O/T Worst ever email scam

[Daza XIII]

Just thought I'd share as this really made me laugh. Possibly the worst attempt at an email scam I've seen arrived in my inbox today.
Check out the contact information at the bottom. He's spelt his own name wrong.


Dear Winner,
Winning Notification
This is to notify you that you have won £850,000.00 in
our online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are
picked randomly by computerised balloting, powered
by the Internet. Your email address was amongst
those chosen for this period.
Ticket no: 56475600545 188
Serial no: 5368/02
Winning number: 08.11.21.32.35.42. {47}
Draw (#1187)
To claim your prize, please contact:
Fiduciary Agent Mr.Brian Adams
Email:brainadams01@hotmail.com
Tell:+447011130383
Yours faithfully,
Dr. James P. Heller

[AussieFlyer]

I Got 2 Of It From THEM:

1st They Send This :

Barrister Patrick Pam {Patrick Pam
& Associates Solicitors Advocate
& Notary Public of Nigeria}
No: 24 Alaba Ikoyi street
Lagos-Nigeria



Dear Friend,
URGENT AND IMPORTANT

First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction and wish to
apologize to you if this mail might have wronged you in any means, and
before I continue I wish to introduce my self officially, my name is
Barrister Patrick Pam (ksj). A solicitor and the personal attorney to late
Engr. Mark, a citizen of your country, who also has the same last name
with you and i pressume you might be some how related to him, he was a big
time contractor here with one of the oil companies here in Nigeria, Herein
after referred to as my client. please see this site for more information
on the death of late Engr Mark,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4368516.stm,


On the 22nd October 2005. My client, and his family were involved in the
Belview Plane-crash, my client and his entire family unfortunately lost
their lives in the Plane-crash accident, which also claimed several lives
also. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate
any of my client's extended relatives, which has proved abortive after
these several unsuccessful attempts then the need to contact you emanated.


My main reason for contacting you is so that you may assist me in
repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they
are confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where they are
deposited. The bank where the deceased has a fixed deposit account with
the total sum of $ 18,000,000 {Eighteen Million United States Dollars.}
The said bank has issued me a final notice to provide the next of in to my
client or they will be left with no other choice than to confiscate his
funds and have them transferred into the reserved account of the federal
government of Nigeria for their private use.


Since then I have been unsuccessful in locating my client's relatives for
the past two years now,So in this effect i seek your consent to present
you as the next of kin of my client, so that the said funds as stated
above i.e., the sum of Eighteen Million United States Dollars can be paid
to your account as the next of kin instead of leaving it for the bank and
the federal agencies. We can take part of it and leave the rest to charity
organizations if you so desire. I must let you know that this transaction
is 100% risk free and safe, because I have all necessary and legal
documents that will be used to back-up whatever claim we are going to
make, all I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
arrangement through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.


I have decided to give you 40% out of the total sum while 55% will be for
me and my office and 5% had been mapped out to offset whatever expenses
that we may likely incur at the course of this transaction. Kindly supply
me with the following information:


*** YOUR FULL NAME
*** YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
*** YOUR DIRECT TEL/FAX NUMBER{S}
*** YOUR AGE AND OCCUPATION


I wait to hear from you urgently,
Best regards,

Barrister Patrick Pam (ksj)
Equity and Trust Chambers

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

AFTER 2 DAYS They Send This :

From the Desk Of:Prof Charles C. Soludo
Executive Governor (CBN)
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT FROM {CBN},
REF: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/06
[OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR]

ATTN: Dear Valued Contractor ,

IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT CONTRACT NO: MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009

During the auditing and closing of all financial records of the
Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) it was discovered from the records of outstanding Foreign
contractors due for payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria in the year
2005 that your name and company is next on the list of Those who will receive
their fund.

I wish to officially notify you that your paymentis being processed
and will be
released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also Note that from the
record in our file, your outstanding contract payment is USD$25.7 Million
(Twenty five Million,Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars).

Kindly re-confirm to me if this is inline with what you have in your
record and
also re-confirm to me the information below to enable this office Proceed
andfinalize your fund remittance without further delays.

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile
3) Company name, position and address.
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) Copy of Drivers
License I .D.


As soon as the above information are received, your
payment will be made available to you via an international certified
bank draft, which will be delivered to your doorstep for your
confirmation. You should call my direct number as soon as you receive
this letter for further discussion and more clarification.

Best Regards,


YOURS SINCERELY,

PROFESSOR CHARLES C. SOLUDO,
GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT FROM {CBN}

[Garbagecan]

omg...i do receive those too.
Either its a winning lottery email drawn by some kind of computer among all internet users (hey what a coincident i have won amog
billions of other users...small world ).
or someone passing away and leaving a fortune behind which needs to be transfered from a bank in Mocambique to Switzerland and
for the help you receive 40% of the lump sum of 14.000.000 Pounds....

wonder what do they want to achieve with this kind of email...does anybody really reply to them?

Occassionally there is one mail regarding penis enlargment ect but i receive this emails seldomly....i guess everybody has now a large
penis and this method of spamming is no good anymore. muhahah

take care and always wear boxers when going public swimming

[Captain_Smith]

Bah, not as much as I get!

I've won the Spanish national lottery (who can't even spell English in their e-mails) about...5 times in the past week or so. I'm a
millionaire!.....

[Canada_Boy]

Haha, we have actually received stiff like that by phone before too..

I get a lot from my Ebay account, from people trying to get your password, so on.
Some people need a life, instead of trying to rip others off, with fake emails.

@ Victor...

[JanniCash]

I kept the same, public email address for many years now and it is plastered over thousands of news and mailing list posts that one can find via
google. I sometimes get dozens of those scams every day!

A serious word of caution especially for our younger members is in order here. The senders of those emails, however stupid, are criminals. Keep that
in mind and act accordingly whenever you are dealing with them.

That off my chest, here is some fun reading about a dangerous sport related to these email scams - scam baiting.

http://419eater.com


Jan

[Garbagecan]

That off my chest, here is some fun reading about a dangerous sport related to these email scams - scam baiting.

http://419eater.com

omg i have spent 4 hours already reading and laughing on that site. One of the scam baiters really made one of the scammers handwrite
the "entire" Harry Potter book.... read for yourselfselves and wet yourself--> Harry Potter & The Well of Scammers

Great find there Jan thanks for sharing


greets

Victor

[DBE]

Garbagecan wrote:
Great find there Jan thanks for sharing

Same here: great post, Jan!

[PaulAH]

Powered by the internet ..?

Do you think I could power my house if I rig up some cable from the ring main to the modem?

[crowebird]

That 419 site is one of the greatest things ever!

[JanniCash]

The 419Eater is a fairly old website. I keep returning to it from time to time. Reading those stories makes coping with the ever growing flood of spam
and scams a little easier.


Jan

[Joeflyer]

I couldn't begin to count the # of these scams that find their way into my email. It's a good thing they all go into the junk mail folder anyway
This is so cliche-ish, but if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is...

[DSW334]

You guys are so lucky with all that money.. The only things I win by e-mail is either one free blue pill for every 10 I order, or a free P***S
enlargement if I buy a whole truckload of those damn pills...

[Joeflyer]

Naaa, Arjen....even if you bought the truck load of blue pills, it would be another scam. You would have bought a truck load of blue dye
placebos

[JanniCash]

What's the difference between blue pills and red pills anyway? I mean, yes, I saw the Matrix and all that, but that's the movie. Is there a difference
between them in the real Matrix?


Jan