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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: Don Karnage on February 08, 2008, 05:32:13 pm
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i received this email today and its another one of those frauding mail where you supose to received a lot of money.
Attention:
I am George Savvides, (Solicitor/Advocate),and the personal attorney to
late
Mr. Milton Sakar a National of United States Of America, who used to be
a
private contractor based in the United Kingdom, herein after shall be
referred
to as my client.
On the 1st of April 1999, he and his wife with their three children
were
involved in an auto crash, all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately
lost
their lives.
Since then, I have made several enquiries with his country's embassies
to
locate any of my clients extended relatives. This has proved
unsuccessful.After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you with this
business partnership proposal.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating a huge amount of money
left
behind bymy client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the
Financial institution where this huge deposit was lodged.
The deceased had a deposit valued presently at $15million US Dollars
and the
financial institution where the funds are lodged has issued me a notice
to
provide his next of kin or Beneficiary by Will otherwise have the
account
confiscated within the next thirty official working days.
All efforts to get in touch with a relative of the deceased has prooved
abortive, I hereby seek your consent to present you as the next of kin
/ Will
Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued
at $15
Million US dollars can be paid to you.
This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and
40% to you.
I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim we
make.
All I require is your honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to
enable
us see this transaction through.
I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with
me
urgently via email.
I welcome your opinion and suggestions regarding this business
opportunity.
Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.
Best regards,
George Savvides,
Partner Corporate & Fiduciary Group
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Nice catch Don.
I hereby seek your consent to present you as the next of kin/ Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at $15 Million US dollars can be paid to you. This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40% to you.
I can't believe how many people fall for this sort of stuff. Here's a random person asking you to commit fraud by claiming to the bank to be someones next of kin in order to collect his funds so the two of you can split it and some don't think twice. The greedy or ignorant deserve their fate.
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greedy and stupid, there is no easy money that's final.
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I get crap like that all the time. Next of kin scams, EU lottery scams, ect.
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I stopped checking my personal email because of this.
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I stopped checking my personal email because of this.
ohhhhh that's why you never answer me :'( j/k
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One day I actually got 10 of these, and 4 of them were the exact same spam, from the exact same sender.
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With my new business email address I've received like three of them all stating similar types of things. They got deleted without a response...
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You all would probably appreciate this article. I certainly do.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338908,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/cybersecurity
Scambaiters Turn Tables on Nigerian E-Mail Scam Artists
Revenge is sweet — and thanks to tattoo ink, sometimes permanent — for a growing legion of "scambaiters" who have taken it upon themselves to punish the thieves behind those Nigerian e-mail scams.
Posting their exploits online, scambaiters are turning the tables on the scam artists, conning the cons who have bilked unsuspecting people out of countless millions of dollars in a common scam referred to as the "419 scam" or advance-fee fraud.
Typically, scammers start an e-mail relationship and get their victims to send money to people who claim to be dying or who need help to free a fictitious dead man's money purportedly tied up in a foreign bank account.
The scambaiters play along, goading the scammers to jump through extraordinary hoops in hopes of getting their hands on their victims' cash.
One con artist gladly tattooed himself with a design that read "Bilked by Shiver" and sent the photographic evidence to Shiver Metimbers, the founder of 419eater.com, a Web site that documents the scambaiters' revenge.
Ahmed Sadiq, of Lagos, Nigeria, first contacted Metimbers in 2005 asking for money for a trip to Mecca. After repeatedly trying to shake Sadiq, Metimbers sent him the e-mail address of "Father Bruce Corbin," the fictitious head of accounts for the equally fake Holy Church of The Tattooed Saint.
After Sadiq contacted Corbin, the fake father responded: "All members of our church (myself included) must bear the tattoo mark of our saint, Saint Bartholomew Shiver. This mark of faith is tattooed on to each individual member of our church."
Sadiq, believing he'd get an exorbitant sum from the church, went to great lengths to get the tattoo on his thigh, only to find himself being strung along for more than three months by the fake father and a string of other phony personas created by 419eater.com's founder.
Metimbers is the online moniker of a British man named Mike, who has spent the last five years turning the tables on unsuspecting Nigerian e-mail scammers.
"Scambaiting is frowned upon in legal circles," Metimbers told Wired in a 2006 interview.
But that hasn't stopped him and his crew from exacting revenge on the scammers.
Sadiq's story and those of other conned con artists are detailed on Metimbers' site, which has a gallery of photographs of would-be scammers holding self-effacing signage and tales of Nigerians who'll carve computer keyboards and cartoon characters in the pursuit of easy money.
The site offers a code of ethics for would-be scambaiters, noting that "we bait the scammers that come to us."
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Shiver Metimbers
This may very well be the coolest username in the history of the internet. I'm so angry at myself for not thinking of it first.
"Scambaiting is frowned upon in legal circles," Metimbers told Wired in a 2006 interview.
I can't imagine why this would be so. After all all that's being perpetrated is an extended mind-screw aimed at "professional" rip-off artists.
I started getting emails like the one here about a day and a half after setting up my company's new email addresses. A DAY AND A FREAKING HALF! I've even been approached in Yahoo's Small Business chat rooms with this Class A1 shinola.
Those 419 guys deserve a medal for the stuff they pull on the scam artists hacks. The only flaw in their system is that there is no reliable way to get a picture of the scammers' faces when they figure out they've been had.