It's Spam-Tastic! (How to tell)
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Posted on: 11/22/07
It's Spam-Tastic! (How to tell)
If you get an email like this, it's spam.
If you're not expecting Canadian Pharmacy Deals, Friendly Encounters, or Overseas Lotto Winnings... delete it.
Here's an email that was sent to me.
Allow me to translate.
If you're not expecting Canadian Pharmacy Deals, Friendly Encounters, or Overseas Lotto Winnings... delete it.
Here's an email that was sent to me.
Allow me to translate.
Call me harsh, but if spammers want to do a propper job, they need to step up.
** Red Points By Me
Dear Friend, a real friend would never say "FRIEND"
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as
unserious could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish
and accept it with a deep sense of humility, I am the manager of bill and
exchange at the Foriegn Remittance Department of Bank Of Africa, Burkina Faso-West Africa, In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10M (Ten million US dolloars) in an account that belongs to one of ourforiegn customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash. This entire paragraph is one scentence! This is totally fake!
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department Super Vuege Identification of No One now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to thedeceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
billbecause the banking law states that, if such fund remain unclaimed for many
year's and then, the fund will be transfer into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foriegn account, and 60% would be for me,while 10% will be for expenses (if there is any) There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the
money will be remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application to fill and send to the bank. In other words... they will take your banking info, and run with it. You'll never see your money again. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is free risk and you should keep this transaction (TOP SECRET) and do not let the bank notice that, I contacted you to claim this fund but I will be giving you all information from the bank until the fund is transfered into your account.
This transaction will only take us 14 banking days enough time for me to set up shop with your money elsewhere because as a banker, I know what to do and move the fund into your account without any delay. You should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. Who talks like this on planet earth? You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter.
Yours faithfully.
Mr.ALHJI DANGOTE No space after the Mr.
Bill & Exchange Manager, ( B.O.A) Who??? I found a website for them... but it looks totally fake: http://419.bittenus.com/SalifAli/
Call Me on this Number after reading this mail You mean reading this "email?" Phone +226 76 36 15 20
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