Stangmar2008-06-06 06:12:26
After 2 years of being 100% spam free, a scam email finally made it into my inbox. It reads like this, and was good for a laugh. Obviously somebody out there falls for this poopoo, or they wouldn't keep sending them. I remember before i locked my email down from spam I would get these almost every week. The fact that they are STILL going around has me worried that there really are those out there gullible enough to give their info away.
So, what is the funniest one you've seen so far.
You sir, are a dumbass. Good day.
So, what is the funniest one you've seen so far.
QUOTE
DEAR PARTNER,
Good day, I am Mr. Song Lile, staff of Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong, I have a
business proposal of $19,500,000, for you From my bank. There were no
beneficiaries stated concerning these funds which mean no one would ever
come forward to claim it. I want us to work together so as to have the sum
transferred out of my bank into your account.
Should you be interested Please treat this business with utmost
Confidentiality and send me the following:,
1, Full names,
2, private phone number,
3, current residential address,
Finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this
Operation. I will prefer you contact me via my private email:
songlileprivate1313@yahoo.com.hk
And this is my private phone number Is: +852-367-86701
Regards,
Song Lile
my responseGood day, I am Mr. Song Lile, staff of Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong, I have a
business proposal of $19,500,000, for you From my bank. There were no
beneficiaries stated concerning these funds which mean no one would ever
come forward to claim it. I want us to work together so as to have the sum
transferred out of my bank into your account.
Should you be interested Please treat this business with utmost
Confidentiality and send me the following:,
1, Full names,
2, private phone number,
3, current residential address,
Finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this
Operation. I will prefer you contact me via my private email:
songlileprivate1313@yahoo.com.hk
And this is my private phone number Is: +852-367-86701
Regards,
Song Lile
QUOTE
You sir, are a dumbass. Good day.
Unknown2008-06-06 06:56:12
Bad idea on responding. For them, it means you've read the whole thing and they'll send more.
Unknown2008-06-06 07:49:41
Yeah, I heard/read from somewhere that responding pretty much tells them "OMG ALERT! ACTIVE EMAIL ACCOUNT!" Not a really good idea.
Casilu2008-06-06 08:04:33
Kharaen2008-06-06 13:17:43
You'd think they'd at least try to get something more official then a yahoo address to scam you with o.0
Stangmar2008-06-06 20:37:23
I think the worst I've seen was when we were trying to sell a van we owned online, and we were asking for 10,000. A guy contacted us, said he was in Canada, and would offer us 12,000. He said he would send us a check for $17,000, and needed us to send the $5,000 to a 'courier' that he specified that would transport the vehicle to canada. We go along with it just to see if he actually bothers to send the fake check, which we promptly have checked out at the bank, and our suspicions were confirmed. Heh, we never heard from that guy again.
Gartinua2008-06-10 04:25:28
People do fall for these sort of 419, Nigerian or advance fee frauds. There was a story a few months ago where someone in Australia had embezzled a fair bit of money and was sending it to one of these set-ups. He got caught and naturally enough his overseas business partner disappeared.
I get a fair few of these a day, 212 spam mails in the last week. If I'm really bored I sometimes read them for amusement. They're certainly more interesting than the ones where it has a single URL and then some random text.
The more dangerous ones are the ones pretending to be banks, sometimes they make obvious mistakes like this one:
You think OMG my account has been suspended, I better go and re-enable it so you go to that site and type in your username and password and the bad guys now have it. Of course the trick is that we don't have Plc at the end of company names, but still they get smarter and I'm sure they fool some people.
It is amazing people fall for it, I guess greed can make you do some crazy things.
Some people just like to play around, a site called 419 eaters has some of the things people have tried to get out of the scammers. My personal favourite being the one where the scammer wood-carved commodore 64.
I get a fair few of these a day, 212 spam mails in the last week. If I'm really bored I sometimes read them for amusement. They're certainly more interesting than the ones where it has a single URL and then some random text.
The more dangerous ones are the ones pretending to be banks, sometimes they make obvious mistakes like this one:
CODE
Westpac Bank Plc       Online Access Suspended
You think OMG my account has been suspended, I better go and re-enable it so you go to that site and type in your username and password and the bad guys now have it. Of course the trick is that we don't have Plc at the end of company names, but still they get smarter and I'm sure they fool some people.
It is amazing people fall for it, I guess greed can make you do some crazy things.
Some people just like to play around, a site called 419 eaters has some of the things people have tried to get out of the scammers. My personal favourite being the one where the scammer wood-carved commodore 64.
