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Post by Gerald Croft on Dec 10, 2020 18:36:15 GMT
I received an email a couple of days ago offering me $12 billion that I had won in a Royal Bank of Canada lottery sponsored by Coca-Cola. The scammer even asked for the fee of $100 in the opening script, rendering the necessary level of gullibility needed to reply to the email higher. To put this into perspective, Coca-Cola is apparently giving away approximately 500 times the net worth of its CEO, and the Royal Bank of Canada is apparently going to give me enough money to make me richer than all but one person in Canada. I haven't bothered to reply to this email yet but I'm wondering if anyone has been offered a higher sum of money and what your thoughts are on why a scammer would use a script like this (I know they often buy scripts, so maybe this one just went with a cheap option?)
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Post by Yastreb on Dec 11, 2020 7:45:42 GMT
The all-time largest amount that a scammer ever offered me was $250 billion, courtesy of "Jeroen Vander veer" of Royal Dutch Shell, with then-FBI Director Robert Mueller as his enthusiastic cheerleader.
In return they were expecting me to pay $200,000.
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Post by Pricky on Dec 11, 2020 12:39:15 GMT
Never anything that high. $31 000 000.00 is the largest I can recall.
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Post by Gerald Croft on Dec 11, 2020 18:49:45 GMT
The all-time largest amount that a scammer ever offered me was $250 billion, courtesy of "Jeroen Vander veer" of Royal Dutch Shell, with then-FBI Director Robert Mueller as his enthusiastic cheerleader. In return they were expecting me to pay $200,000. Well, that would put you in the top five richest people in history (inflation-adjusted). Who wouldn't want to give that much money away to a random stranger in the internet?
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Post by Gerald Croft on Dec 11, 2020 18:51:16 GMT
Never anything that high. $31 000 000.00 is the largest I can recall. Such cheapskates!
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