Oh cute. A fake refund...

[wlewisiii]

Just got a cute phishing email. Claims to be from the IRS saying I have a refund due me of $63.80. Pity for them I've gotten my refund already... even more a pity that the links lead to a server in .ro and even with in this age of outsourcing I doubt that Romainians are running the IRS web servers 😛

Doubt anyone here would be fooled, but I thought I should mention it just in case.

William

 

[sf]

Thanks. The internet is really bursting with vultures.

 

[zuikologist]

Not a problem here in the UK - we never get tax refunds :-(

 

[David Murphy]

What's a tax refund !!

 

[Pherdinand]

When you are born poor and lazy you gotta be inventive, right?

 

[jaapv]

Just give the guy the number of the bank account you use to finance your gear. It will be so far in the red that it can accept payments only.😀

 

[flashover]

what are taxes? what is the IRS? In Canada we all just work for the goverment.

 

[kully]

Not a problem here in the UK - we never get tax refunds :-(

Although the tax man taketh he did giveth me about £100 two years ago.

But it's always a cheque, in the post, without me having to do anything.

 

[Bill58]

When you are born poor and lazy you gotta be inventive, right?

When you're born Romanian or Russian you gotta be inventive!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pherdinand]

Like, once Romania was offered for sale on e-bay. One day only but the price was already at 99 900 000 $.

 

[mihai]

When you are born poor and lazy you gotta be inventive, right?

what is that supposed to mean?

 

[Pherdinand]

it means, what it says, mihai. Just like the nigerian scammers don't do it for the fun, there are also some people in other places (like Romania, in this case) that are born poor, and are too lazy to do something legitimate to earn their living. It is a bit of our fault too, who waste too much.

 

[mihai]

When you're born Romanian or Russian you gotta be inventive!!!!!!!!!!!!

you sir must know it all

 

[pvdhaar]

When you are born poor and lazy you gotta be inventive, right?

Lazy, OK. But being born poor shouldn't be held against anyone..

 

[Pherdinand]

it's not held against anyone.
Fact is, if you are born rich, you don't need to do this. If you are born poor, you can try it the proper way, or you can try internet tricks.

 

[pvdhaar]

Fact is, if you are born rich, you don't need to do this..

But it also doesn't keep anyone from doing this. Wealth doesn't equate to moral standards. The bag of tricks may differ, but on the ethics scale it's no different.

Many of the "419" scammers don't act on their own. They don't even have the money themselves to buy internet access time. The scammer works for someone 'higher up the social ladder' who funds internet access time, expects a return on investment, and stays out of the heat when things go bad..

 

[Pherdinand]

I've just read an article on a nigerian boy who got wealthy from the '419' scams.
Kind of interview.
It was very interesting to find out details. Like, they are doing it from a public netclub, which has written on its door "No 419 emailing from this club". It's apparently a high level of corruption, involves from the club owner up to the people of the law, everybody more or less.

You're right of course. Everybody's stealing, just that wealthy people do it on a larger scale🙂

What I was meaning originally, is, that everybody tries to survive somehow, and some who have infavourable background (financial, educational, social) might be more 'motivated' to cheat for that. Of course this does not mean that everybody's doing it from that category, like it also does not mean that only these people do it!
I guess Mihai took it somewhat personally, which is a bit stupid since he obviously has nothing to do with it; moreover, i myself was also born in romania but i know much more nice romanians than nasty ones.