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From the lens My Collection of Scam Letters for this year.

  • mac79 Oct 20, 2008 @ 1:48 pm | delete
    Some very good information here.
    I too, get alot of these emails. I can't remember how many times I've had emails to tell me that one of my so-called 'distant relatives' has died in plane crash and have left me
    $10 million!!! All I have to do is send their lawyers $3000 to release the funds. AMAZING!!!
  • mlcutting Oct 8, 2008 @ 9:31 pm | delete
    Good scam alerts. Too many out there and we need to beware.
  • mlcutting Oct 8, 2008 @ 9:30 pm | delete
    Good scam alerts. Too many out there and we need to beware.
  • occupyTC79 Oct 3, 2008 @ 11:09 pm | delete
    I get a ton of scam type e-mail. Some of them are so stupid that is amazes me that someone would fall for it. Great lens!
  • SKalua Sep 23, 2008 @ 10:40 pm | delete
    My son just received a check for over $5,000. All he had to do was cash it and send a check for about half of it to an attorney in NY so the lady could pay the tax on his winning. Well, he cashed the check and then waited. It took the bank 10 days to let him know the deposit was phonie. Great lens! People need to be warned.
  • jkkelly Sep 17, 2008 @ 2:53 pm | delete
    I get scamed all the time but most of it goes to my spam folder and I just empty it. Sad how many do not know to do that so this is good information.
  • laurieb Sep 15, 2008 @ 12:52 pm | delete
    Get this stuff all the time! Thanks for making it known
  • easyhomebusiness Sep 13, 2008 @ 8:10 pm | delete
    Yea, I still get those annoying emails too.
  • laurieb Sep 2, 2008 @ 7:22 pm | delete
    I get these emails all the time. Bleh. glad you wrote a lens on it, good topic.
  • laurieb Aug 25, 2008 @ 5:24 pm | delete
    I get these emails all the time. Great that you wrote a lens on it.
  • laurieb Aug 25, 2008 @ 11:52 am | delete
    I really like your topic. And yes, I get tons of these too. Even been scammed once myself. Keep getting the word out.
  • ChocolateGuru Aug 1, 2008 @ 9:28 am | delete
    Valuable news! Thanks for sharing!
    http://www.squidoo.com/occupythecity
  • askafriend May 23, 2008 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    Scams are all over the place. Route them to your trash bin ASAP!
  • richgirl27 May 23, 2008 @ 2:53 pm | delete
    Funny,I just wrote an article on the same topic a few days ago after getting a scam message in my Gather account. I can't believe these things either , and some of them try to come off as so genuine.
  • wellnessfan May 23, 2008 @ 8:37 am | delete
    Good one, Tim!

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