[nfb-talk] [NFB-talk] New List for Blind Conservatives

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Dar, excuse me but if you bite on that you may find yourself "helping out" a 
scammer.
It is an old one -- someone calls and says you have won a prize, but can't 
tell you when you entered this sweepstakes -- they keep you on the phone 
talking to various people to get you trusting them, then very carefully they 
tell you that in order to claim this prize you need to cover the cost of the 
insurance, which is provided by Lloyds of London at a cost of 1% of the 
prize -- so for $25000 that would be $250.  Usually it's more than that. 
You pay them the money by giving them your bank account number and you never 
hear from them again, but you soon find your identity has been stolen.  It 
has happened to a friend of mine.  They lost thousands of dollars.  I got 
one of those calls last January. I knew it was a scam as it smelled like one 
from the first, but I kept him on the line just to try and smoke him out. He 
had me take a code number and call someone else who said yes, it was for 
real, I had won--then the first guy called me back.  They pestered me from 
many different phone numbers from various places in the country--but on the 
caller ID my mother said the calls were coming from someone called 
"Albitross Marketing".  That was too funny.  Next time he called me I asked 
him what Albitross Marketting was. He was surprised about the caller id. 
Then he gave me his office number, which had a 202 area code. I called it 
and he answered. But it is easy using skype or other phone software to get 
phone numbers that appear to be from different locations. It is hard to 
trace these guys.
In the end he came to the Lloyds of London business, wanting $2000.  I cried 
scam and he continued calling saying threatening things like "You don't 
understand what happening -- we have your address, you know that..."
I haven't heard from them for a while.

But this is why I want a talking caller id with a tts that will read the 
names without me recording them.
I can't find one anywhere. Does anyone know of one?

Sorry about the long message. Just warning about the scamorama surrounding 
sweepstakes.
Take care.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
To: <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [NFB-talk] New List for Blind Conservatives


Smile,
I got a call yesterday saying that I was on the winners list for
$25,000 so if I truly could help someone first helping myself, then I
would help others.
I have to see it happen first.
smile.

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--Dar
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