Comments on: Deaf Scam at FaceBook.

By: Lynn McGuire

Lynn McGuire — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:01:41 +0000

I have a deaf roommate who received an email saying that he could receive $30000 usd and a free laptop from the US government because he is deaf and this is available to any deaf person in the US and Canada (we live in Calgary, Alberta) I warned him that this is probably a scam, but he went ahead and contacted the person. Does anyone have any information regarding this? I don’t want him to loose his shirt over this, and he is a little naive in some aspects. He even posted on his facebook page that he is happy because he is receiving the money and new laptop! Please, any information would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Lynn

By: Katrina

Katrina — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:39:04 +0000

I had the same conversation on facebook with a woman who claimed she lived in Ohio US who had won the BSL lottery. I played along with the conversation and she wanted me to get in touch with ‘Harry’. I was obviously suspicious and googled it and found this page.
Shocking scam!!!

By: Kobus Nienaber

Kobus Nienaber — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:03:23 +0000

Thank you very much! I got the same thing through yahoo. A woman claiming to be from the US. I repeatedly stated I was not interested but she kept up with this conversation everytime she was online so I became suspicious and did a google search for “Deaf Lottery United Nations”, as I am from South Africa. Lotteries don’t work in different countries.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:57:51 +0000

Thank you very much! I got the same thing through messenger. A woman claiming to be from the US. I repeatedly stated I was not interested but she kept up with this conversation everytime she was online so I became suspicious and did a google search for “Deaf Lottery United Nations”, as I am from Australia. Lotteries don’t work in different countries.

Upon finding this post, I immediately hang on her and deleted the contact.

So thank you again for the warning

By: Ben Vess

Ben Vess — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:27:09 +0000

Now that I have a feed reader and putting together all my boomarks and stuff–I’ll never ever again miss a post you make, mishka!

Your scam isn’t so bad compared to Bernie Madoff, eh? hahahaha.

-Ben

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:05:00 +0000

I m from the UK and had a person who claim to be Paul and told me that I had won a brand new dell laptop and an $85,000 and said that an e mail was sent to me to claim it and he add me to chat on MSN an in which I accept to chat with him and he then explain what I had won and ask me to give him the information and details and mention that an e mail was sent to me 2 weeks ago and why I hadnt claim it!!!! I was demand for him to resend me the e mail again or give me phone number so my daughter will phone him personally (I am Deaf) and I ask him few questions and said that he was from Deaf Lottery and I know for fact that I hadnt done or e mail any Deaf Lottery..he kept on saying that he need my information and my name, age and job…I told him again and again to re send me the e mail and he said that he wouldnt be able to do it as he is only the agent and it different dept to resend the e mail I told him that I would happily wait for him to re send the e mail…and I then look your website and that How they got the Deaf people information from Facebook…so please please do be careful as I m not sure if it a scam but it seems to be it is and his msn e mail addy is paul_petrie@live.com..dont sure if that would be useful….and again BEWARE!!!!!

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:44:43 +0000

The scammer has a new name. The scammer goes by as Mary Trisha now.. lovinmary2003@hotmail.com lovinmary2003 (Yahoo) Beware!! I just encountered the scammer few mins ago. During the conversation I googled the names and this comes up.. Phew..

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:36:59 +0000

Please publish the names of spammers. I understand you’re trying to respect their privacy, but the whole point is that they don’t respect the privacy of others, yes?

By: mishkazena

mishkazena — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:21:47 +0000

Deaf Pixie, smart move. Glad you listened to your gut feeling.

Deaf Advocate, indeed. Now they have enroached the Facebook.

Bouyea, the hearing people are also preyed by other lottery scammers.

DP, ouch. Most of the time people fall for it because they ignore their gut instincts, hoping for once this will come true.

Peach, Diane, Dianrez.. they are pesky, just like cockroaches.

Tishia, thanks I’ll be sending you an e mail soon.

jj I love your game! I’ll do that next time *evil snickering*

Bill, the more public our e mail addresses are, the more we get these. Bloggers are high targeted.

Refugee, that’s an excellent idea. I don’t use my personal e mail addy. However, my public e mail addy is listed in my blog.

By: Robert Alfred Hawkins

Robert Alfred Hawkins — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:41:47 +0000

I’m weary of this. I never cease to amaze me how some take this so seriously on a daily basis bantering and broadcasting this and that for all to see but that’s quite the norm in certain components of the deaf and hearing populations.

This is like old news rehashed. That absurd kind has been going on long since AOL first came to be in my life in form of America Online for Macintosh launched in 1989 as a quite popular Apple Macintosh BBS.

But, of course, some of us have nothing better to do at a given moment such as when waiting. Couldn’t resist dishing out stuff!