Click here to claim your reward!

I never fall for any of those scams because if it shows up in my Spam folder, I know that it's a complete and utter scam. Haven't been on the giving end of one, so I can't quite comment on it.

 

I've been scammed many times. By the same person.
It was my little, 4 year old sister.
She got me to buy her and my little brothers each a balloon and then, on another trip, eventhough she already ate, she conned me into buying her and Tim (my youngest brother) Chick-fil-a.

...at least she's sharing?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

 

Back in middle school or something, my class was in the computer lab doing some kind of guided research assignment. Probably exploring the internet on Netscape with the help of Ask Jeeves.

*cough* Anyhow.

The whole class was instructed to visit some particular website, and each and every one of us got a popup ad saying "Congratulations, you're the 1,000,000th visitor! Click here to claim your prize!" We all cracked up because somehow we were all the 1,000,000th exactly, not the 1,000,030th or whatnot. These days it's more obvious, but these days we also have Firefox, Google, and ad-block to replace our Netscape, Ask Jeeves, and Nigerian princes.

On that note, did you know Nigeria does not have princes, or any monarchy at all, for that matter? Nigeria is a republic with a constitution and whose head of state is a president. No princes to be found there.

Also, why do I have to claim my "rearward"? I don't even know what that is, but I hoped I already owned it. At least give me my rearward gently, please.

 

Currently, my mailbox is a spam-mail junkyard. I checked one day only to see that I had 116 unread email messages. Only four that day were not spam. Aargh! They were from the same companies trying to scam people out of their money by advertising gift-vouchers, cars, vacuum cleaners and dinner plates.

Sometimes, people call on the house phone claiming that my dad had an accident, but he's never had one! They ask him to pay lot's of money but they're hoaxers.

 

It's interesting how many spam messages we can get! And @[member="Zero Sifr"], omg I didn't actually know that about Nigeria, thank you for that fun fact! It makes the scams even less believable LOL. I never fell for any exactly, but sometimes I misclick and accidentally press one and mentally curse myself. Though I did fall for one on a site called Milanoo, because I thought they had nice clothes at cheap prices, until I learned they just make clothes out of the cheapest materials possible...

 

Ooooh! Can I have my prize now? ^^
The first time I ever encountered such a spam thingie wasn't online, actually. I was watching my favourite crime series. An episode featured a woman who was scammed by a Nigerian group of thugs who promised you could make millions by using their little "tricks". The male main character said something about that (still one of my favourite quotes ever) : "They send out those e-mails and advertisements to millions of people. Only about two of them reply, but that doesn't matter, since they have found their prey."
I wasn't much of an internet person back then, but as soon as that started to intensify, I knew I wasn't supposed to fall for those fake advertisements anymore.
Honestly, some ads and e-mails have such horrible misspellings, I want to hurt them.

This is exactly why I use a second e-mail adress for all that spam. Thanks to that, I don't have to worry about all those annoying ad e-mails. I never see them. Whenever I sign up for something, I use that second e-mail. I only send the really important things (things I know won't spam me, like school) to my primary e-mail.