Ron Schenone

This Is My Last Post – I Am Now A Millionaire!

Posted by on Dec 6, 2006 | 22 Comments

That’s right. I received an email this weekend from an attorney working for a secret bank in a secret country in which it was determined that I personally am entitled to $10,500,000 from a secret uncle that I didn’t even know I had. To access this secret account, and as a sign of good faith, I must secretly deposit a secret amount of money into a secret account right away! And I must not tell anyone about all this secret stuff!

WOW! 10 million plus change!

This is a typical 419 scam. But instead of being from our friends in Nigeria, this one comes via our friends in England. The alleged sender is an employee of Barclay Banking and was privileged to have setup this secret account for my alleged uncle. This thing is so secret that the bank doesn’t even know anything about it. So contacting the bank will do no good. Only the sender has this secret information.

And he only wants half the money. Which seems fair to me.

These scams hit the Net by the thousands every day. And what is surprising is that people still fall for this con. But for those reading my posting, you are now so well educated that you won’t fall for this scammer’s trap. Be careful out there in cyberspace.

[tags]scam, 419, millions, scammers, Nigeria, money [/tags]

  • Tekkr

    WOW! The level of intelligence it takes for someone to actually fall for this type of scam really amazes me

  • http://www.go-dorset.com Steve Evans

    It’s BARCLAYS Bank. Not Barclay.

  • Lynn Stratton

    I actually wrote back to the last one, from Nigeria, of course, using the e-mail hopeyougotojail, ridiculous address like 123 Sesame Street, and telling him he reached a government office (true) and I hoped he and his kind burned in the fires of Hades!!!!

    HE WROTE ME BACK!!!! And said we could have a wonderful relationship!!

    I give up.

    Lynn

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hi Lynn,
    That is funny! Thanks for sharing it.
    Ron

  • kr_toronto

    That’s an amazing coincidence – I won THREE seperate lotteries already today AND had two “lost relatives” / “rich benefactor with the same last name as me”…

    And it’s only 9:00 am!!!

    I realize that these morons send these posts out by the MILLIONS – and that all it takes is one of that million to make it worth their while. But considering the fact that ALL of get these multiple times per day, does ANYONE fall for these scams anymore?!?!?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ANFNJLH3S5REVOANADF7JWJ7VQ Ruslan

    I actually walked away from AT&T frustrated by constant glitches and overall slowliness of my iPhone 3G. So far I’ve been happy with my Droid X, love its large screen, functionality, choice of keyboards and browsers as well as seamless integration with Google services (contacts, calendar, maps/navigation, etc).

    I still use iPhone at home, but now mostly as a remote control.

    • Anonymous

      The iPhone 3G is not a good example of what the iPhone brand represents. It’s an outdated model and very slow by today’s standards.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ANFNJLH3S5REVOANADF7JWJ7VQ Ruslan

        Well, the thing is that any iPhone becomes outdated within just one year. And even iPhone 4 is not 4G, so it’s “slow by today’s standards”. That being said I don’t mean to say I don’t like iPhone or “what the iPhone brand represents” (although I’m not sure what you mean. Innovation maybe?). iPhone and other Apple products are forever changing the ways we communicate and compute. There’s no other company that did more in that space in such a short period of time. What I don’t like is the way loyal customers are treated by Apple. I personally like a more open platform, where I can chose what should be my default browser (Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Maxthon), what should be my default MP3 player, etc. But then again I’m a geek. :)

        P.S. Verizon’s network is way overhiped in my personal experience. I hardly get 1 or 2 bars at home or at work. And no, I don’t live in the forest. I live at the intersection of two major interstate highways, close to the offices of several major IT companies (ex Oracle). AT&T was the only reliable provider in many places I’ve been and I had their service for over 10 years.

  • @FiremanRich

    The Verizon iPhone 4 did not cause me to switch phones. Nether did any of the android phones make me switch phones. I have a LC TracFone, have had it now for 7+ years now, and I like using it. It has txt capability and other then that I don’t need a phone to where I’m constantly tied to it as well as having it up to my ear. You look at any passing car at any intersection and you’ll see people addicted to these so called smart phones. The smart phones, both iPhone & Droid, are both cool & neat, and a symbol of high tech. Give me a break me a break though, do we have to go “googly eyes” on every new smart phone that comes out? It’s a phone, just a phone, and don’t tell me to get with the times either. lol I’m still one who likes the K.I.S.S. mythology and with my TracFone it does the job. Maybe someday I’ll get one of those “other phones,” but I really don’t see a need for one at this time. Maybe I’m last of the mohegans to get with the times but that’s a much simpler choice that I have now then to have the latest greatest choice.

    “Observing & Reporting” you can follow @FiremanRich on Twitter. Be Fire Safe, Be Fire Wise, Learn Not To Burn!

    Ciao For Now!
    Peace : )

  • Anonymous

    ITunes integration is not a good thing. I hate iTunes and have gone to great lengths to avoid ever syncing my (AT&T) iPhone.

    • Moss

      I don’t understand how you can hate a service which provides 1 click purchase of almost any music, tv show, film, podcast etc.

      • Keen Anthony

        I don’t know about Fredox, but I’ve long avoided iTunes. I have a rather large music collection, not all of it digital. Much of my digital collection is in a lossless format that isn’t easily read in iTunes without extra software hacks. I own iPods, but I’ve given them up to go back to MiniDisc. iTunes is fine if you like working through that portal. Now that I’m on iPhone, I’m using it a lot.

  • http://twitter.com/Stinja J-Stin

    Had a blackberry on verizon before the iPhone was released. Couldn’t stand it, and as soon as the iPhone came to Verizon I used another family member’s upgrade and got the iPhone for the reduced price. Great decision.

  • David K.

    The antenna “problem” isn’t a problem, its a design choice and a physics limitation.

  • TJ

    Bah, Android all the way … My Droid2 is far and away the best phone I have ever had (or even used). Can’t wait to slip into an LTE + IPv6 equipped Bionic!

  • http://flickr.com/photos/mswatty Watty

    I’m sorry, but where’s the trick? You couldn’t wait ‘up to’ two days to get a replacement phone?

    I haven’t switched yet. I am still using the BlackBerry Curve 8330. I was up at 3am for the preorder and didn’t order it. I can wait.

  • Cyndi25

    I waited and waited for Verizon to get the iPhone. I was a Verizon customer and I didn’t have a smartphone. I did have and iTouch and an iPad. The iPad is a 3G and I’m using AT&T for that service.

    I didn’t want an Android. I understand pretty much everything about the operating system from Apple. I know all the shortcuts and tricks.

    I don’t have signal problems. I have great apps. Dare I say that I love my iPhone? Not as much as my iPad – a total game changer.

    You made the right choice. Get yourself an iPad. You will fall into another universe.

  • Crusinclassic

    I have been waiting for my iPhone for years and now I have it. But an interesting thing along the way in a way kind of what Kelly experienced. My LG enV touch started behaving strangely. It would reboot while emailing and texting. It would just plain shut off. My daughter started having the same issues with the enV 3 that I bought her. A coworker had the enV touch that he used for his alarm as with Kelly all of a sudden it became unreliable. Not say this is something happen on purpose but ahhhhhhhhhhhh, well you do the math….

  • Hal

    I would love to get the iPhone but Verizon says I have to wait until my current contract is up or pay full price for it. So I think I will wait.

  • Mitch Bartlett

    The Fascinate seems like a really solid phone. I’m wondering if you had a bunch of errant apps running in the background constantly causing your freeze-ups and issues.

  • Keen Anthony

    I was happily using my original Droid until the latest OS update brought me severe lag and instability. I switched to the Droid X but was displeased with its ergonomics and relatively low max volume. I bought the iPhone 4 near release day. I hated the notification and the SMS system, and still do. Android phones, especially Motorola’s Droid, offered a no-nonsense flexible SMS app that was powerful. Android’s notification system is vastly superior to iPhone’s, though you still don’t get a proper missed call/text notification on Android without installing an app like “Missed Call”.

    I had to learn how to do things the iPhone way. I had to learn to interface with the phone’s filesystem through iTunes instead of via USB or a bluetooth connection. Even as a dedicated Mac user, this was jarring. I have gotten into my groove though, and I love my iPhone immensely for the superior quality and availability of apps. I still hate the notification system, and I’d give up my kingdom for more SMS tones (I had to extract my digital phone ringtone from off my droid and pass it through three different apps to get it onto my iPhone just so I could have a proper ringtone).

    The only problem I foresee will be Verizon’s killing of unlimited data.

  • Anonymous

    I am happy with my iphone but I am with AT&T and I don’t have those crazy charges like Verizon does… You can jailbreak your iphone and get a better WiFi with your phone and more apps find out from Chris and he will show you how to do it. It is very easy to do. Then you will love your iphone.