Amusingly obvious internet scams

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I thought the one about swine flu turning people into zombies was quite good. They made it look like the BBC site so I believed it.

I thought you said Zombies aren't real.

 

[Fairee]

I thought the one about swine flu turning people into zombies was quite good. They made it look like the BBC site so I believed it.

I thought you said Zombies aren't real.

Of course they aren't, I should have known that. But it's the BBC, you CANNOT doubt the BBC. They only speak the complete and utter truth.

 

[Jedamethis]

my sister (age 14) actually downloaded an 'anti-virus' program because our computer was 'infected' with '13 malware programs.'

it wiped my family desktop's hard drive.

i have my own laptop, however, so i laughed.

was she blond? i just wants to know, since thats probably one of the most silly things ive ever heard a woman do.

Unfortunately this is much to common... I work in a Computer Repair Shop and I have a few customers a month come in with fake AV's that have convinced them that their Norton/Kaspersky/Nod32 is wrong and needs to be removed for the other one to clean the 100+ malicious programs that of course don't exist.

I feel really clever now

 

[Fraught]

I keep winning the Irish lottery. It's awesome.

I keep winning the Irish, British, German, French...I think I've, to this day, won the lottery in almost every single European country to date (though I really haven't seen any Scandinavian lottery scams).

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I thought the one about swine flu turning people into zombies was quite good. They made it look like the BBC site so I believed it.

I thought you said Zombies aren't real.

Of course they aren't, I should have known that. But it's the BBC, you CANNOT doubt the BBC. They only speak the complete and utter truth.

They dedicated 10 minutes of news to a fake story about flying penguins.

 

[Fairee]

I thought the one about swine flu turning people into zombies was quite good. They made it look like the BBC site so I believed it.

I thought you said Zombies aren't real.

Of course they aren't, I should have known that. But it's the BBC, you CANNOT doubt the BBC. They only speak the complete and utter truth.

They dedicated 10 minutes of news to a fake story about flying penguins.

It was an April's Fools joke. But then again, you wouldn't know much about humour

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I thought the one about swine flu turning people into zombies was quite good. They made it look like the BBC site so I believed it.

I thought you said Zombies aren't real.

Of course they aren't, I should have known that. But it's the BBC, you CANNOT doubt the BBC. They only speak the complete and utter truth.

They dedicated 10 minutes of news to a fake story about flying penguins.

It was an April's Fools joke. But then again, you wouldn't know much about humour

So THAT'S why the zookeeper laughed at me...

 

[Cheesus333]

Not really scamming, but this virus some of my friends have is where it automessages everyone online on your contact list with something along the lines of 'Hey, is this you in this photo? [random link here]' Two things I find amusing about this:
1 - It assumes my friends capitalise and punctuate appropriately (BIG mistake)
2 - The fact they have the virus implies they were thick enough to follow the damn link in the forst place.

 

[Fairee]

I thought the one about swine flu turning people into zombies was quite good. They made it look like the BBC site so I believed it.

I thought you said Zombies aren't real.

Of course they aren't, I should have known that. But it's the BBC, you CANNOT doubt the BBC. They only speak the complete and utter truth.

They dedicated 10 minutes of news to a fake story about flying penguins.

It was an April's Fools joke. But then again, you wouldn't know much about humour

So THAT'S why the zookeeper laughed at me...

No, he was laughing at that ridiculous thing on your head

 

[Jerich0]

my sister (age 14) actually downloaded an 'anti-virus' program because our computer was 'infected' with '13 malware programs.'

it wiped my family desktop's hard drive.

i have my own laptop, however, so i laughed.

was she blond? i just wants to know, since thats probably one of the most silly things ive ever heard a woman do.

nope, but she is 14. and female.

(female = smaller brain)