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Lady of Mystery wrote:I got offered a modelling contract a couple of months ago, all I had to do to make myself a household name was pay the 'small initial administration fee of £100'.

So as you can guess, you wont be seeing me on those Rimmel adverts just yet.

Blimey... was it for this project Lommy...?

http://stonecarver.com/create.html

(good job England lost last night, there should be plenty of spare shin pads kicking round for when she sees that...)

no it was for another web site based project, but I better not post the links to that one

Lady of Mystery wrote:no it was for another web site based project, but I better not post the links to that one

I'll show you my links, if you show me yours !

best not, I've only just had my lunch

We have been on holiday with this couple a few times now and each time, the first morning they get handed a scratch card and evreytime they win, gosh it's amazing the luck some people have
Anyway we don't see them all day and eventuialy they come back in the evening saying that they won a bottle of wine. I say ask them what did you have to do? Oh just sit through a hard sell (holiday club, timeshare,etc etc) but they gave us some nice sandwiches at lunchtime.
So did you think it worth wasting 1 whole day of your holiday I ask?
Well we did get this bottle of wine so wee not conned were we.
So 1 day of your holiday is worth about £3.99 and thats in english prices is it?
Oh I see what you mean they say
The same converstion every holiday

My dad went to a "buy into a holiday club points system conference" with some freinds once
He took a pencil and a pad, all the salesmen flocked over as he looked so keen, trying to talk up how popular and successfull the sceam was
He asked the salesman how many people came to an event like this (200 perhaps 300)
He asked how many signed up (over 50%)
And how many do you have a weekend (oh 50 or so all round the country every weekend)
All well attended (oh better than this usually)
And you are an international company (oh yes we operate in eight countries all are even more keen, the english are a little bit reserved)
so you sign up on the consrvative side ove 2000000 people a year (do we)
yes you do.
How many hotels do you have? I don't belive there will be enogh rooms for us all (cough well...um...er..are you sure your figures are right sir.....)
Yes, are you sure your fugures are right? (are you saying I am lying sir)
Yes I have just proved it mathematically want to take me to court
My seventy year old dad is now escorted from the building

Now here is the kicker. He went with freinds and proved they were up to no good, or at least lying through their teeth. But the people he went with, sat opposite signed up for the delux package. Their first holiday space was in a hotel they did not want in a destination they did not like over 18 months later (no choice of days)and the same holiday would have been the same price with a local opperator without having to shell out in advance thousands of pounds for the points system.
You just can't tell some people

As a point of interest, this particular scam was going on as early as the 19th century, but was done by mail - sent by ship to the USA (and more than likely other countries, too). I read about it in a book that was all about scams.

Rather strange that people not only fall for this scam, but have been falling for it for over 150 years.

Mike.

anything which requires you to send in a fee to claim your prize just isn't worth it

It's a bit like those scratch cards you get in magazines, you always seem to win and have to phone a number to claim your prize. I've never phoned as I know there's a con there somewhere, not sure quite where though. Probabaly a premium rate number that keeps you on the line for an age.

At the end of the day, NOBODY is going to give you something for free...

i aplied for a loan for 9,000 to pay off another creditor, huge interest payments.
and was surprise when i got a nice letter saying that a loan from a big company had already been pre-aproved, all i needed to do was send in my £50 registration fee and it would be in my bank the next day.

a quick internet search revealed that for my £50 i would indead get the pre-aproved loan but not from the big company with the low interest but fom the very same company i was trying to pay off, currently me and the channel tunnel have the same zero credit history but they can write off 10k a day, weres the fairness in that.

sub-prime lending, the biggest bunch of leagl liers in the country today.

I used to regularly get the letter telling me that I had won one of the following: A World Crusie, A New BMW, £10000 cash, one of 50 Nikon cameras or a ball point pen.

I don't actually know exactly what the scam was with these. I was obvioulsy only ever going to win the ballpoint pen if I had replied but they didn't ask for money or anything

I always knew it was a scam, I just wished I knew what they were trying to scam out of me

mr wizz when you reply first you get more spam as they have a active adress then you get a polite letter saying you have won through to the second round and if your sucessfull you are in line for one of the top prizes starting at 5k and going up to 50k, usualy written as 5 (k), so if challenged you get 5 karona piece.
the catch you need to add your bank details and personal details on there files for instant payment and publicity purposes, ie more spam.
after that you will more than likely get a letter or e-mail from your bank stating your account number and asking you to verify your passcodes as the bank has made a computer error and deposited 50k into your account and wish to rectifie this otherwise they will have to close your account.
as a good will gesture they will offer you £50.

my mum dances around the room singing iv'e one, iv'e won, I'm in the money, before dutifully recycling it were it belongs.

Johnny, you'll get a nice pen and end up on their mailing list, which they'll sell to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Before you know it, you'll be getting lovely glossy catalogues and other wonderful offers through the door every day.

usualy it costs £1.50 to register by phone to win the 17 pence pen.
I note that nobody has gone to prison for the corporate fraud that was the tv phone ins.

i feel special!! ive got 3!!! all from different people!!! lmao
which one should i go for?
heres my favourite...
FROM,THE DESK OF MR ALI HABIB
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK,
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
TEL.00226 78 03 82 03.

Dear Friend,
I am the manager bill and exchange of the foreign remittance department of African Development Bank, ouagadougou burkina faso, My dear I am trusting this deal to you buy faith and hope that you will handle it without know problem.
In my department file, I discovered an abandoned sum of US $33.6m (Thirty three million, six hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died along with his wife and the only daughter in November 2, 2002 in a plane crash.
Since I got information about his death, I have been watching out for his next of kin to come over and claim this money because, the bank cannot release it
to any person unless somebody apply for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as it is indicated in our banking guidelines and laws, unfortunately,
I discovered that the only next of kin died alongside with him a plane crash being his only daughter left nobody or relation for claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I have decided to make this business proposal to you as a foreigner and for you to stand as the next of kin or a relation to deceased person for and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for the claim and
I don’t want this money to go into the banks treasury as unclaimed bill , the banking law and guideline ARTICLE A section ABD/O11 of 1991,stipulates that if such is found in our bank after five (5) years remain unclaimed the money will be
transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer is a foreigner, a Burkinabe and a Burkinabe cannot
stand as a next of kin to a foreigner.
I arrange that 40% of this money will be for you’re as foreigner partner in respect to the
provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business, handled by you, and 50% will be for me. Thereafter, I will visit
your country for disbursement according to the percentage as indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this money to your private account, you have to apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application, I will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and do not entertain any fear as all required arrangement has been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immediately you receive my letter through
my telephone or e-mail.
Trusting to hear from you.
Yours faithfully
URGENT .
MR ALI HABIB.

i had 2 others from 'princess nawiba' but i wont bother showing you them as they said exactly that... ive already signed up to one!