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Money scam via Skype

It’s been a long while since someone tried to scam me online. But today I got lucky. Someone knocked at my Skype door and I opened it. Here is the full transcript of the conversation. Pardon me for having some fun in the process.

[2:26:57 PM EEST] micheal2455: hello
[2:27:06 PM EEST] micheal2455: how are you

Before, when most of my online friends were technical people, a username with numbers in it pretty much guaranteed that you are talking to a spammer or scammer of some sort. But in recent years a lot of non-technical people got online and all bets are off. So, I allowed a person in.

[2:27:09 PM EEST] micheal2455: my name is micheal ofori,a regional manager of almal bank limited i discover a domant account what of 5.6MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS.Iam looking for a honest person who can help me to move this money out of were i kept it in self keeping custdy.i agree to give you 20% for your mutual help.i do not want my c0-worker to raise eyebrow toward this fund.

That’s a very standard, direct, to the point, proposition. That’s all you need to see to know with absolute certainty that you are being scammed. You have two options from now on. Either end the discussion immediately and block the person from every talking to you again, or try to scam them back, for fun, and see what they have to say. I’ve chosen the scam path.

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Try it yourself – it’s fun and cool!

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