
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I found this in my inbox...
Greetings,
Thank you for using our new service "Buy airplane ticket Online" on our website.
Your account has been created:
Your login: theweemonster@hotmail.co.uk
Your password: *******
Your credit card has been charged for $679.44.
We would like to remind you that whenever you order tickets on our website you get a discount of 10%!
Attached to this message is the purchase Invoice and the flight ticket.
To use your ticket, simply print it on a color printed, and you are set to take off for the journey!
Kind regards,
JetBlue Airways
Now the Weird thing is...I Don't Have a CREDIT CARD!
anyone else get one of these, or have I been sleep-ticket ordering?
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Sounds like a scam, to me. They'd probably have you call up, and verify your "credit card information", at which point you have been caught, hook line and sinker.
Considering you don't have a credit card, I'd suggest sending them an e-mail, informing them of this.
...maybe add a, "nice try, douchebags", or something. I don't know.
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Yeah, send back something that slaps them in the face that you're not fooled :P
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Any strange e-mails that you DIDN'T EVEN KNOW you'resubscribing or sort of stuffs, 100% scam approved.
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I'd contact Jetblue airways, as well as the credit card companies that your parents are under, and make sure no unknown exchanges were made.
Speaking of which, I got this email this morning.
Quote:Contact: Mr.Harry Bricks for the claim of £1,000,000 GBP which you have won in NATIONAL-LOTTERY.
Provide your
Names
Address
Age
Occupation
Tel
Country
I listed it as spam. It looks to becoming more prevalent. Last year, I was getting all sorts of crazy shit form a place called the Bored Wives Club. Finally got rid of that stuff, too.
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These things are kinda funny sometimes. I love sending them back with stuff like 'Nigeria doesn't have a 'J' in it mr. king.' I find those hilarious.
But yeah it's probably trying to get your card info, not knowing you don't have one.
Sucker: I didn't place this order.
Scammer: Oh terribly sorry, could you give me you card number so we can make sure?
Sucker: Yeah it's (Card number)
Scammer: Alright, it's all fixed. Sorry for that. *Hangs up* WHO WANTS A PS3!?
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Ah yes. The King of Africa.
They're fraught with errors and almost always in capital letters. Got one of those last week.
What's even funnier is when the supposed King starts talking about how you and he are related, and starts listing off extremely broken geography, saying how he and your dad met in his kindgom of Zwe Nwaland, and that now he's fleeing to Chine because of the Palasint Waw.
What's dumber though? The supposed person writing this, or the person who falls for it?
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09-18-2008, 10:15 AM
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Hey, let's not go there. I fell for it twice. It was free money, and they've never let me live it down. Luckily, I didn't have the money to "pay for the shipping" and whatever bs. So, all's well and crap.
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09-19-2008, 12:14 PM
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Aren't you the owner of a board yourself? You should be used by now to invitations from card tournaments, casinos, other boards that have nothing to do with yours (I get one of a history board every month-- don't these guys realize I'm not interested? It was even funnier when I got one from a Christianity board, but at least they didn't insist), online shoppings, beauty companies, TONS of porn sites (I guess in my case it has to do with my site having hentai), Third World princes, jungle refugees, poetry contests, online studies, astrology sites, "make money with clicks", polls.... I could go on but you get the idea.
As for me, I never open an email from an address I don't know.
One I just got.
ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT.
UK NATIONAL e-LOTTERY.
51 CONWAY ROAD COLWYN BAY
LL29 7AW UNITED KINGDOM.
REFERENCE NUMBER: UKL/478593G9/19
TICKET NUMBER: 112-4540-525-106
CASH PRIZE: £715,000.00
15/09/2008
Congratulations,
This e-mail is to inform you that you have been selected a winner in our ONLINE LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION program which was held on Saturday, 14th of September, 2008 in London,
United Kingdom.
To file your claim, do contact our fiduciary agent assigned to your file via email as given in the contact details below providing your Reference Number (UKL/478593G9/19) and Ticket
Number (112-4540-525-106) to commence the process of releasing your cash prize to you.
Official: Mr. Graham Wilbert
Email: gwilberdeptt@yahoo.com.hk
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being a part of this online lottery promotion.
Yours Truly,
Sir. Stephen Smith.
Co-ordinator (Online Promo Programme)
I'm giving it away. Who wants it?
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Holy shit. I got that one.
It's exactly like it.
WORD. FOR. WORD.
Someone's getting lazy. ^-^
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