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Thursday, December 27, 2007
1:25:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
The scammers who are pulling this stuff:
According to 1st Lt. David Cowan, in early December his 84-year-old grandmother received a phone call from a man calling himself J.D. Taylor. The man claimed that Cowan was on his way home on leave from Iraq for the holidays, but had gotten hung up and lost his wallet and military identification card.
Cowan’s grandmother, he said, was “asked by this person to wire $800, allegedly on my behalf so that I could get back home and surprise my family for Christmas.”
The claim was a scam. Luckily for Cowan and his family, his grandmother knew to be suspicious of strangers asking for money, even if they’d somehow managed to reach the relatives of a soldier whose name they knew.
The "good" news here is that scams are now so well-known that even the scammer's natural prey -- the elderly -- are not impressed. Of course, the bad news is that scams are so comment that even the scammer's natural prey, and etc.
Never the less, here's one more fellow for the devil to tine in the eye in the afterlife. Have fun with him, devil!
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1:25:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
People Who Are Going to Hell
The scammers who are pulling this stuff:
According to 1st Lt. David Cowan, in early December his 84-year-old grandmother received a phone call from a man calling himself J.D. Taylor. The man claimed that Cowan was on his way home on leave from Iraq for the holidays, but had gotten hung up and lost his wallet and military identification card.
Cowan’s grandmother, he said, was “asked by this person to wire $800, allegedly on my behalf so that I could get back home and surprise my family for Christmas.”
The claim was a scam. Luckily for Cowan and his family, his grandmother knew to be suspicious of strangers asking for money, even if they’d somehow managed to reach the relatives of a soldier whose name they knew.
The "good" news here is that scams are now so well-known that even the scammer's natural prey -- the elderly -- are not impressed. Of course, the bad news is that scams are so comment that even the scammer's natural prey, and etc.
Never the less, here's one more fellow for the devil to tine in the eye in the afterlife. Have fun with him, devil!
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12/28/07 12:15 AM