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I'd like to think I'm reasonably conversant with world geography -- I mean, I know Burma is now Myanmar and there is no more Soviet Union (at least not officially) and Yugoslavia has been broken up into 17 other countries or whatever.
But lately I'm getting lots of "Who Viewed Me" from countries I've never even heard of, and some of them sound like Dr. Seuss made up the names for them. Also, it makes me suspicious when there's an obvious discrepancy between a city and a state, like "Honolulu, Oklahoma." OK, I don't actually KNOW there isn't a Honolulu, Oklahoma, but it doesn't seem very likely. |
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I've also noticed an unusually high ratio of blonde haired, fair skinned, blue eyed "Native Americans", but they too come from places such as, Brooklyn, Utah or Philadelphia, Ohio.
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You guys should see the email I get from scammers! OMG. They don't have to make geography mistakes; it's the incorrect phrasing and word misuse.
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Edited by
Atlantis75
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Sat 05/22/10 09:32 PM
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You guys should see the email I get from scammers! OMG. They don't have to make geography mistakes; it's the incorrect phrasing and word misuse. It's only incorrect for English-only speakers..on the other hand, it was most likely done by a translator program so it didn't switch the words around from the translated language to follow English grammar rules. So yeah, there is a chance that entire countries can be stereotyped based on a few assh_les who use a translator program to send out spam emails. |
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You guys should see the email I get from scammers! OMG. They don't have to make geography mistakes; it's the incorrect phrasing and word misuse. Well, I like the really obvious ones. "I am to being normal of girl of American. Live to me is in New York. Seeing is me to the profile of you and, now is for me time to say I am to be liking your structure. We have many days to be love of this is. Now we must have family and live in one town of this is to be a house of where. Please is my writing of you to be me and must then we meet for happy future of all this things." It just surprises me that people from New York would actually talk like that. |
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Let's start with a country that 99.999% of the people doesn't even know it exists.
Andorra. |
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I get a few from India
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Let's start with a country that 99.999% of the people doesn't even know it exists. Andorra. You can't fool me, she's an explorer! |
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Ah, the lure of the tiny countries of the world. Andorra is one of the larger ones. Liechtenstein is a much older one, still in Europe. Never forget Vatican City, of course, though you are less likely to get FEMALE spam from there. At least, an offer to get you off from Vatican City would be unique!
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At least, an offer to get you off from Vatican City would be unique! if it were from a female...yes |
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Hummmm what about New York, California........
 pretty obvious at times who are scammers they have no idea what city goes with each state..........
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Edited by
Kings_Knight
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Sun 05/23/10 11:10 AM
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I like the ones I get from Nigeria ... sometimes the scammer's male, other times, female ... seems they all have ready access to some fancy-dancy 'attorney' with a high-blown 'English' name, but, for some reason or other, the letter I get isn't from the 'attorney' (who probably speaks what passes for impeccable High Street 'Inglés'). No, the letter is from the person who wants me to CONTACT the attorney for 'details' about how I can 'inherit' multi-millions of (one can suppose) 'x' $US if only I will be so kind as to please be furnishing my Sosul Sekurité nombre, mother's maiden name, my Facebook password, bank account number, home address, and a retina scan of my right eye.
Call me silly, but yes, I've managed to turn up my nose at this pathway to immense riches. Now I'll have to wait for some hot babe (or babe-ette tranny) from Hasta Luego or Sonora or East Rathole to contact me saying that 'she' lusts after my lithe and nubile (yet somehow magically virile) masculine hardform and wants to 'ruv me rong time' while giving me what 'she' calls 'numbah one boom-boom' ... followed by 'Hey Joe - you got gum?' ... |
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I'd like to think I'm reasonably conversant with world geography -- I mean, I know Burma is now Myanmar and there is no more Soviet Union (at least not officially) and Yugoslavia has been broken up into 17 other countries or whatever. But lately I'm getting lots of "Who Viewed Me" from countries I've never even heard of, and some of them sound like Dr. Seuss made up the names for them. Also, it makes me suspicious when there's an obvious discrepancy between a city and a state, like "Honolulu, Oklahoma." OK, I don't actually KNOW there isn't a Honolulu, Oklahoma, but it doesn't seem very likely. 
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Do you know about all of the 'Stans? Like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan? In addition to the 2 that most everyone else knows; Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Do you know about all of the 'Stans? Like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan? In addition to the 2 that most everyone else knows; Pakistan and Afghanistan. Of course I do, I live in Indianastan! |
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In addition to the non-existent locations, awesome spelling, grammar and sentence construction I also find the pictures that go with these profiles to be quite the contradiction. Oh let's say the profile says 21 but the pictures are of someone in their late 30's, or vise versa. Honestly if I had any say in it, I would be canning these profiles as they are clearly spammers and are only annoying the crap out of the active, REAL members of this site.
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You guys should see the email I get from scammers! OMG. They don't have to make geography mistakes; it's the incorrect phrasing and word misuse. Well, I like the really obvious ones. "I am to being normal of girl of American. Live to me is in New York. Seeing is me to the profile of you and, now is for me time to say I am to be liking your structure. We have many days to be love of this is. Now we must have family and live in one town of this is to be a house of where. Please is my writing of you to be me and must then we meet for happy future of all this things." It just surprises me that people from New York would actually talk like that. I was raised in NY, and beleive me, wouldn't be the least bit surprised if she was a actually person from NYC. After all that is where a majority of aliens do gather (human and otherwise  ).
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I tracked some emails I got, (yes you can do that) using a tracking software, most emails (especially claiming from Africa) came from Los Angeles, CA.
Others..(claiming to be Russian) came from New Jersey. |
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i agree, these nigerians probably have a scam college or courses that one can take.
some of the emails I get are very well written. |
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wait, you mean to tell me I don't even get emails from fake people trying to spam, let alone real people?! COME ON SPAMMERS! THROW ME A BONE HERE!
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