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I have not been on in a while but I have a friend that is in a desparate situation and this is the best place I know of for information.
My friend is stuck in the Philippines in Manilla. My friend needs to cash a check but there does not seem to be any banks open any more that will cash a check from the USA. Any help would be appreciated. You know just reading this my BS meter is going off. Oh well maybe it's for real. Maybe it's not. I guess I should do some more research. Just seems strange not to be able to find a bank to cash a check. Maybe this is part of a new scam I have not read about. Always good scams this time of year. |
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That's funny, my friend Dr Mbongo had exactly the same thing happen to him in Zanzibar.
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Send your friend this list, it should help him out enormously:
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Dead Meat is so old, he owns 83% of the world's wealth etc.
P.S didn't your friend have the sense to go to the consulate/embassy and ask them to help him out? I hope the ****er rots tbh. Also, never patronise any institution that feels the need to title itself 'The Equitable Banking Corporation'. |
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p.s. you use only one yeys you need a patch make that yeys be bak .
than give me a shoot at cs . your spin must be terrible to , awfull . can you still sit and make a 4 whit your leg . |
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I agree with whatever Bbud2 said. I guess Bbud2 mistook this thread for one on counterstrike and subsequently assumed that travler's having problems with his fibular veins which prevent him from mimicking counterstrike moves from his chair.
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It's common internet parlance but refined to depreciate grammar and meaning bringing us all closer to god. His posts seem awful in the thread's context but should you free yourself from the fetters of meaning you will find divinity and freedom from thought within his fey cerebration. Besides, he's probably the most amusing poster of late; I've given up looking for interesting ideas.
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Well I think this is funny. After making this post I had a little conversation with what I thought was a friend. I may have to do this in 2 parts but here is the conversation:
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Her(?) constant assurance that this is legal makes me suspicious, ironically enough, especially when taking in mind that she's apparently in such a hurry ("Don't think too long, do it now, go go go").
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its a scam, i really am surprised you needed to ask
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She should ask someone she knows IRL to do it.
I wouldnt go there travler, its a snakepit. |
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Get their IP address and report them to the police. If it's fake all good and well. If it's real they will rot in a Phillipenes jail.
It'll be a laugh if nothing else. |
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More on-topic, if it's a scam, wouldn't God punish her for taking abuse of your trust in humanity? I'd do it if I were you just to see the full wrath of God come down on her. Also nice how you wish her a blessed day, why don't you ever wish us a blessed day? :( Maybe you could say you'd "do it" if she uploads vids and pics of her naked and stuff, you know, crusie-style. Seriously though, everything about the way she asks and talks is a scam. But does anybody know how the scam actually works? |
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Did you also cyber with her?
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You could let her earn a dollar or two.
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...7/ai_n15809861
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories...4760.001.shtml It looks like the idea is to turn you into a cheque depositing mule, one step removed from the scammer. They might even change their story halfway through the process, and get you to cash the cheques in your account and 'advance' the money through to accounts controlled by them. The cheques will clear, you will wire through the money, then the bank will call a week or so later saying the checks were fraudulent and the money is then removed from your account. Net result: you end up giving them twenty grand of your own money. Anyway there are loads of ways to run an internet cheque scam. I'd say they are only slightly less prevalent than online credit card scams. You seem to be almost the perfect mark for these people. In future, don't even bother having a conversation with them. |
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When I had that conversation my scam meter started going off so I checked the FBI website for known scams. Then I thought "I have the greatest research tool every for online stuff" and brought my concern to GD. I knew you guys and gals would be able to ferret out this scam works. Now I think I have enough information to send to the FBI. I told this "Brandy" that I did not have enough money to spare until Tuesday to buy the check printing kit. I wonder how long they will try to continue to try and get me to do this? The more info I have the better cause I plan to report this person to the FBI. Wonder how many others out there are getting romanced and scammed. |
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Excellent. Please do report this. What instant messenger protocol do you use? As long as she doesn't use a proxy to access the internet you may be able to obtain her IP address. With this information you can get a rough estimate of her location and importantly what ISP she uses.
I expect positive reputation if I imprison a scammer, GD. [edit] actually this should be quite simple. there is a windows command line program called netstat. this shows you all your active internet connections, including the IP addresses of the sender and receiver. when you use instant messenger programs normally this isn't much help because your messages go through aol, microsoft, google, whoever's server. however, when you send a file you initiate a direct connection. therefore, you can use netstat during the connection to view the respective IP addresses. you need to practice with netstat and file transfer now. find someone who knows their IP address (www.whatismyipaddress.com helps) and send them a file using your instant messenger program. during this transfer issue the command "netstat -a". find the line in netstat's output (which should look something like this) that correlates to your friend's IP address. once you're happy with this move onto the next step. find a plausible excuse to send this woman a file. but the file must be large enough to give you time to issue "netstat -a". use netstat to obtain her IP address. give us her IP address. win. i'm not sure if the FBI will accept this as evidence. but nevertheless, you should definitely try it. |
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Go, go, go. You have the knowledge. Become one with netstat. I await the IP address.
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Now I'm not from the United States of America, but the FBI are unlikely to give a flying **** about this sort of petty fraud. They probably don't think of it as anything more than a tax on ignorant people who use the internet. |
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And they wouldn't be that far off.
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Fair enough. I'm not keen on that particular tax collector though.
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I've long lost the link but I was blown away when I stumbled across a site that appeared to be a community of 12-14 year olds scamming people out of their CC details and WoW accounts. They seemed so full of themselves with a I'll never get caught and even if I do I'm too young to goto jail attitude. Quote:
RomanceScam is one of the more intersting sites I've read in a while. It is a community of people that have been scammed by way of a fake romance, even on occasion catching these people red handed. Seems they have lot of posts on there detailing romance scams from the Philippines. |
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It's all one big scam+. |
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Host is: 994_acl1.gw.smartbro.net
I'm sure we're all shocked and ****ing amazed that this address is located in Manilla, Philippines. Travler, seriously man, what's going on? If your life is truly so devoid of meaning might I suggest you try something a little different. Maybe smoke some dope or something. If nothing else at least you'll gain some ****ing perspective. I wouldn't recommend anything stronger though, that might be too much perspective too soon. |
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I say **** too much, I realise, but it really shouldn't be a censored word. It's just a concise way of expressing a simultaneous frustration and disbelief, at least in this case.
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ya do that work fine , smoke weed .
IGA is also sobeys , they sell food . shouldnt like the internet provider be able to tell you where he live , wa one of my dream . |
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Like I said, drugs are the answer. |
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That would often be true, but in this case the address belongs to a company offering wireless hotspot connections in Manila. Since they wouldn't be offering an ISP based email to public users the scammer is almost certainly using a web based email provider such as hotmail or gmail etc. This would mean that the x-originating-ip is the actual ip of the machine from which the message is sent. Of course, given that they accessed the internet via a public connection they are essentially untracable. Handy when you are commiting international cheque fraud.
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Ask her for her address so you can send her a christmas card?
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no, get the address that she wants you to send the cheques to and then send a steaming turd instead.
I realise it will probably not be steaming when it gets to her, but it'll still be amusing. |
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hay guys i mean this girl could be the love of his life and you're all charging in there with your domain servers and your ip tracking systems come on i mean its CHRISTMAS give him a little love and maybe just maybe a bit of festive joy* will help him find his love (and this time she won't write psycho livejournals about him)
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Well he made a mistake when he posted a picture of himself on myspace. He has 3 pictures of the woman he is pretending to be and one of himself impersonating her. Not to mention that "She" is supposed to be a graduate of Cardiff, his typing is atrocious.
Myspace link: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=265098376 Email: [email protected] YIM ID: brandyseek Has gone by "Life is to short for game" on the Yahoo personals site and listed himself as living in my hometown. So glad that I have enough sense to bring my concerns to GD before making a "The Crying Game" kind of error. I was just looking online for girls until my divorce is final. I will look in real life once I am divorced. No point in making a real effort until then. I am laughing about this now. |
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Dude, seriously, **** your divorce, **** your soon to be ex wife and **** your unreasonable preconceptions about spirituality. If Oprah was here, she'd be smacking your ass all over the Forum and spouting some shit about self discovery. My personal translation of that would be to do what you want to do, not what other people expect you to do. Unless of course you actually find joy in living your life for no-one in particular.
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Heh, I just watched the latest Harry Potter movie. And I don't worship Oprah.
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So - remember that you create a link back to the source when you place a direct link and just write the URL in a way people have to copy & paste it :) Quote:
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That's suppose to be a woman? :confused:
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You might even be able to convert her to christianity.
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