Scams

At this point I more or less find them funny. After the 100th Nigerian prince who's tried to make me a multi-billionaire, I started getting a little skeptical. Update including e-mail from 5 minutes ago...I am Wong Chin, i work in a bank in HongKong. I want to consumate alegitimate transaction of Thirty-Eightmillion Five Hundred and Ninety One Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety FiveUnited State Dollars.Please email me on [email protected] for final update.RegardsWong Chin.

The only thing that's annoying about scams are the people who fall for them. Update: I guess I shouldn't have used the word "only" because it isn't the only thing that's annoying about it. It was a poor choice of words on my part. But, I still stand on my general review. I do think people need to be a little more aware of things, especially in this electronic age that we live in. That's some of the reasons why I never bank or pay my bills online.

Annoying isn't quite the right word here. Online scams have gotten increasingly clever as the organizations perpetrating them grow with the pool of potential money. Scam organizations view their crimes as victimless since credit card fraud usually isn't accountable to the cardholder him or herself, at the end of the day, but fraud protection is an ever-increasing expense with costs that trickle down to us all. Hell, even the notoriously easy-to-spot Nigerian 419 Scammers are getting more crafty. One of them managed to dupe Citibank to the tune of $27m.

I'm not sure whether the perps or their victims are the most annoying.

"Make up to 175.00 a day working at home from your computer!...."

We should all do our best to watch our step at all times. Some people are really sneaky.