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This Pickles cartoon reminds me of a letter Andy received a few months ago. It was from a fellow in China saying he was taking care of the financial affairs of someone with Andy’s last name. He couldn’t locate any relatives of the deceased, but he could legally transfer the substantial inheritance to Andy. We didn’t bother to read the details but dropped the letter in File 13.
“File 13” is a euphemism for the trash can. The phrase is especially used in the U.S. military, and is less common outside of the United States. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the expression “round file” or “circular file” is more common (in reference to trash cans typically being round).
—Wikipedia
Interestingly enough, Ursula’s father uses the term — in German, of course. Ablage 13.
Have you ever received any interesting scams?
September 23, 2015
Judging by my inbox (emails) the world of riches is mine. That’s what the delete button is for.
However, five years ago someone did string me along rather neatly. At the time I was looking for a flat and came across an advert on line. And there it was. A dream come true – judging by the photos. A beauty. Top location. Large. Italian marble floors and a kitchen so great you want to weep with gratitude. On top of which the monthly rent was affordable (ie in my range). The latter should have been a bright red flag instead of which I chose my rose tinted lenses.
I did NOT think it too good to be true. I thought Lady Luck had kissed me. Unfortunately not on my forehead. So I responded to the email address, declared my undying love for the place, cash in hand.And thus a rather interesting exchange of emails ensued. The “landlord” being in Italy needed to make sure that I wasn’t some fly-by-night no good to him. So, before I could see the place and in order to make him fly over to England for us to sign the deal could I please send £750 (via, as I later found out, an untraceable though legal way).
Thus my ardour for the non-existing flat was extinguished. I may be naive (I am in many ways) but I am not stupid. However, I will admit it was a close shave. I so nearly fell for it.
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I can see how you got suckered in — to the point when the red flags popped up.
Both Ranjan and I have had our share of scammers trying to rip us off and it is an ongoing source of much amusement to both of us.
Some of them are funny. We laugh too.
i adore pickels! LOLOL!
and yes.
at work of all places… we used to get those nigerian emails.
EVEN with all the IT protection our in house program provided!
we still got them.
i haven’t seen one in ages.
they just did a segment on our local news last night about ‘seniors who fall for scams’ … apparently “easy targets.”
i found it a little irritating and insulting.
LOLOL!
i’m a pollyanna yes. but a trusting one? for things that are too good to be true? meh.
xo
Some of us get more suspicious as we get older. Not Opal, though. Did you see today’s?
and then there are those emails that will “enhance” my bodily tools or similar… or a “beautiful” someone is waiting to meeting me…sometimes I just laugh but often I think the spammers and people who want to reroute my money to them – must often laugh all the way to the bank.
every so often the matters come up in our newspapers and you find people have been fleeced big time – usually by someone telling them they are going to be rich as…or similar.
so sad
It is sad when people get fleeced.