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Thread ID: 65870	2006-02-02 22:57:00	On the stupidity of people	Biggles (121)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
426582	2006-02-03 01:12:00	I think a dummies course should be compulsary with all computer and internet connection purchase. My husband's grandfather for example bought a computer two years ago, but upon receiving a recent CD full of our wedding photos they rang us to find out "how to work that CD"....... Instead they gave us a photo frame and told us to print out our favourite. :groan:	Mary (6534)
426583	2006-02-03 01:15:00	Ah, but that is simple, and excusable computer ignorance. Thinking that someone from Nigeria really does have $25m they want to share with you and only you, having somehow discovered you on the others ide of the world and found you to be an excellent fellow ... ... well, that is just plain stupid. Not ignorant. Not misguided. Not even gullible. Just stupid.	Biggles (121)
426584	2006-02-03 01:21:00	"... financial advisers, lawyers, and university professors ...". The first two classes are trying to get rich with other people's money. They have seen their colleagues going to jail for gambling their clients' money away, so that's obviously risky. But "overseas investments", with huge percentage profits, what could be wrong with that? :cool: :thumbs: I don't know about the professors .. perhaps business school, economics, accounting ... ? :help:	Graham L (2)
426585	2006-02-03 01:25:00	I don't know about the professors .. perhaps business school, economics, accounting ... ? :help: Not professors of African history, that's for certain .....	Biggles (121)
426586	2006-02-03 01:34:00	I agree: Police are staggered by the amount of money gullible Australians are losing to Nigerian investment scammers, with internet rorts netting more than A$7 million ($7 . 7 million) from Queenslanders alone . Among those being duped are financial advisers, lawyers and university professors . One person put A$2 . 2 million into the hands of scammers over the past two years . Inspector Brian Hay, from the Queensland fraud and corporate crime group, said yesterday that he expected the trend to be replicated across the country . "This is not geographically bound by state borders - this would be everywhere," Hay said . How else could you interpret it? Cheers Billy 8-{) :D	Billy T (70)
426587	2006-02-03 03:08:00	LOL Bruce B has a bee in his bonnet today! ;) Needs a serious session of a RTS game to take his mind off things, methinks.	Greg (193)
426588	2006-02-03 03:09:00	It's greed IMHO. People see the chance to make a large amount of money for nothing. The scammers usually offer the victim a percentage of the total amount as payment for their services. Usually in the millions of dollars. Once the victims judgement has been clouded by greed, all they can see is the lure of loads of easy money. Then they go on sending the scammer money convincing themselves that the big payday is just around the corner. Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed. - Thomas Harris	Mackin_NZ (6958)
426589	2006-02-03 03:13:00	LOL Bruce B has a bee in his bonnet today! ;) Needs a serious session of a RTS game to take his mind off things, methinks. Stupid people annoy me. They give the rest of us humans a bad name. Imagine in the future when we make first contact with the Vulcans and instead of asking us all about how we managed to build a warp-capable space ship in an old missile silo, they instead snigger and say: "Oh, yes humans, we've heard of you. Aren't you the guys who used to fall for all those corny internet scams back in the 21st Century?" (cue Vulcans, not a race known for their sense of humour, falling about laughing on the floor ...)	Biggles (121)
426590	2006-02-03 03:21:00	Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed . - Thomas Harris But how did these flaming morons manage to miss every single warning about Nigerian scams for the past 10 years? I mean come on . I could be the greediest SOB on the planet and I'd still have to a certifiable vegetable NOT to know about Nigerian scam emails . A phishing attempt with a phoney Westpac site? Sure, I can see how folks get suckered into these . But get-rich-quick schemes involving millions of dollars of somehow "misplaced" funds in a dodgy African country that some guy emails me about out of the blue? Of all the peoiple in all the world and he emails me with this hush hush deal? People who fall for this stuff should not be allowed to breed .	Biggles (121)
426591	2006-02-03 03:24:00	Pulling out nasal hair hurts.	Metla (12)
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