Scams in the papers
Spotted by Damien Mulley in the Examiner and then Damien Blake(FF Cllr.) in the Donegal News
How it works:
1. The victim receives a cheque and lodges it to their own bank account - because the scammer cannot open one….
2. The victim thinks the cheque has cleared after 1 to 5 days, takes a commission and wires a payment to the scammer
3. It is only several days or weeks later that banks, especially international banks process the transaction fully and discover the fraud. The funds are reclaimed by the bank and the victim has lost money. See wikipedia: Check cashing scams
The ad from The Examiner:
and The Donegal News:
August 27th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I can’t believe people still fall for this. Worse is those who look at me with the big inquiring eyes wondering if a 419 letter is really a scam. They know it’s a scam, I know it’s a scam yet they are still wondering whether they can scam the scammers in some way.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
This site had a story about a 419 scammer who was embarrassed but I don’t think they got much money out of him and the site could be offline now; http://www.savannahsays.com/kizombe.htm
I think they made him take a photo of himself hopping on one leg with his finger on his nose etc.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:09 am
There is an archive of the scamming the scammer story on archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070427233350/http://www.savannahsays.com/kizombe.htm