This Guy Received A Message Saying He’d Won $1.2M But Needs To Pay A Delivery Fee, So He Trolled The Scammer
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Never mess with a scouser. When NHS nursing assistant Tom Sheerin from Liverpool, England, received an unsolicited message online from someone claiming to represent the ‘CEO Of Facebook’ and promising him a hefty cash prize and a Jeep, he decided to turn the tables and scam the scammer.
“Decided to have a little fun with someone trying to scam me on Facebook, kept him busy for about 2 hours,” Tom wrote, sharing screenshots of the hilarious exchange as he strung the scammer along with increasingly ridiculous questions and scenarios, delivering the coup de grace with a random picture of a horse that his son drew.
It’s not the first time Tom has been approached by scammers, like most of us he has received his fair share of dodgy emails. “I’ve had a few emails so I’m still waiting for my share of an inheritance of about 5 Nigerian princes,” he told Bored Panda. “I’ve answered a few in the past who realised quite quickly that I’m taking the piss. But this one was determined so I thought If I keep him on the hook, then that’s less time for him to scam other people.”
To be fair, the gormless approach and execution of the scam left Tom with an open goal, it really makes you wonder why these guys bother. The thread makes for hugely entertaining reading however, as Tom takes his chance with glee and makes a complete fool of his ‘hunter’ and shows why Liverpudlian humor is up there with the very best.
Scroll down to see how it all unfolded for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Tom Sheerin, left, from Liverpool, England got a ‘lovely surprise’ recently
He was apparently the lucky winner of $1.2 million and a Jeep, courtesy of none other than Zuckerberg himself
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"I'm 38 now but I used to be 27" xD The entire thread is amazing
That is my favorite part!!!!
I loved that line. I'll use it from now on :D
That's where I got really suspicious. And at a lot of refferences after that even more. How could someone be clever enough to come up with such a scam plan but not catch that the person is trolling them?
Clever?! Oh, common, the guy (scammer) is as dumb as it gets))) especially after “Phil Myass”)))))
This is just wrong and so bad. When I read these I imagine an old woman or man falling for these, or someone who is really desperate for money. These people need to be caught and taught a long painful torturous lesson. It is very wrong to scam people like this
You may not understand the size of the organization of these scammers. This is not just a few people spread amongst us. It is pretty large. In some of the cases I saw pictures of the offices that were running 30 people in one spot out of. Some these people actually get paid to come to work and do just this all day long. Even worse the local authorities where they are happing at get paid off by the scammer org to leave them alone. It is quite a messed up thing. I agree. I hate thinking that people are being taken advantage of by scum who end their sentences with ok.
I see what you ended your sentence with there! :D
I dont understand WHO falls for this??!! He cant even speak english!!!
Just to the contrary. It's right and morally justified by that you waste the scammer's time and frustrate the hell out of them. Unfortunately, they're not always this patient..
This 419 Nigerian scams should be prosecuted! Thats why i never sell or do anything with a Nigerian (they are all scammers)
Phil Myass. Classic.
I have a feeling that I missed a lot of references... But the ones I got made me really laugh! :D
Is he friends with Hugh Jass?
I have Two Freinds,, Ben Doon and Phil Macrack.....
Do you know Phil McGroin?
It's the phone number of the merseyside police headquartes in Liverpool. https://www.yelp.com/biz/merseyside-police-liverpool?adjust_creative=-9J31CqkZGovA1mCBfQpow&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_phone_search&utm_source=-9J31CqkZGovA1mCBfQpow
That has to be the funniest part of this! 😂
Hahahaaaa
I'd have said "take $500 out of the box, and keep another $500 for yourself..."
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?????
I had to block him as he started asking for pictures of my son
Oh wow, that just went from asshole behavior to creepy behavior real quick
I would send him this pic, the ugly girlfriend from Home Alone, who was actually a boy 9cc1238eab...1c3ec7.jpg
Damn Tom. Thanks for the update. You were a total a legend. Well handled *applause*
Congrats, Tom, this was awesome ! :-)
Well that took an unexpected turn for the worse. Wow!!!!!
I'm also proud of his son. Come on, he's only 17!!! :')
Makes me remember a scammer called me at 7 in the morning..."Hello I am calling to tell you there is something wrong with your computer", me, being just woken up and pissed off "My computer is fine fuck off" and hung up, he never called back... :D
I have gotten that one a few times. When I tell them that I don't have a computer they hang up..
My current scammer calls are all about this great deal to pay off student loans. Which sounds good except.....the call is regarding Preston's student loans. They're 10 years too early for my young child to need their assistance. Oh, and for me, the expired car warranty that's never existed. I get more scam calls per week than I do from known associates at times. Ridiculous!
Love the horse drawing
And he's only 17! Can u imagine ?!
that all? i could read more of that!
Enter your e-mail below, and I'll arrange some more spam emails to read.
But pay 500 first, lol...
Do it now ok. Lol
I think everyone should post the scams they have experienced so people would be aware and share with their friends and family.
The funniest scammer I ever dealt with was a guy who left a VM claiming he was from the Justice Dept. and that we had to pay him $500 or they'd arrest us. Too bad the guy had a really bizarre speech impediment (he sounded a bit like Elmer Fudd) and you could hear a tv blaring in the background. He was dumb enough to provide his phone number. Thanks to White Pages I discovered he was in the boonies of New York state. I returned his call and managed to waste his time for a good 15 minutes until I finally lost it and started laughing. He hung up on me and I made several attempts to call him back, all he'd do is scream into the phone and finally stopped answering. I then looked up the number to the New York state police, provided the scammer's phone number and made a report. Never knew what happened to Elmer.
My favorite is the woman from the "IRS" who says if I don't pay immediately the cops will come arrest me. Everyone know the IRS would never say "cops." They would use the term "the fuzz."
Come on! You can't leave us like this! We need to know how Elmer's life went after that!
I had a scammer call me about an unpaid cash advance. I respectfully request a notice of dept (names original creditor, date, amt, etc.), & said once received I'd pay it in full. When gave me a BS answer I read the section of the LAW that requires she send it under federal fair debt collection act. I was told I had 24 hours to make the payment or it would be turned over to Ingham County Prosecutor (my correct county). Told her payday loans were a civil matter so she should feel free to submit it and hung up. I then began receiving calls saying that they had my paperwork and that I would be served at my place of business if not paid off by 5pm and that I was required to have a witness present. I happily invited them to serve me at my job, told them I had a witness ready and the full amount to pay it off when they arrived. I worked for Stste Police at the time. The threats they make if you don't send money is ridiculous. Jail time. Coming to my job. Seriously? They are too much!!!!!
He started by saying 500 DOLLARS and then said pounds, which would be a lot more
Then by the end he settled for "well how much do you have on you right now" lmao!
Best bit, "Thats 20 fathoms as the crow flies." LMFAO!!! This guy should do this for a living!
I love the letter of authorisation denouncing scam artists. Seems totes legit.
I'm very impressed at the way Zuck uses so many different fonts. I guess when you're the CEO you don't have to stick to the standard one.
"The Jeep given to you by the State Federal Government." Whaaaa? Scammers aren't the brightest bunch, are they?
By the "State" "Federal" government?!?!? So which is it? State or Federal because the above mentioned simply doesn't exist and if they did I highly doubt they'd give enough shits to throw in a CONGRATS let alone a whole vehicle. 🤦♀️
Yep, this one left me confused too...
Did anyone else try to read the “official letter from Zuckerburg”? It’s hilarious
I loved "loose" instead of "lose" and the questionable English throughout. Nope, nothing fishy about that!
I keep getting the "where they leave threatening message about me being in arrears etc. The people barely even speak English, it's so unprofessional as to be funny except I heard on the bees that quite a few elderly people have wired them money because they assumed it was true. Really sad.
This is so amazing. Every minute of theirs wasted is a minute some vulnerable person was aged from getting scammed.
His son has amazing talent. Someday we will see his work in the Louvre.
This is the 500 Vietnam dong note. FYI. download-5...8ff16.jpeg
try spending 18 £50 notes 20 year ago - it isnt easy
it was from selling a car - this was Birmingham in 1998 - try spending a £50 note in a shop- they called over 3 other assistants - then the manager who holds it up and inspects it in fron of a whole queue of customers - i only wanted some cigarettes
My mother is 79 years old and suffers from dementia. Nigerian internet scams have cost her over $6000. It is really sad because she thinks all of these men are in love with her.
I am 38 but I used to be 27...…...LOL!!
"Who his biff?" A universal question, really.
The conversation is really funny but the whole topic is upsetting to me. They found a normative person, but these aren't the ones they are looking for... they are looking for the old, confused, desperate people that usually don't have to much money to begin with, and take advantage of them. Heartbreaking...
OMG i'm dying this is great. 'Phil Myass" oh wow. Ive never thought I would say this, but I really want a scam artist to contact me so I can mess with them. The closest I ever got was one of those "nigerian prince" things and I gave him the address and phone number to the local FBI office, still funny but it lacks the joie de vivre that this had you know?
FBI? I wonder if they were dumb enough to call the number? LMAO
Brilliant! And Biff too LOL
This is gold. However, I don't know if I feel bad for the people who fall for this obvious scam or if I should just laugh at them.
Feel sorry IMO. Some people could educate themselves better about these things but not everyone is that bright. That wouldn't be their fault.
Elderly people, mentally disabled people, developmentally delayed people, non-native people. These are WHO fall for it. So I vote you feel bad for them because vast majority would realize this is fake so anyone who doesnt is likely to have a legit reason why they believed it with most common being the very elderly and the very mentally challenged. Unfortunately.
I love these and this one had me laughing.
If you want to scam people with text messages, please learn grammar...
You can tell right away by the bad English
When bored at work, place too good to be true Craigslist ads and watch the creeps crawl out of the woodwork. I have personally spoken with more Nigerian Royalty then there are Nigerians in Nigeria. Better yet..post ads on Indian dating sights..You will have more marriage proposels than Pam Anderson at a Frat Party. Be prepared to send Body Part Pics though.
he kinda used to fancy my mum until my dad hit him at the enchantment under the sea dance. HAHA LOL!!!!
Charity work with prostitutes?
Where's the rest?! I wanna carry on reading! Did he get his money? I can't believe it ended on a picture of a horse (a pretty decent one too...for a 17y/o)!
These things are so funny to me and i get people are being scammed...but someone please explain it to me. Why do they do this? And why is the amount to send always 500$?
Because anymore would be considered grand theft. In otherwords anything under 1k is a "felony" but not a MAJOR felony think class 6 instead of a 2. It's not like the FBI is going to jump on the chance to find someone that is scamming for 500. Sadly at that point it's "sorry that you fell for it ma'am / sir." Until they get enough people to complain about the same scam and IF they catch them then they pool all of them together.
i do not open any email that thratens to give me free anythings
Same! Though this is fun to read, and probably to do, I do not want to take any risks!
I have a feeling the scammer was MR. Mackey from South Park. 😏 mmmkay?
It's the picture of the horse that killed it.
"Phil Myass" hahahahah
this is hilarious
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Some of these scams are much more real looking. I was contacted about a $2,000 laptop I had for sale. They told me they paid through PayPal and that once I loaded a tracking number the funds would be immediately released. I received an email from a PayPal email or what appeared to be a legit paypal email address showing the payment with funds pending had been made and the hyperlink in the email ACTUALLY took me straight to Paypals website. Wasn't a single indicator it was fake EXCEPT for the fact that I happen to have a business account with PayPal and KNOW that they don't and CAN'T request tracking info as that's between seller and buyer if it's to be included. If I didnt know that one detail I would have definitely shipped it. So please everyone just be overly cautious!!!!
He wanted the prostitutes address too!!!! Probably thinking DOUBLE WIN, getting a sucker to send me $500 AND some whores. That's a good days work 🤣
This man is a genius o_o
State Federal Government is just the worst.
So much of that is brilliant! "I'm 38 right now but I used to be 27" LOL! And that picture at the end - "I'm so proud of him, he's only 17". I usually don't read those types of things, but that was so funny.
My mother, 72, sent 3000$ before she realized it was a scam. But the guy was super nice she said.
l had two seperate people tell me through Facebook that I'd won a large amount of money from the Facebook lottery...one had a picture of an older gentleman...the things he was asking me..my details that are actually there plainly to see in my profile he just repeatedly kept asking for me to give them to him..l told him they are already there, that l don't need to repeat them..anyway, l gave him a false address and he shows me a pic of a prize winning certificate with my name on it..problem was that my name was in a totally different font to the rest..meanwhile all through this conversation that he sounded like a scammer to me and l kept calling him a scammer..man did l piss him off..chuckle..he also told me l had to come to California to pick up my winnings and l kept telling him that l couldn't because l lived in another country..he wanted me to pay Fedex to send it And l told him 'No' that is something the company pays for..l really pissed him off..
another one in the same week told me I'd won $80000 but l would need to pay him $1000 as a commission for handling the winnings..told him No too..the company can pay that..lets just say that now these two blokes are blocked..
Had thrice phone calls from so call MICROSOFT. The guy on the phone know my name. He said that his company Microsoft saw that my pc had been hacked. He asked if he repair the pc by taking control of it. He than asked me if I had a credit card, I said yes. Would I please give him the account number , the pin number , the name and address of my bank, and please he said also your password. I yes of course, I gave him a fake credit card number. I was suppose to pay so could clean-up the pc. He tried to download my informations and of course he couldn't empty my account, again for all the infos above . This went on for 1 hour or so. Finally he bawled me out and said I was a stupid bitch since I was unable to transmit the information correctly. The morality of the is Microsoft never calls it's clients and the little guy lost his time on me.
I love how angry they get. I requested a Notice of Debt from a scammer and cited the code under the Federal law covering debt collections and "Agent Harris" replied "Fuck it...go to jail then you dumb bitch. I was only trying to help you take care of this but now I'm turning it over to the Ingham county prosecutors office. Rot in jail". Correct county - good job but it was regarding a so called payday loan which is a civil matter if unpaid. Told me I would be served at my place of employment before 5pm to which I HAPPILY provided the correct address, which they'd never know it was actually where I worked even though I was telling the truth but plenty of potential victims give the # or address to the cops, I just happened to work for the State Police. These scammers are just too damn much!
I love this stuff. I do enjoy messing back with the ones who call with the "you had an accident" or "there is something wrong with your computer" or "the IRS wants money now or you're going to jail." This man handled it brilliantly.
That is the best thing i have read in ages!! it just got better and better! That drawing at the end just topped it off nicely!!! Just all the references to amigo loans and prostitutes!! amazing!!
Right off the bat you could tell it was a scam. Bad grammar & spelling.
I laughed out loud the whole time !
I thought is the answers were hilarious !!
Phil Myass and an incident with a pepperoni...
500 Vietnamese Dong. bahahhaha.. this shit is soooo good
So funny how to take the piss in one easy lesson. So good!
great great great
Obviously the scammer is a foreign with bad English
Frankly, I almost pissed myself laughinh while reading this conversation! Brilliant :D
I love it! I did something similar on the computer with the so called Microsoft idiots! Kept him on the phone pretending I did not understand what key to hit. Finally he yelled at me "HIT THE FU___ KEY F1" lol I hung up
That's one way to con a scammer... Myself, I just don't answer these types of calls!
So, why did it end so abruptly? Kinda like stepping off a curb into a mud puddle that was deeper than it looked. 🤪
The guy began adamantly requesting pictures of his kid. That's why. So he blocked him.
I'm in the middle of a chat with a scammer on my instagram page. It's great fun!! No one should fall for these scams!! My 419er is saying he's starving and needs money for his family. I said I'd send hi €100 if he pays the postage of €20...I don't think he's biting BUT I have a business proposition for him when he comes back.
hahahahahahahaha !
I've come across a scam where someone will advertise an apartment to rent but because the 'owner' is based overseas, they want you to put down a deposit before they 'mail you the keys'. I started going on about the fact that I kept rare poisonous snakes as pets and did my roommate's job as a 'massage therapist' count as employment? (One of those situations where they want proof of employment).
I think it's amazing that the scammer kept going after telling the guy to 'Fuck off.' Right back to pure professionalism a minute later.
Right!!!!!! Wtf 🤣🤣🤣
Don't millions of people do this everyday? I've been doing it for years...not everyday obviously but when I'm bored and one hits me up...I just find it so much freakin fun playing with them....the ones that are the most hilarious I share with a few friends. I really love the Nigerian ones who try a fake romance then after perhaps 5 exchanges they love me...in another 2 they want $ cuz gasp they were left in Nigeria by their ship (they always pretend to be from where I am but on work detail as an engineer). I just love stringing them along ...making them think there's a huge payday coming in 5mins LOL But I'm surprised so many are acting like this is a new thing...I've seen so many of these "scammers owned by funny blah blah" it's like a dime a dozen now. Yet you have people calling him a "legend" for doing this. Good grief. For one I've seen way way more funny scammer send ups than this one, it was a bit funny yes...but legend? Now that's funny!
Some of the best videos I've seen on YouTube are of people scamming the scammers. lol
I'm a true DIE HARD fan of QUEEN. Well, I got one claiming to be Brian May, saying that he really wanted to meet me but that his management insisted i pay. He claimed that his manager insists that I pay $5,000! When I told him that I don't have that kind of money he said that he would pay $3,00 himself, but I HAD to pay the remaining $2,000! So i strung him along for a few. You see, Brian May is worth over $175 million! Why would he need ME, a disabled mom, to pay $2,00 to meet him! The fact that he said that it was for his plane fare made it even funnier!(QUEEN own their own plane!) I finally ended it by saying that I couldn't wait to meet him, I have the rope all ready to tie him to my bed! (Of course I really wanted to meet Freddie, rest his beautiful soul!)
O read the whole thing ok, that doesn't happen a lot ok, I had fun, ok
Is there some kind of award for this? If not then there needs to be.
I thought we were friends
I laughed so much
Ha ha loved it. I too prank scammers. You motivated me to share mine here. Read about "General Mark" and the bunnies. https://www.boredpanda.com/when-a-scammer-contacted-me-on-facebook-and-i-had-some-fun/
Just collect $500 from the box and send the rest
Just collect $500 from the box and send the rest. Easy
I got 2 of them. One guy said he was from the FIB and I owed $500 to the IRS and would be arrested if I did not pay it within 2 hours. I mean really the FIB ? The second was the my grandson was in jail and the guy was a bail bondsman. I asked which one I have 10 of them. He hung up when he could not produce a name. I had already heard of this one.
Husband treats phone scammers like this all the time.
Lmfaooo
I have zero patience with scammers. Especially when they don't have the most basic facts (or grammar) correct to even do a semi-decent job of scamming. I've had some guy try to lure me into a pyramid scheme on Facebook, but he at least had decent communication skills and was willing to let me go when I said firmly that I wasn't interested.
I just hang up now! I couldn’t be bothered talking to the lowlifes! 😡 This guy done a brilliant job...I hope he really pissed that scammer off! 😂
I love this man.
This is priceless.
Excellent! Read through the whole thing. That guy is an idiot.
Lol Phil Myass. My new name I will order pizza with.
I just love a lyric from cold sase - 2 Iwas so much older then - younger than before" pls enlighten ma as to who sung it - they had amazing music
The Byrds? "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" from My Back Pages was originally done by Bob Dylan but covered by the Byrds
HAH! I think the CEO of Facebook would have told the 10 lucky winners like they are entered in a contest
i m rushing to thomas cook to get some Vietnamese dong and some noodles too, just in case im next lucky one looooool
Saw this post in 9gag today. Still laughing
But comments on 9Gag are quite different from here...
utterly hilarious - but when you get stupid hounded by this crap - recipie for disaster
I'm fucking dying
Good way to start my day! 😋
Phil Myass! That went totally over the head of that dumbass.
A lot of these scams known as 419 scams were part of my daily read. 419 I believe refers to the criminal code in Nigeria that this scam falls under. Anyway there was a site 419eaters.com. The person who ran the site basically baited the folks doing the scams by getting them to send him something small in exchange for him to send the money. It sometimes was a picture, even money. So if you want more of this sort of fun do a search online for 419 scams or baits or that sort of deal. Enjoy! ok
Ok, these things are usually not that funny.. But this guy seems like a hoot!
According to my internet I have won about 25 million - but am not stupid enough to click on their links - have also won dozens of cars (i dont drive) and compensation for 100's of accidents i havent had
Luckily e-mails like this automatically arrive in my spam folder, which I do not read. Who knows what I could have "won" by now!
Oh god....crying.....
once you tell the oold callers on the other end of tthata phone that your only 6 years old - they kind of stop bothering you
True. But people who do this, cause them to lose time to scam other people. So if you have a talent for this and the time to do this, it is a great thing to do. Because they scam less people in the time you keep them busy.
i really want to troll the Nigerians - they deserve +5 point for effort -and a very sad record of making millions
*Sobs* That was....beautiful!
I feel like if you fall for this you deserve it (I know that's horrible thing to say) but at the same time I feel bad because there are a lot of people who may have problems understanding these kind of scenarios (old people, handicapped...)
I don't know why but I read the scammer's lines in my head with an indian accent. Oh wait.. I know why. Because THEY'RE SCAMMERS!
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i do feel sorry for folks on zer o contracts and zero hours -- all our call centres - we salute you and appreciate your patience
"I'm 38 now but I used to be 27" xD The entire thread is amazing
That is my favorite part!!!!
I loved that line. I'll use it from now on :D
That's where I got really suspicious. And at a lot of refferences after that even more. How could someone be clever enough to come up with such a scam plan but not catch that the person is trolling them?
Clever?! Oh, common, the guy (scammer) is as dumb as it gets))) especially after “Phil Myass”)))))
This is just wrong and so bad. When I read these I imagine an old woman or man falling for these, or someone who is really desperate for money. These people need to be caught and taught a long painful torturous lesson. It is very wrong to scam people like this
You may not understand the size of the organization of these scammers. This is not just a few people spread amongst us. It is pretty large. In some of the cases I saw pictures of the offices that were running 30 people in one spot out of. Some these people actually get paid to come to work and do just this all day long. Even worse the local authorities where they are happing at get paid off by the scammer org to leave them alone. It is quite a messed up thing. I agree. I hate thinking that people are being taken advantage of by scum who end their sentences with ok.
I see what you ended your sentence with there! :D
I dont understand WHO falls for this??!! He cant even speak english!!!
Just to the contrary. It's right and morally justified by that you waste the scammer's time and frustrate the hell out of them. Unfortunately, they're not always this patient..
This 419 Nigerian scams should be prosecuted! Thats why i never sell or do anything with a Nigerian (they are all scammers)
Phil Myass. Classic.
I have a feeling that I missed a lot of references... But the ones I got made me really laugh! :D
Is he friends with Hugh Jass?
I have Two Freinds,, Ben Doon and Phil Macrack.....
Do you know Phil McGroin?
It's the phone number of the merseyside police headquartes in Liverpool. https://www.yelp.com/biz/merseyside-police-liverpool?adjust_creative=-9J31CqkZGovA1mCBfQpow&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_phone_search&utm_source=-9J31CqkZGovA1mCBfQpow
That has to be the funniest part of this! 😂
Hahahaaaa
I'd have said "take $500 out of the box, and keep another $500 for yourself..."
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?????
I had to block him as he started asking for pictures of my son
Oh wow, that just went from asshole behavior to creepy behavior real quick
I would send him this pic, the ugly girlfriend from Home Alone, who was actually a boy 9cc1238eab...1c3ec7.jpg
Damn Tom. Thanks for the update. You were a total a legend. Well handled *applause*
Congrats, Tom, this was awesome ! :-)
Well that took an unexpected turn for the worse. Wow!!!!!
I'm also proud of his son. Come on, he's only 17!!! :')
Makes me remember a scammer called me at 7 in the morning..."Hello I am calling to tell you there is something wrong with your computer", me, being just woken up and pissed off "My computer is fine fuck off" and hung up, he never called back... :D
I have gotten that one a few times. When I tell them that I don't have a computer they hang up..
My current scammer calls are all about this great deal to pay off student loans. Which sounds good except.....the call is regarding Preston's student loans. They're 10 years too early for my young child to need their assistance. Oh, and for me, the expired car warranty that's never existed. I get more scam calls per week than I do from known associates at times. Ridiculous!
Love the horse drawing
And he's only 17! Can u imagine ?!
that all? i could read more of that!
Enter your e-mail below, and I'll arrange some more spam emails to read.
But pay 500 first, lol...
Do it now ok. Lol
I think everyone should post the scams they have experienced so people would be aware and share with their friends and family.
The funniest scammer I ever dealt with was a guy who left a VM claiming he was from the Justice Dept. and that we had to pay him $500 or they'd arrest us. Too bad the guy had a really bizarre speech impediment (he sounded a bit like Elmer Fudd) and you could hear a tv blaring in the background. He was dumb enough to provide his phone number. Thanks to White Pages I discovered he was in the boonies of New York state. I returned his call and managed to waste his time for a good 15 minutes until I finally lost it and started laughing. He hung up on me and I made several attempts to call him back, all he'd do is scream into the phone and finally stopped answering. I then looked up the number to the New York state police, provided the scammer's phone number and made a report. Never knew what happened to Elmer.
My favorite is the woman from the "IRS" who says if I don't pay immediately the cops will come arrest me. Everyone know the IRS would never say "cops." They would use the term "the fuzz."
Come on! You can't leave us like this! We need to know how Elmer's life went after that!