The formatted it perfectly for the Nigerian Money Scam (tm). If they had offered the funds in anything else, it wouldn't have worked the same.
It's kind of funny though, they showed the only guy in the test group who was stupid enough to fall for it.:) I guess he was proud of himself for donating to a cause, but even then, you don't know if those funds are going to the needy, or to the operating expenses of the project. As the lady said "the project has run out of funds, and we were wondering how to get funding again." Funding, while some can go to worthwhile purposes, also goes to salaries, space, phone lines, internet expenses, and other overhead expenses.
I know someone who works for a non-profit charity. Due to either rules they work under, or the famous "we've always done it this way", a lot of funds are wasted in places that aren't necessary.
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Re:British using USD?
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TapeCutter
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Most reputable charities will provide information on what percentage of the funds are chewed up by admin.
20-30% is typical and not unreasonable.
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Re:British using USD?
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While it seems that the full name was correct, I'm wondering if the banking information was correct. You can fake most information with just knowing a bank routing number and knowing how many digits long the banks account numbers are, and if you use the right routing number a basic check thru a site like Federal Reserve Financial Services (http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search_ACH.cfm) would make it seem legit info. Just wondering
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Sadly it seems a lot of people still think $10,000 is a briefcase full of cash. Lets break it down shall we.. Assuming they used standard US bills we get the following:
$10,000 = $100 x 100 bills = 1 stack of 100, $100 bills
$10,000 = $50 x 200 bills = 2 stacks of 100, $50 bills
$10,000 = $20 x 500 bills = 5 stacks of 100, $20 bills
$10,000 = $10 x 1000 bills = 10 stacks of 100, $10 bills
$10,000 = $5 x 2000 bills = 20 stacks of 100, $5 bills
$10,000 = $1 x 10000 bills = 100 stacks of 100, $1 bills
At 0:14 when they open the case you can clearly see several stacks marked as $100, some as $50, and some as $5. If the briefcase truly has $10,000 in it, the stacks marked with $100 bills must be filled with something other than $100 bills as a single stack would equal the amount the briefcase was said to hold. Given the variety of bills in the case, it appears they went to a lot of trouble to convince us that they gave away $10,000 USD. The reality is they probably didn't, and that the entire thing was just as staged as the briefcase full of cash.
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From this point on I will always wonder - is this an advertisement event to give money to Nigeria, or a nigerian scam sent by advertisement
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This is encouraging people to respond to spam!
I have to go through almost four minutes of this and find out that the contest ran almost one month ago?
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Why are British people using USD ? Is it because there currency is worth 1.6 times USD?
While it seems that the full name was correct, I'm wondering if the banking information was correct. You can fake most information with just knowing a bank routing number and knowing how many digits long the banks account numbers are, and if you use the right routing number a basic check thru a site like Federal Reserve Financial Services (http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search_ACH.cfm) would make it seem legit info. Just wondering
Attention... all grammer nazi"s! Is they're anything; wrong with: my post,
Sadly it seems a lot of people still think $10,000 is a briefcase full of cash. Lets break it down shall we.. Assuming they used standard US bills we get the following:
At 0:14 when they open the case you can clearly see several stacks marked as $100, some as $50, and some as $5. If the briefcase truly has $10,000 in it, the stacks marked with $100 bills must be filled with something other than $100 bills as a single stack would equal the amount the briefcase was said to hold. Given the variety of bills in the case, it appears they went to a lot of trouble to convince us that they gave away $10,000 USD. The reality is they probably didn't, and that the entire thing was just as staged as the briefcase full of cash.