Tuesday, February 27, 2007

why should scammers have all the fun?


I was listening to the radio thismorning and they were interviewing the Author Eve Edelson, who wrote Scamorama. And i was totally into it! We all get those emails requesting our help to save the family fortune, or help send a kid to school. But this lady started writing back to the people. and keeping track of all the emails and then published this book. It sounds great! the website is hilarious! www.scamorama.com

Most of you know my little issue last year, when i was almost scammed in a similar way. someone wanted to rent the room in my apartment, and said that they 'accidentally sent too much money' and could i cash teh travellers cheques and send the extra money back to africa... ummmm NO! luckily i caught on and called the cops and didnt' lose all that money...

so yeah, check out the website, have a good laugh, and maybe send back an email sometime to the next spam email you get.

I thought this example was a funny example... http://www.scamorama.com/munoogian_fadil.html the guy emailed back and forth and told the man in Dubai that they were best friend forever... and then stripped him of the title. i laughed!!!

I think that I will start writing back to these people... i can't wait!!!