A new high point in PayPal-money-request audacity:
What, you might wonder, does "Login and Learn" have to say for themselves in the money-request message?
Note from merchant:
Please make payment in full. All sevices will continue once payment is made. A dynamic new innovation for helping thhe less fortunate.
This guy tried a strange sort of attenuated advance-fee-fraud bait; "Login and Learn" appears to have a similar strange strategy, but based around... a bogus educational charity, I guess?
I wonder if I'll ever get one of these weird requests for an even larger sum than this.
(Now you jokers'll all be sending me trillion-dollar invoices, won't you?)
17 January 2011 at 11:36 am
I read it as "Login and Learn"... what you're paying for. After receipt of USD$10,000, you receive your login details to find out what your 10 g's bought you!
The "less fortunate", clearly, is them - hey if you can shoot 10k to persons unknown for reasons unknown then you are indeed probably more fortunate than them.
17 January 2011 at 8:11 pm
That's really not a very intelligent way to go about it. People are going to take notice of a $10,000 invoice. Now one for say $9.95 labeled as an annual subscription renewal I bet the odds are FAR higher that someone might look at it and think, "Huh, don't know what that is, oh well better pay it."
I bet someone somewhere has done a study of how frequently people will pay an unrecognized bill vs the dollar value of the bill.
18 January 2011 at 2:10 am
"A dynamic new innovation for helping thhe less fortunate."
You, a rich Australian, give me, a poor Nigerian, a lot of money! Isn't that a great idea? Innovative?
20 January 2011 at 8:48 am
I'm now sending you an invoice for the GDP of the entire world... only problem is you can't fit that many zeros into the damned box!
19 February 2011 at 10:13 pm
Why stop at a mere trillion? We're going to ask you to pay off the national debts of all the world's governments. Muwahahahahahahaha!