Hypnotists: Beware Of Scam

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Permalink Reply by John Cerbone - The Trance-Master on February 12, 2010 at 2:00pm

That same moron contact me and some others about a year ago. 1st, the address was 2 counties away, then, it was an non-existant store chain in Australia.
Another called me from the UK, similar gig.
But then in NYC, I get lots of scammers.

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Permalink Reply by Colin O'Shaughnessy on February 12, 2010 at 4:08pm

Hi Tommy,
Chances are that if he is from Nigeria, and judging by his english I beleive he may be, that the credit card number is stolen. I was supposed to go to Nigeria back in2002, When I was in the Army,but plans changed and I didn't get to go. Instead I escorted (Armed escort) the guy who went to Nigeria to Frankfurt Mein Airport. The reason I escorted them armed was because they had a brief case with $50K in cash. That's when I found out that it doesn't take long for the thieves to get you card number. Even ATM's aren't secure there, they will have your card number in a matter if minutes and clean you out in the same amount of time. I also observed some hypnotic language in his email, and some embedded commands. I'm still kind of new and am learning, buy I'm pretty sure that is whay I noticed in that email. Please let me know what you think. Thank you for the warning, we all have to take care of eachother.

Colin

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Permalink Reply by kirby vonshouse on February 12, 2010 at 6:42pm

I DIDNT TAKE THE STAGE !!! IT WAS MISSING WHEN I GOT THERE !! that gig was part of a reply to a scammer i told i would have to leave his party early in chicago, i had the gig with the stones that night, he flunked the test. never heard og mick and the guys so im sure he's from another planet.

Tommy Vee said:

kirby- what time do you take the stage? must be nice hangin with keith!

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on February 12, 2010 at 7:58pm

Some scammers really have no limits...

"I apologise for not getting back to you for a while it was due to a death of our family that ihad to handle. I lost my wife and i had to arrange for the burial and some other stuffs.Thanks for your wanting to sell to me,i really appreciate it.The content of the email was well noted. I would want you to know that the payment has been issued and mailed out to you and should get to you by the end of this week. I shall keep you updated as to know when exactly it shall get to you. Hope to hear back from you soonest.Regards to every member of your family.Thanks."

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Permalink Reply by kirby vonshouse on February 12, 2010 at 8:33pm

i've gotten this or a variation , sick child,relative,self, i think its a time stall to get the ducks(suckers) in a row so as to erase,cash in,dump hard drive, and dissapear.seems to me most authorities dont care, fcc,fbi,local,state all told me they just take a report, look for trends. i just dump their info on the local agent in charge FBI desk, when he gets tierd of it he'll do somthing.i dont pay thoes clowns to take reports,study trends. and NO, kelly these scum bags have NO limits.

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Permalink Reply by kirby vonshouse on February 12, 2010 at 8:53pm

ps while on this subject, i dont know if this is national, but in st. louis mo. there has been a rash of calling older folks pretending to be grand child in canada, in trouble , need xamount of dollars to get out of legal problem, somtimes first poser is can. hy patrol, second poser is the semi grown child ! this is working ! kid says dont want to talk to parents to avoid trouble "GRAMMA PLEASE HELP ME" WHAT GRAMMA/PA SAYS NO? usally arbitrary ammount like $1,428 . one lady here got skinned for over 5 LARGE. i first heard of this from a friend who's kid was with him at the time in ala. gpa was going to send the cash, gma said noway, creepy part is how did they know gma/pa name and phone and kid info. pretty dang creepy stuff. havent checked this on snopes or smoking gun, just took word of friend. will verify as you should and let folks know, its easy enough to make a call to the grown kid, or parents "just to say hi to tommy" unless ma/pa say hes in canada fishing with his frat bros,,,the only fish is you. and betcha they want it western union.
EVER VIGILANT BABBA SALAMI

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Hanover on February 13, 2010 at 11:14am

There's a very good article about this type of scam on Wikipedia. It's called Advance Fee Fraud.


Kathleen Hanover
"The Pretty Goodest Public Relations, 
Copywriting & Marketing Lady on the Planet"

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Permalink Reply by Colin O'Shaughnessy on February 14, 2010 at 1:42pm

Good info and research Kathleen, it was an educational article. Thank you. MLM's and Network Marketers should be added to the list of scam artists, they are equally as dangerous especially because they use hypnosis for bad intent. These people give hypnosis a bad reputation.

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Permalink Reply by sarah dawn skinner on February 15, 2010 at 6:23am

Hi There ,

I had several people contact me with regards to this scam when selling my car , I even received a £10,000 cheque in the post even though I hadn't agreed to sell the vehicle to that person......... all enquiries involved compensating me for handling shipping fees etc.

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