Mr. Pinball's Blacklist--Index of Scammers--Individual Email for Scammer--Rex Runner <pinballrunner@ymail.com>

Scammer email posted Mon May 28 10:48:58 2012

Subject: Vacation Problem!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Monday 28 May 2012
From: Rex Runner 
To: undisclosed recipients:

I'm writing
this with tears in my eyes,my fam and I came down here to London United
Kingdom for a short vacation unfortunately we were mugged at the park
of the hotel where we stayed,all cash,credit card and mobile phone were
stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.

We've been to
the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all
and our flight leaves in less than 3hrs from now but the hotel manager
won't let us leave until we settle the bills.

Am freaked out at the moment.

Thanks.

Rex

The above is the actual scammer email received. It has been scrubbed of recipient information.
If you received an email like this you have several choices.

Ignore the scammer. Do not respond to emails. Just delete them.
Respond, but only to lead the scammer on--to get a counterfeit check, to report stolen credit card numbers, and to waste the scammer's time. Time spent trying to scam you is time not spent scamming someone else.
Report the scammer to us and we'll post their emails so others will know about that scammer.

Whichever option you choose make sure you do the following:

DO NOT educate the scammer in any way. Educating a scammer makes them better at scamming the next person.
DO NOT let the scammer know that YOU KNOW they are a scammer. The scammer will always be nice to you if they think there's a chance they may still be able to scam you. If they know they've been discovered they will often threaten you. Their threats are empty, but are scary to some people.
DO NOT give the scammer any personal information that they cannot find in a phone book (name, address, and phone.) Feel free to give them lots of incorrect information.

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