Beware of “www.Tagged.com” Scam
One of the latest phishing scams circumnavigating the internet these days comes from the url “www.tagged.com”. This highly-organized scam arrives in your inbox via a friend or an acquaintance’s email address. The email reads that the sender would like to share photos with you via the website “tagged.com”. The financial experts at Thrive.com say “Quickly delete [the email], and inform the friend that sent it to you that their email account has been compromised.”
Here’s what the email may look like:
If you do click either yes or no you’ll be taken to another page which will ask you for personal information, from email account passwords to credit card information.
Thrive.com says:
There is always a risk in giving out your personal information. But never, ever give out your passwords or financial information online. No reputable business would ask for it in this way.
(hat tip: Thrive.com)
June 13th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Since I have been “hooked” by this nasty scam how do I get removed from their records. They sent their scam to everyone in my address book. Do I have any recourse?
June 14th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
salut
June 15th, 2009 at 10:32 am
William,
I’m really sorry to hear that. Unfortunately I’m not sure at the moment — but I’ll certainly do some research for you. The exposure of your address book is one of the fundamentals of this scam.
Sorry to hear about your misfortune, I’ll let you know when I find out more.
Thanks for sharing your story,
Tim
June 18th, 2009 at 4:48 am
i have received such mail today . I am told that i have won 500,000. pounds. This looks as if its comming from tagged .How can i verify if this is coming from tagged
June 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Leonard,
I would just delete the email and not click on anything!
Thanks,
Tim
June 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Me too… I just recieved e-mail that my tagged account won the lucky draw of $150,000.00.And requested me to contact the claim agent with details below.
MR KELLY PATRICK MICHEAL
Email:taggedremitoffice@googlemail.com
Lastly , they requested some of my personal information below.It seems this is coming from Tagged Inc.
“include the following: your full name/contact address/phone number/country”
CONGRTAULATIONS FROM THE LOTTERY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Tagged Inc
110 Pacific Ave Mall Box #117
San Francisco, CA 94111
©2003-2008 http://www.tagged. com All Rights Reserved.
Anybody can hep me to verify this message or how to verify it. I believed this is a scam?
Thank you & regards,
Joseph
June 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Joseph,
I wouldn’t trust anything coming from tagged.com, especially if it says you won the “lottery.”
July 6th, 2009 at 2:09 am
feb,2009 i have been scammed.it was my first time cos i didnt have any experiences of this side.i spoke the person myself and he told me everything about himself,his true id.after all when he took money of me.well you maybe say that im crazy,well when you in love your blind right.anyway i felt that i,ve been betrayal u know.i was very upset but what can i do,nothing.i want know what can you do with people like this?where do you go? who can you talk to?i believed that if tagged .com is full of scammed,isnt there that you should check their background?well bye for nowand thank you.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Vani,
Sorry to hear that. I found a website by searching “tagged.com scam” on google. Here is the link: http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/phishing_Tagged_dot_com.php.
This site offers some suggestions about what you can do about it, who to talk to, how to fix the problem, etc.
Hope this helps, thanks for commenting,
Tim
July 12th, 2009 at 12:33 am
if anyone has information about privacy violations concerning tagged.com, or any company associated with that company, feel free to contact me at: malleylaw@gmailcom
I am a privacy attorney reviewing the matter.
The lottery issue noted above is interesting and I have not heard that noted concerning this matter. How many companies ar working with tagged.com related to advertising etc? If anyone has any applications downloaded while on tagged.com, I really would want that info.
Thanks
Joe Malley
malleylaw@gmail.com
July 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Joe,
Thanks for commenting. Did you hear NY Attorney General Cuomo is suing tagged? We have a blog post from last week that discusses Tagged.com’s CEO’s explanation of the problem.
Do you buy their explanation of what happened?
Thanks,
Tim
July 15th, 2009 at 8:20 am
How about this one?? Anyone already received this mail??
TAGGED USER
Your email account have been credited with (200,000.00 USD) held recently,Send your email and your Number.Full Name 2.Gender: 3Age.4.Contact Address: 5. Country of Residence 6.Nationality: 7.Occupation:
8.Telephone Mobile
TAGGED, Inc.
8391 Beverly Blvd. #349
Los Angles, CA 90048
USA ©2003-2008 http://WWW.TAGGED.com All Rights Reserved
Delete or give answer???
Thanks,
Robert Bergsma
July 15th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Robert,
Thanks for commenting. Is this postal mail or email?
I can’t tell you what to do but it sounds shady to me. Why would your email account need to be credited? Emails have little to do with money. I would go online and A.) check if that’s even their real address and B.) hit the “contact us” button on Tagged.com and send them an email telling them of the message. I wouldn’t respond to this.
Good luck,
Tim
July 17th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
hi, how can I get out from Tagged
July 18th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Verginia,
Thanks for commenting. I would just cancel your account.
-Tim
July 25th, 2009 at 12:14 am
You got rocks in your head. did you even resuarch this? I guess you wouldn’t know this is not a scam. the true reason why you would of recieved this mail is because the sender gave tagged.com their email address and password. the page you go to is a sign up page to join a legal social networking site. You are asked for your email address and password only to invite your contacts to join. exactly as you do when you sign up for Myspace, FaceBook and all the other social networking sites. But don’t take my word for it. Greg Tseng CEO of Tagged inc explanes it in much better detail. http://blog.tagged.com/?p=4
July 25th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Says:
June 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Me too… I just recieved e-mail that my tagged account won the lucky draw of $150,000.00.And requested me to contact the claim agent with details below.
MR KELLY PATRICK MICHEAL
Email:taggedremitoffice@googlemail.com
Lastly , they requested some of my personal information below.It seems this is coming from Tagged Inc.
“include the following: your full name/contact address/phone number/country”
CONGRTAULATIONS FROM THE LOTTERY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Tagged Inc
110 Pacific Ave Mall Box #117
San Francisco, CA 94111
©2003-2008 http://www.tagged. com All Rights Reserved.
Anybody can hep me to verify this message or how to verify it. I believed this is a scam?
Thank you & regards,
Joseph
Tim Manni Says:
June 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Joseph,
I wouldn’t trust anything coming from tagged.com, especially if it says you won the “lottery.”
OMG I can’t believe your ignorince. clearly by looking at the return email address(taggedremitoffice@googlemail.com ) you’ll see this did not come from Tagged.com (FYI in an email address the domain comes after the @ not before like in this address) get the email header and trace the IP. my Money is on that this scam mail came from Nigeria. hummm an amiture posing as a professional. kind of like lamb done up as mutton.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:33 am
hi, all I’ve ever done is talk to people. I’ve never spent a penny on anything, I’ve never played any games like lotteries or anything like that. I’ve only made friends with 2 people, my daughter being one of them. Another person who I was about to make friends with is actually the brother of an old boyfriend from almost 30 years ago, but it is difficult to recognize him and I approached him asking him about who he was, if his last name was actually who I thought he might be. Is this sort of activity a problem or is it just in the area of money and ID?
August 1st, 2009 at 7:35 am
i have a messege on my tagg account that say you have exceeded your captcha limit now i cannot send email etc to my friends ehat can i do to correct this problem
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
Susan,
Sorry I can’t say for sure. I think asking someone to confirm their identity online would be a smart thing so you don’t get duped. But I don’t really know much more than that, I’m not a tagged user or a big social networker.
Thanks for commenting,
Tim
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Wayne,
The only thing we can really suggest is to contact Tagged’s support staff or webmaster and ask them.
Sorry we can’t help,
Tim
August 17th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
tagged is fu** it lot of shi* do not trust anythink at all i was told i won 500,000.00 us dollars but they wont be to pay for a couier to keep safe why i cames to my country lot crap it’s sad these day win lotto was a good fellin and now these day u have double check before you get happy…..sad…sad…..sad fuc* scamer’s
September 13th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I have been a member of Tagged for about a year now and i have never seen evidence of phishing
September 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
i have never recieved an email saying that I won a lottery or that I had won money
September 14th, 2009 at 7:46 am
I should say, be careful with the people you talk to, they are the ones who would fool and lure you to send them money. I had one who even sent a picture of his son ,therefore I thought he was for real, then he started asking for money for some business he wants to start for “our” family..I bailed out right away even though he sounded for real.
Dawn
September 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Thanks for sharing Cory. From just what I’ve heard, it seems Tagged is like any website out there, in the fact that they are open to phishing, scams, and the like. There is supposedly a FaceBook scam out there now. I actually received one of those spam emails from Facebook saying that a friend “invited” me to join, but they never did.
Hope to hear from you again soon,
Tim
September 14th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Hey Dawn,
I was just telling Cory that a friend of mine sent me a email that looked as though it came from FaceBook. The email said my friend was inviting me to join, but when I asked her, she said she never did anything of the sort.
The internet is open to a host of dangers for all who use it.
Thanks for commenting,
Tim
September 15th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Dear Friend,
Thanks for the mail and for your interest in this Business Transaction. My name is Hameed Rasheed,am from Lagos Nigeria. I work with Fidelity Bank Nigeria Plc. I will like to confirm to you that am oblige to transact this business with you, i need your assistance to stand as a beneficiary to the sum of $17..8 millions united State Dollars lying down unclaimed in our bank, what really happened is that during the course of our auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in the year 2000 and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account Dr.Ahmed Hassan Ghoubashi an United Arab Emirate Oil Merchant and great industrialist ,who was a foreign contractor with theFederal Government of Nigeria, unfortunately lost his life in a car accident including his wife and kid. Ever since his death the money has been lying unclaimed.Now i need you cooperation to claim this money because only someone from foreign country can stand as the beneficiary.
And the Banking law stipulates that any money lying unclaimed for seven years will be transferred to federal government suspend account with central bank of Nigeria. Please i need your assistance to achieve this great chance because i do not wish this money transferred to Central bank of Nigeria because it will be shared among the top directors, this people want to cheat this man , i don’t want it to happen , i want us to get this money out for him and help the poor with it and also help ourselves.
I want you to be rest assured that this transaction is 100% real, safe and Legal, because i will successfully inputs your name in the necessary files and also insert your information into the Bank Central Computer as the Next of Kin to the late depositor(Dr.Ahmed Hassan Ghoubashi) and the sole beneficiary of the unclaimed fund after the death of the depositor.I will use my position and influence in the Bank to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. I want you to know that i have all the Necessary Documents that will be needed to stand as a proof when you are claiming the money.Such as the (Certificate of Depositor & Death Certificate of the Late Depositor).
I also want you to know that nobody knows about this account or any thing concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that the account is a secret account.That why none of his relative knows about these Account. The total amount that was deposited is $17.8 Million United States Dollars.What i want you to do for me now is that i need your co-operation to claim this money,what i mean is that i want you to stand as Next of Kin to this Late Depositor (Dr.Ahmed Hassan Ghoubashi) and beneficiary to his fund,so the Money can be Transferred to your Nominated Bank Account.
The reason why i am contacting you is because this money can not be approved to a local person here in Nigeria,but to a foreigner who has information about the account.Which i shall give you all the necessary information about how to claim this Money.At the End of this Business Transaction, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for me. while the remaining 10% will be donated to the Motherless and Orphanage home in your country.Immediately i confirmed that the Money as been Transferred to your Bank Account,i will apply for a leave and take my flight to your Country to take my Part of Share of the money.
I assure you that we will get this money as long as you act on my instruction,because i have made my research about this Business Transaction and i know the successful outcome of this Business Transaction and i want you to be rest assured that you won’t get in any problem.I am a Muslim i can’t do anything to hurt my brother in Islam,just put your trust in me and leave the rest to god and i believe god will help us.Please i want you to be honest with me because this money is a golden opportunity to me and i do not want to loose it. For the business to be effected i will need the following.
1.Your full name:
2.Your full residential address:street,house no,block no,city,state,zip code,country
3.Your direct telephone number and email address,
4.Your date of birth
5.Your Occupation
6.Your Sex
7.Marital Status
With all these information i will successfully inputs your name and information in the necessary files and also insert your information into the Bank Central computer as the Next of Kin to the late depositor and the sole Beneficiary of the unclaimed fund after the death of the depositor.So when the Bank start there Official Verification and Certification to confirm if you are the real Next of kin,your information will be found in the Bank Central Computer as the Next of Kin to the late Depositor(Dr.Ahmed Hassan Ghoubashi) and sole Beneficiary to the Fund.Make sure you keep this Transaction as a top secret and Confidential matters,don’t tell anyone about it until we archive our noble aim.
(N.B). Which country are u presently?..
Thanks and Regards,
Mr.Hameed Rasheed
September 15th, 2009 at 8:37 am
this is one of the scam email from tagged members, then eventually wil get your account and personal information, PLEASE READ BELOW:
My dear Daughter,
I am drenched with tear while writing this short message to you. It was a heartbreaking news to me few days ago when my doctor notified me on complications on my health condition which he officially made known to me. He further stressed that the complication I had in my human mechanism as a result of a secondary liver cancer which have destroyed all the organs in my body system. According to him, he said that this complication will lead to my imminent death since no medication can alleviate the high system of deformation i am encountering at this time in my system.
As a great business woman specialized in the sales of Gold and Diamond Jewelries, I have enough in stocks which i havent sold and from the look of things i wont stay long in this earth. My surgery will commence on Wednesday, and i know you can be trusted and as a fellow woman, you will understand the pains i am passing through now. Looking at your age and your looks, i beleieve you can be trusted. I am so excited when i got your mail.
My dear Daughter, i am right now in the Hospital in Malaysia. I am an orphan, i have no one and the man that adopted me died with his wife along side his brothers last year, his brothers are not nice to me because they know i am not the real daughter and they want to take all he left for me. They have taken cars, house and others, but i manage to escaped to Malaysia with my illness b’cus i wouldn’t want them to take the Gold and Daimond Jewelries that i have saved.
So i need your quick response so i can make the arrangements to bring it to you and tell you what i need you to do for me with it before i die.
Thanks and remain blessed.
Valerie Hardwick
Lond, Uk.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I was actually invited by my significant other to join Tagged and all of the so-called “phishing” where the website is asking for deeper personal information is optional to answer. If you are all stupid enough to actually fill it all out and then have the balls to whine about it, then you have no business being on the internet at all. I have had my problems with Tagged Inc, but we have worked them out and we are on friendly terms again as a result of both sides LISTENING to each other.
Now go whine a b***** somewhere else and grow the f*** up already!
September 18th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Shawna,
Glad your problem got worked out. Yet, you said it yourself, you invited your significant other to join Tagged. Now say you didn’t, but he or she got one of these “phishing” emails that said you did. Would you still be calling them stupid if they filled it out? People are much more suseptable when they receive something from a “trusted” source.
But, your right in the sense that you have to be extremely careful on the internet.
Thanks,
Tim
September 24th, 2009 at 4:11 am
This is a new one below:
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:11:25 +0100
Subject: PROCEDURE TO CLAIM PRIZE
From: taggedclaims01@sify.com
To: tem_btm@hotmail.com
Greetings from Tagged Company, My name are Tracey Paul I am the officer assigned to winners in cash in the prize awarded labels. The draws for the participants were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of labels that guests enjoy their patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system associated person alias Labeling ACCOUNT
subsequently won you 250,000.00 GBP. (Two hundred and fifty thousand Great British pounds) as a boat of winners. As part of International Promotions Program, this takes place this September 2009 in United Kingdom, London. This promotion is approved by the British game and also licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This promotion is the 1st of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public. To begin the verification process of your prize, you are required to fill out the form below and send check
NOTE: All information is strictly confidential and used only for the
purpose that has been requested.
(Section A Personal Information **)
Prefix (Mr., Ms., Dr., etc.):
Name:
Surname:
Middle Name:
Date of birth (yyyy-mm-dd):
Occupation:
Gender:
Address:
City / State / Province:
Country:
(Section B ** Winning Information)
Mobile number:
Your network name:
Amount won (in the figure) £:
Amount won (in words):
Date :……
(Section C ** Internet e-mail address of contact (s) Are you a member of another dating site (If Yes, Name)
I wish on behalf of all members and staff TAGGED congratulate him/her on his/her award and wish him/her the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.
Claims Agent
Mrs. Tracey Paul
September 24th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Thanks for passing this one along Temanaf.
-Tim
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 am
i was a victim of london nigeria scam, they use Mr.jerry Vasilatos a film maker i didnt know then, untill i found him on facebook & myspace, the scammers uses his pictures & his nephew’s. i told him about it already.i just pray for those people to receive very bad KARMA if not by them by their love ones…. AND TO ALL WHO IS IN NETWORKING FOR FRIENDS OR LOOKING FOR LOVE?,BE CAREFULL IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE THEN ITS A SCAM!!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Edith,
Thanks for warning us and that’s good advice!
Visit us again soon,
Tim
October 8th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Hi. I was on Tagged.com. One friend I talked for years prior to Tagged.com so I know he is for real. However, I got fooled by two others. One is constantly harassing me for money which I won’t give. And the other one won’t talk to me anymore because I won’t send him money. I have cancelled my account with Tagged.com
October 8th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hey Rose,
Thanks for commenting and sharing your experience. Has your issues with Tagged turned you off from using other social networking sites?
Thanks, hope to hear from you soon,
Tim
October 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
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October 12th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
MY FIANCEE IS POSTING THIS TO EVERY SITE, FORUM, COMPLAINT SITES, ETC. AND WE MUST HELP STOP TAGGED FROM WASTING SO MANY PEOPLES TIME. SEARCH IT IN ALL THE SEARCH ENGINES AND YOU WILL SEE TAGGED IS BEING BLOCKED IN PLACES AS THEY STEAL YOUR FRIENDS AND INFORMATION. HERE IT IS:
TAGGED.COM SUCKS! THEY DELETED MY PROFILE. ALL THE MESSAGES AND COMMENTS FROM MY FIANCEE AS WELL AS ALL THE COMMENTS I SEARCHED MANY HOURS FOR… ALL OF IT… GONE!. 2500 plus friends. all comments, pics, pic comments, journal, messages … everything! GONE!
TAGGED DID THIS TWICE!! TAGGED CANNOT BE TRUSTED! GET OUT AND GO TO A REAL SITE BEFORE IT HAPPENS TO YOU… YES I LIKED TAGGED. BUT WHEN U LOSE ALL YOUR STUFF… ESPECIALLY THE NEXT TIME …YOU WILL HATE TAGGED FOR WASTING YOUR TIME. IF YOU CREATE ANOTHER SITE THEN THEY PUT A BLOCK ON YOUR COMPUTER SO YOU HAVE TO ENTER CAPTCHA TO DO ANYTHING.. and yes I was an active member and had a few decent friends. The other 90% were mostly scammers and fakes. All of my decent friends are leaving there because as others have said in many places, it’s mostly lowlifes anyway so why even bother with a failing scammer site. And by the way, it was a Christian based site with christian music by Michael W. Smith and Chris Tomlin, etc. One of the cleanest sites on tagged! With so much nudity and even people being killed from meeting members you would think a decent guy had a chance.
WIKIPEDIA SAYS THE FOLLOWING ABOUT TAGGED.COM:
A TIME magazine article called Tagged “The World’s Most Annoying Website”.[22] Tagged asks users for their email username and password, checks their email address books for contacts and repeatedly sends email invitations to people who are not yet on Tagged, stating that they have been “added as a friend” or that the inviter had sent them photos on Tagged. This process has drawn criticism in the technology press[23][24] and from users.[25] These emails were discussed as possible spam by Black Web 2.0.[26] The resemblance to a virus has often been mentioned, including by urban legend site Snopes.com.[27] The New York Times referred to the practice as “contact scraping” [28]
In July 2009 New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to sue Tagged.com for “deceptive email marketing and invasion of privacy” [29] According to the press release, Tagged.com engaged in “deceptive Email Promotions, Identity Theft, and Invasion of Privacy ”
Prior to co-founding Tagged, Greg Tseng was co-founder and CEO of internet incubator Jumpstart Technologies.[30] In March 2006, Jumpstart Technologies settled with the Federal Trade Commission on alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, which included a $900,000 fine but no admission of guilt.[31]
From February 2009, Tagged.com has been blocked in Qatar by the only ISP, Qtel, after a number of complaints from the public.[32] Tagged.com had been one of the 10 most visited sites in Qatar.[33]
October 12th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Eve&Colin,
Sorry to hear about your struggles with Tagged. Thanks for sharing and please visit us again soon.
Thanks,
Tim
October 13th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I have just received notice that I have won 250,000.00 British lbs. It arrived as taggedclaims01@sify.com Who would have sent me this scam?
October 13th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Hey Linda,
That’s odd — are you a tagged.com member? I get spam like that all the time — just never from a ‘tagged’ address (I don’t have an account).
Thanks,
Tim
October 15th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Hi i became a member of tagged over a year ago,I have come acroos more scammers than friends, i almost was fooled by one these idiots, I even got one of them to admit he was a african from nigeria he said they try to scam us out of our money so they can purchase real-estate in Africa and make money the majority of them are young men 18 -25 yrs of age, i feel sorry for the peoples who photos they are using as their own something needs to be done about these Idiots..
October 18th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hey Lori,
Thanks for commenting…I’m seeing a common theme here.
-Tim
November 7th, 2009 at 1:26 am
First of all, much of what I’m reading is not a problem with Tagged perse, but rather gullible people.
Let’s be real, if you’ve been on the internet or have watched tv for at least a year, we’ve all heard about these scams & phishing schemes.
If someone, ANYONE tells you that you’ve won a lottery that you NEVER entered & proceeds to ask you for your personal information, then you should be immediately suspicious about such a thing & recognize that you’re being scammed & not by Tagged.
These scams are quite easy to spot, VERY EASY. For example, someone who’s been on Tagged for over a year yet has exactly ONE friend & a bunch of page views…well, it doesn’t take much sense to recognize that thisd is likely someone who’s trying to get you to view their webcam exploits.
A video of a half-naked girl on someone’s page? Most likely to lure to get you to click on that video so that you’ll be redirected to a porn site or a dating site featuring naked girls.
Even the Nigerian scammers are easy to spot. If someone’s profile tells you that they’re from California, but the yahoo address that they post has .au or something like that, then they’re NOT FOR AMERICA!
And use some sense. What half-naked girl with an obviously fake picture is really looking for love on ANY internet site?
A mind’s a terrible thing to waste & some folks need to try to use theirs before they lose them.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Re. hallo hey some one send me this Says:
September 15th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Come on mate, do you REALLY believe that that correspondence came from Tagged?
Have you still not heard of PHISHING?
Just because I send you an email which CLAIMS to be from Tagged, doesn’t necessarily make it so. If you read the wording of the email, it’s certainly not worded as an American would speak.
For example, there’s this sentence:
“This promotion is the 1st of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.”
This is no condom commercial & no American would use the word ’sensitize’ in this context. And no LEGITIMATE lottery would be asking you for a check so that they could send you a bigger one. It would make more sense that since you’ve won, that they’d simply deduct any fee from your winnings & sent you the rest.
Serioiusly folks, use your common sense, or simply check out a few websites such as Urban Legends or Snopes in order to keep up with the latest scams.
Worst of all, most of thew scams that I’m reading here are more than 10 years old & for anyone surfing the internet to not know that is downright sinful.
November 8th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Hi Tim, I sent a comment about my experience on http://www.tagged.com on Oct. 8th. You replied to it. I don’t know of any other social networks.. I would like to check some of them out. Any suggestions? Thanks..
November 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hey Rose,
Thanks for commenting again. I don’t belong to any social networks, so I wouldn’t know.
Sorry,
Tim