E-mail scams >_<

[Cassini90125]

The latest offering:

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).

[Natty]

Kira also sent me a note from Russia..


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am I gonna die now?

[Cassini90125]

And another:

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.

[Cassini90125]

I got phished late last night:

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]

Originally Posted by Cassini90125

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]

Here's another semi-entertaining tidbit I received just this evening-

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.

[Cassini90125]

Dr. Henry Salami?? As in "lunch meat"? That's priceless.

[Lynnie]

Hehe, I was wondering the same thing. I wonder if it is a real sirname.

[xxxClaire]

I'm sure there's someone out there named Salami... There's a guy at my school who's surname is Ham.

[Invader Bloo]

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!).