I fell terrible for the victim. It must have been devastating when he learned he was scammed. I remember getting a similar text message before, it said there was problem with my bank account. There was even an instruction to call a different phone number to reach the bank's security department. The problem was, I didn't have an account with the bank. I contacted the bank and reported the scam.
The sender's phone number was 25363827 and this page https://www.callercenter.com/25363827.html revealed everything I need to know about the scam. Grrr! It's terrible how easy it is for the scammers to perpetrate a scam.
But banks don't operate like that. And everyone should know that by now.
The only thing that can be wrong with your account is somebody trying to hit it, and your bank will call you to verify a certain charge that looks suspicious to them. If they can't contact you then they'll freeze your account until you come in to speak to them. No bank would engage it's customer to transfer money anywhere. That's nothing but a pigeon drop and I can't believe there's still people out there falling for it.
[quote author=Snoopster link=topic=93421.msg594564#msg594564 date=1413573657] They fell for Madoff and Sir Allen certificates of deposits offering 15% rates of return.
There is a sucker born every minute Bro. 8)
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But that's different from the pigeon drop. The pyramid is an age old money game that capitalist and wannabes been playing for thousands of years. In recent times it was renamed Ponzi scheme, but it's the same pyramid game going all the back to the first civilization of Sumer. It's a known gamble from the start. But the pigeon drop is a whole different thing. It's the kind of yokey doke that you can't get hit with but once, because an ignoramus is tricked into parting with their money, and when that s*** happens you won't fall for it ever again. At least I've never seen a person who fell for the pigeon drop twice.
[color=navy]Greed will make people fall for anything. Be it the pigeon drop or the Ponzi scheme. The common denominator is human greed. The really good fraudsters are experts in exploiting people over their own greed.
The pigeon drop on the old man above is really about numbers though. The fraudsters call about a 1000 people and it's a good day if they con only 1 of them. 8)
I think the man should of gone to his bank to find out if anyone from there did make a call to do this. The man may have been naive, and believed the person on the phone as genuine and thought his account is locked or a problem with it. It is sad how people will stoop low to make easy money, by taking it from someone else and enjoying themselves and not caring about the victim.
