Interesting spam-scam I just received... - GoFuckYourself.com

PhillipB · 01-31-2008, 11:15 AM

(not sure if it's been posted or if this is an old one, but figured I'd post it again for those that didn't see it)

Just received this from a friend of mine. I'm pretty good at recognizing spam, but this one contained her full name AND the company she owns so it made me do a double-take. This is one of the more clever Nigerian scam e-mails I've received over the years...

Quote:

How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain.

I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $ 950 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management, I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1050 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $2000 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i need your help.i have decided not tell my family so that they will not be worried.when I return I will tell them and they will understand.

I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home so please let me know on time so that i can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.Hope to hear from you.

lazycash · 01-31-2008, 11:30 AM

If we all posted our Nigerian scam emails it would fill up all the front page threads daily. Funny thing about that email though is that it appears they are taking the hard luck begging approach rather than the usual "i have all this money coming to me and just need a little bit in order to access it" approach."

Tom_PM · 01-31-2008, 11:39 AM

You mean it had her name and company in the From and/or Subject? How could they do that without something running on your machine to deliver that info somehow?

Diligent · 01-31-2008, 03:46 PM

.. or it could be something lurking on HER machine - which spams out whatever message it's instructed to with her contact details to every address it can collect.

Yah, that's a twist on the regular ones.. That stuff will never end :\

Bugbee · 01-31-2008, 03:50 PM

Phil btw I am stuck in calabasas can you please wire me some money so I can get to LA for the XBIZ show??

PhillipB · 01-31-2008, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Bugbee

Phil btw I am stuck in calabasas can you please wire me some money so I can get to LA for the XBIZ show??

LMAO! Sure, will $5 cover it?

PhillipB · 01-31-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by PR_Tom

You mean it had her name and company in the From and/or Subject? How could they do that without something running on your machine to deliver that info somehow?

Apparently they hacked her Hotmail account, read though it, and then used the details of a few e-mails to develop their scam. Amazing to see a human doing this as oppose to a bot just blasting a list.

Bugbee · 01-31-2008, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by APN Philip

LMAO! Sure, will $5 cover it?

$10 i am a big tipper

$5 submissions · 01-31-2008, 05:44 PM

Somewhere, somehow, someone falls for those.... thereby inspiring yet another daily flood of crap.

Gabriel · 01-31-2008, 06:36 PM

So is she gonna send the $$$ or what?

I got my eye on another Benelli.

DBS.US · 01-31-2008, 08:41 PM

It's a scam if the say,,,,,,"sum of $2000"

01-31-2008, 11:39 AM	#3
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01-31-2008, 03:46 PM	#4
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01-31-2008, 03:50 PM	#5
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01-31-2008, 05:44 PM	#9
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01-31-2008, 06:36 PM	#10
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01-31-2008, 11:30 AM	#2
lazycash Troll Patrol Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Local Socal Posts: 15,214	If we all posted our Nigerian scam emails it would fill up all the front page threads daily. Funny thing about that email though is that it appears they are taking the hard luck begging approach rather than the usual "i have all this money coming to me and just need a little bit in order to access it" approach."

01-31-2008, 08:41 PM	#11
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