discussion Best email

[Alan 45]

I have just received the best email , this woman in South Africa has $24 mil sitting in a bank in Zimbabwe and she can't get to it unless she transfers the cash to a foreign account and if I do this for her she will give me 30% of the money !

I told the wife and she said it's a scam , I said surly not this person sounds so genuine and I need to do is give her my bank details !

 

[eddiesolo]

I have just received the best email , this woman in South Africa has $24 mil sitting in a bank in Zimbabwe and she can't get to it unless she transfers the cash to a foreign account and if I do this for her she will give me 30% of the money !I told the wife and she said it's a scam , I said surly not this person sounds so genuine and I need to do is give her my bank details !

They still try it on lol, anyway must go Mr, Magadonga is wanting me to send £500 to cover costs until he can sort out the £50 million in gold that he has.

Si

 

[Alan 45]

They still try it on lol, anyway must go Mr, Magadonga is wanting me to send £500 to cover costs until he can sort out the £50 million in gold that he has.Si

This isn't the first one I've had , I had one from a bloke just like yours except this was a business venture but the twist was I got an email from the F.B.I telling me it was a genuine offer and they were monitoring all my emails and they felt duty bound to tell me about it in case I missed out on a lot of money

I thought How nice it was the F.B.I would take time from trying to stop international terrorists and covering up alien abductions to tell me I could get a lot of money

 

[eddiesolo]

This isn't the first one I've had , I had one from a bloke just like yours except this was a business venture but the twist was I got an email from the F.B.I telling me it was a genuine offer and they were monitoring all my emails and they felt duty bound to tell me about it in case I missed out on a lot of money I thought How nice it was the F.B.I would take time from trying to stop international terrorists and covering up alien abductions to tell me I could get a lot of money

Priceless...

Si

 

[Guest]

I had one scammer try to tell me that I was "the missing sole heir" to some kind of fortune, and if I jumped through all their hoops then I would be set up with also 30% of the total, and I'm like "uh, no, if I am the sole heir then that means I get 100% of the money" ...Next!

 

[downscale model art]

i think you are both being too cynical. sounds like a brilliant idea...could you email me mr muccadongas contact details

 

[eddiesolo]

i think you are both being too cynical. sounds like a brilliant idea...could you email me mr muccadongas contact details

Well, I am afraid there is charge of £50 for admin charges Rob for me to send the details across to you.

Si

 

[eddiesolo]

I had one scammer try to tell me that I was "the missing sole heir" to some kind of fortune, and if I jumped through all their hoops then I would be set up with also 30% of the total, and I'm like "uh, no, if I am the sole heir then that means I get 100% of the money" ...Next!

70% charges...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I will have to charge Rob more.

Si

 

[Guest]

You guys are just sooooooooo cynical.

If you're worried about these scams then send me your online banking details and passwords and I will check that nothing untoward has happened with your finances.

....Hannants here I come!

 

[John]

I get loads of these too, sometimes I reply to them and have a bit of fun, of cause giving my other name Mr Doyou thinkimdaft

 

[Alan 45]

Nice one john I'll have to remember that next time especially if I get one from the F.B.I again

 

[Ian M]

If I ever reply to such, I say I dont have a bank account and they will need to send a cashiers cheque....Never got one yet :-(

Ian M

 

[downscale model art]

fifty pounds? hang on....i smell a rat.

 

[eddiesolo]

fifty pounds? hang on....i smell a rat.

You can trust me Rob...honest.

Si

 

[Guest]

If I ever reply to such, I say I dont have a bank account and they will need to send a cashiers cheque....Never got one yet

I'll have to remember that, I actually don't have a bank account...... I use Elaines

 

[PaulTRose]

i got tired of these, once replied to one to see if i could reverse scam him, started to get some emails from him wanting all sorts of personal details, kept it going for about a fortnight

told him my name was alan carr and i was a tv person, my address the american embassy in london, my banks address was bank of england (with a made up account number)......when he wanted a phone number so he could call me i did some googling, found the direct number for the head of the uk online fraud squad

dont know why but i didnt get any more emails from him after that

after that i did a bit of looking into baiting scammers......theres a great site called www.419eater.com thats fun to read

 

[Guest]

The ones I get are in very bad English. At first I thought no-one would be fooled by it but I read that the poor English could be deliberate. Any scammer wants to hook the medium-gullible or very gullible. He does not want to be loaded with replies from worldly-wise people who would certainly smell a rat as the scheme progressed and therefore waste his time. By repelling those at the very start, the scammer has a response rich in just the ones most likely to go the whole way. Clever! (Or perhaps too clever for them to dream up.)

 

[Guest]

The ones I get are in very bad English. At first I thought no-one would be fooled by it but I read that the poor English could be deliberate. Any scammer wants to hook the medium-gullible or very gullible. He does not want to be loaded with replies from worldly-wise people who would certainly smell a rat as the scheme progressed and therefore waste his time. By repelling those at the very start, the scammer has a response rich in just the ones most likely to go the whole way. Clever! (Or perhaps too clever for them to dream up.)

And if english was not your first language, then the confusing babble of legal sounding terms and conditions might seem more credible.

That is a defense we english speakers have; we can smell a fake through bad grammar and spelling.

 

[Guest]

you mean................................these are fake emails,oh my,thought it was just the utility companys ripping all the money outta my acc lol

mobear

 

[eddiesolo]

you mean................................these are fake emails,oh my,thought it was just the utility companys ripping all the money outta my acc lolmobear

No, you are correct in that the utilities are ripping you off Ole.

Si