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Seriously, how much for "30 pieces of a plain white banner sizes 30 by 60 vinyl...I want u to write HAPPY ANNIVERSARY on the banner in colour black."
I want to give a scammer a realistic price...
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-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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My Honest Opinion.....don't respond in any fashion. Reason being, these "scammers" have their own network of like-minded trolls, and a response from you will only encourage further inquiries/intrusions. They may possibly even add your e-mail address to a mailing list they "share" with fellow scammers.
I usually add these types of inquiries to my "blocked senders" list, without any sort of reply.
-------------------- Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com
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I may eventually block them. Meanwhile, I'd like to take their stolen credit card #s and forward them to authorities. Why not?
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Go high, The more money you want the more money they think you have. Got a high end shop with a big bank acount.
I got really torqued at one scam asking for banners that said something about feeding starving children in Bosnia. I sent them a mock up of a banner that said "What kind of scum of the earth would use starving kids to try and steal money" It made me feel a bit better, but I got bombarded with scabby emails for a few days after that, a whole lot of which had insulting subject lines. I have to wonder if it was their revenge.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Dana, thanks for the straight up pricing; it's just not my usual kind of work. Mine is more custom.
Kelly, I feel something like you do because they are trying to steal from the innocent and the gullible. I have no respect for them. My wife (before you suggested highballing them) helped me come up with this: "I was asking what lettering style you'd like, but I can pick that detail myself. The banners will bee costed $354 each. I accept all major credit cards."
Now we'll see what happens.
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I agree with Mike. I turned in a scammer to the FBI and nothing was ever done; they never even contacted me. I strung him along for a week and got 4 credit card numbers out of him which I turned in to the fraud divisions to close the accounts.
-------------------- Ricky Jackson Signs Now 614 Russell Parkway Warner Robins, GA (478) 923-7722 signpimp50@hotmail.com
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That's the idea, Ricky, but my guess is that if we can collect a LOT of these stolen numbers and turn them in to the credit card companies, can we get a reward?
Stringing them along along is a hobby for some. I don't have a lot of time for hobbies and if I did, it would be drawing, painting, & junk sculpture. Scammers are fascinating, nonetheless. They are at the point, today, of insisting I use THEIR shipper (and pay their shipper directly). To be plausible, I found a perfectly legitimate shipper online "XYZ", but the scammers response is "Please i dont know much about XYZ and this banners is for a donation that is why i want u to contact the freight company i give u earlier coz they have ever pick my t shirts out to my church." That will be hard to argue with, since the scam relies on me sending my $ to their bogus shipper whose contact info they've given me. Next step seems to be to contact the bogus shipper to find out how much they want.
If, eventually, I can harvest some cc #s, I'll start thinking about how to streamline the harvesting process. Using lots of different mailboxes and computer routines, I wonder if it's possible to make a cottage industry of this. It would all be dependent on rewards. Meanwhile, it's interesting and my braken English is improoved ever much lot.
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