The scam

My mother actually called those internet ads that says ‘Click here to win $1000!!’. You know what I’m talking about. Those banners that are placed in websites and it’s blinking.. She actually called the phone number thinking that she’d win the $1000. :lol: Yes my mom doesnt really use the internet like me. She doesnt even know how to check her email. She has like so many emails because she keeps signing up for she always loses her password or she doesnt check her emails that it becomes deactivated… Yeah so when she does check her emails, I worry that she might end up opening an email that has a virus on it. When I check my email, I dont open forwards because I’m paranoid that they have virus attached on them. Then now I cant even monitor it when she’s opening her emails and they have this funny videos attached. :slant: Yeah so she got so excited when someone actually picked up so that she can claim her prize… :ashamed: But it turns out it was a trip in Florida that they were offering. She sounded so disappointed on the phone because she really wanted the cash… :lol: You cant even claim the prize because you have to be a citizen and I think American.. Then when she hung up, I told her that it was all a scam and that to not fall for it again… :grin:

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6 Responses to “The scam”

  1. Laura says on August 11th, 2006 at 11:18 am :
    Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Windows XP

    My mom is JUST as bad as thta. But she never actually called them about the banner ads. Although she did give her work phone number out to some place when requesting information, which apparently sold it to a dozen companies, so now she gets telemarketer calls at work all the time. It’s terrible to talk bad about our mothers, but it’s SO scary that there are people like that. I wouldn’t let her use my computer, cuz I don’t want spyware or viruses! :slant: And she just thought I was being “a brat.” lol.

  2. Christine says on August 11th, 2006 at 3:48 pm :
    Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Mac OS X

    Yet another reason why I don’t let my mom online. Or my dad for that matter. Well, not on MY computer or MY account, anyway.

  3. Alyssa says on August 13th, 2006 at 3:02 pm :
    Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Windows XP

    Oh man. That’s pretty funny. lol My parents don’t know hwo to use the computer either. But I think they know about the ad scams. I dunno. They prob don’t but anyways. lol I’m the one that has to check my dad’s email cuz he doesn’t know how to log into yahoo. O__o

  4. Alyssa says on August 13th, 2006 at 3:03 pm :
    Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Windows XP

    Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that this is Alyssa from so-juicy.net/infatuated. I moved to a new site. =)

  5. Musme says on August 13th, 2006 at 8:10 pm :
    Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 Windows ME

    Those ads are so freaking annoying!! They are just fooling you… I think people actually do click them because if not they would’ve been off the ‘net a long ago. Yeah, you have to be a citizen, if not a resident…

  6. Lucas says on August 14th, 2006 at 3:35 am :
    Internet Explorer 6.0 Windows XP

    I bet she won’t ever but really ever call to any of those scam ever again lol Sucks though, wasted few dollars for the phone call. Can imagine though if she did win? You’d be so proud of her lol U should try Outlook Express for your mom. Its not that hard, maybe she will understand that better.

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