Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:00:06 -0400
Reply-To: Sean Solowiej <Solowiej@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Sean Solowiej <Solowiej@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: The tale of two VWs and the scam that didn't fly.
In-Reply-To: <20030606.080738.1432.2.wilden1@juno.com>
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I got a similar looking proposal in the mail. It was postmarked from the
'DEPT of the Treasury'. Inside was a form letter informing me that they
will garnish 30% of my wages for the rest of my life, in exchange for
'protection' from the problems of freedom of the press and from the imminent
threat of tiny unarmed countries with more oil than ours.
I didn't respond yet, and I'm not sure what agency to report these scammers
to... Where do people learn this sort of behavior, anyway?
Flame-suit Friday,
Sean
on 6/6/03 11:07 AM, Stan Wilder at wilden1@JUNO.COM wrote:
> Once a scam gets national TV news coverage and they show a few victims
> admitting they got suckered in a lot of copy cat scammers pop-up.
> Most of the copy cat crooks aren't very bright and are rejected because
> of their technique or the scam is so widely exposed that every body is
> wary.
> We routinely get official looking mail (Actually says Official in some
> type of smeared seal) that says they can save us hundreds on City State,
> County taxes if we'll send $20.00
> With a phone call to the Tax office we can have the same form mailed to
> us at government expense.
> However their form gleans a lot of valuable info that the City doesn't
> require so they have some secondary scams that they are running.
> I've heard (no proof) that there is a scammers in Miami that mails
> several hundred thousand invoices each month for amounts less than $20.00
> to elderly people claiming that the invoice is for Drs services not
> covered by Medicare or their supplemental insurance company. Since the
> amount is so small by todays standards many people just pay it rather
> than investigate before paying.
> Another current scam is the "We found money owed to you". They list a
> pleasant sounding amount and promise to get the money for you if you send
> the commission in advance. They found money alright ..
> I have been getting demands for payment in a variety of flashy colors for
> many months now that claim that I owe $1400.00 + and they'll save my
> credit for a 25% settlement. They list a reference number but never say
> who the money is owed to or when the debt was originated. This is easy
> for me to detect since I don't use credit cards for over 10 years now.
> I'm not a consumer of much of anything other than new or used VW parts so
> any debt like this is easily detected as a fraud from my end.
> If you ordered my credit report I'll come back as a "Ghost". That means
> that there have been no inquiries or reports to my credit bureau records
> in over ten years.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 19:38:11 +1000 Ian Anderson <irsa76@OPTUSNET.COM.AU>
> writes:
>> I used to get the same scams with my old e-mail account. I got fed
>> up so I
>> forwarded them to the Australian Federal Police as part of their
>> investigations on internet scams. I also Cc my e-mail to the AFP to
>> the
>> scammers. No further attempts, sofar.
>> Ian
>>
>>
>
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