A man in Ireland has managed to trick three con artists into sending him money.聽 Image: INQUIRER.NET Stock Photo
As long as you have had an email or mobile phone, chances are you have gotten a suspicious message asking you for money.
While some people have replied to these messages with the goal of annoying scammers, a man in Ireland has managed to trick three con artists into sending him money. He then sends the sum to a charity.
Ross Walsh, a 22-year-old university student, interacts with scammers who reach him through email. In Walsh鈥檚 exchanges with the scammers, he claims to have sent them money and emails a fake money transfer, the Limerick Leader reported on Sept. 28.
He then states that the bank refuses to process the transaction because it seems fraudulent. Walsh tells the scammers to send a small amount to his bank account so that the transaction will be approved.
When he receives the money, he sends them an invoice showing that the cash has been donated to a charity.
His latest success鈥攁nd the biggest sum he has received鈥攚as a 拢25 (P1,600) transaction in September, BBC reported on Sept. 30.
Walsh received an email from one Solomon Gundi who wanted 拢1,000 (P63,800) for a stock trading business. In exchange, Gundi promised half of the business.
Walsh pretended that he was a businessman himself and said it was insulting that Gundi only wanted 拢1,000. He sent him a doctored picture of a money transfer worth 拢50,000 (P3.1 million).
鈥淚 said [the bank doesn鈥檛] want to release the funds unless they see a small sum of money going from his account to my account just to prove this isn鈥檛 a scam,鈥� Walsh explained.
The scammer failed to sense that the deal seemed too good to be true and wired in 拢25. Walsh then forwarded an email from the Irish Cancer Society thanking him for a donation. He said the Solomon Gundi account has since been taken down.聽 Ni帽a V. Guno /ra
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