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Date: 20 Sep 2006 15:09:24
From: Kareem840
Subject: Need some help here
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Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
balances. Thank you.
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 02:51:24
From: Dentist
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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In message <1158790163.941307.284940@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com >,
Kareem840 <KareemOfweet840@hotmail.com > writes
>Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
>bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
>account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
>balances. Thank you.
>
I was so moved by your sincerity, I've sent you $1000.
I swear I have.
--
DT
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 18:35:39
From: gtr
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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On 2006-09-20 15:09:24 -0700, "Kareem840" <KareemOfweet840@hotmail.com > said:
> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
> balances. Thank you.
That is SO sweet! I'm going send you 5,000 just because I think you
really really deserve it!
--
Thank you and have a nice day.
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 20:41:53
From: Robert Kolker
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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Kareem840 wrote:
> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
> balances. Thank you.
Are you from Nigeria?
Bob Kolker
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 22:43:40
From: J.J. O'Shea
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:41:53 -0400, Robert Kolker wrote
(in article <VeedncIPEpa9fYzYnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@comcast.com >):
> Kareem840 wrote:
>
>> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
>> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
>> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
>> balances. Thank you.
>
> Are you from Nigeria?
>
> Bob Kolker
He's gotta be a Yankee, Nigerians do this kind of thing with much more style.
For one thing, they don't stoop to asking for a mere $1.
--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 23:28:33
From: AM
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:41:53 -0400, Robert Kolker wrote
> (in article <VeedncIPEpa9fYzYnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
>
>>Kareem840 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
>>>bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
>>>account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
>>>balances. Thank you.
>>
>>Are you from Nigeria?
>>
>>Bob Kolker
>
>
> He's gotta be a Yankee, Nigerians do this kind of thing with much more style.
> For one thing, they don't stoop to asking for a mere $1.
>
ROFLMAO !!!!!!!!!
Actually to be more specific, I think he might
be a yankee swamp thing. (a very nasty critter)
Actually we do have Rebel swamp things round here,
but they are much more up front and direct about
their intentions.....
BTW, nice cross posting there everyone.....
Four other NG's, including alt.harry.potter
WTF did those people do to you ?
(I didnt know it even existed)
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AM
http://sctuser.home.comcast.net
CentOS 4.3 KDE 3.3
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 13:04:56
From: Mazz
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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"J.J. O'Shea" <try.not.to@but.see.sig > wrote in message
news:0001HW.C137749C01AEB20AF060B530@news1.news.adelphia.net...
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:41:53 -0400, Robert Kolker wrote
> (in article <VeedncIPEpa9fYzYnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
>> Kareem840 wrote:
>>
>>> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
>>> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
>>> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
>>> balances. Thank you.
>>
>> Are you from Nigeria?
>>
>> Bob Kolker
>
> He's gotta be a Yankee, Nigerians do this kind of thing with much more
> style.
> For one thing, they don't stoop to asking for a mere $1.
Gee, do you really think Derek Jeter or A-Rod need the money that bad?
:D
>
> --
> email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
>
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 20:12:55
From: Stubby Boardman
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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On 2006-09-20 18:09:24 -0400, "Kareem840" <KareemOfweet840@hotmail.com > said:
> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
> balances. Thank you.
I guess it never hurts to try. There are stupid people
all over this planet.
Stubby
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 11:37:17
From: dorayme
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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In article <2006092020125516807-Sboardman@hogwartsedu >,
Stubby Boardman <Sboardman@hogwarts.edu > wrote:
> I guess it never hurts to try. There are stupid people
> all over this planet.
>
> Stubby
It looks like he could at least have tried to sound a bit more
pathetic but then the cheek of it might actually work? Surely not
though. Please keep us informed of how you go.
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dorayme
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 16:47:15
From: Shawn Curry
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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Kareem840 wrote:
> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
> balances. Thank you.
>
Crank cookers take credit cards? Hmm, learn something new every day.
Shawn
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 07:01:06
From: AustinMN
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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Joe S. wrote:
<snip >
> The Nigerians have been somewhat successful:
>
> QUOTE
> The best 419 statistics ever published until our 419 Unit published its 419
> stats in March 2006, were given by Special Agent Craig Spraggins of the US
> Secret Service, who was Special Agent in Charge of the now defunct Joint
> West African Fraud Task Force in testimony before a US Congressional
> subcommittee in 1998.
> He said that estimated US losses per annum were $300 million, and estimated
> total losses worldwide per annum were $750 million (making the rest of the
> world's figure $450 million per annum).
> You can multiply that by the number of years 419 has been running (25 plus)
> to arrive at a figure of some $19 Billion plus dollars. There is no need to
> lower the estimates or take a more conservative point of view, since it has
> been a faster growing business since the year 2000 with an explosive growth
> in 2003.
What's being measured? The number of emails, or the dollars stolen?
If it's the number of spam emails being measured, you can't just
multiply by the old numbers by the growth in email volume (a kind of
statistical game I have seen played often by media-types). The fact is
people are much less likely to respond to the 19th attempt than the
first. Anybody here only received one 419-type spam?
Figures don't lie, but liars do figure.
Austin
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 04:57:28
From: The Old Man
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> > Are you from Nigeria?
> He's gotta be a Yankee, Nigerians do this kind of thing with much more style.
> For one thing, they don't stoop to asking for a mere $1.
Maybe so, maybe not. Years ago I got involved in a chain letter that
only asked for a dollar. You then sent it on to eight people. Could get
$16,000 if everyone carried it through. I got about $400 at a time when
I really needed the money.
At the same time, a co-worker got involved with another chain. His
needed $100 up front and only sent it out to 4 people. Because of the
high entry level (this was 1975 and a hundred bucks was about four days
wages) he didn't get squat and the higher amounts led to a higher
signature on the police radar with a number of the players getting
arrested.
Maybe Nigerians haven't learned to be less greedy....
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 08:12:45
From: Joe S.
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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"The Old Man" <Braungart@verizon.net > wrote in message
news:1158839847.955998.4260@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>
> J.J. O'Shea wrote:
>
>> > Are you from Nigeria?
>
>> He's gotta be a Yankee, Nigerians do this kind of thing with much more
>> style.
>> For one thing, they don't stoop to asking for a mere $1.
>
> Maybe so, maybe not. Years ago I got involved in a chain letter that
> only asked for a dollar. You then sent it on to eight people. Could get
> $16,000 if everyone carried it through. I got about $400 at a time when
> I really needed the money.
> At the same time, a co-worker got involved with another chain. His
> needed $100 up front and only sent it out to 4 people. Because of the
> high entry level (this was 1975 and a hundred bucks was about four days
> wages) he didn't get squat and the higher amounts led to a higher
> signature on the police radar with a number of the players getting
> arrested.
> Maybe Nigerians haven't learned to be less greedy....
>
The Nigerians have been somewhat successful:
QUOTE
The best 419 statistics ever published until our 419 Unit published its 419
stats in March 2006, were given by Special Agent Craig Spraggins of the US
Secret Service, who was Special Agent in Charge of the now defunct Joint
West African Fraud Task Force in testimony before a US Congressional
subcommittee in 1998.
He said that estimated US losses per annum were $300 million, and estimated
total losses worldwide per annum were $750 million (making the rest of the
world's figure $450 million per annum).
You can multiply that by the number of years 419 has been running (25 plus)
to arrive at a figure of some $19 Billion plus dollars. There is no need to
lower the estimates or take a more conservative point of view, since it has
been a faster growing business since the year 2000 with an explosive growth
in 2003.
END QUOTE
http://tinyurl.com/p28jy
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Date: 21 Sep 2006 00:53:50
From: Matu
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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complaints to: groups-abuse@google.com
Kareem840 wrote:
> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
> balances. Thank you.
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Date: 22 Sep 2006 11:16:51
From: Chip Stobb
Subject: Re: Re: Need some help here
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:53:50 -0500, Matu <hintauo@yeeha.com > wrote:
>complaints to: groups-abuse@google.com
>
>Kareem840 wrote:
>
>> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
>> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
>> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
>> balances. Thank you.
I was just watching "Whose Line Is It Anyway", and I was inspired by
Drew. Hell - I'll pitch in 10,000 myself....
........Excuse me?
Oh, I misunderstood. You want REAL money. I only give out points.
Sorry, Charlie.
P.S. - I "killfiled" the original post, but as so many others
responded I felt obligated to add something as well. :)
- Chip
"Ignorance is bliss, and we're in Nirvana."
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Date: 22 Sep 2006 12:15:48
From: Matthias SCHROEDER
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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Matu <hintauo@yeeha.com > writes:
> complaints to: groups-abuse@google.com
google does not care about abuse. The best thing you can do is
ignore all posts made via google-groups, and all replies to these.
Matthias
>
> Kareem840 wrote:
>
>> Hello. Unfortunately, I am in need of money to pay my credit card
>> bills. If you could spare just $1, I would be grateful. I have a Paypal
>> account. Kramer1260@hotmail.com. I swear this will go to my card
>> balances. Thank you.
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 22:09:45
From: T.J. Swoboda
Subject: Re: Need some help here
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Stubby Boardman wrote:
> I guess it never hurts to try. There are stupid people
> all over this planet.
Google "Many Pennies +for Mike." Worked for him, but as Bob Greene
pointed out in the column all those years ago the potential problem was
that people willing to give would simply never get around to mailing
the penny. Paypal makes it far more convienent.
Not that I'll be giving... I've got a fuckton* of credit card debt
myself (though there are people out there that redefine the fuckton and
make me feel really good about my financial situation), and I owe my
brother money too. <donation nazi >No buck for you!</donation nazi>
--T.J.
*=Don't talk like me around the folks now, all you Harry Potter
munchkins...
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