You don’t have to be a total moron to fall for a clever scam, though it certainly helps, and lots of otherwise intelligent people manage to fall victim to scammers all the time. Two ways to help minimize your risk is a healthy sense of skepticism and a little time spent reading up on news items covering popular scams making the rounds. One such news item is Scams even smart people fall for from the folks at CNN Money.
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Posted on 08/20/2003 at 08:06 PM 
Posted on 08/20/2003 at 08:34 PM 
Eric’s first rule of loaning money to anyone - never loan more money then you would feel comfortable flushing down the toilet. Greed be damned.
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wrote: It doesn’t worry so much that this nutcase can vote- it’s that millions of well-meaning but ill-informed people, who may not believe this, but similarly have no idea what is…[go]
wrote: I can’t take articles like these seriously. I wonder if this is just satire. It’s too stupid to be written seriously. Correction Les, we put billions of tons of CO2…[go]
wrote: Tilt? Doesn’t that mean you loose the game? Ha, Ha! It does, if it’s windmill you’re tilting at. Because they might be Democrats disguised as windmills. [go]
wrote: Worse yet, what if the prediction comes true? That would only reinforce their belief in the Sky-Daddy. Last Hussar, any more room across the pond? I used to drink beer,…[go]
wrote: What leguru said. It’s entirely possible that the going through the motions of prayer works as well as a placebo. In either case, anecdotes like the one above are only…[go]
wrote: Tilt? Doesn’t that mean you loose the game? Ha, Ha! God looses! [go]
wrote: I’m with Les. Ulcerated vocal chords aren’t rare, although they’re apparently among the less common vocal chord disorders. It may or not be something that a GP sees with some…[go]
wrote: You do realize that if George Washington had surrendered to Lord Cornwallis we’d all be speaking English today? [go]
wrote: I am reminded of the famous quote of Hermann Goering here: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp Like he said, it works every time, in every country, even the U.S. [go]
wrote: Well, y’all know how I ration my f-bombs an’ all, but this post is worth an “A-fucking-men.” Bloody hell, but I’m gonna be using my extra slack time…[go]
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I’ve been receiving emails from someone who claims to be the widow of the former dictator of Nigeria! She is asking me for help in investing her money (something over $25 million) and will pay me a 25% commission for my efforts! Here’s a little bit of one message:
I am appealing to you to not to lose this opportunity and give me all the required assistance in pulling out this sum. You are to send me your contact phone, fax numbers and address to aid correspondences between the two of us while the transaction lasts. Upon receipt of these, I will give you instructions on initiating the transaction on your end and step by step details of all that will be required of you.
I’ve looked at several websites that discuss this scam. It appears these “instructions” will include my putting up my own money to pay for these “transactions”. The sorry part about this is there are probably semi-intelligent people falling for this nonsense.