Richabri opened this issue on Jun 07, 2007 · 35 posts
Richabri posted Thu, 07 June 2007 at 7:44 PM
I know this is OT but I've really been getting a lot of ridiculous spam lately informing me that I have acquired vast sums of money. If these reports are true, by present accounting, I'm now wealthier than Bill Gates so I'll post whatever I want now and woe to anyone who would try and stop me :)
I used to just delete these emails on sight but lately I've been getting quite a kick out of actually reading them and revelling in how absurdly funny they are. Here a just two of the most recent ones I got today:
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*Dear Friend,
Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you
showed at the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and
show my gratitude to you with the sum of $250.000.00 (Two Hundred and fifty
Thousand United States Dollars) I have authorized the finance house
where I deposited my money to issue you international certified bank
draft cashable at your bank.
My dear friend I will like you to contact the finance house for the
collection of this international certified bank draft. The name and
contact address of the Person with your Bank Draft MR. John Murham,
is as follows.
COMPENSATION AND FINANCE HOUSE HEAD OFFICE
CONTACT AGENT MR. John Murham
EMAIL:compensation_sec_financehouse@yahoo.co.uk
Alternate e-mail:compensation_sec_finance@yahoo.dk
You are to fill the below information and forward it to the claims
agent whose name and email address is given above,to enable the easy release
of your claim.
FULL NAME (S):
COUNTRY:
RESIDENCE ADDRESS:
OFFICE ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER (S):
OCCUPATION:
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
At the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects
which myself and my new partner are having at hand. Finally, remember
that I have forwarded instruction to the finance house on your behalf
to send the bank draft to you as soon as you contact them without
delay. Please I will like you to accept this token with goodfaith as
this is from the bottom of my heart. Thanks and God bless you and your
family. Hope to hear from you soon.
My sincere advice to you as a christian is that you should endeavour
to pay your tithe to a bible believing church when you get the prize.
Yours Faithfull
Mr Jack Bruce
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This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS
($500,000.00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for
the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA AMILwhich all YAHOO users are required to switch onto.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that
are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only
select FIVE (5) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS)
without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to Africa due to we have 3 lucky
winners in Africa so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact
our African Location Claim Agent on or before your date of Claim.
Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification
after the Draw date in which Prize has won.
Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (14 days) will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF To claim your prize money,you are required to contact
Barrister Mr Felix Uche Nna
with your Batch number,Reff number,Winning number through his email below.
BARRISTER AT HIS E-MAIL:mrfelixuchenna@representative.com
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate them and
process the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:
Personal Information
Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
You select how to transfer the prize money to you:
Cheque Delivery To Your Address
Bank Account Transfer
Electronic Money Transfer
See what's happening on Yahoo.com today. Do you Yahoo!?
If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact this email,
mrfelixuchenna@representative.com
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Actually, in terms of syntax, these aren't too bad and I've recieved a lot worse but I'm wondering if the perpatrators actually ever succeed in convincing anyone that they are genuine?
Since Renderosity is an international website I wondered if anyone here knows the people behind these asinine emails? If so, could you please suggest to them that while their pigeon English may be good enough to sell their mothers and sisters to GIs that they need to study up on a little English syntax if they really hope to scam any English speaking people with these lame attempts.
I know that stupidity isn't a moral category but sometimes it rises to the level of a sin - or at least a crime. I believe this is the case with all of these silly attempts to perpetrate such lame frauds. I'm wondering if the persons behind these emails are also considered moronic by the people who live in the same backwater regions they hail from or shudder are they considered 'the smart ones' :)
If you know of such a person could you please send me their address. I'd like to send them a small donation so they can buy a bowl of soup - or a nice dress for their sheep :)