Chance of a lifetime

[glennzo]

Should I go for this? It's an e-mail I received minutes ago.

Hello Dear,
My name is Stella Collins I hope this mail finds you well & healthy and i hope we can established a relationship since we are meeting for the first time,i have gone through fasting and prayers asking God to lead me to a trust worthy person who will help me with this transaction and it interests me to contact you aftter my prayers for an assistance to help me transfer this Sum of 10.7 Million USA dollars my father deposited in a bank here in Cote d'Ivoire before he was assasinated.i
like honesty,trust,love,truth,caring,& respect,i have all this qualities in me and i believe you have all this qualities too, that is why i decided to contact you for this transaction,i will like you to contact me as soon as possible so that we can know ourselves better.

Thanks and hoping to hear from you
soonest.

Miss Stella Collins
I may never have to work again :D

[John the train]

All pigs pre-flighted?;)

[Evil_Bert]

That unfaithful b---h! She said I was the only one!
:p

[Iron_Mike]

Man, they sure do have a lot of rich folks looking for help from the west coast of Africa. I would help her, but I'm currently helping this guy from Liberia......:D


Mike

[adrianx]

I think that "she" should try fasting a bit longer. A couple of months should do the trick! :D

[kona0197]

I get one of those at least once a week. Hotmail spam filters are the worst.

[Dan]

You've really got to wonder about these things, or more importantly, the dain bramaged victims. They wouldn't use them if they didn't work.

Financial Darwin Award recipients, I guess.

Still ... I thought we were supposed to be breeding a better class of ID-10-T these days. <..:cool:..>

[nick.stumpos]

I have yet to ever receive this type of spam. just thought that was weird as it seems to be the example everyone talks about.

[JohnVV]

I get one of those at least once a week. Hotmail spam filters are the worst.
i beg to differ .Comcast has the worst ( none) i was getting 100 to 500 of these a day , before i dropped comcast .
comcast told me to use MS outlook and set it's filter .

[PabloTwo]

Hotmail spam filters are the worst.
No kidding? My first web-mail account was with Hotmail. I hadn't used it or given anyone the email address for it and within a week of opening the account I had hundreds of spam junk filling it up. All I can say about Hotmail is: anyone who uses it deserves what they get.

[Seve]

Glenn, make sure you get some pictures :)

[resistor200]

it could be a real offer... :) or it could be a nice person who is both clarvoiant and ambivolent. How can she tell by an email alias who you are and what ''qualities" that account holder posesses?

@ Dan = "I thought we were supposed to be breeding a better class of ID-10-T these days."

the quality is determined upon how many brain cells were disposed of before obtaining a license to email.

I would go for it, but make sure you ask her for cash!! And give nothing before you at least get some pictures. :p

[Jake]

Well, I feel sorry for this one

FROM THE DESK OF MR SEDIQ IDRISSA
AUDIT/REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
PHONE: 00226-70 64 24 10
SIR/MADAM,
(CONFIDENTIAL)
I KNOW THAT THIS EMAIL WILL BE A BIG SURPRISE TO YOU, BUT I WANT YOU TO CALM DOWN AND READ VERY CAREFULLY.

I HAVE A BUSINESS WHICH WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO BOTH OF US. THE AMOUNT OF MONEY INVOLVED IS U.S $7.215 (seven million Two hundred and fifteen thousand United States dollars) WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER OUT OF THE COUNTRY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, ALL TO MY FINANCIAL BENEFIT AND YOURS TOO. AND ALSO TO TAKE MY WIFE ABROAD FOR TREATMENT OF LIVER DAMAGE.

There is more.. anywho With that then I could go grab this:

This is to inform you that your email has won a consulation prize of the
Microsoft! EMAIL DRAW held December 20th 2008. Your email has won you
($1,500,000.00) (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
To claim your prize, please contact British Airway Cargo for quick
delivery with your Batch No:BTD/25/3310 and Ref No: NNL/4910x1/04 and
contact courier company via email immediately within 48hrs with the
information below.

British Airway Cargo.
Email: dispatchbairwaycourier_1@yahoo.com.hk
Phone: +44 70359 58924
================================================== ==============
CERTIFICATE OF PRIZE CLAIM(Receipt Official Notification Letter)
================================================== ==============
1.Fill Name.......................
2.Marital Status:...............
3.Occupation :..............
4.Age:..............
5.Sex:................
6.Nationality:...........
7.Telephone:..............
8.You Home Address...............

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gate of the Microsoft and his
associates.We wish you the best of luck.Thank you for being part of our
promotional award program and commemorative Anniversary Draws.Gotta love the hongkong Microsoft so go get that too (BTW: funny email: @yahoo.hk, real british eh?)

STARS NATIONAL LOTTERY INC
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD.
W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
Date:10-12-2008.
Lottery License #256202

This E-mail is to inform you that you have been emerged a winner of £852,000.00 GBP In $1,314,971.09 USD on our online draws which was played on the 8th of December 2008.Better Grab that too

-- oh and so much more I could have:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7306/screenshot3au0.png

:D

[Demz]

i get these kinda emails also..but not much of them since my ISP has a pretty good spam filter catcher

[bob]

Jake, very nice! If anyone needs up front cash, you could simply refer them to the other guy for payment, have them all settle up and then send you the remainder in a bad cashier's check! :D

BTW, your luck is holding! You've just been awarded the FedoraForum.org Cash Bonus for being the....ummmm...100,000th (more or less) member to ummmm...do that 'thing' that we were looking for. As such, you have an immediate cash award of ....uhhhh....something really big due to you. Just PM me with your bank account info and password and I'll be happy to give you your Big Surprise in the morning. :rolleyes::D

[Wayne]

And here's one I got not too long ago :)

Dear Friend,
I am Mr Xiao Gang,branch manager in one of the leading banks here in china. I respectfully seek your sincere conscent in this profitable proposal that i will explain to you.
Six(6) years ago, 2001,a british oil consultant/contractor with the chinese mineral cooperation, deposited a numbered sum of Thirty million united states dollars(30,000,000 USD) in my branch valid for twelve calender months.

On maturity, notification was sent to him umpteently but no response was forth coming. Thorough investigations were made and it was revealed by his contract employees; the chinese solid mineral cooperation that he died from an unfortunate mishap.All paper works in my bank revealed that he did not declare any next of kin or relations. No one will ever come for this money.

The law in place here in the republic of China stipulates that after six(6) years such monies are reverted to the chinese government.I want the money moved out of my bank as soon as possible before this long standing banking law is implemented and the money getting to top corrupt chinese government officials.

Consequently, my demand from you is your conscent to stand as the next of kin to this late man's funds which I have total control over; be urgently transferred to any account provided by you in any part of the world.This transfer will go through several legal stages that will undoubtdly put you in place as the next of kin and eliminate any form of risk. A hired attorney will prepare the necessary documents that will legalize the procedures leading to the final transfer of the funds. My position here will speed up the legal procedures.

Upon successful transfer into the account, we will share the money in the ratio 80% for me and 20% for you.For futher correspondences with you,I will like you to provide to me:

Your Names in Full:
Your Permanent Home Address:
confidential Tel and Fax no:

Please keep this confidential and lets do our best to see the end of this rewarding proposal.I will like to build a high level of trust with you and would require your assistance in investing my share in your country.

I urgently await your conscent.

Thanks and regards.

Mr. Xiao Gang

[bob]

Wayne, as these funds have not been found at the bank, the Chinese Government would like you to hand it over as the six years had passed by the time you got the email and the bank said you got it? Perhaps you can borrow from Jake?

Edit: Or just forward half a week's take from the new bar? Congrats again on that one!

[Dan]

Looks like some kinda Gang deal to me! <..:p..>

[Wayne]

Still only moths in my wallet I'm afraid :D Thinking of standing on the street corner with a harmonica and cloth cap ;) I'll divide any takings I get with the Chinese government.... Not!

Wayne

[JohnVV]

boy do i like yahoo mail,i only get 1 to 10 per week
even on the throwaway account

[kona0197]

OTOH Gmail has the vest filters. I get maybe one a month.

[scottro]

I have to agree with Kona here. I'm not sure if they use Postini or do it themselves at this point (or if Postini is a part of google) but regardless, not only do they catch almost everything, but there are also very very few false positives, which is also important.

[Jake]

All those emails are through hard earned trust, I am a highly trusted bank swapper, I take peoples money, and put it in my bank :D -- bob you now have my trust here are my account details:

Visa
000-000-0000
password: yeah_right_xD

Please empty it by morning.. I mean fill it.

Also, yeah gmail have pretty good filters, considering the fact it has never had 1 single junk email. But then again it's not as published as the hotmail one, nor the rest.

I get the most junk emails from Microsoft. asking me to re-enroll on MS partner program, and reply to bug submissions, technet emails etc etc.

[notageek]

Hey! Hotmail doesn't deserve the reputation its getting on this thread. I've hotmail, gmail and yahoo accounts. My gmail account is the most active and then hotmail, I rarely use yahoo.

I get spam like these maybe once in a month or once in two months on my hotmail and when it does its usually filtered in junk folder already. In gmail I do get spam more frequently, more like ad-mails but again these mails are filtered to spam folder.

Maybe I'm lucky.

[Jake]

Oh, just one note, that reminded mean, my TB auto filters everything into the junk folders not sure about the hotmail it's self as I never use the website, so yes it doesn't interrupt me, though I am sad and do tend to read those just emails just to see how silly they sound.

[kona0197]

How ironic: Die hard linux users with hotmail accounts.

It's cool though.

[Seve]

I don't care what you guys do ...... :)

Post the pictures ..............:D

[kona0197]

Hey I said it's cool. Email is just email. :)

[joe.pelayo]

Interesting emails (I have a Yahoo mail account that gets bunches of them). By the way, perhaps if the sender were Mr. Madoff they were a lot more convincing.

Thanks.
Joe.

[marcrblevins]

Glennzo, just take the bait, but give them Bill Gates checking account number. :P

[bob]

Funny thing is that Gmail has about the highest percentage of spammers who attack the Forum. There are several far-eastern sites that are notorious, but Gmail's known the world-over and is a freebie with nearly unlimited space, so it's a hotbed for sending spam. Nice to see that although they don't block the spammers from signing up (boo!) they do protect the other members from getting it.

[pete_1967]

http://www.419eater.com/

[joe.pelayo]

Funny thing is that Gmail has about the highest percentage of spammers who attack the Forum. There are several far-eastern sites that are notorious, but Gmail's known the world-over and is a freebie with nearly unlimited space, so it's a hotbed for sending spam. Nice to see that although they don't block the spammers from signing up (boo!) they do protect the other members from getting it.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Gmail is so easily configurable (both POP and IMAP).

Thanks,
Joe.

[Jake]

Well spam isn't always from gmail or hotmail or yahoo.com.hk accounts, to be honest sometimes they are awesome... like for instance once my m8 got an email, from an official @paypal.com email address, and guess what? it was a scam saying that they had payed £435 for an item. the email contained there REAL paypal identity, and even had a link to dispute it looked official, but me being me said "wait before you click that link, take a look at the URL" which they did. and to my suspect it was not to paypal.com nice trick though. - and of course I then told him to give me the link but don't click it (so he did) and I then put it in a virtual browser and went to it, it was in fact a hijacked web forum, that had been hacked with the scripts. however since then the script had also been hacked and never finished loading.