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Old 01-24-2015, 06:02 AM
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Old 03-07-2015, 01:08 AM
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Wow, I just got one of those calls.
They: (heavy Indian, Pakistani, or Middle Eastern accent) "Hello this is Marvin with the IT department of Bank of America. I'm calling in regard to your computer."
Me: "What, I don't understand."
They: (speaking more slowly) "This is Marvin with the IT deparment of Bank of American. I am calling in regard to your computer."
Me: "I don't understand. What do you want."
They: (growing impatient) "I'm calling in regard to your computer."
Me: "I don't even have a computer."
They: (incredulous) "You don't have a computer?"
Me: "No. Don't believe in 'em."
They: (hang up)
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Old 03-14-2015, 11:06 PM
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Old 03-17-2015, 11:53 PM
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Wow, I just got one of those calls.
They: (heavy Indian, Pakistani, or Middle Eastern accent) "Hello this is Marvin with the IT department of Bank of America. I'm calling in regard to your computer."
Me: "What, I don't understand."
They: (speaking more slowly) "This is Marvin with the IT deparment of Bank of American. I am calling in regard to your computer."
Me: "I don't understand. What do you want."
They: (growing impatient) "I'm calling in regard to your computer."
Me: "I don't even have a computer."
They: (incredulous) "You don't have a computer?"
Me: "No. Don't believe in 'em."
They: (hang up)
Got another call today:
They: [unintelligible gibberish]... computer ...[unintelligible gibberish]... computer... [unintelligible gibberish]... computer...
Me: Wait, what is this about a computer?
They: I need some [unintelligible gibberish] to access your computer.
Me: What do you mean?
They: [lengthy unintelligible gibberish]
Me: I don't understand.
They: What is it that you do not understand?
Me: Any of it.
They: I need your [unintelligible gibberish]... computer... [unintelligible gibberish]... computer... [unintelligible gibberish]...
Me: What the hell are you going on about?
They: We need to fix a problem in your computer?
Me: What computer is that?
They: Your computer that is connected to the internet.
Me: Internet, what is what? Is is like a telephone? We are talking on a telephone.
They: Do you have television?
Me: Yes, I have television.
They: Do you watch television on the internet?
Me: No, I watch television on the television.
They: Do you have a computer you use to watch television?
Me: No, I told you already, I watch television. Why are you calling me? What do you want me to do.
They: I need [unintelligible gibberish]... your... [unintelligible gibberish] from your computer so I can [unintelligible gibberish] the internet.
Me: I don't understand. What is the internet? I told you I don't have internet. I have a phone and a television. Why are you calling me? What do you want me to do?
They: I need [unintelligible gibberish]... your... [unintelligible gibberish] from your computer so I can [unintelligible gibberish] the internet.
Me: You said that already. I'm not following you.
They: CAN I ACCESS YOUR COMPUTER ON THE INTERNET?
Me: I don't have a computer on the internet.
They: CAN I ACCESS YOUR COMPUTER?
Me: I don't have a computer?
They: (frustrated) You don't have a computer? You don't have any devices connected to the internet.
Me: Not that you can access. Do you live near the ocean?
They: Why?
Me: I want you to go to the ocean and take a long walk off a short pier.
They: You don't have a computer on the internet?
Me: Did you hear me?
They: You don't have a computer on the internet?
Me: I can do this all evening.
They: Can we get your IP address so we can access your computer on the internet.
Me: Computer? What's that?
They: Thank you for your time, sir.
Me: Well, okay. I'm just trying to be helpful.
They: Goodbye.
Me: Bye.

BTW, this time they asked for me by name.
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Old 04-19-2015, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Mrs Titi Tian
Our Company YANG FENGYE IMPORT & EXPORT CO,LTD, China is in search of a competent individual or firm that will be responsible in handling funds as our agent and sales representative in the United State/Canada region. If interested kindly indicate your interest by mailing back for further details.

Note: It is a part time offer that won't interrupt your present work or business.

Provide your details

Full Names:
Address:
Country:
Phone No:
Occupation
Date of Birth


Looking forward to your response.

Sincerely Yours,

Ms.Titi Tian

YANG FENGYE IMPORT & EXPORT CO,LTD.
41 WANGJIANG SOUTH ROAD,BAIYUN STREET,
DONGYANG, ZHEJIANG, CHINA
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Good day,

I have a business proposition that would be of financial and mutual benefit
to us. Should you be interested, do contact me with reference to this mail
and also provide me with your details so i can let you know further details.

Regards
Qin Yanjun

Fill in your details

Full Names:
Address:
Country:
Phone Number
Which is it, a job offer or a business proposition? Or are you just putting me on, Tititian?
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Old 05-18-2015, 03:10 AM
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Attention,
We have deposited the check of your fund (4.700,000,00USD) through WESTERN UNION after our finally meeting regarding your fund, All you will do is to contact WESTERN UNION director Mr.Peter Charles via E-mail western-union004@xxxx.xx.He will give you more direction on how you will be receiving the funds daily. Remember to send him your Full information to avoid wrong transfer such as:
Receiver's Name_______________
Address: ________________
Country: ____________
Phone Number: _____________
I.D Card:_____________
Though Mrs. Susan Kent has sent $7000 in your name today So contact their Director Mr.Peter Charles as soon as you receive this email or call him +229-XXXXXXXX tell him to give you the Mtcn, to pick the $5000 Please let us know as soon as you received all your fund,
Best regard Alex Mike,
Wait, what? Is 4.700,000,00 a number? Is it supposed to be 4.7 million or 4.7 billion? Or is it $7,000 or $5,000? Maybe I should call that number in Benin to find out!
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Old 02-04-2016, 12:02 AM
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As if addressing the concerns from my last scam email, this one spelled out the dollar amount...

from "admin@national-lottery.co.uk"

Your Lottery Golden Metal Trunk Box has now arrived in JFK Airport New York...Please contact Mr. Nokia Lopez.

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My Name is Wreele Douglas. An FBI Agent. I am a contract staff currently attached to the verification department of the Camelot Group of the Online National Lottery mainly for non UK citizens. Your winning check of $4,306,515 (Four Million, three hundred and six thousand, five hundred and fifteen United States Dollars only) was about to expire due to your inability to travel to our office in London as the Lottery rules and regulations demanded. However, I managed to convert the check to cash in a Golden Metal Trunk Box because it was the only way to circumvent you from losing your life time opportunity.

To avoid multiple taxations and the bank charges as overdue and unclaimed lottery fund, I have successfully dispatched your golden metal box with Reg# UK8100FR through cargo and the golden metal box has arrived JFK International airport cargo unit, and has passed through custom checks.

The golden metal box is now at the airport storage facility at the cost of $25 dollars daily. Every documentation and process is legitimate because it is a lottery winning fund. Please kindly make sure you contact Mr. Nokia Lopez on (212) xxx-xxxx and email ( jfk_cargounit@xxx.xxx ). I have done everything to make sure you receive your winning. Please call the officer's number below for a verification and QUICK process.

Cargo Unit
John F Kennedy International Airport
Access Road New York,
NY 10010-3672,
United States
Email: ( jfk_cargounit@xxx.xxx )
Tel: (212) xxx-xxxx

Contact person Mr. Nokia Lopez


The lottery details:
Winning no: ......................
Serial no: .......................
Ticket no: .......................
Amount won: ......................

Please reconfirm these information's to Mr. Nokia Lopez
1. Your Full Name: .......................
2. Your current address: .................
3. Your phone number: ....................
4. Nearest airport to your location: .....
5. Your Occupation: ......................


Note: Do not disclose the content of the Golden Metal Box to Mr. Nokia Lopez or to anyone for security reasons.

Best regards,

WREELE DOUGLAS
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY,
CAMELOT GROUP,
VERIFICATION AND PROCESSING DEPARTMENT,
UNITED KINGDOM
I am so glad this FBI agent working on contract is looking out for me.
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Old 02-04-2016, 10:19 AM
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A Golden Metal Trunk box!!!

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Bureaucracy. Ugh.

Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home / Boing Boing
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I am disappoint. This one doesn't ask for any money or details. The Chinese have a thing or two to learn from the Nigerians.

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Dear Mr.Joe,

Kindly confirm your interest.

I wish to propose for an investment Cooperation with you. I will also like
to introduce myself by the way: I am Mr. Yuan Guangyu, Vice President and
General Manager of China National Offshore Oil Cooperation (CNOOC) China.

I want to discuss to see the possibility of a Joint Venture and Investment
cooperation with you and I will explain my investment plan in detail on
hearing from you.

Moreover, I want any of my business cooperation with you to be carried out
legally and transparently.

Awaiting your response

Sincerely



Yuan Guangyu
Executive Vice President and
General Manager of CNOOC China
Limited Tianjin Branch,CNOOC Ltd.
Yuan Guangyu checks out as a real name. But the reply-to address is entirely dubious.
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Waiting to hear back from you.

Hon. Barrister B. Agossa <joe@lighting-bright.com>

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Dear friend,

A foreign client of mine who shared the same surname with you on June 2003 made a fixed deposit of $9,500,000.00 (Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only) with a bank here in Benin in standing agreement with the bank that all correspondence in respect to the fixed deposit contract will be sent him through my chamber. Upon maturity, the routine notification was sent to me, which I dispatched to his forwarding address as usual without a reply.

After a month, I sent a reminder which I received from the bank without any reply again. Finally, I discovered from my client's contract employee that he died with his family in the Benin Republic December 26, 2003 plane crash. He died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his relatives were fruitless.

So, I seek your consent to present you to his bank as the next of kin based on the information I received recently from his banker reminding me that BENINESE LAW states that at the expiration of fourteen (14) years the money will be reverted to the ownership of the BENINESE Government if I do not confirm the next of kin to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to my deceased client since you share the same surname with him so that the fruits of this man's labor will not go into the hands of some corrupt government officials.

Note that this transaction is simple and risk free because I will provide expert and legal advice that will guarantee the successful execution of this deal. If you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible; I shall provide you with more details and how we shall proceed with the claims. I expect you to observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that this transaction will be profitable for both of us. Thanks as I wait for your reply.

Best regards,

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To walter.p.dinsford@dinsford.com Apr 9 at 12:50 AM
This message contains blocked images.Show Images Change this setting

Michelle Miller just sent you $3,182.00 USD with Paypal.

WALTER click here to continue


if you can't click above, then click here WALTER

Best of luck!
Michelle Miller
Greetings Michelle Miller, if that is your real name,

What do you take me for? I saw P.T. Barnum coming.

Rgds,
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Sanguine Village, East Carolina
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That's a lot of monies! Whatcha gonna buy?
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A BRAND NEW CAR!!!


***assuming of course that a time machine will allow me to travel back to 1972.
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Having a little bit of trouble reconciling the two bolded portions of this email.

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After careful review, we regret to inform you that your account has been selected for review.

In evaluating your account information we obtained information which we need clarification of. One of the factors used in making our decision was your recent activity.

We encourage you to quickly correct this by logging in to your account [possibly bogus url] if you feel this is an error.

We recognize that you may be very busy, and that's why it'll take nothing less a minute to quick-fix this!


Thank you.

Stripe


PS: Kindly ignore if you do not have a stripe account
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Old 05-04-2016, 11:51 PM
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Bummer, you could have been rich.
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I received an email today just containing this:

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CAN WE DISCUSS PRIVATELY?
I have admit, I'm intrigued.
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Wow, the IMF is writing to me now. Movin' on up!

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Hello Beneficiary,

We would like to bring to the notice of the general public that several variants of financial scam letters purporting to be sanctioned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or authored by high ranking IMF officials are currently in circulation, and may appear on official letterhead containing the IMF logo. The scam letters instruct potential victims to contact the IMF for issuance of a “Certificate of International Capital Transfer” or other forms of approval, to enable them receives large sums of monies as beneficiaries. The contact e-mail information is always BOGUS and unsuspecting individuals are then requested to send their personal banking details which the scammers utilize for their fraudulent activities.

We apologize for all loss and with the help of the Nigeria government, we where able to recover so much money from scammers, that is why we are compensating you with the sum of $5.000.000 US dollars, from the Nigeria government, to receive this payment, you are advised to contact out IMF officer Mr Frank Daniel. To assist you with the receive of your compensation payment,

Please Note: To receive your compensation payment, it would cost you just a $150 dollars for the setting up of an online baking account that is to be setup to your name in Africa for your funds to be able to get to you on time, to proceed, kindly contact the Attorney with your information needed below to proceed for you to receive your funds.

1. Full Name ..................................
2. Sex ................................
3. Residential Address .............................
4. Fax/ Phone Number ............................
5. Country ......................
6. your Identity card .................

kindly reconfirm the above information, it's for the benefit of your Funds and we are once again sorry for your loose the attorney will explain to you all you need to know for you to receive your funds.

Contact Name: Barrister Frank Daniel
Email:IMFOffice100001@yeah.net

Best Regards.
International Monetary Fund.
Also, only $150 for a baking account? p. cool!

PIE :ff:OR EVERYONE!!!
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Old 08-13-2016, 10:01 AM
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Yesterday, I won a huge prize in a Facebook promotion, according to Facebook Coordinator Frances Nesbitt and Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Now I await Mr. Zuckerberg's phone call, as I asked Frances to have him call me. My phone number is set in Facebook to be seen only by me, but Mark Zuckerberg should be able to access that information.

I will remain patient, I'm sure Mr. Zuckerberg is a busy man.
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Mrs. Nesbitt?

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I just did a search of page 5 of this thread and Nigeria isn't mentioned there once.

THE FUCK PEOPLE

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Why are so many of them from Nigeria?
I can't say who started it or when, the "Nigerian scam" thing, but I can explain why people continue to send the same old, badly written Nigerian scam letters now even after, let's face it, there's a scam named for it. In case y'all have ever wondered and didn't happen to read The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, I mean.

You'd think they'd have a better shot if they pretended to be from somewhere else, at least...right? Nope. People can spot scams pretty easily, so what they're after are the people who can't. How do they make those people self-sort for them? They basically announce UP FRONT that this is a WELL-KNOWN SCAM without saying as much. The idiots who follow up tend to be pretty gullible, but they still have only about 1 in 20 takers or something like that.

This means that the best way to fuck with them is not to report them but to respond to them and lead them on. Better yet...write bots to do that on thousands of clones. Yessssss.

Back to your regular programming.

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