Would you fall for this one?

nlgbbbblth

Just got a classic email (spam) from a guy called The Callaghan Ignorance.

Hello. I am a 16 year old student from New Jersey and I am currently doing a school project on credit card number frequency. Basically the purpose of the experiment is to investigate numerical patterns and trends in standard Visa and Mastercard numbers. I am also doing a separate sideline examination of expiry dates. All I request from you is that you forward me your credit card number and expiry date. Please be assured that this will be kept strictly confidential and will only be used for research purposes. In return I will email or post you a copy of my findings. Should you want a hard copy please include your postal address in your response. Kind regards, Richard Callaghan

senordingdong

Sounds good.

What is his full address?

LundiMardi

oh my jesus christ... who on earth would fall for this!!!

Please tell me you sent back a fake card no.? I bet he'd **** himself with excitement if he thought it actually worked!!

yeah absolutely, let me go get my card...
=/

RoundyMooney

Probably a Romanian, the grammar is too "together" to be Nigerian etc.

It's known as a "phishing" scam, and a pretty amateur attempt.

Can you post his I.P.? or preferably pm me the whole mail, with bodies. I'll tell you exactly where it came from.

nlgbbbblth

I dunno guys, he seems pretty genuine.

muckwarrior

5434609010000233
Thats a valid Mastercard number. (Although not attached to an account of course). It should keep him happy for a few min.

RoundyMooney

With respect, are you going to send him your CC details then?

nlgbbbblth

I've deleted it after I responded to him - it went into my junk mail which is immediately emptied.

I got a wallet for Christmas which had a cardboard AMEX card in it to keep the pockets straight. I emailed him back this number so if he responds I can get the details from it.

mickymg2003

Send him some old people porn or pictures of michael jackson, that'll show him!!

RoundyMooney

OK, in that case you're safe as houses. I fail to see what merit this research would have anyway. If he could verify his credentials to a card company, I'm sure they could provide him with enough statistical info.

If it smells like a turd it probably is.

mickymg2003

mickymg2003 wrote:

Send him some old people porn or pictures of michael jackson, that'll show him!!

*lol*

LundiMardi

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I've deleted it after I responded to him - it went into my junk mail which is immediately emptied.

I got a wallet for Christmas which had a cardboard AMEX card in it to keep the pockets straight. I emailed him back this number so if he responds I can get the details from it.

what was your responce?

Victor

RoundyMooney wrote:

the grammar is too "together" to be Nigerian etc.

Realise that African English is as different to Hiberno-English as is American-English.

nlgbbbblth

LundiMardi wrote:

what was your responce?

Just gave him that cardboard number and wished him all the best with the project.

RoundyMooney

Victor wrote:

Realise that African English is as different to Hiberno-English as is American-English.

I'm well aware of that. Nigerian pidgin is invariably a mixture of igbo and bastardised "english", at least when they are not pushing out the mass mailed scripts that most people would be familiar with. Spoken west african pidgin as not too difficult to understand, but the same communication in written form is almost unintelligible to me, an example;

" Why your body dey shake like leaf now, abeg thermocool! "

(I.e.-please relax- more literally, go jump in a pool...)

Victor

More specificly African-English (especially in written form) tends to be a lot more formal than what we would use. It not just Nigerians, but many central and west Africans, even those of European descent / mother tongue.

RoundyMooney

Victor wrote:

More specificly African-English (especially in written form) tends to be a lot more formal than what we would use. It not just Nigerians, but many central and west Africans, even those of European descent / mother tongue.

Interesting. My knowledge of African culture and language is severely lacking outside the fraud hotspots of Ghana/Ivory Coast/Nigeria.

It's a bit ironic that an interest in e-scamming, the worst facet of these areas, has given me insights into the culture and way of life that I never would have known before.

Creamy Goodness

if someone fell for this i hope to god s/he maxes out the card.

if you're dumb enough to believe it, you deserving enough to have to foot the bill.

Someone robbed someone's credit card details or something once, and bet on a horse with it, and won
but they were found out, and the owner of the card got to keep the winnings

junkyard

I've just ordered a new Bentley, all in the name of research of course, if any one wants to chip in I'll even give ye a spin in it.:)

December Son

Dear jesus.
Watch for my next scam:
'Dear sir/madman,
I am conducting an experiment, and inspecting money for the purposes of seeing wether or not people are gullible enough to send me money. Please send 50 euro to the attached address, and ill send you an email letting you know wether or not you were gullible enough to fall for it. Itll stop you being suckered in in future, honest.'

Sparky

mickymg2003 wrote:

Send him some old people porn or pictures of michael jackson, that'll show him!!

Send him this, Warning but dont,dont, dont click, seriously dont click. (after you take out the @'s
[edit]deleted, just incase[/edit]
take out the @'s, they are their for a reason, so you all dont hate me for what it will do to your computer

Im not joking.

senordingdong

Sparky-s wrote:

Send him this, Warning but dont,dont, dont click, seriously dont click. (after you take out the @'s

<snip>

take out the @'s, they are their for a reason, so you all dont hate me for what it will do to your computer

Im not joking.

I don't get it.

Sparky

senordingdong wrote:

I don't get it.

dont, unless you want your pc to crash

its a javascript webpage that shows stuff and opens your email program 200 times.
Remove the @'s in the address.

They are there so nobody unwillingly click's on it, for me to get abuse from it .