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Whacked Stupidity

Just like the telephone scammers and Nigeria bank cheaters, sometimes I wonder if people still fall for these tricks?

Best of all, do these tricksters still stick to the same tactics, even though they have been shamed publicly in the light of media and news report?

Apparently they do.

Every week, there seem to be at least one person who fell victim to the so-called "你中奖了！" tricks. And these are your literate (meaning they can read newspapers and watch news on TV), educated young people.

Imagine.

WILL YOU, FOR THE LIFE OF YOUR MOTHER, PART WITH $60,000 TO A BLOODY STRANGER JUST SO YOU CAN WIN SOME NON-EXISTING MOOLAH FROM A NON-EXISTING COMPANY IN HONG KONG?

I won't.

See, lucky draws will not require one to pay in order to get the prize. If not, it will be not called a prize, but a transaction.

Coming down to the bottom line, anything that requires us to pay a price first before us seeing any results is NOT a prize.

Unless the price is the taxi fare from my house to the collection center.

That's worth it.

Anyway, just when you think that these people have woken up and thought of better ways to cheat us of our money, DEAD WRONG.

Not only have they not thought of new avenues (talk about creativity), they are so careless!

For example, I received in my email today a winning notification from British National Lottery.

Note: it's BRITISH National Lottery

There are many problems I see with this email.

So many errors that just make them seem less legitimate. Here are their flaws:

1. It's a freaking BRITISH lottery. Why send it out using a .nz email account?!

2. For goodness sake, change the reference and batch number each time you send a mail!

3. Grammar, Grammar, Grammar.

4. Don't you have a more legitimate-looking email account than a yahoo.co.uk?


Anyway, I'm so sick and tired of these scams that I actually read them just to have a laugh.


Just wondering, how many scams have we encountered so far?

1. The magic-whatever (old news already, where they target old women and tell them that buying that magic stone/water/paper will cure them of their rheumatism or whatever ailments.)

2. Nigeria Bank (Need to transfer money out of the country so that they can keep the cash... don't they have friends?)

3. 你中奖了！You've won! (Some Chinese national calling you and asking you random questions, then call you a few days later and say you've won some lucky draw, proceeds to ask you to transfer quite-a-lot-of-money to their bank in order to get the cash... yeah.)


What others have you encountered?

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