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So, I just got one of those scam letters...
Today in the mail, I got a letter from some "South African Lawyer" saying that they need my help because someone with my last name was in trouble blah blah blah and if I helped them get the 88.8 million dollars, I can keep 40% of it.
seriously? people really get these letters? it creeped me out so much, and I knew something was up when I saw the south african stamp on it before i opened it. my mother told me to put it in a ziploc bag incase there are some chemicals on it.
What would you do with this? i feel like I need to call the police or something.
The really sad thing is that someone out there is falling for this.
Re: So, I just got one of those scam letters...
I would do nothing about it, except toss it in the garbage.
The police can't really do anything with a piece of junk mail until a person that has been scammed comes to them.
And I'm just not paranoid enough to even think about chemicals being on it.
Wow, that's actually pretty scary. Honestly, though, I would think you'd have to be pretty stupid to fall for something like that. But, I guess it does happen. It's insane how people get your address. If I got something like that I would probably just toss it immediately and not even open it.
I don't really think about chemicals in the mail, but yeah, I suppose it can happen. After I open/touch any mail my instinct is to wash my hands immediately. I just think of how many germs are on it and how many people have touched it. Especially an envelope where someone else, a stranger, has licked it closed, gross!!!!!!! This makes me think I'm turning into a full out germophobe.
yeahhh...now that I'll think about it, I'll just throw it away.
soo creepy though...you see it on tv and whatnot, and you never think they'll try to scam you. I think the creepiest part is that they're all the way in south africa and picked me somehow.
I would have been both creeped out and annoyed. I also would have just thrown it away.
Now I'm wondering how many scam letters actually do have chemicals on them.
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I knew they were sending e-mails, they've been doing that for years, but I had no idea they were sending actual letters through the mail! That's crazy, I feel like it's a waste of postage on their part.
You could call the cops if you want, but they won't do anything about it, so I'd just throw it out. I doubt there are chemicals on it. If they wanted you to send them your name/money, they wouldn't want to kill you with chemicals before you could do that.
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