I Get E-Mail!

I just love the name "Precious". I recall a fellow in Basic Training who's back-home nickname turned out to be "Precious". Wasn't that fun when the D.I. discovered that! Guess what his military nickname became?

Back to the email, hey, I didn't know they had the intarwebs in refugee camps! What else do they have, running hot and cold water?


FROM MISS PRECIOUS DEBA
NICLA REFUGEE CAMP,
Ivory Coast
Email: pcdeba@live.fr


Dear Friend,

my name is Miss Precious Deba and am the only surviving
child of my parents who died in one of the mugabe's crazy
land reforms crises in zimbabwe.

i am contacting you not only because of my sympathetic
situation but also for your advise/help in the management of
an inherited funds worth of us$8.5m(eight million, five
hundred thousand dollars).

the funds in question was deposited with a private security
firm here in abidjan-Ivory coast by my late father.

i decided to leave my country(zimbabwe) for security reasons
as well as to increase my search for a reliable person who
can help me reform my life which is in shambles at the
moment
and having found your contact on the internet business page,
i hope you will not let me down or betray me at the end of
the day.

i am ready to compensate your much needed assistance as we
will agree when i get your nod of acceptance.

i will wait hopefully for your urgent and confidential
response as i assure you that it is a risk free transaction.

regards,

Pecious Deba
please reply to : pcdeba@live.fr

Hey, you misspelled your own name there, Pecious! And get your shift key fixed, it seems to have an intermittent!

I Get E-Mail!

Yes, those sentences were THAT short! The guy must have a very narrow monitor! Maybe he typed it on a 22 column VIC-20!

Uk National Lottery Prize
Dave Troutt

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We are pleased to inform you of the

final announcement that you are
one
of our beginning of the year winners

of the UNITED KINGDOM ONLINE
PROMO
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You have won for your self
a total sum of £1,200,000 POUNDS

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However, no tickets were sold but all

email addresses were assigned to

different ticket numbers for

representation and privacy.The

selection process was carried out

through random selection in our

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machine(TOPAZ) from a database of

over 250,000 email addresses drawn

from all the continents of the world.

Please you are adviced to complete

the form and send it immediately to

our Promotion manager through email

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Fill the below information’s and send

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4. Sex:
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7. Phone numbers:
8. Country:

Name: Mr. Anord Scotty
e-mail: anordscotty@yahoo.com.hk

Yours Truly,
Co-ordinator(Online Promo

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Over a million pounds sterling...what's that in REAL money? hahaha, I am joking my friends in the isles! The TOPAZ machine makes its appearance again! Drawn from ALL the continents of the world? Antarctica, even? Well, people do live there. A few. Scientists. And there are all the penguins!

I Get E-Mail!

Honest to goodnes, you use a word like modalities, the meaning of which I do not know, and then throw in things like "there grant" and "passed three year"? Bush league, baby. Get with the program!

COMPLIMENT OF THE DAY...
MRS ZHU YUNING

Good Day,

Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mrs. Zhu Yuning, Am an accountant
in the Fondazione Di Vittorio, established 1977 by the Multi-Million
groups and now supported by United Nations Organization (UNO) and the
European Union (EU), and conceived with the objective of human growth,
educational, and community development thereby uplifting the standard of
living of people. Below is the site.

1.http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it

After further investigation, it was discovered that some of the grant
beneficiary did not claim there grant and this grant funds has been in our
account for the passed three years. So, Seventeen Millions Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in our account and no one
will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according
to the laws of Italians, at the expiration of 4 years the funds will
revert to the ownership of the Italian Government. Against this backdrop,
my suggestion to you is that I will like to transfer the sum of
$17,500,000.usd for the payment of the Grants that was not claim by the
Recipients .

MODALITIES:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall
come out successful. I have an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the Beneficiary, all that is required
from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names and
Address so that the attorney can commence his job.

After you have been made the beneficiary, the attorney will also fill in
for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and of
probate in your favor. There is no risk involved at all in this matter,
as we are going to adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare
all the necessary documents. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion
in all matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been
transferred to your bank account we shall then share in the ratio of 70%
for me, 30% for you.

Should you be interested please send me your,

1, Full names,
2, private phone number,
3, current residential address,

And I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below:
(zhuyuning_02@ozu.es) and finally after that I shall provide you with more
details of this operation.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Mrs. Zhu Yuning.

I Get E-Mail!

Two recent spams with the same subject line. I don't think these are REALLY from PayPal because:

1. Pay-PaIL.com is where it SAYS it's from.
2. The Survey link goes to http://www.christiangm.org/Forum/uploads/paypal.com/index.php, not PayPal. The Privacy Policy also links there.
3. It offers a prize, then it threatens me with deletion. Nice.

What's with the note on the SSL certificate? Woohoo, I'm impressed!


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And the next one. This one links to antiquejewels.org. Can't PayPal afford their own server? Same threat of deletion, but no reward this time.

Credit Union: IMPORTANT :PayPal Account Verification

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Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.

For assistance,log in to your PayPal Account and click thec Help link located in the top right corner

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, PayPal will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

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Note: We will be upgrading our yearly SSL EncryptedServer to prevent fraudulent
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I Get E-Mail!

This is probably the worstly-written spam I have ever received, considering it is purportedly from the Bank Of Scotland, where one assumes they all speak and write SOME form of the English language. Do not these folks have spell -czech on there machines?

But, it IS shocking to think that poor James Wood, Regional Manager low these 15 years, has NOTHING to show for all his hard work.

It is indeed sad that he must resort to this scam. I am disheartened.

The Manager,
Bank of Scotland Limited,
HBOS Treasury Services,
33,Old Broad Street,
London EC2N 1HZ. Greetings From JAMES WOOD
.
This letter is not intended to cause any form of embarrasments, but ratherintended to contact your highly esteemed self. I am writing to seek
your consent in a private and confidential matter regarding some funds unaccounted for in our bank here in London during the last 2006
business year.I need assistance from a trustworthy and reliable Foreigner whom I will fillin as the beneficiary. Your major role would be to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money and get 30% of the total funds as commission. There are practically no risks involved, thetransaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law, it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the eneficiary (next of kin)so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bankaccount under few working days.

I am JAMES WOOD, the regional manager of Bank Of Scotland Limited, and I write you this proposal in good faith; I am married with five lovely kids. It is my duty as the regional manager to send in financial report to my head office in the capital city at the end of each business year. On the course of the last year 2006 business report, I discovered the sum of Twentysix million eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings 26,850,000.00. Thefund is of clean origin. The owner of this account is a foreigner, a program leader.Untill his death. The Late Prime Minister, Mr. Rafik Hariri. I willprovide all necessary information needed in order to claim this money.

Hoppingin God that you will never let me down now and in future. ok! Rafik Bahaa EdineHariri (November 1,1944 - February 14, 2005), was a Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon,and was five times Prime Minister of Lebanon(1992-1998 and 2000-2004) before his last resignation from office on October 20, 2004. The late Rafik Hariri died on February 14, 2005 when explosives equivalent to around 300 kg of C4 were detonated as his motorcade drove past theSaint George Hotel in the Lebanese capital. Our head office is not aware of Funds and will never be aware of it. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary and as an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, hence i contacted you. If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you are the first and the only person I am contacting for this particular transaction. We will start the first transfer with sixteen million
pounds, upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account. A this juncture i wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal.

I have a 9-year old daughter who has leukemia, disease of the blood, and she needs a bone marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to be done in any good children hospital in your country if there is one. Once this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from my job and bring my family to start a new life in your country. I would begrateful if you would help me in looking out for good investment oppurtunities with my own part of the money in a very profitable business. I have worked for this bank for the past 15 years yet I have nothing to show for it, I really need your assistance to secure this fund as soon as possible. as soon as you receive this message if you think we can work together, so that we can go over the details. Send also your Private mobile phone and fax nos: for more proper elaborrations.PLEASE GET BACK TO ME WITH MY PRIVATE EMAIL FOR EASY CONTACT( james50wood@myway.com)
Truly yours,

JAMES WOOD,

Does poor James Wood know that he will have to PAY for that bone marrow treatment, as we do not have socialized medicine in this country?

Well, here's "hoppingin God" that he finds a way to deal with his daughter's health problem, as I can be of NO assistance to him!

I Get E-Mail!

The Honorable Beneficiary here humbly submits these four spams, so I can delete from my spam-box!

All caps? What is this, a telegram?

ATTENTION HONORABLE BENEFICIARY
OCEANIC BANK PLC

ATM INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATION

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY

OCEANIC BANK (PLC) OF NIGERIA

ATTENTION HONORABLE BENEFICIARY

THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR CONTRACT

INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS

BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR

CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE

OFFICIALS IN THE BANK AND YOUR ENTIRE ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND

TO YOU HAS PROVES UNSUCCESSFULLY. WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT

LIKE THIS HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISHES TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE

DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR

PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC THAT IS THE LATEST

INSTRUCTION FROM MR. PRESIDENT, UMARU MUSA YAR'ADUA (GCFR) PRESIDENT

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.

THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR

MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS ONE

THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECIEVE YOUR FUND THIS

WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE CARD PAYMENT CENTER AND ALSO SEND THE

FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO HIM IN ORDER HIM TO PROCEED IMMEDIATELY:

1. FULL NAME

2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER

3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD TO (P.O BOX NOT ACCEPTABLE)

4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION

5. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION

HOWEVER, KINDLY FIND BELOW THE CONTACT PERSON AND CONTACT HIM IMMEDIATELY FOR

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY OF YOUR ATM CARD TO YOU AS THE RIGHTFUL CONTRACT

BENEFICIARY, ALSO DO CALL HIM IMMEDIATELY AND LET HIM KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SENT

AN EMAIL TO HIM FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ON YOUR CONTRACT INHERITANCE OK, SO

CONTACT HIM NOW ALRIGHT:

MR. ANTHONY EKE

DIRECTOR, ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT

PHONE NUMBER: +234-802-712-7674

EMAIL: atmcenterx@hotmail.com

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT $8,300,000.00 AS

PART PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2008. ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO

STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(s) TO AVOID

ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR ATM PAYMENT.

FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, I CAN BE REACHED ON OR EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU

RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY

DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE MENTIONED OFFICE.

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH

IS (ATM-811) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER

BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

BEST REGARDS,

BARRISTER ROBERT SCHEEL.

This one may not be a rip-off, I don't know. Are there a lot of people going to Dubai? I saw on Sixty Minutes last Sunday that it IS a tourist destination. Frankly, for me, if I wanted to see desert, I sure as heck wouldn't fly half-way around the world to do it! But why do the links specify port 81 in the URL?

VIP REWARD CARD
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Beware of this next one, the link for the Customer Verification Form isn't exactly as represented, it goes to some weird place in the UK.

Submit Your Bank of America Identity

Bank of America Inc.

...

Dear Bank of America customer,

Security and confidentiality are at the heart of the Bank of America. Your details (and your money) is protected by a number of technologies, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.
We would like to notify you that Bank of America carries out customer details confirmation procedure that is compulsory for all our customers. This procedure is attributed to a routine banking software update.

Please visit our Customer Verification Form using the link below and follow the instructions on the screen.

http://www3.bankofamerica.com/confirmdetails.jsp?referrer=22jdsewzraDadhkznzdeOkhb

Bank of America Customer Service

I like this one, it is something different. The box is in the mail!

LETTER FROM MR. BEN OFOR ABOUT YOUR CONSIGNMENT

Mr. Ben Ofor

.

OFFICE OF MR. BEN OFOR
MANAGER NATIONAL WARE-HOUSE

Attention,

This is to inform you that arrangements have been concluded as regards to the shipment of your consignment of funds to your country.

I choose to conclude it and make sure it is off already before contacting you. I found out that this consignment has been lying here because of non-payment of shipment fees.

This is why I decided to use my connections as the Shipment officer in charge of the National Security warehouse, (This is where all the abandoned consignments in Nigeria are kept at the orders of the Government of Nigeria.)

The consignment left Lagos Nigeria yesterday night en-route your country via London, It is a metal box, silver in color with a weight of about 150kg, the box is declared as containing diplomatic /inheritance documents only.

The name of the Courier Company based in London is Air Courier International Ltd.

Call me immediately so that I can give you the phone and fax numbers of the courier company in Italy so that you confirm when the consignment will arrive.

I choose to do this for you because I studied your file and discovered that you have paid a lot of money before abandoning this consignment and I believe you will compensated me well when you receive the consignment.

Note: I know the content of the Box because I could see the amount you are being owned by the Federal Government.

This is why I decided to get involved. You must also know that this arrangement do not concern all the people you were dealing with in Nigeria before today as this consignment/Payment has been surrendered to the Government, Hence my involvement

This is the contact number of the manager who is the right person to contact (+447031913872) his name is Mr. Mandy Peter; call him as soon as you get this mail today.

I wait for your call or mail.

Thanks
Dr. Ben Ofor

I Get E-Mail!

Wow, I've won the Irish Lottery!

Congratulation, You Have Won 800,000.00 (GBP)
The Irish Lottery

11 G Lower Dorset Street
Dublin 1
Ireland

Result: http://www.irishlotto.net/

This electronic mail is to inform you that you have
won the sum of £800,000.00 (GBP) in the
Irish Lottery Official On-Line Draw.

The official draw for the aforementioned jackpot
was performed at the greater Dublin Office of the
Irish Lottery Commission at 9:44am on July 30,
2008, and was overseen by the accounting firm of House
& Beckermann LLC. In the above noted drawing, your
contact Email was selected from a pool of
24,667,309 potential winners.

Your winning Numbers are;
Winning Num: 03, 04, 05, 26, 32, 37, Bonus 09
Batch Num: Batch: R3/A312-59
Reference Num: Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05

For additional information you must contact the
commission's fiduciary agent In the United Kingdom
at the below noted email address;

Mr. Terry Cole (Fiduciary Agent)
Email: ir.terrycole@hotmail.co.uk

For verification please provide your:

1.Full Names
2.Full Address
3.Telephone Number

and your above Batch and reference Number when responding.

Thank you and congratulation.

Thomas Stinson, Online Coordinator
Fudiciary & Notification Department
Lottery Commission of Ireland.

Takes a bit of nerve to link to the REAL Irish Lottery page which has a Scam Alert section, specifically mentioning fradulent "Agents" with Hotmail email addresses...