[RC] Scammer.. A new twist to the same old thing - Lucie HessI've received a death threat recently. (No Joke) The writer had very poor English and grammar.. The story was that he had been paid 10, thous. to eliminate me, or terminate me.. can't really remember. It was sent to unlisted multiple recipients, so I know it was a mass mailing.. However, this email.. pissed me off.. can you say that on ride camp. So I started messing with the writer.. who turned out to be a guy.. I was pretty rude and I didn't expect him to respond back, but by golly he did! Anyway.. he continued his threats and then sent me my address and phone number, both home and work.. To prove he was "for real". He then one morning called my cell phone 9 times and my previous place of employment and asked for me. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how he got my personal info. So I googled myself, and notified the proper authorities. I found out that he got my info off of the "Travel Net" on Endurance net. I know because he made the same typo I did in putting in my info. I know this guy is just scamming me, but it aggravates me to no end to think of some other poor person he is frightening.. I ain't scared!!! This scam is from Nigeria and has a drop box in the UK.. You can look up similar scams by googling the name of the person I was supposed to send the money to.. A well know name in the scamming business. Bottom line is.. be careful in putting your personal info out there, no matter how innocent it seems to be.. This guy is still emailing me.. He's an idiot.. he thought I was a male until he heard my voice mail.. He kept calling me "Mr. Lucie" But I've learned my lesson to not screw with these folks.... they don't take a joke very well, nor do they like being screwed with!!! Columbia, Missouri NATRC Region 6 AERC # 65 AERC Central Region OCER member ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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