Comments on: Smartphone owners lured in new lottery spam

By: sk

sk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:53:13 +0000

I would never even imagine that there are people on this planet who would fall for such crap!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:56:34 +0000

“mobile messaging could become a new frontier for cyber-crime”

New frontier? These kind of scams has been going on in the philippines for as long as I can remember when I moved here late 1999.

So nothing new about it at all. And if your dum enough to send a complete stranger your money you deserve to lose your money.
I called as guy that had texted me a message like that and I told him use the money from my winnings. Guess what, he hung up.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:50:11 +0000

Why bother posting this as a news article? All us clever people must spend a good day or two reading this scam warnings only to find out that only stupid people will get fooled by them anyway. I wonder what the economic costs are resulting from the time lost in people reading all these warnings? If it took 5 mins x 100,000 people x average of £10/hr then it would have cost £83,333 in lost productivity. Probably more than people get scammed for in the first place.

Should just let stupid people do stupid things and wipe themselves out from the gene pool.

By: killawife

killawife — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:24:48 +0000

Lol at noobs!

By: äm-irk

äm-irk — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:39:20 +0000

Smartphone does not equal smart user

By: desperado

desperado — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:29:39 +0000

You can always express surprise that a same person can have enough intelligence to use a smartphone and enough stupidity to fall for a scam like this, but the fact is, it can happen. Just like all the other scams, it’s “The Law of Big Numbers” that comes into play i.e. if you send enough messages to enough people, eventually one idiot will fall for it. That’s human nature for you

By: mbdc

mbdc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:48:28 +0000

And people couldn’t see that coming!!

By: EmperorAtahualpa

EmperorAtahualpa — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:13:53 +0000

smartphones require smart people.

By: Cabe

Cabe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:30:18 +0000

@S. Tupid
Well said.. It’s not the problem just that they are stupid, it’s that they get blinded with greed.. Something like love, just a little more expensive and a lot less satisfying XD.. so, as soon as you feel greedy go find a warm hole where to leave your stupidity.. put it in a plastic bag though, stupidity and ward holes is not so safe either XD

By: S. Tupid

S. Tupid — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:59:12 +0000

What surprises me is that these stupid people usually have so much money to spend (lose) in the first place. I agree with many of the comments that they deserve what they get. It’s not just stupidity though, there’s a fair share of greed mixed in as well.

By: reap

reap — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:37:55 +0000

I would offer 2€ coin with a price of 10€ and I bet people would actually buy…

-There are no stupid comments only stupid people

By: handi

handi — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:18:36 +0000

I neveer call these things “scam” – for me its like asking someone on the street for money and if he gives it to me, well, then i deserve it.

count on the stupidizy of mankind!

By: mickey d

mickey d — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:17:42 +0000

If you are stupid enough to fall for this type of scam then you deserve to be ripped off. Also if you are stupid enough to fall for this then can you please send me your email address so i can think up something to con you out of your life savings

please email

i_am_stupid@rippedoff.com

By: Buzz

Buzz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:54:19 +0000

Why would you not jusst say “take the fees away from my prize, and send me the rest”?
Still, news must be pretty slow if this is getting through the filters :S

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:52:48 +0000

i was a victim to that scam … i live in Egypt and i received an SMS 6 months ago from saying that i won 182,000 GBP ,,i believed it… and then i called the number they put in the SMS ..and they told me and i sent the picture of the passport and the national ID ( which was very stupid of me ) and then they sent me a an EMAIL containing a form that contains some kind of a virus or a spyware that Hotmail blocked me from downloading … i googled the whole situation and i found that it’s a fraud & scam . i called back and told them that i will report them to the interpol. Although i didnt pay 500 or 1000 GBP …but still i lost money for calling UK … i couldnt stop blaming myself for 2 days …not for the money …but for the stupidity. I learned a very good lesson !!!