Possibly some homeless boy in an internet booth in Lagos just trying to get some lunch money. Saddest part is that with the internet the world's richest 10 per cent (that's us) are readily accessible to the world's starving masses but carry on as if they inhabit a different world. Not funny at all really.

But some of his more sophisticated compadres do seem to do remarkably well out of it. Much more than lunch money. Which is hard to believe that people still fall for it, to the tune of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. The romance scams seem the most cynical of all and hit the biggest payouts. Incredible.

Edited By Hopper on 26/02/2021 01:30:47

I had the email from the Post Office telling me I needed to make contact re undeliverable parcel. The trouble was the email address they used to me was my old business email which does not get used these days as a day to day address. The email seems to come from Belgium as a lot of spam does.

The email seems to come from Belgium as a lot of spam does.

Possibly some homeless boy in an internet booth in Brussels just trying to get some lunch money.

Mick

What really annoys me is the lack of clear English when I get a phone call scam as happened yesterday on my mobile, they may think they are speaking clearly but usually their accent is so heavy I give up and cut them off.

Tony

The upper classes do not join the police. They employ them in order to protect the haves from the have nots. Years ago, it was considered a good and charitable thing to give our old computers to developing nations. The recipients, not burdened by the pressures of life in the more developed world, studiously embraced the machines and became very proficient in their use. This made them adept at working cyber cons and redistributed many millions of poundes from the gullible to the dishonest.