Lightmeow Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Read this!!! The subject was Dear Friend(God Belss You) YES BLESS WAS SPELLED WRONG My DearMs. Diana Morokat is my name. I am the only daughter of late Pnkhmto Morokat,who was slain by the rebel forces during this ongoing civil war in our countrySyria. I am 23 years old. I am an under-graduate, level 200 medical student atUniversity. I managed to escape into government refugee camp in London throughthe help of some Red Cross Personnel's working in our country. I have anestimate of TEN Million Dollars in cash that my father left in a Bank vault.Now that he is no more, I want to transfer the ownership of the fund to you forsafe keeping and relocate to your country to complete my medical course andpermanently reside there. Please let me know if you can be honest with me andassist me. I proposed to give you 30% of the fund at the successful end foryour honesty, confidentiality. All further details will be disclosed to you assoon as I have your confidence. email: [i deleted it]Respectfully Diana Morokat I got another one about the FBI wanting to give me 1 billion dollars that the government took away from me. I hate this, this is total crap that I'm getting this!!! Wonder what site I signed up for to get them emailing me this, oh this makes me so angry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdEarl Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Don't panic, trash it. Almost everyone gets those. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 This is the old 419 scam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Yes, once a year on the average with a slightly different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I myself have gotten them. It harms the respectability of those of us who truly are Nigerian princes with large sums of money to bring to your country if only I could find a helpful citizen to help me escape oppression and share in my good fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 And I am afraid they work! The Nigerian 419 Scam was born from an old oil scam where the Minister of Oil / NNPC would contact spam people offering them oil at vastly knock-down rates - and twice ships that my company controlled were caught up with some poor fool thinking they had bought the oil on board only to find out that an oil major had a much better claim and weren't gonna relax their grip very quickly. In one of the frauds over 250,000 USD had changed hands! The 419 scams are much lower level but still sucker some people into revealing just enough of their bank/home details for their accounts to be compromised. get a better spam filter and flag as spam rather than deleting so if you do have a learning filter then it has something to learn from 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 We all get span like that offering something we would like but is clearly too good to be true. But what worries me more are the penis enlargement pills spam I get...how do they know? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightmeow Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 I just hate it because it insults my intelligence. And also, the email was a yahoo one, and I almost never trust yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I just hate it because it insults my intelligence. Surprisingly, that is deliberate. As a con artist, you want to filter out those smart enough to see through you. These emails seem to have got worse (in terms of grammar, spelling plausibility) over time. This is, presumably, because they were wasting too much time with people who weren't dumb enough to fall for it. There are some amusing web sites where people have taken on the scammers; pretending to be gullible. They often get them to pose with pictures holding up a piece of paper with a funny caption. In some cases, they have even managed to get the scammer to send them money! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Have you never been called on the phone by "someone-from-a-society-in-Scotland" telling you that inspecting your IP he found that your computer has been attacked by a virus and that he (the one-from-a-society-in-Scotland) wants to connect directly to your computer in order to remove the virus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Have you never been called on the phone by "someone-from-a-society-in-Scotland" telling you that inspecting your IP he found that your computer has been attacked by a virus and that he (the one-from-a-society-in-Scotland) wants to connect directly to your computer in order to remove the virus? Yes, and it is totally fake. They will install a virus remover (that you never needed) and then try to charge you for the final virus removal. Or at least that is what I have read. If they call just shout some profanities at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) Yes, they were quite unlucky because I gave the phone to my wife who knows to shout better than I do. Edited January 6, 2014 by michel123456 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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