Batteryless Mobile Phone!!!!

[Tim Jowers]

jdurban@vorel.com (Product developer) wrote in message news:<118afaeb.0411090725.127c01fb@posting.google.com>...

Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org> wrote in message news:<4qTjd.5381$op3.202575@news.xtra.co.nz>...
N. Thornton wrote:

sPoNiX@yahoo.com (sPoNiX) wrote in message news:<418f97eb.26733687@news.individual.net>...

On 7 Nov 2004 08:20:54 -0800, ratatak@gmail.com (Matt) wrote:


snipped
I milked it until they stopped calling. Nothing more fun than scamming
a scammer.

Have you come up with any other ideas on how to scam the scammer? I've
always heard you cannot BS a BS'er but you proved that wrong. Since I
recieve so many of these scams maybe worth figuring out how to trap
those liars. Is there such a bank account that they open it but I can
deposit debts into it? I haven't thought of any other ways to scam
them but figure we should so they'll go out of business.

One idea is that they are offering a sum of money and for us to act as
their agent. In that respect, the payments for commitments made by
their agent are their responsibility. The trick for them from what
I've read is the Nigerian government is totally corrupt.

 

[Paul]

Product developer wrote:

Here's the latest twist on the old Nigerian 419 scam. Just received
this minutes ago...

<cut>

feel free to call my attorney on his direct line 0031/616282541.

I wonder why his attorney would use a Dutch mobile phone number....

Paul

 

[Product developer]

"Paul" <paul@bosoft.dhs.org> wrote in message news:<cmu1qi$2g9a$1@beast.euro.net>...

Product developer wrote:
Here's the latest twist on the old Nigerian 419 scam. Just received
this minutes ago...

cut

feel free to call my attorney on his direct line 0031/616282541.

I wonder why his attorney would use a Dutch mobile phone number....

Paul

I have a feeling that his attorney is really himself and everyone I
had talked to in the prior scam in Lagos all used cell phones. Must be
easier to operate "on the run"... from the law that is.

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:26:21 -0800, Product developer wrote:
....

due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has

defiled all form of medicine and right now, I have
^^^^^^^

This must bother the doctors no end.

;^j
Rich

 

[Greysky]

"Product developer" <jdurban@vorel.com> wrote in message
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"Paul" <paul@bosoft.dhs.org> wrote in message
news:<cmu1qi$2g9a$1@beast.euro.net>...
Product developer wrote:
Here's the latest twist on the old Nigerian 419 scam. Just received
this minutes ago...

cut

feel free to call my attorney on his direct line 0031/616282541.

I wonder why his attorney would use a Dutch mobile phone number....

Paul

I have a feeling that his attorney is really himself and everyone I
had talked to in the prior scam in Lagos all used cell phones. Must be
easier to operate "on the run"... from the law that is.

Awww... cut the guy a break. Give him a call and tell him you'll do it. But,
you'll need a bit to cover your expenses, and he can send you a cashiers
check post haste...

 

[Product developer]

Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org> wrote in message news:<4qTjd.5381$op3.202575@news.xtra.co.nz>...

N. Thornton wrote:

sPoNiX@yahoo.com (sPoNiX) wrote in message news:<418f97eb.26733687@news.individual.net>...

On 7 Nov 2004 08:20:54 -0800, ratatak@gmail.com (Matt) wrote:


could this be real?

http://www.zeroenergyphone.com



Seeing as your name is 'Matt' and the domain is registered to: 'Matt
Cartwright' (of Siren Publishing in Wolverhampton) I'd say it's fake
and you're trying to pull a fast one, matey!



The odds of that are 1 over the total number of Matts. It would be
remarkably dumb posting that ad on an electronic engineering forum....
but that hasnt always stopped them.


NT

PT Barnum made a serious error when he said "there's a sucker born every
minute" in that he grossly underestimated the true scale of the issue.
There are thousands of suckers born every minute, although nowadays we
call them "consumers"

It never ceases to amaze me the people who fall for the stupid nigerian
scam (and its variants). In the last couple of years in NZ, half a dozen
or so groups have fallen "victim" to this fraud. Surprisingly (or
perhaps unsurprisingly) the poeple losing millions of dollars (ha!
dickheads) have been lawyers, bankers and economists - including the
(former) chief economist of the ASB bank, who lost several million
dollars of his and his friends money. ROTFLMAO

Cheers
Terry

PS wanna buy a bridge?

Yes, the old Nigerian 419 fee in advance scam. Started in the early
90's. Now it has "evolved" into a different format. It is no longer
some top official with the Nigerian Oil Ministry looking to hide 33
million dollars in a foreign bank. Now it comes in the form of an RFQ
asking for pricing of all your products. The new lure is placing a
huge order and then somewhere in the transaction they will need an
advanced payment usually $10,000.00.

I played along with one of these ten years ago just to see how far I
could string out the guy on the other end of the deal. It was quite an
interesting experience. Once the guy asked for the advanced payment of
$10,000.00 I told him that all I had was $5,000.00. He went ballistic
and said no deal. Then two weeks later I get another call from some
other guy in Lagos saying he could do it for $5,000.00. I then came
back with "Gee all I have now is $2,000.00" He went away pissed off.
Another two or three weeks went by and yet another guy from Lagos
calls and says he could do it for $2,000.00. They had a network of
people that they likely sold their deals to for less and less as the
deal aged kind of like selling debts here in the U.S.

I milked it until they stopped calling. Nothing more fun than scamming
a scammer.

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:24:28 +0000, Kryten wrote:

N. Thornton wrote:

It never ceases to amaze me the people who fall for the stupid Nigerian
scam (and its variants). In the last couple of years in NZ, half a dozen
or so groups have fallen "victim" to this fraud. Surprisingly (or
perhaps unsurprisingly) the people losing millions of dollars (ha!
dickheads) have been lawyers, bankers and economists - including the
(former) chief economist of the ASB bank, who lost several million
dollars of his and his friends money. ROTFLMAO

Well, I understand that avariciously stupid people deserve a good lesson,
but if they go to jail we have to pay to keep them there.
If they commit suicide they leave behind upset families.

Most of all I hate the fact that a bunch of thieving vermin are making
millions while I'm trying to earn an honest crust.

They're probably laughing loudest at you and I.

I think the west should deduct the amount scammed from the amount we give
them in aid.

Only then are their governments going to make a crackdown,
when it comes out of their pockets.
Cheers!

Rich

 

[Terry Given]

Rich The Philosophizer wrote:

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 07:25:25 -0800, Product developer wrote:

I milked it until they stopped calling. Nothing more fun than scamming
a scammer.


You dirty rotten scoundrel!

;^j
Cheers!
Rich

I did a similar thing with some junk mail I kept getting from a finance
company. I rang them twice (1-800 number (0800 actually but I translated
)and asked to be taken off their mailing list, but it never happened.
So one day when I was watching a particularly tedious simulation and
another one arrived, I rang them and wasted a good 20 minutes of their
time. They duly couriered me ($4) the $20,000 loan agreeement docs to
sign (about 20 pages worth), along with a pre-paid courier bag ($4) with
which to send them back. After a few days, I rang and asked when the
docs were gonna arrive. They sent me another set, with another courier
bag - whereupon I rang them back and got them to change some of the
agreement. Another agreement + bag, another "where is it" call, and yet
another agreement + bag turned up. One last call, when I tried to talk
down the interest rate, and the guy wasnt having any of it. He got
snotty and asked why I was wasting his time, whereupon I told him about
the junk mail that wouldnt go away, thanked him for the $16 worth of
prepaid courier bags, and hoped that the 80 pages of documentation and
$32 worth of courier bags had provided a suitable object lesson. He hung
up, and I have never received another piece of junk mail from them
again. I have also used the courier bags

Cheers
Terry

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:05:46 -0800, Product developer wrote:
....

Well the Nigerian 419 scam has taken on an Iraqi twist.

Received today...

HELLO,

MY NAME IS MOHAMMED BIN ABDULLAH FROM IRAQ. I WORKED WITH THE DEFUNCT
....
MOHAMMED BIN ABDULLAH

Isn't this kinda the Arab equivalent of "John Smith?"

Thanks,
Rich

 

[N. Thornton]

jdurban@vorel.com (Product developer) wrote in message news:<118afaeb.0411252105.649da0c0@posting.google.com>...

Well the Nigerian 419 scam has taken on an Iraqi twist.

I would have thought names mentioned in that letter would scare almost
everyone off, not to mention the crimes they'd think they could be
charged with if they believed it to be true. I guess its a way of
filtering out the sensible folk and targeting only the really stupid
and desperate.

NT

 

[Fred Bloggs]

N. Thornton wrote:

jdurban@vorel.com (Product developer) wrote in message news:<118afaeb.0411252105.649da0c0@posting.google.com>...


Well the Nigerian 419 scam has taken on an Iraqi twist.


I would have thought names mentioned in that letter would scare almost
everyone off, not to mention the crimes they'd think they could be
charged with if they believed it to be true. I guess its a way of
filtering out the sensible folk and targeting only the really stupid
and desperate.

NT

heheh... you called it.