I received this weird spam email yesterday....

[MindSpin]

...What's the point of this kind of spam email.  I don't get it.  Anyone else get something like this?  What's the scam
Dear Beloved,

I came across your contact via international personal research profile in
my earnest search for a trustworthy and honest person to handle my
business and I apologize if the content hereunder are contrary to  your
moral ethics, but I had to reach you through this medium.

As you read this, I do not want you to feel sorry for me; because,I
believe everyone will die someday. my name is Mr. Ramin Tadius a merchant
in Tunis - Tunisia. I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

It has defied all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only
about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

I have not particularly live my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was
never generous; I was always hostile to people and only focused on my
business as that was the only thing I cared for.

But now I regret all this as I now know that  there is more to life than
just wanting to have or make all the  money in  the world. I believe when
God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a
different way from how I have lived it.

Now that I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my
immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends.

I want Our creator to be merciful to me and also accept my soul,hence,I
have decided to give alms to charity organizations and less privilledged
Homes accross the world, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I
do on earth.

I want to believe that you will be capable of handling this
task for me.

Thank you
Ramin Tadius
Email:ramtad88@live.com

[ManBearPig...]

he'll just need your account number where he can transfer the 7 billion dollars he has to get rid of immediately, and since his currency isn't convertible to dollars, he'll need a 1000 dollars just to sort out the transaction fees with the bank.

i've gotten this too, i sent another guy in the same predicament 350 dollars last week, seemed like a nice guy.  he said he'll send me 3 million back and told me to go ahead and start shopping for a new house.  i already put a downpayment of 100,000 on a mansion.  that was my kid's college education money, but i should get this money back by the end of the week.

p.s. if you guys need anything, i'll give you money or whatever as soon as i hear back from this South African gentleman.

[timfogarty]

...What's the point of this kind of spam email.  I don't get it.  Anyone else get something like this?  What's the scam

its a variation of a Nigerian 419 scam.    they promise you riches, but then things come up and they need you to send money for some legal fees.  they get your banking info hoping to clean out your account.  worse case, they need you to fly over to sign some papers and then they hold you for ransom.

[pedro01]

Hey - this is wierd 'cause I too recently sent my bank details & personal details (passport, drivers license etc.) to a very nice Nigerian gentleman who's the nephew of Mr Umbongo Fukutoo who had squirrelled off $500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars from his countries bank accounts by collecting money lost by rounding errors made by their Cray supercomputers which are apparently not very good with 2 decimal places.

Although Mr Wogabogaloo hasn't yet gotten back in touch with me, I know he will soon, which will be a relief as some cnut has stolen my id, cleared my bank out & maxed out all my credit cards as well as making some dumb posts on internet forums which do not reflect my obviously vast intellect.

In the meantime, i eagerly await my new found fortune from my new found friend.

[pedro01]

its a variation of a Nigerian 419 scam.    they promise you riches, but then things come up and they need you to send money for some legal fees.  they get your banking info hoping to clean out your account.  worse case, they need you to fly over to sign some papers and then they hold you for ransom.

You think so ? 

[Mars]

its a variation of a Nigerian 419 scam.    they promise you riches, but then things come up and they need you to send money for some legal fees.  they get your banking info hoping to clean out your account.  worse case, they need you to fly over to sign some papers and then they hold you for ransom.

exactly, i receive these emails from time to time, i always email them back as if im interested and when i get an email back i sent them something like suck my dick bitch lol. people who fall for them are just idiots.

[jtsunami]

Mods move this thread, belongs on the general board.

jt

[Condor]

I was actually mailed $7000 in money orders out of nowhere....the letter inside said to cash them in and keep $2000 for myself and wire the rest to an account.....This was before I had heard of the scam.....I then did some research online and found out that these money orders were likely counterfeit and trying to cash them would get you busted as well.

[Megalodon]

When Tunisians spam me I always end up falling for their scams and wiring them money. I'm taken in primarily because they always address me as "Beloved".

[MindSpin]

LOL.

[sgt. d]

track them down and end their life

[Stavios]

its a variation of a Nigerian 419 scam.    they promise you riches, but then things come up and they need you to send money for some legal fees.  they get your banking info hoping to clean out your account.  worse case, they need you to fly over to sign some papers and then they hold you for ransom.

how come do you know everything on every subject we can speak of.

very weird 

[grab an umbrella]

Go ahead and send me your bank info and I will forward it to them for you.  I can get you a least a couple trillion dollars.

[jtsunami]

wow a mod spamming the G and O with non bb related topics, I need to replace him ASAP i clean this place up

[Stavios]

wow a mod spamming the G and O with non bb related topics, I need to replace him ASAP i clean this place up

I already took care of this, no need to worry

[MindSpin]

Here is another gem:

Dear Customer,

We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that is
registered with us for shipping to your residential location.We had thought
that your sender gave you our contact details.It may interest you to know that
a letter is also added to your package.However, we cannot quote its content to
you via email for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your
package itself is a Bank Draft worth of $800,000.00 USD, FedEx do not ship
money in CASH or in CHEQUES but Bank Drafts are shippable.The package is
registered with us for mailing by your colleague, and your colleague explained
that he is from the United States but he is here in Nigeria for a three (3)
months Surveying Project as he works with a consultant firm in Nigeria West
Africa We are sending you this email because your package is been registered on
a Special Order. What you have to do now,is to contact our Delivery Department
for immediate dispatchment of your package to your residencial address.


Note that as soon as our Delivery Team confirms your informations, it will take
only one working day (24 hours) for your package to arrive it's designated
destination.For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as
Insurance fees have been paid by your colleague before your package was
registered.Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium &
Clearance Certificates, are to certify that the Bank Draft is not a Drug
Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is it funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country.
This will help you avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your
country. However, you will have to pay a sum of 105GBP to the FedEx Delivery
Department being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of the FedEx company
as stated in our privacy terms & condition page. Also be informed that your
colleague wished to pay for the Security Keeping charges, but we do not accept
such payment considering the facts that all items & packages that is registered
with us have a time limitation and we cannot accept payment not knowing when
you will be picking up the package or even responding to us.So we cannot take
the risk to have accepted such payment incase of any possible demurrage. Kindly
note that your colleague did not leave us with any further information.We hope
that you respond to us as soon as possible because if you fail to respond until
the expiry date of the foremost package, we may refer the package to the
British Commission for Welfare as the package do not have a return address.
Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the details
given below: FedEx Delivery Post


Contact Person : MR. CHARLES BROWN

Email : henderson_mallick@yahoo.com.hk

TEL:+ 2347033057569


Kindly complete the below form and send it to the email address given
above.This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

FULL NAMES:

TELEPHONE:

POSTAL ADDRESS:

CITY:

STATE:

COUNTRY:


Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the delivery manager on :
henderson_mallick@yahoo.com.hk  As soon as your details are received, our
delivery team will give you the neccessary payment procedure so that you can
effect the payment for the Security Keeping Fees. As soon as they confirm your
payment receipt of 105GBP, they will not hesitate to dispatch your package as
well as the attahced letter to your residence. It usually takes 24 hours being
an over night delivery service. Note that we were not instructed to email you,
but due to the high priority of your package we had to inform you as your
sender did not leave us with his phone number because he stated that he just
arrived Nigeria and he hasn't fix his phone yet. We indeed personally sealed
your Bank Draft and we found your email contact in the attached letter as the
recipient of the foremost package. Ensure to contact the delivery department
with the email address given above and ensure to fill the above form as well to
enable a successful reconfirmation.


Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Felicia Paul.
FedEx Online Management Team.
All rights reserved. @ 1995-2008
------------------------------------------------------
This E-mail is only for the above addressees. It may contain confidential or
Privileged information. If you are not an addressee you must not
copy,distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it or any
attachments.
------------------------------------------------------

[ManBearPig...]

GetBig's very own Chris Hansen did a special on this.  Must've been a slow week for pedo's.  He pwned the shit out of them on camera.

[ManBearPig...]

Chris Hansen gives them 240's info too? 

on more than one occassion, 240 hosted the shooting of "to catch a predator" at his house.

[JOHN MATRIX]

find them and hack their limbs with a machete

[MindSpin]

WTF another one!

The Barristers' Chambers:
DAVID SMITH & ASSOCIATES
Phone:+44 701-112-1397
Fax:  +44 709-289-8888.
E-Mail:davidsmiths_48esq@hotmail.co.uk
PARTNER MANAGING
DAVID SMITH & ASSOCIATES
LONDON - UK.

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Eng. Jurgen Krugger, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the WILL. I wish to notify you that late Jurgen Krugger made you a beneficiary in his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars(US$30, 100,000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true.Being a widely traveled man, he said he met you sometime in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who must have wished you good (I am not too sure). According to him, this money is to support your humanitarian/medical activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time. I am sincerely sorry if you feel bothered or embarrassed by this message.

Please copy and email me through the below email address:
(davidsmiths_48esq@hotmail.co.uk)

I await your prompt response.

Yours in Service,
DAVID SMITH ESQ.
PRINCIPAL PARTNER.

[timfogarty]

CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Dear Mr. American,

Good day and compliments.

I am HENRI PAULSON, the Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America, and the personal financial adviser to GEORGE W. BUSH (the eldest son of the former dictator of America, GENERAL GEORGE HUSSEIN WALKER BUSH).

This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future and continued existence of the entire members of my country.

It is with deep sense of purpose and utmost sincerity that I have the privilege to write you this letter knowing full well how you will feel as regards to receiving a mail from somebody you have not met or seen before. There is no need to fear, I got your address from a Wall Street business directory which lends credence to my humble belief. I also assure you of my honesty and trustworthiness. I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

During the last Military Regime here in America, the Government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries. My country has had great crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of US$800,000,000,000.00 (eight hundred billion US dollars) in cash for safe-keeping. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be of most profitable for you.

I am working with the honourable MR. PHIL GRAMM, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As Senator, you may know him as leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s.

This is a matter of great urgence. We need a immediate blank cheque. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because as civil servants we are constantly under surveillance by Democratic members of Congress, the media, and the American public. My family lawyer, MR. RICK DAVIS, advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date of the receipt of the following information: all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. This way we will use your country's name to apply for payment in your name. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds. That's all. Let me know what you think about this.

We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.

May Our Lord show you mercy as you do so?

Your faithfully,

Dr. Minister of Treasury Paulson

[Emmortal]

That's just the hook, the scam will come later when you reply.

[The_Leafy_Bug]

...What's the point of this kind of spam email.  I don't get it.  Anyone else get something like this?  What's the scam
Dear Beloved,

I came across your contact via international personal research profile in
my earnest search for a trustworthy and honest person to handle my
business and I apologize if the content hereunder are contrary to  your
moral ethics, but I had to reach you through this medium.

As you read this, I do not want you to feel sorry for me; because,I
believe everyone will die someday. my name is Mr. Ramin Tadius a merchant
in Tunis - Tunisia. I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

It has defied all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only
about a few months to live, according to medical experts.

I have not particularly live my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was
never generous; I was always hostile to people and only focused on my
business as that was the only thing I cared for.

But now I regret all this as I now know that  there is more to life than
just wanting to have or make all the  money in  the world. I believe when
God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a
different way from how I have lived it.

Now that I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my
immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends.

I want Our creator to be merciful to me and also accept my soul,hence,I
have decided to give alms to charity organizations and less privilledged
Homes accross the world, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I
do on earth.

I want to believe that you will be capable of handling this
task for me.

Thank you
Ramin Tadius
Email:ramtad88@live.com

Would you care to explain why you deleted my siouxcountry thread?

[MindSpin]

Would you care to explain why you deleted my siouxcountry thread?

no clue what you're talking aboug.  I haven't deleted any threads.