Ken Gargett Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 i know we all wonder how anyone could get caught by these email scams but this is a cracker. great long letter, re $12.2 mill, and poor mr adams died in the kings cross train explosion etc. then this - > Fortunately, I came across your name, to my greatest astonishment, I > discovered that you bear the same surname with my late client and > coincidentally, you are nationals of the same country. Being convinced > that you may be related with my late client or that you might provide clue > to my search, I therefore, decided to contact with these facts before me, > because of the similarities. quite why he thinks adams is close to gargett is beyond me but the priceless thing was that he instead of the usual blind copy to squillions, he has sent it to a squillion recipients and we can see them all. of course, now a million strangers have the email address so less chuffed about that. anyone giving money to these morons deserves to lose it.
jeromeroselli Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Once I got one of these emails but get this.. It was written by a princess who needed money wired to her and in return her kingdom would shower me with riches and I would become a national hero. You can't write this stuff Ken. It's brilliant in a gut wrenching kind of way.
Ken Gargett Posted March 7, 2009 Author Posted March 7, 2009 Once I got one of these emails but get this.. It was written by a princess who needed money wired to her and in return her kingdom would shower me with riches and I would become a national hero. You can't write this stuff Ken. It's brilliant in a gut wrenching kind of way. i reckon i get at least 6 a day.
Ryan Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 This is how Irish businessmen deal with those email scammers! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/01/419_victim_rescued/ Send them money then get yourself kidnapped after going over to get it back.
jdizzle113 Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Here's a great account of someone who counter-scammed an internet scammer. Not the same type of scam - this one was an e-bay scam - one I almost fell victim to until I checked the scripting in the e-mail (lucky I did). When you're selling an item and have paypal as a payment option the scammer wins the bid and then sends you a fake paypal receipt - that looks identical from a bogus server. I've always fantasied about doing something like this to someone who tried to scam me - but alas, I don't have the time or the persistence. http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
FlyFishingDude Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 You mean those emails aren't real? I thought I was sitting on a potential 300 million and was planning my retirement.......... Damit now I have to keep working.
Freefallguy Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 National news reported recently that a woman in Oregon coughed up $400,000 to one of these schemes. I have on file a a copy(using carbon paper) of a letter that was postmarked and mailed from Nigeria. Rec'd and gave another copy to the USPS. This was at least 20 years ago. Ken, you need a new spam filter.
PartagasIV Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 On another forum I used to belong to, one of the members scammed the scammer. Led the bastard on to the point where he emailed a photograph of himself with the following on display: a shoe on his head, a glass of milk in one hand, and a piece of fruit in the other. All this to "prove" the scammer would go to any/all lengths to help the "client" believe he was legit. Absolutely brilliant...I'll try to dig up the photographs.
sounddust Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 On another forum I used to belong to, one of the members scammed the scammer. Led the bastard on to the point where he emailed a photograph of himself with the following on display: a shoe on his head, a glass of milk in one hand, and a piece of fruit in the other. All this to "prove" the scammer would go to any/all lengths to help the "client" believe he was legit. Absolutely brilliant...I'll try to dig up the photographs. Yup, the guys at 419eater are probably the best in the business at that.
Jay Hemingway Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Here's a great account of someone who counter-scammed an internet scammer. Not the same type of scam - this one was an e-bay scam - one I almost fell victim to until I checked the scripting in the e-mail (lucky I did). When you're selling an item and have paypal as a payment option the scammer wins the bid and then sends you a fake paypal receipt - that looks identical from a bogus server. I've always fantasied about doing something like this to someone who tried to scam me - but alas, I don't have the time or the persistence. http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/ that was funny as hizzle!
smk819 Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 This is also a good site for scambusters. http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/
stargazer14 Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 I have had fun with these guys myself - I tell them I have sent the money Western Union and give them a code number to pick it up, they of course write back telling me they went to get the money but i must have gotten one of the numbers wrong. "so sorry!' i say and send another number - this goes on for a while until i get the email saying they are going to kill me because they spent their time and money running to the WU office for nothing over a weeks period. I also have a nice collection of bogus money orders here that would make you laugh, they are so bad. They give me entertainment, and if i can ruin one of their days, all the better. [edit] i just read some of the links and realized I was not alone in my plan!! how cool. Now why didnt I start a website?....
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