Those email scammers are sure getting creative

Christian Little Peon

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Found this in my spam folder this morning, it has to be one of the most unique email scams I've read in a really long time. Figured I'd share it for everybody to get a laugh at:

Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
J.Edgar. Hoover Building Washington D.C.
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
For more information call during working period
Telephone number: 2033330996

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Kelvin Williams, Zenith Banks, Mr. Michell Brown From union bank, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx,Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial obligation given to you in respect of your Contract / Inheritance payment, and also the wrong people that you have been dealing with earlier.

Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total US$11million in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of US$4,000 TO US$5,000 per daily withdrawal.

You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All i want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed for the delivery of your ATM card, and it will cost you US$125 only and note that without this payment your ATM card cannot be delivered to doorstep.

This is the only payment legally requested of you to do for ATM CARD, to be delivered to you safely. there is no other payment attached to this after the payment for your delivery has been confirmed.

CONTACT INFORMATION, ATM PAYMENT CENTER:

NAME: Mr. Harry Williams
EMAIL:
TEL: +234-704-214-556-9

Do contact Mr. Harry Williams with your correct details, to avoid mistake during delivery:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
PLACE OF WORK:
GENDER/ AGE:
BANK NAME:

So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment information which you will use in making payment of $125 via (WESTERN UNION TRANSFER) or (MONEY GRAM TRANSFER) for the procurement of your APPROVAL SLIP after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.

Please if you know you cannot be able to afford the US$125 for the shipment of your ATM card, then do not bother to contact Mr. Harry Williams for your ATM card shipment.

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advise only to be in contact with Mr. Harry Williams of the ATM payment center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to him so we could act upon and commence investigation.
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stevebcfc Peon

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Good one, they have realy put some work in to that,
does anyone actualy fall for these.

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redhits Notable Member

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lol, what an asshole...

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iborg Peon

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At least it ended up in your spam folder!

I've notice about 2 spam messages a week slip through the filter on my GMail account now! They are usually just blank messages, since I figure they are peddling their wares with a single image, which is not shown by default.

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medo80 Peon

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Spam is usually target to those who have no familar with those situation. Some of them are soemtimes fall in such prey.

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noob_bashing Active Member

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These guys send such emails to millions of email addresees at once. So even if the turn out rate is 0.000001% they still make good money. But they are still bunch of losers who steal from others.

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yogesh22 Peon

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Damn, fill the form and submit to my Harry

Millions waiting for you.

yogesh22, Jan 30, 2010 IP

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Now they are even pretending to be law enforcement agencies. Well anything for a buck

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shinigami Peon

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Don't be surprised. The worthless and the lazy will do anything for a little cent these days.

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That was a good read, I hope I get one soon!

TheVccMatey, Jan 31, 2010 IP

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medo80 said: ↑

Spam is usually target to those who have no familar with those situation. Some of them are soemtimes fall in such prey.
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huh , no way
who would fall for such an obvious silly thing

these spammers have lots of time to waste

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Rian Well-Known Member

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Yeah, these Nigerian 419 scammers are a busy bunch!

Here is the funniest one I ever read:

Nigerian Lost in Space:

Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA

Dear Mr. Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.

Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager

http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/
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Rian, Jan 31, 2010 IP