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Originally Posted by mszee
I liked yahoo address too...that was a stroke of genius...plus a mobile as a phone number...
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Asherley ... it's not a mobile number. It's a "personal number" ... these are numbers unattached to a real phone. The owner can then arrange for calls to be directed to a landline or mobile phone or voicemail system etc. See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01...am_phone_hook/ for more details.
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Originally Posted by mszee
Can't understand people who spend even one moment thinking it's legit
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Neither can I, but the fact is that a small percentage of people have that winning combination of extreme stupidity and greed necessary to fall for these things. The scammers rely on this percentage being enough, compared to the number of emails they send, to bring in the money.
Dave