I seem to be getting a ton of letters from (a name no one can prounounce) in (pick a foreign country) where the laws have changed regarding asylum and personal items. Since the (pick an issue), the author's father has died, (or what-ever) and I am given the opportunity to keep 30% (average) of their diamonds (cash value) they would like to secure here in America for future investment...blah, blah, blah.
Now, I know better than to respond to this with any expectations, LOL...however, I would love to draft a letter to send back to get them to think twice about wasting bandwith LOL.
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
Don't.
If you answer them in any way they'll know they have reached a valid email address. One of the Talk Radio guys here a while back was telling (Tongue-in-Cheek) about all the millions of dollars he was scooping in from the Ivory Coast by sharing his bank and credit card info with all of these scammers - amazing how many people called to warn him off - they believed he'd really done it - also amazing were the stories from the ones who'd been taken to the cleaners, and nobody cares to stop the fraud.
I get about 20 spams a day and 2 or 3 of them will be these aggravating super deals. Posted by Murray MacDonald (Member # 3558) on :
Linda, just stay away from anything to do with this! No reply, no nuthin'. They will soon take you off the list, 'cause there are so many other suckers out there. MUR
Posted by Dennis Davis (Member # 4532) on :
Linda...Here is a site where people get back at the spammers seeking money for various causes.
I guess it gives some folks a bit of enjoyment to string the "seekers" along.
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
yeah i just got one from some dickwad that just got released from jail and he needs my help to put his millions in my bank account...maybe he should have used some of that money for a lawyer...dumb a$$. god i'm so sick of dumb people!
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
LOL Karen!
Fellas, I figure if they wanted to know if it was a real email they could simply click the notify gig. I shall take your advice though and not get involved!
I get one of these every day. Different person sending it and the only thing the stories have in common is the father is somehow kept from saving the day and the money needs to be in my world!
Ha ha ha!
...by the way, the first one I received said I won a draw with my email addy that was performed 6 mos ago...my new email addy isn't that old LOL.
[ April 27, 2004, 07:36 AM: Message edited by: Linda Silver Eagle ]
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Linda, you're lucky you did'nt down-load a virus.
I opened 1 vaguely familiar bulk-mail thing . . . thanx to yahoo, it said a virus had been detected and I trashed it. . . but it seemed like just OPENING a peice of this junk caused me to recieve a lot more stuff in bulk mail. For a while I recieved a bunch'a items in there mostly saying:
Re: your pics Re: your message Re: your software . ..and on and on from all kinds of strange addresses . . . so, I've noticed when I delete this stuff immediately without opening it, I get less and less of it.
Posted by Jackie B (Member # 186) on :
Linda - I used to get a ton of those every day. I just deleted them and they have stopped. Also, watch out for the newest scam where they ask for your valid e-mail address and other info for your citibank credit card. Another hoax.
Haven't these people have something better to do?
Bomba-Dear
Posted by Diane Crowther (Member # 120) on :
I doubt there's anything you can do to dissuade them. We were getting these things by snail mail for years before email came out. Used to be when I'd get a different one I'd pass it along to the RCMP, who has a division for this sort of thing, but there's too many to keep up with now, and the RCMP knows all about them so I just delete them.
It's actually a very dangerous scam and people have lost their lives over it - or at least never returned from checking it out, so I'd advise against making any contact.
Posted by Jean-Claude Theriault (Member # 966) on :
Diane, It might even be sent from Halifax: I was on a transit bus last month when a group of people aged 20's & 30's boarded and then openly discussed how they 'pulled the wool' over peoples eyes at their call center!
The next day I decided to visit the building on Spring Garden and there is a call center on an upper floor that has a locked door and no name posted anywhere. I did ask someone at the Hfx Regional Police as to their view on such matters and the guy who met with me stated that they were too busy to deal with 'possible' wrongdoings and they'd have to wait for a crime to occur before looking into this place. Not quite the response I was expecting.
Jean-Claude
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Ok, I am rollin in the floor this morning! Yet another letter!
ATTN:RESPECTFUL ONE
Compliment of the season,
REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before. Our Mother died long ago when she was about to delivered my most junior brother Micheal, she is 10 years old as of today, based that we lost our mother so early our father took us so special, we are only two from my mother's side, I and my brother.
Introducing myself , I am MARIAM SMITH 19 years of age the only daugther of the late Chief and Mrs Robert Smith, My father was a gold and cocoa merchant based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ) , he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips.
Before the death of my father on 27th February 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of USD$4.5M ( Four Million five hundred thousand U.S), deposited in Bank in ( Abidjan Cote D’ Ivoire , that he used my name as his beloved son for the next of kin in depositing the fund.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real estate management overseas.
More blah, blah blah and only 15% of the money lol!
Yours sincerely MARIAM SMITH
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Uh! Oh! With the percentage going down on these offers....you better grab this one!
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Ha ha ha Si! No chance dude!
I get a different one every day and thought this one was funny, notice how she can't keep her story straight? EIther she is referring to her brother as a she or her mother was only 10 yrs old, either way, too much information for me LOL.
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
WHAT GOES AROUND: Harvard University Professor Weldong Xu, 38, a former researcher at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, told colleagues, students and friends that he had started a research company in China to cure Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. He managed to collect $600,000 in "investments" from 35 people before police in Boston, Mass., caught up with him -- while he was pressing a victim for more money in the Dana-Farber cafeteria. The SARS research company was a scam. So what was he doing with the money? He told police he had a "business investment" with "partners" in N&ger&a he met by e-mail, and was to collect $50 million from a horde of cash -- a classic Internet fraud. "I tried to tell him he'd been scammed, but he never caught on," said Detective Steve Blair. (Boston Globe, Boston Herald) ...Proving you don't have to be stupid to be an idiot.
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