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idril 07-06-2008 02:53 PM
I love fake emails. Love reading them, love responding to them, love reading stories about people who mess with them and stuff.

What really got me was that people do it to people who are adopting/giving up their pets. I was in a situation where one of the dogs with back problems needed to find a home or to be euthanized within a week. I even posted on Craigslist (never thought I'd do but I did find some good people). You can only imagine how I got a little hopeful when I got 4 emails in response to a Petfinder ad I put up about him, ALL scams. Not so funny anymore :(

All followed along the lines of...

" Hello
am jenny cross i saw the advert of your posted pet and i am highly intrested in adopting your pet to my good home .i lost my pet few days ago so i will like to adopt your to reduce tragedy in my mind..i will like you to tell me the present condition of the pet including the food that the pet eat..i will also like you to tell me the adoption fees including the cage if available,as pet lover i will surely take good care of the pet...if you allow me to adopt your pet you can come for the visiting of the pet if you like....i will urge you to tell me the pet name and much more about the pet..
best regard "

(The dog's fine now. He's living in Texas :))

Sparky 07-06-2008 03:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by idril (Post 82254)
" Hello
am jenny cross i saw the advert of your posted pet and i am highly intrested in adopting your pet to my good home .i lost my pet few days ago so i will like to adopt your to reduce tragedy in my mind..i will like you to tell me the present condition of the pet including the food that the pet eat..i will also like you to tell me the adoption fees including the cage if available,as pet lover i will surely take good care of the pet...if you allow me to adopt your pet you can come for the visiting of the pet if you like....i will urge you to tell me the pet name and much more about the pet..
best regard "
Is it a scam because they kept saying "pet" instead of "dog"? And that they asked about a cage? It does sound like a generic message, but why would someone mass-mail posters of pet adoption ads, what would it accomplish? :terrconf:

antgirl1 07-07-2008 10:05 PM
Quote:
FROM THE DESK OF MR FREDRICK ISSA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK [A.D.B]
BURKINA FASO.

Trust/Confidential proposal
Dear Friend,

Please this is important and very urgent i have an urgent transaction of $20.6 million usd to transfer to your nominated account, I am mr fredrick issa, i am an Auditor, with Accounting Department,AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK [A.D.B] here in OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

Aftergoing through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account unfortunately died in the plane crash of Union Transport Africains Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the december 25,2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website www.cnn.com /2003 /WORLD /africa /12 /26 /benin . crash /

No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is (USD 20.6 MILLION) Twenty million Six Hunderd Thousend United States Dollars.

I want to transfer the USD 20.6 MILLION) Twenty million Six Hunderd Thousend United States Dollars into a safe foreigners account abroad , but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the account is a foreigner too.

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know our selves before,but be rest assure that this is life time business for both of us even for our generation to come .With believe in God that you will never let me down in this business. You are the only person that I have contacted in this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently, Send also your private telephone and fax number I want us to meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your choice where the fund will be safe. I will fly to your country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with foreign account and foreign beneficiary.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information about this account, which I will feed you with, if you are able and with capability to handle such amount in strict confidence and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit because this opportunity will never come again in my life.

I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make mistake I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in the office I can transfer this money to any foreign reliable account, which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing.

And i want to remaind you that your share has been carculated at 35% of the total sum. I'am waiting for your urgent reply so that i will give you more information about this deal.

With regards,

MR FREDRICK ISSA
$20.6 million? AW SWEET!!

WiltsAKGirl17 07-08-2008 12:21 AM
Yeah, I got this email a while back, too. It came through my junk folder, so I didn't pay it much attention-- just read it once and deleted it. When the next email came, I just hit "Mark as Unsafe."

Woot woot. :D

idril 07-08-2008 11:16 AM
"Is it a scam because they kept saying "pet" instead of "dog"? And that they asked about a cage? It does sound like a generic message, but why would someone mass-mail posters of pet adoption ads, what would it accomplish?

That was the only email I saved, unfortunately and it doesn't really tell the scam clearly, but other emails said they would have a pet transportation service come to my house for a fee of x amount of dollars through a cashier's check. After I caught on, I replied to two or three and all used the same tactic of a 'pet transportation service'.
Some of them were pretty blunt about it too, they said they'd like my pet and want to know of the nearest airport.

Sparky 07-08-2008 12:55 PM
Got this one just now:

Quote:
Reply: an orphan cries

I am Raymond Danta the only son of Mr. Danta a licensed solid mineral
(gold, diamond, etc) exporter before he passed away. Before his death my
father, apparently, married a woman who became my stepmother because my
mother died when i was very young. My stepmother already had two children
of about my age, and they came with her to live in my Father's house. I
discovered that there was some ill-feeling from my stepmother towards me,
since then i have been badly treated; being forced to undertake work
befitting only a servant, in my father's own house. When my father died
instead of being in the state of mourns as custom demand, she went as much
as desired and claimed my father's property as well into the future
regarded as a possible danger to my live.

My father before passing away informed me privately that he had an account
valued eight million one hundred and twenty thousand euro (8,120,000euro)
which he intend to transfer into his foreign associate's account for
investment abroad on my behalf, this money he acquired from the export
contract he secured and executed under the umbrella of the government.

Truly i don't know you but considering my situation and security, couple
with an uncontrollable crisis between the rebels and government, my live
is no more protected here. I confided on your assistance and write with
every respect due to your good person and ask that you assist me to get
the money transfer to your bank account on my behalf as my late father's
foreign associate to your country for investment.

So please i want to know you better. I am willing to offer you 812,000euro
for your assistance after the successful transfer of this money for
investment; I have plans to do investment in your country, like real
estate, industrial production or any other lucrative investment you bring
to my notice in your country.

Please if you are willing to assist me, indicate your interest by sending
your phone number & address so that I can communicate with you at any
time. I will be waiting for your response.

thanks
Raymond (skype ID: raysilv)
An orphan cries?? :wiltshock:

Cassini90125 07-08-2008 01:11 PM
Didn't Cinderella start like that? :bloocross:

Cassini90125 08-03-2008 07:17 AM
This popped up in my mailbox this morning. As it arrived via a Yahoo! Group devoted to Foster's, some of the rest of you may have seen it, too:

Quote:
You're really cute. I wanna get to know you. Here's my profile with many photos Reach me here.
(Link removed)
Uh, yeah. I got an identical copy through another Yahoo! Group as well. These things annoy the hell out of me. Both were unceremoniously deleted.

Lynnie 08-04-2008 12:13 AM
Yup, I got that just tonight in one of the "Daily Digests", although they don't come daily. Which is actually a good thing because it seems every single post made the last few months has been similar to near identical. That being said, I'm always amused when someone replies to them. I especially liked that link to some science page, as if hoping the spammer will look at it and gain some intelligence. 8D

It was a fascinating page, actually. ;)

Lynnie 02-28-2009 02:29 PM
I'm good at not only bumping, but also double posting today.

Eh hem...

This is circulating around MySpace right now. It was sent to me by a friend who, though bless her heart, can be gullible. :-X After scrolling through a total of 13 headers, I finally read

Quote:
Myspace system is getting too crowded!! We need you to forward this to at least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, but we need to find out who is really using their account. If you do not send this to at least 10 Myspace members, we will delete your account. WARNING!
We want to find out which users are actually using their Myspace accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass this email to every Myspace user that you can. IF YOU DO NOT PASS this letter to anyone we will delete your account.

Sorry for this inconvenience.
-Tom
Ok, for one thing, they do delete nonactive accounts, and they know they're nonactive by looking through the database, so forwarding a PM is totally not necessary. For another thing, the more people use MySpace, the more money they make (though funding by advertisers). And third, if there was a problem, MySpace sends out an alert that pops up on your home page, they wouldn't expect you to forward a personal message to everyone you know. And, oh well whatdia' know! There's an alert that popped up just now saying

Quote:
There's a chain letter going around encouraging people to forward a message in order to prove their MySpace account is active. The message says you need to do this in order to keep your MySpace account from being deleted. This is NOT true. Please do not forward these messages. You're just spamming your friends. Check out my latest blog for some MySpace updates.
And this is from the real Tom, who is employed by MySpace as the customer support rep.

jekylljuice 02-28-2009 03:07 PM
Yeah, I've gotten the exact same message myself a few times, only for my Hotmail account. It was pretty much word for word the same.

As with so many of these email scams/hoaxes, the cheapness of the font and layout is a dead giveaway - I'm pretty confident that if Hotmail were to issue a legitimate warning of this nature (and it's highly dubious that they ever would), they'd opt for a much more professional-looking layout. Same goes for Bill Gates - if you're that mind-bendingly weathly and are seriously going to send out emails promising free hand-outs to anyone who forwards it to so many of their online buddies (yeah, I know, just play along), then surely you could afford to splash out on a bit of style while you're at it.

Cassini90125 03-17-2009 12:21 AM
Something new to point at and laugh:

Quote:
FROM MR RICHARD AGESE CHAMBERS
(Alleged street address removed)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
PRIVATE MEMO
Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Richard Agese ,an Attorney at law, and the personal lawyer to Engineer Dr Alfred A. Corbeil, a foreigner who used to work and owned Corbeil Oil International in Burkina Faso, Herein after shall be referred to as my client. It may interest you to know that , I got your contact at the office of the Chamber of commerce and Tourism in Ouagadougou Burkina faso as I was going through some directories. On the 10th day of August 2003, my client, his wife and their two children were involved in a car accident along Ouaga - Bobo express way while arriving from a Holiday to Bobo.

All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then, I have made several enquiries to their embassy to locate any of their extended relatives and this has also proved unsuccessful. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating a fund valued at USD$13Million,(Thirteen million United States Dollars),left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount were deposited.

The said Security Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next twenty one official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 4 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.

Therefore, I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 10% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer, internal revenue tax and also telephone bills, while 60% will be for me towards any profitable investment in your country. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legal framework and legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

I expect your urgent response indicating your full interest in this great business transaction to our both mutual trust.Please i advice you reply to my private e-mail address for privacy and confidentiality (alleged private email address removed) Kindly give me the information below to enable me establish you in the bank as beneficiary to my deceased client.
1. NAME IN FULL:.......................
2. ADDRESS:..............................
3. NATIONALITY:......................
4. AGE:.....................................
5. SEX........................................
6. OCCUPATION:......................
7. MARITAL STATUS:............
8. PHONE..................................
9. FAX:........................................
Best regard,
Richard Agese Esq.
Yeah, okay. :herrsleep:

Lynnie 03-17-2009 12:54 PM
Hm, they died while on vacation to Bobo, and Mr. Agese is keeping 60% of "your" money. And another 10% goes toward the IRS and phone bills. Yup. 8D

Cassini90125 03-17-2009 03:54 PM
The part I like best:

Quote:
Dear Friend,...

I got your contact at the office of the Chamber of commerce and Tourism in Ouagadougou Burkina faso as I was going through some directories.
Interesting that the directories had my email address but not my name. 8D

taranchula 03-19-2009 07:52 PM
This just came into my inbox
 
It appears to be some kind of job offer...But I think it's a scam of some sort.

Considering that A: I haven't sent out any resumes in the past few months or so B: If I was, it would certainly not be to any company whose communications contain some of the worst grammar I have ever seen in quite some time, and C: The person who sent the message was named (and I am not making this up) "scheme Barnes"

Anyways here is the message, and a day old cookie to anyone who can count all of the grammatical errors. :bloogrin:


Quote:
Your info was founded at J o b S h a r k.ca portal.

First of all let me introduce. We are the large financial & assets management company. The main types of our business are:

*

securities
*

exchange services
*

trading services
*

broker intermediary

During the global crisis we have obtain a lot of customers who are waiting for jump of the basic stock quotes. Most of the newly acquired customers is in the Canada. Due to features of the legislation we cannot work directly with physical persons. To do this we need an authorized representative or official representation. As we did not expect huge interest from the Canada - the opening of representation is not included in our plans. In connection with the aforesaid, we are looking for responsible person for mediation services which will be the official representative in your region.

Please do not REPLY, this is automated mailer. Send your curriculum vitae or resume attachments up to 1mb permitted to my private email:

mayson.canada@gmail.com


Thank you and have a good day.

Cassini90125 03-19-2009 07:58 PM
As long as you've got his email you may as well send him a Google bomb. :bendy:

koosie 03-29-2009 02:02 PM
My Nigerian friend
Is gone
He said that he was hiding from the government
And said that he was dying and wished to find a friend
He offered me some money if he could use my name
I told him I like bunnys
Then he went away

The Residents - My Nigerian Friend

fosters home fan 03-29-2009 02:14 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by koosie (Post 107889)
My Nigerian friend
Is gone
He said that he was hiding from the government
And said that he was dying and wished to find a friend
He offered me some money if he could use my name
I told him I like bunnys
Then he went away

The Residents - My Nigerian Friend
8D

I once got a similar scam a while ago. Long gone now.

CrazyPhil 03-31-2009 10:42 PM
Wow, those are some pretty entertaining pieces of, um, "literature" you've all found, especially the "flawless" spelling and punctuation.::)

AS for me, I do get scams but of a different variety. Sure, when I'm browsing the net I always get the classic "free ipod" or wii or any number of things, and for the most part I ignore them, but what really pisses me off are those fake anit-virus adds. I go to open a webpage and all of a sudden I'm taken to a separate window and some unkown program claims to have detected thousands of critical viruses in my computer. Interesting, considering I run a virus scan every week and I usually find 2 or 3 at the most. It really angers me because these things are more than likely viruses themselves masquerading as the very software that's supposed to protect against them. Oh, and if you do a word of advice: DO NOT CLICK THE PROGRAM, NOT EVEN TO CLOSE THE WINDOW. Instead, bring up your task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and end the program from there. It's much safer as even closing the window can download the virus onto your computer. So, does anyone else get those?

Cassini90125 03-31-2009 11:03 PM
Yeah, I've gotten those. Dang nuisances they are. If it's detected anything at all then it was scanning my computer without authorization so even if it's a legitimate program (which it's not) I'm not going to have anything to do with it. No one scans my machine without my consent, period. :frankiemad:

Cassini90125 04-03-2009 06:20 AM
The latest offering:

Quote:
To: me
From: Sabina Gray
Date: Fri Apr 03, 2009 08:54 am
Subject: Hi hi!

H! I find your profile very interesting. I am moving to your area from russia
I am young female, my friends say that I am good looking
I am looking for a good man to show me around and may be more
Could you please kindly reply to me at (email address deleted)
I will send you some of my pictures back in reply.
Could you reply to my email account I am supplying in the body of this email
as I am writing from my work email which i don't use for personal correspondence
This might have been a bit more believable if the email had actually come from Russia (IP says otherwise). :bloocross:

Natty 04-03-2009 09:32 AM
Kira also sent me a note from Russia..


..


am I gonna die now?

Cassini90125 04-04-2009 05:31 PM
And another:

Quote:
My name is mrdalami musa. Secretary to the manager foreign remittance dept.
of a bank here in Burkina Faso. On my desk, I have a foreign customer, Mr.
Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah whom unfortunately lost his life by Assasinating from
unknow people in Iraq. You may read more about the incident on visiting this
BBC News
website: (Link removed)

The said customer deposited the sum of 22.6Million USD. in our bank and left
no body for the claim. I desprately need your assistance to move and secure
the said fund into your account for onward and profitable investment in your
country. I will pay you 30% of the total sum for your coperation in this
matter.

I will give you more details on your positive response.

Yours faithfully,
mrdalami musa
The assassination angle was an interesting twist, I'll give them credit for that. 8D

Cassini90125 09-16-2009 06:02 AM
I got phished late last night:

Quote:
Dear AT&T.net Subscriber's,

We are contacting you to remind you that our Account Review
Team identified some unusual activity in your AT&T.net
Webmail Account. As a result,access to your account has been
limited in accordance with the AT&T.net Webmail Online User
Agreement. Your account access will remain limited until
this issue has been resolved. You are therefore required to
provide the information below;

° complete Username (**********) and Password (********)

*Important*
Please provide all these information completely and
correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to
close your AT&T.net Webmail account temporarily. We thank
you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please
understand that this is a security measure intended to help
protect you and your AT&T.net webmail Account. We apologise
for any inconvenience.

Thanks
The AT&T.net Webmail Team
Copyright ©2009 -AT&T.net- All Rights Reserved
Might've helped if they had included the AT&T logo and some html graphics. At least everything was spelled correctly, which is a nice change of pace. ::)

BluebottleFlyer 09-26-2009 04:40 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassini90125 (Post 116546)
I got phished late last night:



Might've helped if they had included the AT&T logo and some html graphics. At least everything was spelled correctly, which is a nice change of pace. ::)
Had a similar couple of these myself, yesterday, both supposedly from my bank, HSBC, saying that my account had apparently been suspended. I didn't open either for fear of virus infection, but the giveaway was that "HSBC" was spelt "Hsbc" in the message title. Thank goodness for the delete button. :)

Lynnie 10-22-2009 11:31 PM
Here's another semi-entertaining tidbit I received just this evening-

Quote:
From the desk of Dr. Henry Salami,
The Audit Section of the Presidency,
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Attention: The beneficiary,

Dear Sir,

Re: Payment Instruction for your outstanding claim.

For succinct introduction, I am Dr. Henry Salami of the above named Section of the

Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN). The presidency has mandated the Audit Section

to handle all foreign Contract awarded and commissioned since 1985 till date.

Based on that your file has been forwarded to my office for review and subsequent

payment to those contracts that was genuinely awarded and commissioned.

Based on the review carried out on your claim, I discovered that the claim you are

laying was grossly over-invoiced and inflated to that magnitude by some officials

who contacted you to provide an account to receive the fund simply because the

code of conduct bureau does not permit civil servants to run or operate foreign

account. You are presented to receive the fund ($5.1M) as the beneficiary.

I have discovered that at no time did you execute any contract for the Federal

Republic of Nigeria, that you are contacted by some officials who presented you as

the beneficiary just because Contract payment falls within their area of

jurisdiction. Their aim is to divert the fund for you all to share mutually. I

discovered and decided to contact you though you might find it difficult to

believe but it is just the hard truth and so much money has been spent in these

matter.


I am contacting you just for one reason that the fund can still be paid if I

recommend because my discovery has not be revealed to anyone yet and I don't want

to cancel the payment out rightly because it will not go down well with you. I

want to let you know that the fund can be paid if you are ready to follow my

advise and work secretly with me due to the fact that I have interest in the fund

. I want to benefit from it, so let me know what
will be my share out of it then I will go ahead and correct the anomalies and your

past mistakes for the fund to be paid to you in seven working days.I am writing

you with the spirit that you have seen that this is the truth but it will be very

difficult to believe. As an Auditor attached to the Presidency, I am interested in

the fund and I will like us to do the business together then I will write a

favorable report about the claim for
the immediate release of the fund or I will put up a report that will lead to the

total cancellation of the payment. I know you have lost much money in Lobbying the

officials to get the approvals.

At the precise moment, the claim has been processed, we are irrevocably mandated

to debit the Federal Government account and credit the beneficiary's account. It

might interest you to note that seven working day from the moment you acknowledge

the receipt of this mail and agree on my terms will be enough to confirm the fund

transfered into your account provided you abide by my rules and also maintain the

confidentiality of the transaction to avoid anything that will discredit my

reputation. I advice you discontinue any further communication with any other

person for us to proceed in concrete fashion.

Waiting for your response as a matter of urgency as the first Payment Quarter will

come to end shortly. Do reconfirm your current telephone. It is for effective

communication.


Revert with utmost urgency.

Thanks,

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Henry Salami.
Auditor of the Federation. (FGN
Huh, he's interested in it and wants me to share my money with him, and wants me to contact him secretly. Oh, and he called me "Sir". Mmm hmm. And who talks like this? Not even the most professional people would write such a long winded letter to a stranger. I felt like I was reading a case file or something. :P

Cassini90125 10-22-2009 11:36 PM
Dr. Henry Salami?? As in "lunch meat"? That's priceless. 8D

Lynnie 10-22-2009 11:46 PM
Hehe, I was wondering the same thing. I wonder if it is a real sirname.

xxxClaire 10-23-2009 08:24 PM
I'm sure there's someone out there named Salami... There's a guy at my school who's surname is Ham. :bloocross:

Invader Bloo 10-25-2009 04:26 PM
Not as bad as some of the first names that celebrities give their kids. Apple, Moses, (Nicole Richie or whoever used to hang out with Paris Hilton had a kid & called it) Sparrow. & don't forget balloon boy who's real name is Falcon....(PAWNCH!).

Cassini90125 11-17-2009 09:41 PM
This arrived in my mailbox about a half-hour ago:

Quote:
I’ll not be in town for this Holliday but I was thinking on what to buy you this Christmas...

Look what PayPal recommended me: (Deleted) com
Go and choose your Christmas gift.
I though that you should check it out and choose a product from www (Deleted) com

Let me know, ok?
Chris

PS : Shop your own package now!
Thanks for thinking of me, Chris. By the way, who are you?? :bloocross:

Lynnie 11-17-2009 11:00 PM
I happened to have gotten one today, too. A short and sweet one.

Quote:
Asbestos Alert!

You may be entitled to millions

-websight deleted-
And.... yeah. That was it. The websight appeared to be just some random letters thrown together with a few periods and slashes thrown in for good measure. I ain't clickin' that! :P

Imaginary Light 11-25-2009 04:28 PM
I just got this in my inbox:

Quote:
Hi Albert, don't know if you remember, I was introduced to through a friend a few years ago. I'm sorry for emailing you out of the blue, I'm just smiling because my wife has made news lately and I want everyone to read it because I'm so proud.

do not know about your cash situation right now but if you are like everyone else, and looking for extra income, I suggest you read her article (US Dream Job - Local Report) it may help you, as it did me.

I'm now rolling im money and get to do my favorite thing, love life and brag about my wife
Haaa, I'm not Albert.:P Sounds like a scam anyway.

Sparky 11-25-2009 05:00 PM
Is anybody else getting a ton of Facebook scam mails lately? I don't even have a Facebook, so I knew right away it was a scam. Unfortunately my admin email for fosters-home.com has somehow gotten out and I'm getting hit in that inbox too. :P It's only supposed to be for forum errors and stuff, so that's annoying.

ryanjf97 12-27-2009 04:15 PM
well...
someone hacked my old email and sent something like

"I bought a really cheap ipod touch off (a website link). If you're looking for something cheap go now before it disappears.
Hugs and kisses,
Ryan XOXOX"

this is stupid! i never buy anything off sites except ebay! and nothing over $50.

Sparky 12-27-2009 07:22 PM
Are you sure they hacked your account? I get emails that appear to have been sent from my own address all the time, but they haven't really been. Kids sometimes use my address to register on MMORPG sites as adults and stuff that way. If people spam hiding behind your account you can even be reported as a spammer. It's a pain.

antgirl1 12-28-2009 03:08 PM
This wasn't an email, but it's the DA equivalent:

"EMERGENCY, VIRUS ON THE LOOSE!

If someone by the name of Alfred Hundana (dragon_heart620) wants to add you to their buddy list, don't accept it. It's a virus. Please tell everyone on your lists, because if someone on your list addes them, you may get the virus too. This virus is a hard-drive killer. We need to find out who is using this account.

Very sorry for the inconvenience.

(To send to everyone on your list, just click the drop-down menu in the Recipient field and click 'Unsorted' or whatever the group name for you buddy list is."

If you get something like this, ignore it. It's spam, and it's fake. The "person" who actually signed up on DA with a similar username's already banned.

I almost sent it to all who watch me, but I wanted to try blocking first. No matter what I did, it wouldn't work, so I searched the person's username, and all that came up was hate pics and a "It's fake" pic. I clicked on that and in the description was a news article explaining that it's fake and all that. It's now one of my faved news. :D

But it still scared me a bit when I believed. XD

ryanjf97 12-28-2009 03:44 PM
@Sparky

No it was directly from my email address. It even got sent back to me because some email addresses in mine are only MSN. I use Hotmail BTW.

Sparky 07-24-2010 09:01 PM
This is now my favorite thing ever:

Quote:
Originally Posted by email I just got
Dear Victim of a cruel hoax,

This email is sent to you because your details were among the details we found on the arrested scam syndicates laptop computers and they have confirmed you as one of the victims of their operations. They usually claims they are Barristers, Bank officials, Lottery Agents, Law enforcement agents (EFCC,FBI,Police officers) e.t.c. They also claim they have money to transfer to you via Western Union, Bank wire transfer, courier delivery of Bank draft/Cashier's check to you, delivery of trunk box by FedEx or want you to be the next of kin of funds that does not exist, and so on.

It was agreed that the sum of fifteen thousand US Dollars (US$15,000) should be transferred to you out of the funds deposited by the Federal Government of Nigeria at First Bank of Nigeria Plc (FBN) in care of The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to compensate every scam victims. We want the world to know that this government is highly ready to fight corruption and to regain the good image of Nigeria. We are sorry for all they have done to you, please accept our apology.

We have instructed the compensation scheme set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to transfer the sum of fifteen thousand US Dollars (US$15,000) to you, We have submitted your details found on the scam syndicates computers to them so that your fund can be transferred to you without misappropriation and we have also insured your fund for security reasons. All you need to do now is to contact the compensation scheme through the compensation scheme private email address stated below, inform them about this notification letter and the transfer of your fund; Although we have forwarded your details to them but to assure them that they are dealing with the beneficiary of the fund, send the details below to them to enable them verify it with the details we send to them previously, as soon as these details are received and they are authentic your fund will transferred to you.

Fill out the following form. All fields mark with * are required:
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Full Name*:
Address*:
Country*:
Sex*:
Age:
Telephone Number*:
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Compensation scheme email address: iccc.fbn.compensation.scheme@hotmail.com


Important: Do not send your email address and password to anybody. Take note of this because there are lots of fraudsters out there claiming to be your email administrator requesting for email address and password. If you have already done that before it is strongly recommended that you change your password immediately or register a new email address with another password.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Fransisca Okocha
Investigation Department
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
13 Creek Road, Marina, Lagos Nigeria
Phone: 01-262-5100
Website: http://www.ic3.gov

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The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
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Cassini90125 08-09-2010 02:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandra Omaru, email scammer
From Sandra Omaru
Abidjan. Cote dIvoire,
West Africa.

Hello dearest,
I deep it a respect and humble submission, I beg to state the following few lines for your kind consideration, I hope you will spare some of your valuable minutes to read the following appeal with sympathetic mind. I must confess that it is with great hopes, joy and enthusiasm that I write you this email which I know and believe by faith that it must surely find you in good condition of health.

My name is Sandra Omaru, I am the only child of my late parents Chief. Mr. Williams Omaru. My father was a highly reputable business magnet who operated in the capital of Ivory Coast during his days.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad on the 12th April 2009. Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of mine who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth! My mother died when I was just 6yrs old, and since then my father took me so special.

Before the death of my father on April 2009, he called me and informed me that he has the sum of Five Million, Six Hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$5,600,000.00) he deposited in a private Bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.. He told me that he deposited the money in my name, and also gave me all the necessary legal documents regarding to this deposit with the Bank,

I am just 22 years old and a university undergraduate and really don't know what to do. Now I want an honest and GOD fearing partner overseas who I can transfer this money with his assistance and after the transaction I will come and reside permanently in your country till such a time that it will be convenient for me to return back home if I so desire. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast.

The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. I also want to invest the fund under your care because I am ignorant of business world.

I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

What percentage of the total amount in question will you take after the fund has being transferred to your account and I come over to meet you?

Please, consider this and get back to me as soon as possible. Immediately I confirm your willingness, I will send to you my Picture and also inform you more details involved in this matter.

Kind Regards,
Sandra Omaru.
Not very creative, Sandra. :bloocross:


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