mail scams Question And Answer
Why do people fall for e-mail scams?
"I am the king of bunga-bunga and due to a revolt, I must store away 100 million dollars, but I must use YOUR bank account. Please send me your bank account details, and I will let you keep a million."
Bring out the idiots. They get what they deserve if they fall for this.
Answers
People in this damn world are really fucking stupid!!!!!!
Greed and looking for the easy way out.
i agree
greedy
lol wow idk why they do i deleted them i dont even read them
I guess some people never figure out that if it looks too good to be true; it is.
Some are desperate, need a loan and have bad credit; so they are a target for the loan sharks.
LOL
it's because they are very gullable with low IQ and want to get rich quick and have no grasp of reality.
I was talking to my mom about this last night ont he phone actually :)
Amazing, isn't it. I delete anything and everything I am not familiar with (sometimes even people I know). BUT, if I have not entered a lottery and someone writes telling me I have won a lottery...well, it doesn't mean a brain to know it's nonsense
People are always looking for a way to be rich without working for it. They haven't heard the saying "If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is".
Today alone there have been several people asking if they have been approached by legitimate parties when it is uber-obvious that it is a scheme to divest them of their hard earned money. It is so blatant. I don't know the answer to your question. It's like showing someone a blue piece of paper and then telling them it's red and they actually bite. Why, indeed?
Is it greed, or wanting to get something for nothing? Gullibility? But who is that gullible? Apparently many people but what's the disconnect that lets them, for even one second, believe that these things are above board?
There is a tenured Ivy League psychology professor who falls for these scams time after time. He has no dementia or any other medical condition that would cause him to behave this way, yet he does. His family & university has had to intervene. The article about him was fascinating & scary.
I don't feel anyone deserves the consequences of this but perhaps it is the only way they can learn. I know people who only learn the hard way. It's like jumping off a building to test gravity. You're not testing it you're demonstrating it. How foolish. I guess it's true that a fool & his money are soon parted. Amazing. Glad you brought it up.
People are inherently motivated by greed. It's amazing that after all these years of warnings about these scams, people continue to fall for them. I guess it's in the nature of some humans to want something for nothing.
Dear Mr. Bill,
Please send US$500.00 (five hundred) to the following link:
www.iamawhackinggreatidiot.com
and I will send you all the necessary information on how you can make me very rich. Please keep this confidential because if you don't, a very heavy object will probably fall on you from a great height! And it will hurt ALOT !!
Yours truly,
Mr. Umbooga N'booga ( a lawyer )
Somewhere in Nigeria