So I hot this letter from a friends email address today:
Hi,
I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came down here to London, United Kingdom for a short vacation. unfortunately,we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash and credit card were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.
We've been to the Embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves in few hours from now but we're having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills. Well I really need your financial assistance..Please, let me know if you can help us out?
Am freaked out at the moment!!
[my friends name]
I imagined myself in such a situation and emailed that I could send $100. Then the scammer emailed me the following:
Glad you replied back to my email..I have nothing left on me and I'm grateful to God that i still have my life and my passport cos it would have been worst if they made away with my passport. well all I need is just $550 and you can have it wired to me via Western Union. Here's my info belowName: [my friends name]Location: 8 Heneage StreetLondon, E1 5LJ, UKAs soon as it is done, kindly get back to me with the confirmation number. Let me know if you are heading to the WU outlet now???
I replied I could only send 100. Then my head started working and I for one smart minute thought this might be a scam. After all, I had had my mills berry account hacked into before, and many people had had their emails hacked into maybe it was the case right now? So I emailed:
Hey I just want to make sure ur
email wasn't hacked. How do you
know me?.
The reply to this message:
OMG!! are you kidding me ? If I wasn't the one i won't ask you to wire money on my name via WU we both know that I will need some kinda identification to receive the money here and thank God I
still have my passport saved with me as an ID...my return flight leaves in few hours from now and I don't want to miss it.it would cost me more money
It didn't really answer my question but stupid ole me did as was told and wired the money. Going out of my way to ask my sisters for rides and walking around in the hot sunlight even though my Mom had told me to stay indoors( overprotective). So after I sent it I visited a friends and told her about it. She asked me if the friend had called me. I said no and made up excuses for my "friend." Then she read the emails and told me that my "friend" never did answer my question and that I should have persisted because I was the one taking the risk. In my head I had made excuses for my "friend", such as: they prolly are to nervous and anxious to explain to me how we met or how we know one another, they must be mad that I'd think that they have a weak password so much so that they'd get hacked. But my friend had some alarms ringing in my head, so I called people who I suspected might have gotten the email too: "is [ so so] stuck abroad in the UK?" They replied amusedly: "it's a scam."
So I spent the next two hours trying to get off hold and get a hold of the department of Western Union costumer service that could cancel the transfer.
Eventually, I did. I also wanted to set a trap for the artists at the Western union office closest to the address they gave me but western union said they don't do that. I would have to get the cops, which I was to lazy to do after the long wait to retrieve my money.
TYB
Hi,
I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and I came down here to London, United Kingdom for a short vacation. unfortunately,we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash and credit card were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.
We've been to the Embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves in few hours from now but we're having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we settle the bills. Well I really need your financial assistance..Please, let me know if you can help us out?
Am freaked out at the moment!!
[my friends name]
I imagined myself in such a situation and emailed that I could send $100. Then the scammer emailed me the following:
Glad you replied back to my email..I have nothing left on me and I'm grateful to God that i still have my life and my passport cos it would have been worst if they made away with my passport. well all I need is just $550 and you can have it wired to me via Western Union. Here's my info belowName: [my friends name]Location: 8 Heneage StreetLondon, E1 5LJ, UKAs soon as it is done, kindly get back to me with the confirmation number. Let me know if you are heading to the WU outlet now???
I replied I could only send 100. Then my head started working and I for one smart minute thought this might be a scam. After all, I had had my mills berry account hacked into before, and many people had had their emails hacked into maybe it was the case right now? So I emailed:
Hey I just want to make sure ur
email wasn't hacked. How do you
know me?.
The reply to this message:
OMG!! are you kidding me ? If I wasn't the one i won't ask you to wire money on my name via WU we both know that I will need some kinda identification to receive the money here and thank God I
still have my passport saved with me as an ID...my return flight leaves in few hours from now and I don't want to miss it.it would cost me more money
It didn't really answer my question but stupid ole me did as was told and wired the money. Going out of my way to ask my sisters for rides and walking around in the hot sunlight even though my Mom had told me to stay indoors( overprotective). So after I sent it I visited a friends and told her about it. She asked me if the friend had called me. I said no and made up excuses for my "friend." Then she read the emails and told me that my "friend" never did answer my question and that I should have persisted because I was the one taking the risk. In my head I had made excuses for my "friend", such as: they prolly are to nervous and anxious to explain to me how we met or how we know one another, they must be mad that I'd think that they have a weak password so much so that they'd get hacked. But my friend had some alarms ringing in my head, so I called people who I suspected might have gotten the email too: "is [ so so] stuck abroad in the UK?" They replied amusedly: "it's a scam."
So I spent the next two hours trying to get off hold and get a hold of the department of Western Union costumer service that could cancel the transfer.
Eventually, I did. I also wanted to set a trap for the artists at the Western union office closest to the address they gave me but western union said they don't do that. I would have to get the cops, which I was to lazy to do after the long wait to retrieve my money.
TYB