[LINK] 419 advice

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:03:24PM +1000, Danny Yee wrote:
> > there is no legitimate reason why anyone would give you a check or
> > money order and ask you to wire money anywhere in return
>
> Indeed.  Either it's a total scam, in which case you end up losing
> money, or it's illegal, and you risk ending up in prison for
> money-laundering.

the latter is often what the scammers want their victim to think.

real criminals with real money to launder DO NOT EVER need to approach
some random stranger on the net to help them launder their money.

nobody needs to appeal to random strangers on the net to move money
around. ever. not "princes" or "CEOs" or "refugees" or dying people with
grasping relatives or any of the other bullshit stories.

real people who actually have money also have access to all sorts of
services and networks (both legal and illegal) to shift money around,
without needing to appeal to random strangers.

the scammers appeal to people's greed and stupidity.

craig

-- 
craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in
a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave
national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to
gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it  by furnishing the
exorbitant sums demanded.  Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem
never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
		-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957