Comments on: ATO email scam

By: Retarius

Retarius — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:29:33 +0000

Thanks, very glad you liked it. Apparently that prolific scammer is still going and his aliases are scattered like confetti through every possible contact site on the Internet. Hopefully my post will do a little to enlighten any potential victim who Googles them. At 419Eater there is a fantastic rort going on in which a scambaiter has persuaded a mugu that he (the baiter)is a Master Scammer and has him engaged as his journeyman in a quest to produce a pirate’s treasure map to delude “gullible Americans”. Other baiters have joined in as fake victims and are responding in “talk like a pirate” language. The link to the forum thread is: http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=167474

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:17:51 +0000

I enjoyed reading that scam trap response Retarius, well done!

By: Retarius

Retarius — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:35:13 +0000

Well, I finally got to the African scam POST and put it up…had a few hits on it already because I’ve put all the aliases I could find for that scammer in the title.

You’ve got yet another blog format since I last looked in…this one looks quite good – and it puts the details in for your comments header – woo-hoo!

By: Retarius

Retarius — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:45:36 +0000

That’s the one!! Probably the same scam with a new accent. I wish I’d had a look at them now, just to see if they were originals and what the prices were.

Looking at my previous comment reminds me I’ve got to get my African scam post from draft form.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:23:08 +0000

You might have read here about the Israeli art scam that struck Kalgoorlie in April last year. There are various manifestations and despite exposure it never goes away, just like spam email.

By: Retarius

Retarius — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:30:55 +0000

As I commented way back in a post on my own blog about the African scams, it’s hard to understand why there’s a person left on Earth who would have Internet access and not know these things for what they are.

I had a visit last night at my home from a fellow purporting to be a French artist offering “byoodifull oyeel paynteengs” for sale. I said, “Sorry I’m not in the market to buy anything”, and sent him and his portfolio case on their way. Then I remembered reading something here about Israeli students selling paintings in a scam but I can’t remember the details.

The funny thing is that the weather has been very wet in Perth the past week and he was going about at 6:00 PM on a wet, windy evening in the dark. I can imagine the wind playing havoc with the 1X1.5 metre cardboard portfolio folder he was carrying.