It’s another variation of the Nigerian “I want to deposit $1,000,000.00 in your bank account to save it from the corrupt government and will pay you $100,000.00 for use of your account” scam. I started getting these faxes in the 1990s, with the emails soon following after that. Half of them don’t even make any sense, but it is hilarious how they keep dropping obscure legal-sounding terms in the message (like “demurrage”) to make it sound official. It’s like they did an analysis of which words are more likely to get a response and loaded the message with those words – but it’s complete gibberish!
Thanks for sharing. :-)
You can nearly HEAR how their accent would be given the language they use. They were educated in British schools that were set up in Africa or perhaps just buggers from England.
Usually they can’t spell anything correctly, but they still try to play the game.
At the former AH forums they had alot of these losers posting to sell phones and computers. Nearly every day.
Their education has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of Americans that can’t type worth a crap. I think it has more to do with the elaborate scheme and fact they are contacting you out of the blue from Nigeria or whereever.
I think DF posted this site before, and it’s good enough to post again:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
Not safe for work or whatever. Pretty funny though.
Their education has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of Americans that can’t type worth a crap. I think it has more to do with the elaborate scheme and fact they are contacting you out of the blue from Nigeria or whereever.
I agree, especially when they don’t use a built in spell checker. :P
Just some ribbing, Jermo, but where-ever is two words, according to Firefox’s spell checker. But that’s okay. I consistently spell infantry as INfnatry because I type so dang fast!
Anyway, I agree, the education level our children are getting in grammar school is shotty at best, criminal at worst. So the text and spelling and grammar and punctuation of the aforementioned email scam may or may not be foreign based. It could just be some 18 year old knucklehead product of the day care system who’s pissed off because Harvard and Yale turned him down for admission.
Who knows?
Yeah that ebolamonkey site is some funny shite
Here’s a good one I got a couple days ago:
IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Ref: IR/23/987/60
Batch: 074/07/ZY569/WIN
This is to notify you that you have won 250,000.00GBP,
from this year 2008 Email draw.
For Claim contact the zonal co-ordinator Mr.Andrew Javon
Email: andrewjavon@live.com
Mobile phone: +44 703 193 7220
with your: Name,Home Address,Country,Age,Gender,Occupation,Phone
Sincerely,
William Moore
Online Co-ordinator.
One more just for fun :-D
Please permit me to request for your assistance in the management and administration of my latefather’s estate. May I intimate you that I got your contact from business desk of Chamber of commerce and industry here in England. BACKGROUND My name is Koba Neto from Angola, the son and only child of lateBrigadier General Augustus Neto of the Angola army. I am currently residing in Coventry refugee camp, England as a political asylum seeker.My late father in his WILL specifically mentioned that he deposited the Sum of $18.6 million dollars in a boxwhich he kept with a bank here in England and he mandated the bank to release this box to me on condition that a reliable, sincere and God fearing foreign PARTNER. Be contacted and involved in the managementof the funds.Please note that for your effort in the discharge of this transaction,25% of the total sum is offered. Please furnish me with your private telephonenumber for more effective communication.
Best regards, Koba Neto.
@Cmdr:
Their education has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of Americans that can’t type worth a crap. I think it has more to do with the elaborate scheme and fact they are contacting you out of the blue from Nigeria or whereever.
I agree, especially when they don’t use a built in spell checker. :P
Just some ribbing, Jermo, but where-ever is two words, according to Firefox’s spell checker. But that’s okay. I consistently spell infantry as INfnatry because I type so dang fast!
Actually, it’s wherever or where ever, no hyphen. :-P
Please permit me to request for your assistance in the management and administration of my latefather’s estate. May I intimate you that I got your contact from business desk of Chamber of commerce and industry here in England. BACKGROUND My name is Koba Neto from Angola, the son and only child of lateBrigadier General Augustus Neto of the Angola army. I am currently residing in Coventry refugee camp, England as a political asylum seeker.My late father in his WILL specifically mentioned that he deposited the Sum of $18.6 million dollars in a boxwhich he kept with a bank here in England and he mandated the bank to release this box to me on condition that a reliable, sincere and God fearing foreign PARTNER. Be contacted and involved in the managementof the funds.Please note that for your effort in the discharge of this transaction,25% of the total sum is offered. Please furnish me with your private telephonenumber for more effective communication.
Best regards, Koba Neto.
OMFG thats classic!
my favorite line:
……only child of lateBrigadier General Augustus Neto of the Angola army. I am currently residing in Coventry refugee camp
LMFAO!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I aparently have my email on the web too much, I got another one today:
Dear Friend,
Compliments of the day,I am a chinese national, I have a business
proposition for you that will be of great benefit for both of us; I
will send you more information as regards this transaction as soon as you
notify your interest,
Thanks and Regards.
I’m really disapointed with the effort put forward on this one :-(
I feel so ripped off… I only get Porn Spam :-(
(wife is at work, there’s only re-runs on . . . )
One could make a game of looking for certain buzz-words/phrases:
Christian, God, Jesus, Church - in order to demonstrate a religious (read: moral) background)
father, grandfather, uncle - demonstration that one is in line for the money
angola, nigeria, kenya, insert-banana republic-here
a large sum of money apparently variable and random - of which you will only receive a small (but substantial portion)
the requirement of a small sum of money - hundreds to thousands - for strictly legal reasons - an insignificant amount, next to the winnings, however.
words conveying a sense of urgency
legal terms and phrases - transaction, batch/certificate/reference numbers - alphanumeric,
diplomat, charge d’affairs, envoy, attache,
They will typically ask for personal communication info, but may provide a phone number.
I recommend making collect calls to this phone number. Either that, or provide a number that you will not be using for a while. Request a flight to their home city, or invite them to meet with you in your city. Not because you want to meet these animals, however because it would be fun to mess with them for a while. And who knows - you might get a free trip to Lagos out of it - i’d recommend getting off at Heathrow . . . see London . . . .
@Imperious:
I got this piece of crap in my email box… LMFAO!!!
S***, you think that makes you special? I get like ten a day.
Its my first one ever. I heard about them but never had one show up on my service.
