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Are Scammers Mentally Challenged?Or What? Really who would fall for such foolishness!

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"serah.waiter" <[email protected]>(Add as Preferred Sender) Date:Sat, Oct 24, 2009 12:26 amTo:undisclosed recipients: ;
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Hello,
I'm serah.waiter. I need a professional Householder also i need the kind of things you move, to handle my Home in the state. I have been away from home over 3 months, am in Spain for some special project and am almost done with it, so i need the required services above to be done, so if you are one of the list of profession listed above , please mail me now, to take proper care and clean the environment and there things i want removed in the house before i arrive back home ..Its 1 rooms apartment, 1 SittingRoom,1Bathroom/Toilet and Kitchen. This is all that you have to clean and tidy up the rest places and move the dirts and also help me move my loads to my cousins place which i shall provide to you the address soon.Arrange everywhere and mob the Floor and use your equipment for that. I need this service fast,because i have to arrive to state this week and i want this cleaning/moving/removal before then, or when i arrived, i will stay in an Hotel for a day or 2 days to enable you do the cleaning and moving and all of jobs listed above ,i will pay for yourTransportation down there ,
but for safety purpose i will call you as soon as i arrive in days time, then give you the keys of the House, so you can do this cleaning while am arround. I will forward the Pictures of the House to you in the next mail. I need your assistance and am Trusting you for this,cos its not that easy to entrust someone i have not seen in person, but i believe we all know each other one day and this will favour you well, cos am a very easy going person and well understanding. Money is not a bareer my boss want to pay me off for the Project that i attend in Spain, so he's paying me with U.S Cashier Check/Money Orders, which can't be cashed in Spian cause it not european money order or cheque. If the payment(Check/Money Orders) is sent to you, so i want you the required amount for your Advance service charges, then send the rest fund or sum to my Travelling Agent, cos its for my Flight Ticket Fees to the states As soon as possible, then keep the remaining balance for me till i arrive to the states.If your Location is far from my House, i will pay for your Transport Down there for the Cleaning and moving and other proper house cleanimg to be neat.
Note:money is not a bareer to me. i want you to know this before giving me your information ,
1. Can you be doing this for me weekly.
2. How much will you charge me weekly.
3. Tell me the amount you want to charge weekly
forget about the distance, i will include that in my
nextmail.
4. I would like to pay you 1 month upfront
5. How much will it be for a month.
I TRIED CALLING YOU ,BUT CALLING A LONG DISTANCE IS
QUITE EXPENSIVE
,so If you are interseted doing this for me, i needthefollowing Details(information) Below:
FULL NAME :
ADDRESS :
STATE :
CITY :
ZIPCODE:
TELEPHONE:
CELL PHONE:
I need this information to issue the check, because i have to do everything fast and also my boss is travelling for business purpose, so he needs this information so he can issue the check and send it to you ASAP,immediately he sends the check, i will forward the Courrier Tracking Number to you and it will Deliver Unfailingly within 3 business days. i want you to do a perfect work in my House. As soon as the information required from you is sent to me and the payment will be issued and get to your contact address Asap coz it takes 3-4 business days toget delivered Looking forward to hear from you.N.B......Plz email me your referees information
Thanks






These people need a better education, digging up e-mail address, spending the time to forward, etc... How lame!
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I like to write these people and call them everything from sand monkey's having sex with goats :thumbsup: or pigs cause they don't like piggy's I also like to tell them about their mothers, a lot of them don't write back.:rolleyes:
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The two best parts, lol


Note:money is not a bareer to me. i want you to know this before giving me your information ,


I TRIED CALLING YOU ,BUT CALLING A LONG DISTANCE IS
QUITE EXPENSIVE
It's all done by software, little time involved . That's why if you ever put your e-mail on the internet you should use spaces between things like Name @ whatever. They have bots that scan forums and such for e-mail addresses, also have software where once in a system, they can send one e-mail to over hundreds if not thousands of people. But yes, I wonder who falls for this stuff.
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Those scammers aren't the ones mentally challenged. The ones who repsond are.:thumbsup:
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It's all done by software, little time involved . That's why if you ever put your e-mail on the internet you should use spaces between things like Name @ whatever. They have bots that scan forums and such for e-mail addresses, also have software where once in a system, they can send one e-mail to over hundreds if not thousands of people. But yes, I wonder who falls for this stuff.
Really! So a space between like/ joe dummy @ yahoo. com /I never knew that and will do it in the future. I will readily admit I'm a computer dummy.

As far as the scam goes I personally can't read anything that is so poorly written and the queens English massacred like that.
Or type something like "Joe dummy at yahoo dot com" works also. I usually use the spelled out @ and . Most of these programs won't recognize it as a email address.
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Those scammers aren't the ones mentally challenged. The ones who repsond are.:thumbsup:
And I was about to give her YOUR Diners Club card number in case she needed any materials.:laughing:
ok, so they tried calling the recipient of the email.

but later on in that email they require your cell and home phone number...

but wait! that means they must have forgotten your phone number! yes! that's it!

or could be a scam? no, they seem like nice people, they wouldn't try to trick anyone.

There's always someone who is vulnerable to a get rich quick scheme.

it aint me :D
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That's a new one. Probably a twist on a 419 scam.

At some point you'll be asked to forward your bank info for a wire transfer. Bye bye $$$.
A Google search for sarah waiter shows this letter is re-worded slightly and used to scam people from all occupations.

Hello There,
My name is serah waiter ,
I Am looking for someone to take care of my daugheter Kate when i return to the state and someone introduced craigslist.com to me and i saw your ad on there as a Childcare and Babysitter.I am interested in you as my babysitter/Childcare.My daughters name is kate ,i would like you to take care of her while i am at work in your Location. I am originally from USA,KY but i use to stay in spain but i am moving to your location because i would have a contract with some client who is coming from China , down there.and i would need a full time baby sitter or hourly if you could be of one....no problem I work as a Gold Miner and the contract will last for 2years to 3years ,i want you to take care of her while i am at work.I go to work 10 am and i get back by 4pm,i will like to know if you will take care of her in your child care centre/Home ,i am confortable with any of the ways,my daughter (kate ) is 3 years old .I will also like to know how much you charge to take care of kate for 1 month and the time i need your service is 10 am to 4 pm.Or when you think its convinient for you tell me , Get back to me with the amount and i will be like to pay through Cashiers cheque,money order so has to make you know am being serious about it ok....glad to update you and make the payment in advace to show you how serious i am.Regards and Waiting for your reply.this is the information i will be needing from you
alright...
FULL NAMES:__
FULL POSTAL ADDRESS:
CITY,STATE,ZIP CODE:_
TELEPHONE NUMBER:_
TELEPHONE NUMBER:_
I will await your reply. and also i would attach my family
picture in my next mail.
Warmest Regards
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We can't post crap from Craplist but we can post spam? WTF over? How many of these threads do we need to see? Also, there are threads/sections on this forum dedicated to spam so watch you you're calling a spammer!:whistling
We can't post crap from Craplist but we can post spam? WTF over? How many of these threads do we need to see? Also, there are threads/sections on this forum dedicated to spam so watch you you're calling a spammer!:whistling
Chill,...It was just a j/k of a thread! :w00t:


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Chill,...It was just a j/k of a thread! :w00t:
I do believe that smilie at the end of my post was suppose to show I was being a wise arse.;) That was told to me by the moderation team to be the accepted norm for showing when we were joking.
Its all a numbers game.

I mean if Jim Jones can get 1000 people to drink the death flavored Kool aid then these guys can get 1000 suckers to respond.


And it's cheap for them to try, maybe less than 100 buck will get you in-front of 10 million people.... No, Scammers are smart, this is what they do for a living. we are the ones busting our hump everyday for peanuts.
You better watch that "mentally challenged" stuff I had a thread removed of using the "R" word!




Their are people with misfortunes who would love to take out their sadness and anger on you.
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