Mtangoo
JF-Expert Member
- Oct 25, 2012
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Perhaps you are afraid of any mail that you don't understand and perhaps you applied for scholar or you wonder if God have done a miracle for you to be rich. Spams and Scams are becoming a new normal. Let this not scare you anymore!
Let us take a look at sample scam and then dissect it!
Big deal right? Nope! Let us walk and spot the scam-sites in the quote
A language of many scams have cancer in it...breast cancer.....and now lung cancer! Another reason to suspect!
$6.5 to me and you have been distributing since you were diagnosed cancer? What is your total worth "ma'am"? Why is your husband not in rich Africans? May be because "he" had a dirty money or because "he" does not exist? If the former then are you a saint? If the latter are a scam?
And oh to glory of God? What if Am Hitler wanna be?
In summary, the mark of the scam is trying to paint image of a saint out of unverifiable data, sometimes using big names and even abuse some historical data. They try to wage psychological war and win your sympath. They also appeal to lust of quick-fix-rich behaviour of some people who when hears "free" $6.5M goes crazy while at the same time pressuring you that if you delay much its gone.
Scam cannot release any information that you can track. I remember one time I tracked them and got on phone and guess what?...Always madam Esther was not available. Always the phone was received by a "he".
Its fun to play with scams as long as you know they are scams but tread carefully!
Let us take a look at sample scam and then dissect it!
Big deal right? Nope! Let us walk and spot the scam-sites in the quote
Why Taylor connected to west Africa? Is it because you can mistaken "her" husband with Charles Taylor of Liberia? Let us assume that is random and have nothing "trapy". Why Mrs? It is because its quick to trust a woman than a man. After all Hitler was a he and Mother Theresa was a she right?
Lobbying your trust begins here. Public relations are being made here and the scammer is trying to paint a trustworthy image of "herself". Question comes, what is evidence "she" have a dead husband or even "she" have husband at all, and even that the scammer is a "she"?
The sentence is made to raise the level of trust and try to freeze your thinking by thinking "what a great missionary!". Note the red phrase, we will need it later!
Wow! So it was since the death? And when did he "die "? It's a trade secret!
A language of many scams have cancer in it...breast cancer.....and now lung cancer! Another reason to suspect!
The scammer is trying to make tension by telling you " a miracle am about to share with you will fly if you be late, hurry up! quick!". This tries to make you hurry and hence again freeze your thinking (which is better when done relaxed and for long time).
The tactic of using real names to make a case look credible is everywhere, but the last part is preparing you to believe that next statement is just one of many things "she" is distributing. Again lobbying for trustworthiness!
Here is the scam! After building trust and PR, then "she" appeals to the lust of money that is inherent in many. Having stressed you to be "in panic" that miracle have weeks to last, having made "her" public image of a saint "she" now throws a hook. But few things to consider:
$6.5 to me and you have been distributing since you were diagnosed cancer? What is your total worth "ma'am"? Why is your husband not in rich Africans? May be because "he" had a dirty money or because "he" does not exist? If the former then are you a saint? If the latter are a scam?
And oh to glory of God? What if Am Hitler wanna be?
Now the most important part is this one. All above were to convince you to give them contact. Why didn't "Rebecca" give the contact both Physical Address, Website, credible Email, Bank informations and their activities so that one can verify all said above?
In summary, the mark of the scam is trying to paint image of a saint out of unverifiable data, sometimes using big names and even abuse some historical data. They try to wage psychological war and win your sympath. They also appeal to lust of quick-fix-rich behaviour of some people who when hears "free" $6.5M goes crazy while at the same time pressuring you that if you delay much its gone.
Scam cannot release any information that you can track. I remember one time I tracked them and got on phone and guess what?...Always madam Esther was not available. Always the phone was received by a "he".
Its fun to play with scams as long as you know they are scams but tread carefully!
