Funny email scam.

[dezrtfish]

Yeah that ebolamonkey site is some funny shite

[dezrtfish]

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.

[dezrtfish]

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.

[Jermofoot]

@Cmdr:

@Jermofoot:

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

[Imperious Leader]

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:

[dezrtfish]

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 :-(

[Guest]

I feel so ripped off… I only get Porn Spam :-(

[cystic crypt]

(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 . . . .

[newpaintbrush]

@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.

[Imperious Leader]

Its my first one ever. I heard about them but never had one show up on my service.