Chance of a lifetime

***glennzo*** · #1 29th December 2008, 11:11 AM

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

Quote:

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

John the train · #2 29th December 2008, 11:13 AM

All pigs pre-flighted?

Evil_Bert · #3 29th December 2008, 11:18 AM

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

Iron_Mike · #4 29th December 2008, 11:28 AM

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......

Mike

adrianx · #5 29th December 2008, 11:44 AM

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

kona0197 · #6 29th December 2008, 05:26 PM

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

***Dan*** · #7 29th December 2008, 05:32 PM

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. <..

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nick.stumpos · #8 29th December 2008, 05:33 PM

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 · #9 29th December 2008, 05:44 PM

Quote:

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 · #10 29th December 2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by kona0197

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 · #11 29th December 2008, 06:43 PM

Glenn, make sure you get some pictures

resistor200 · #12 29th December 2008, 08:33 PM

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.

Jake · #13 30th December 2008, 01:11 AM

Well, I feel sorry for this one

Quote:

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:

Quote:

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?)

Quote:

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:

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#14 30th December 2008, 01:20 AM

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

***bob*** · #15 30th December 2008, 01:31 AM

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!

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.