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02-20-2007, 08:24 PM
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Elderly taken advantage of
I just heard from a Welsh friend of mine in the UK that his mum got taken to the cleaners up in Flintshire in an Internet Lottery Scam. Here's a link to a Guardian story about the problem they're having with this sort of thing.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/st...016494,00.html More and more elderly people are on-line these days, some of whom may not be as savy as they should be in regard to scammers (not that you have to be old to get burned by a con-artist, as I know from painful personal experience). My own mother just bought a computer (for email and such), and I've bent over backward to try to alert her of possible scams. Has anybody else had any bad experiences in this vein? Popeye 
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02-20-2007, 08:57 PM
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Thats Rotten
 This is excactly what I mean about these scammers. They pray on the people who have the hardest time fighting back! That is the nature of the beast. My Mom can barely work the remote so that is one problem she doesn't have lol! But seriously that is a real problem and I will be sure to tell any senior person who goes online to Watch Out! I do that anyway with most people since my husband and I "got burned", but I guess I never thought about older people who have computers like many now do. Good luck with your Mom Popeye! Li'l Dee
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07-06-2007, 08:13 PM
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you don't have to be old!
Ok I didn't send them the money but they have my name and address and cell number! And it got me so angry that I couldn't think of any thing else but to get back to them! So I sent emails to every intstitute I could think of (also to the FBI)!
I hope these scammers rott in jail 4 ever! Say Hi to your mum for me and tell her I was very close to sending the money but I got lucky because he called me and had a really strange nigerian (absolutely not british) accent and that got me thinking! Greetings from Slovenia
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11-03-2007, 06:21 AM
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Now a days elderly people are also getting attractive towards the internet lottery system, my mother who never been out in the city or anywhere to play lottery. When we purchased a pc at our place she had a least interest in the internet but as my father told her about one of the best internet lottery system, she never got scam with, she used to visit this site regular and play lottery game, her bank balance has increased since then. Now she never used to sit idle at home, she play online lottery in her leisure time.
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01-11-2008, 08:40 AM
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Quote:
 Bye bye scam
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