Have you ever fell for an Internet Hoax?

tomanders91 · 4 Jul 2007 at 21:30

being tricked into thinking meatspin was a games website.

the-void · 4 Jul 2007 at 21:30

darko said:
if you are stupid enough to fall for any internet hoax then you deserve to be taken to the cleaners.

419 scams for example rely on western greed to succeed. people want to get rich despite most of these scams involving defrauding poor african nations.

Surely 419 scams only exist because of African greed, no?

Vonhelmet · 4 Jul 2007 at 21:43

cheets64 said:
tub girl nuff said.

bash.org said:
*** Topic in #doghouse is 'Our hearts are extended to the 17 victims of the recent internet fraud'
* Anubis has joined #doghouse
<Anubis> what fraud?
<Kadmium> You haven't heard about it?
<Anubis> no?
<Kadmium> You can read the full story at http://link.removed.com
<Anubis> omg wtf!
*** Kadmium changes topic to 'Our hearts are extended to the 18 victims of the recent internet fraud'

NB: Link removed as not life safe, though given what I'm responding to, I'm sure you can guess.

danza · 4 Jul 2007 at 21:45

Crikey, I take most of reality with a pinch of salt, never mind what you lot say

eXor · 4 Jul 2007 at 21:48

cheets64 said:
tub girl nuff said.

Same.

Did not look away quickly enough.

Archibald0 · 4 Jul 2007 at 22:23

Rebelius said:
haha, I fell for one of those random "crush calculator" things a couple of months ago, I never believe things like that but do them just for a laugh when I'm bored. It tricked me and emailed someone what I'd put in

haha that reminds me
back in the days of school i emailed evryone in my list with something like that, they type in who they fancy etc

It kinda backfired when a fat,ugly burd that was a mates mate replied she fancied me, next day at school was akward to say the least

divine` · 4 Jul 2007 at 22:30

Rebelius said:
haha, I fell for one of those random "crush calculator" things a couple of months ago

what a fab idea!

*goes to google*

RetiredGreyFox · 4 Jul 2007 at 22:51

I don't know if its a hoax yet but 3 years ago I sent a total of £56,000 off to a nice lady in Nigeria and I'm still waiting for my 10 million.

Cupra · 4 Jul 2007 at 22:59

dmpoole said:
I don't know if its a hoax yet but 3 years ago I sent a total of £56,000 off to a nice lady in Nigeria and I'm still waiting for my 10 million.

lmfao

divine` · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:02

dmpoole said:
I don't know if its a hoax yet but 3 years ago I sent a total of £56,000 off to a nice lady in Nigeria and I'm still waiting for my 10 million.

That's my 10 million!

Did you deal with Mr Ulagambu? I shall be having words on the phone tomorrow!!

jas72 · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:07

Psyk said:
I fell for the Bonsai kittens one too. I realised it was a hoax right after I'd sent an order in for one

Won't be getting that money back.

i see what you did there

manoz · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:09

Not really a hoax but I fell for one of those screamers, thankfully the volume was turned down, more cautious now.

jas72 · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:13

dmpoole said:
I don't know if its a hoax yet but 3 years ago I sent a total of £56,000 off to a nice lady in Nigeria and I'm still waiting for my 10 million.

probably going to send you 10 million kobos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6250758.stm

RetiredGreyFox · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:17

jas72 said:
probably going to send you 10 million kobos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6250758.stm

When I lived in Nigeria we had Naira's and Kobos and they were worth exactly the same as pounds and pence.

Mr.Clark · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:25

the-void said:
Surely 419 scams only exist because of African greed, no?

No. If no-one ever fell for them, the scammers would go and do something else.

It's because of the western greed of getting a lot of money for effectively nothing that the scams work.

I'm amazed that chain emails about such pointless tat as the "olympic torch virus" that "burns the zero sector of your hard disk" are still going around. Fortunately I've drilled it into most people in our company that they ask ME before forwarding them onto everyone, whereupon I point out that whatever it is is a complete load of toss and tell them to just delete it.

Mind you, I thought the same thing about a chain email with a massive PDF attachment that one of our directors sent round to everyone asking if we'd seen Madeline McGann. Jesus. :rolleyes:

Some people just switch off and trust whatever garbage turns up on their computer screens. It's outrageous that people you'd consider quite intelligent just somehow become dribbling morons when presented with a keyboard and mouse...

Vonhelmet · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:25

manoz said:
Not really a hoax but I fell for one of those screamers, thankfully the volume was turned down, more cautious now.

My friend once got tricked by her brother. She asked me how to get revenge... we sent him a link to a well known shock site, which I don't think has been mentioned here yet.

Doubly funny as he's gay.

J1234 · 4 Jul 2007 at 23:32

I got tricked when I was told I could trace someones phone online..

the-void · 5 Jul 2007 at 00:39

Mr.Clark said:
No. If no-one ever fell for them, the scammers would go and do something else.

It's because of the western greed of getting a lot of money for effectively nothing that the scams work.

The people being scammed are victims of a crime by African Nigerians, lets not loose sight of that before you start blaming westerners for it. :mad:

You might as say if people wasn't so greedy and didn't buy expensive watches and have expensive phones they wouldn't get mugged for them. The mugger would go and do something else. :rolleyes:

SK07 · 5 Jul 2007 at 00:50

Not really. Alough people still try to hoax you to going to the shock websites even in games like cod or cs. Websites like goatse, tubgirl, hai2u etc.

Rebelius · 5 Jul 2007 at 00:52

SK07 said:
Not really. Alough people still try to hoax you to going to the shock websites even in games like cod or cs. Websites like goatse, tubgirl, hai2u etc.

the best one's definitely lemonparty