Come and say hello here.

Thank you!!!!

I will share your website address with as many people as I can

That's exactly what we hope everybody who finds us does!

Education is one of the best weapons in the fight against internet fraud, and this site exists to help educate people, as well as to warn potential and current victims and direct them to other helpful site4s and organizations.

I have posted the website address on several of my profiles, including (not certainly not limited to) MySpace, Facebook and Twitter

That's one of the reasons we post the fake details of scam names and companies they use here, along with their e-mail addies, in the hope that people may do a google search before parting with money, and look here to discover it's a scam.

Of course it's not humanly possible to post every one, but I always put up any new ones I find, or ones that look more plausible than the average scam.

Having said that, a TV show in the UK in the last few days had an item on scam mails sent by post (which is not really our area) but they had examples of people in their late eighties and nineties each being sent 500-600 mails per month for several months. One elderly woman lost her life savings of £50,000 before she died. Her house looked as if it was a mail office and that she spent her last months on earth running around t the beck and call of these criminals.

Hi everyone,

I'm "TheFae", a newbie over at 491 as well, and figured I'd best wander over and sign up here, too. My sister was scammed some years back, and I'm still hot under the collar about the whole mess. I'll be in 'learning mode' for a while, and if I have silly questions, bear with me. I'm glad to be here.

TheFae

Howdy, welcome to the forums.

We love silly questions, feel free to ask anything.

Thanks for the howdy! Fear not, in the silly question department, I'm certain I won't disappoint.
I'm grateful to be among people who detest these scumbags as much as I do. As they say where I live, "Let's git 'er done!"

Welcome, TheFae.

Hi, TheFae, and welcome to Scamwarners!

We love questions of all kinds. For some reason questions send some of us into educator mode, and you may get more of an answer than you were expecting.

Hi TheFae

Welcome to ScamWarners (Not the first time I have posted similiar to you today )

We are always glad to have the help of new people and by us teaching you and answering those questions you will soon become more usefull to our cause of preventing scams

Same applies to 419eater, the members there are always happy to help so please do ask whenever you have questions.

Hey.. I'm Mindy and from the United Sates.. I'm here because of an online friend who just got scammed (even after I warned her it didn't sound credible to me).. if I would have known about you guys a month and a half ago.. maybe it wouldn't have happened to her too.

Hi and Welcome.
I'm sad to hear why you arrive here
If you or your friend needs advices, even now, or only some comfort, do not hesitate.

A member asked me to pm details of the programme I mentioned earlier in this thread and I thought it would be useful for everyone to see details. Again I mention that it's relating to mail scams (which we don't deal with) but they are often sent out by the same gangs, with special emphasis on snagging the elderly who may not use pc's. It does regrettably follow the same lines as the stories of some victims we have dealt with who have become helplessly hooked by scammers.

In some forums people make comments about how stupid the victims are, but this case demonstrates how the scammers target the weak and vulnerable specially, though no one is safe. I wouldn't laugh watching a pensioner getting mugged and I'd consider anyone doing so to be no less scum than the scammer.

The woman here spent the last years of her life going without food tormented by scammers plaguing her life and even causing her to her disown her family.

It's on i player here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l7wlq

(The good thing is that you can enjoy watching Christine Bleakley as well. )

I'm just playing to make sure I have the right one. The item appears just after the 15 minute mark.

It says it's available to view for another 3 days.

It's very good and graphic with video of the daughter trying to make the mother understand what was happening, and they show the mountains of mail she was receiving.

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/ ... ticle.html

Marilyn Baldwin said her 83-year-old mother, Jessica Looke, received up to 30 letters a day from companies around the world demanding money.

The letters said that Mrs Looke, of Cherry Tree Mews, Chaddesden, had won money and that she must reply with a "release fee" to claim her prize.

After the pensioner's death, Mrs Baldwin found that her mother had sent more than £50,000 to the companies and had stored about 30,000 of the letters in her house.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7600635.stm

Mass-market scams rake in £3.5bn

Cash going up in flames

Fraudsters will try to take advantage of the economic downturn warns the OFT

Fraudsters will devise more mass-marketed consumer scams to take advantage of the economic downturn, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) warns.

It says the fraudsters will increasingly try to cash in on their victims' "financial desperation".

http://www.thinkjessica.com/stories/jessica.ht

She would often sit up till 3am trying to keep up with the scammers demands. She had put so much cash into what she thought was the run up to a huge pay out, she just couldn't focus her mind on any thing else.

We could see every trick that the criminals were playing on her and the way they were all battling for her cash, but Jessica was under the spell and refused any outside help and even threatened to disown family members if they tried to interfere.

She was hording the scam mail all over her house, it was in cupboards, drawers, wardrobes and even the shed was full of knotted carrier bags bulging with scam mail. She continually gave out her phone number and the scammers were even making calls to her late at night.

Nothing seemed to matter to Jessica, her life revolved around the hundreds of letters her postman delivered each week. She would go without buying food, rather than miss a payment to a scam.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/credit-and ... age_id=159

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/credit-and ... age_id=159

An incomplete link apparently.

The programme featured an Eastbourne victim, and there are details here.
http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/ ... 5383865.jp

I've got 3 personas running so far, 10 live lads & growing daily.. and a really awful collection homemade ID's.


Pleased to make your acquaintances.