Geez....These Scammers don't give up do they!!!

http://thegreatoldtrucktrade.com/craigslist_scammer.asp

Click the link for a great tale of how one man turned the tables on one of these scammer clowns....it's quite funny.

So checking the review panel for my email addy (our Net Nazi software at work won't let us check our webbased email addresses) I noticed today that I had 6 of these "Nigerian Prince" scam emails. Holy Crap!!! Dudes....are you getting that desperate???? Seriously. Here's a hint to protect yourselves; if you don't know who the email is from...DELETE IT. Simple. Here's some other helpful hints (and no I'm not an expert....just someone who questions everything):

1. Your Bank NEVER asks you for sensitive information out of the blue. The only time they do that is if you call in and they need to access your account....then it's just to verify that you are who you say you are. Never give your bank account, password, etc to some stranger.

2. No one is going to give you anything for free. At least not something that costs any substantial amount of money. Even "FreeCreditReport.com" requires you to enroll in a trial basis of their monthly tracking service. Sure they give you a free credit report, but then if you don't cancel your "free trial" they assume you want it and start charging your credit card. Nothing's free. A capitalistic society doesn't work that way. You go to the grocery and it's Buy one get one free....you still have to spend money to get something free.

3. No one is going to send you a check out of the blue, have you cash it, then write them a check back for the amount. That's called Money Laundering and it's illegal. Even if someone legitimately gave you a check (as in personally handed it to you) you would be busted so fast.

4. The Prince of Nigeria is not going to use a British Barrister to send an email to Joe Average in MiddleTown USA to facilitate the cashing of a check so he can get out of the Country because he is being deposed or something insane like that. The Prince of Nigeria doesn't know Margaret Jones of Nebraska, 78 years old. Is there even a Prince of Nigeria? I thought most places like Somalia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria were run by Warlords who engage in ethnic cleasnsing.

5. PayPal sends you emails every once in awhile....but if you didn't buy something on Ebay...then clicking the link in the email that says "Your recent ebay sale" is stupid. Or the email's that say "the money you owe me..." I know who I owe money too. It's not to these people that's for sure.

6. If someone makes a payment to your PayPal account in error (uh yeah right.....you get an email from paypal saying someone has paid you....then you have to go into your account and transfer the funds to your savings/checking) PayPal can usually be informed and that problem will be taken care of. It doesn't happen as when you pay someone with PayPal, you have to send it to a verified email address linked to a verified account.

Be careful out there folks.......

BTW Prince of Nigeria....Cash your own damn check.