Someone hacked into my mates MSN and tried to scam me.

Cunny-Funt · 23-06-2009 04:20PM

Hazys wrote: »

I love the presumption the scammer is Nigerian or African.

Ah here we go we're all racists now. :rolleyes: The presumption is a pretty logical one since almost all these scams come from there. Has nothing to do with any issues people have with the country itself, if all these scams came from New Zealand then poor auld New Zealand would be on the receiving end of such accusations. Its pretty logical.

Quoting US statistics is meaningless also.

thelordofcheese · 23-06-2009 04:40PM

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Ah here we go we're all racists now. :rolleyes: The presumption is a pretty logical one since almost all these scams come from there. Has nothing to do with any issues people have with the country itself, if all these scams came from New Zealand then poor auld New Zealand would be on the receiving end of such accusations. Its pretty logical.

Quoting US statistics is meaningless also.

Is it because said report shows your reasoning to be utter horseshit, or do you have a real reason?

Cunny-Funt · 23-06-2009 04:50PM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Is it because said report shows your reasoning to be utter horseshit, or do you have a real reason?

Most Nigerian scammers target the UK & other EU countries. So I guess you've never heard of the Nigerian internet scammers before either and people are just inventing this stuff to be racist against Nigerians yeah? FFS:rolleyes:

thelordofcheese · 23-06-2009 04:58PM

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Most Nigerian scammers target the UK & other EU countries. So I guess you've never heard of the Nigerian internet scammers before either and people are just inventing this stuff to be racist against Nigerians yeah? FFS:rolleyes:

Strawman much?

I'll make this easy, Hazys has shown actual imperical evidence of the origin of 419 scams, based on one of the largest countries in the world with very decent internet coverage, and you've stomped your foot and said "HURRR NO!".

I'm going with hazys on this one.

Cunny-Funt · 23-06-2009 05:50PM

Right so all this talk of all these scams from Nigeria is just people being racist, yep?

Hazys stats would be relevant if this was a US board and we were all Americans having the same discussion and Run to da hills was american.

In Europe its perfectly reasonable to assume the type of scam the OP was on the receiving end of was of Nigerian origins.

23-06-2009 06:05PM

tbh wrote: »

this happened to a british politician recently. Can't remember who, possibly Jack Straw. This type of vague anecdote is presumably why noone wants to go for a beer with me.

Wrong target audience TBH, tbh.

You should try it out at an AA meeting and then a quick offer of a pint will garner you loads of new drinking buddies.

Wossack wrote: »

baddies©

Love it. Got slagged in work one day for trying to join in a conversation with two of the lads. They were talking about some wrestler and i asked if he was he a goodie or a baddie. Got laughed out of it and was told to grow up. By two 28 year olds. Discussing wrestling. :pac:

Edit: almost forgot, Nigerians are scumbags :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

Hazys · 23-06-2009 06:37PM

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Right so all this talk of all these scams from Nigeria is just people being racist, yep?

Hazys stats would be relevant if this was a US board and we were all Americans having the same discussion and Run to da hills was american.

In Europe its perfectly reasonable to assume the type of scam the OP was on the receiving end of was of Nigerian origins.

If anybody is being discriminated against its the irish criminals. Nobody seems to think they'd be able to pull off identity fraud through the internet and that they are only capable of low end criminality like pick pocketing.

Nigerian email scams are small in the world of identity fraud, scams and hacking. Its funny how somebody gets a few emails from Nigeria and takes an ignorant and simplestic view but probably has a virus guard to protect against the millions of virus', spyware, phishing scripts created by somebody to try and steal your credit card information and presumes that these 'hackers' are all nigerian.

thelordofcheese · 23-06-2009 07:39PM

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Right so all this talk of all these scams from Nigeria is just people being racist, yep?

Nope, it's people being lazy. But feel free to keep building those little strawmen, they're so adorable.

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Hazys stats would be relevant if this was a US board and we were all Americans having the same discussion and Run to da hills was american.

It's a large sample of the internet, which doesn't really recognise borders, especially when it comes to crime. But feel free to pretend otherwise.

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

In Europe its perfectly reasonable to assume the type of scam the OP was on the receiving end of was of Nigerian origins.

Not really. It's lazy to assume so but it's in no way reasonable. It's kind of like assuming that everyone who kisses with tounge is from paris because it's called "french kissing".

Papad · 23-06-2009 07:57PM

Hazys wrote: »

Nigerian email scams are small in the world of identity fraud, scams and hacking.

With hacking maybe, but you are completely wrong with regard to scams and identity fraud. I know because my studies on all aspects of 419 fraud was published. It originated in Nigeria, and still carried out by Nigerians to a large extent. By the way, people have been murdered as a result of these email scams so it is more than a monetary fraud.

When you use statistics of scams in the US to lessen the impact of these crimes; this is just a deflection technique. Most reasonably-thinking people would have to presume that the subject area being discussed is Europe.

cock robin · 23-06-2009 10:18PM

Quazzie wrote: »

Are you sure your friend just wasn't sure of the area he was in.

There is a chance it was genuine and that you totally ignore your mate stranded in a foreign country.

Very true. The poor dude could be getting rodgered senseless in a Turkish nick.:D:D:D

24-06-2009 12:45PM

Papad wrote: »

I know because my studies on all aspects of 419 fraud was published.

Any chance of a link?

MOH · 25-06-2009 12:48PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Not if he can't remember the name of the tube station and pub several hundred yards down the road from where he lived. :rolleyes:

Hang on, how do we know this is really RTDH and someone hasn't nicked his boards account?

RoundTower · 25-06-2009 02:11PM

syklops wrote: »

Dude,

Do you not think this would be more suited to the security forum. At least there someone might give a rats ass.

Also, for a person who is obviously in the know about various conspiracies, I am very surprised to hear you using MSN messenger.

to be fair MSN messenger is about 100 times more secure than its main competitor, AIM.

25-06-2009 03:31PM

kingtut wrote: »

You do not need to hack into someone's account to make it appear as though e-mails were sent from that account.

There are ways and means of sending emails from any email address and yes there are people out there who have the time to figure these things out. F*ckers. :mad:

I did that to some first years in college a few years ago. Sent them e-mails basically saying that their work was not satisfactory enough and that they may face expulsion and changed the 'from' address to make it look like our then Head of Department had sent it.

They were sh1tting bricks for weeks after.

Someone hacked into my mates MSN and tried to scam me.

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