You Can’t Fool Me!
Posted by Mike | Filed under Make Money OnlineHi folks, what’s up? Everything’s great? That’s awesome! As for me, I’ve been very busy especially because vacation’s almost over and school time is just around the corner! Classes will resume on January 7, 2008, so I’m preparing my school stuff.
I’d like to share yet another e-mail with you. It seemed to me that it was written by a very professional scammer. 
Take a look at it.
<to the expert scammer>
I know you will be able to read this. I know that you’re a subscriber; your e-mail is currently in my FeedBurner e-mail subscriber list. 
You thought I was that gullible, huh? Come on, dude, at least make your letters sound more realistic. What kind of successful online marketer will ask for someone’s PayPal account information? If you were really rich and generous, you could have just asked for my e-mail and send the cash over.
Expert scammer: If I were you, I’d accept this opportunity to gain lots of money and be a rich online marketer quickly!
If I were you, I’d stop wasting my time composing amateur scam e-mails. Instead, I would try to come up with ideas that can help me make money online. You could have made $500 by selling affiliate products, but instead, you created an e-mail and hoped that you can steal my riches money! What a big loser.
Well, your e-mail just got deleted. There it goes to my “Deleted” box nowhere (it’s permanently gone). Say bye-bye to your hard work!
</to the expert scammer>
Okay. Now that I’m done telling him what I had to tell him, let’s talk about the e-mail. It was so obvious that it’s a scam mail. Right after I read the sentence “If you would like, I can help you make $500 per month for free.”, I said to myself “Uh-oh, not another time waster!”.
I mean, if he was really that rich to give $500 a month to a random person, he could just send the money to a random e-mail address. He would not have asked for my PayPal e-mail and password.
I’d like to know your thoughts about scam e-mails. Do you delete them? Do you reply to them? What can you suggest to the scammer? Should he get a life or what?
By the way, I didn’t reply to him, in case you’re wondering. 
You call that an expert scammer?Or you were just ironical (irony suggested by the italic font of the word expert)?
I didn’t receive scam mails because I haven’t been making English sites (until now) so I could be their target as you are.
I hope I can develop my English blog in peace without having to endure those scam mails.
Yeah, I was being ironic right there.
I had the exact same email, what are the chances of that! Oh wait…
I guess these things must work on some people or they wouldn’t keep doing it. I tend to just delete them.
Wow, that scam is so blatantly obvious - I don’t see how anyone could fall for that one. I don’t know what some people are thinking these days, trying to get quick cash from others… They need to just learn how to make their own money online.
Seriously; that was a pathetic, lame attempt at scamming. I get tons of scam mails everyday, but sometimes people put in a lot of effort to come up with really convincing scam mails that I even appreciate their talent by sending them a polite reply.
Aah; the problems we face being professional bloggers. 
Yet another scam busted.
When do people realize that scamming will cost more than it earns?
Yeah…
Like the time I received a email claiming I won a a gazillion dollars. Thing was I signed up for a legit lotto service from the United Kingdom. If it wasn’t for my skepticism I would of probably dealt with identity theft
. When I asked “did I win UK Lotto they said no and told me the whole story of what was going on.
Those dirty little scoundrels
Why the hell they even bother. By the time they had composed that e-mail I would be making real money instead.
I feel such scam emails and such scammers should not be entertained. And guys, one thing is for sure, nothing comes FREE in this world.
Wow. As a blogger in the same niche as yourself I am glad that I have not yet received any e-mails like that. That was purely idiotic. It made me cry a little inside (from laughter).
I know how it is with school, im back and it’s definitely much harder to write daily posts that are at least somewhat inspirational.
Good luck dude, and keep earning!
Scammers suck! Just had to add that but I really came by to congratulate you on winning the scavenger hunt at Blogstruk. So - congrats!
TB: It sure is idiotic. Thanks for the comment!
Teenie: Wow, thanks for that. Now let me go to Amazon and buy something for myself…
That wasn’t even a quasi-convincing scam.
My favorites are the ones I occasionally get at work. Now we have a fairly large SEO team and we rank highly for some competitive phrases. But I get e-mails at least once a day saying we aren’t ranking high enough and that, sure enough, this person can help us.
I never received that kind of email, but oftenly I receive sone kind like that as short messages in my cellular phone. For me, they just lazy people that try to find “opportunity” from other’s unaware! At the beginning, I heard some people was able to be deceived. But, now most people has better awareness about this.
Yikes! The guy asked for your PayPal password, almost casually, in that email! The PayPal email needn’t be a secret but the password?!?! This guy is a bit smooth, especially to people who are gullible enough to think some stranger will deposit cash in their PayPal account every month for doing nothing.