Here we go again! This email just arrived. I thought I would publish this one as an article. The poor 'beggers'.
Greetings!
Dear Sir, Greetings and compliement of the season! In due consideration and trust, I come to you for a profitable business transaction that might interest you. My Name is Zedex Calvaho from the famous Calvaho Family. Calvaho Family is a Polygamous Family and the 6th Richest Family in Sao Tome and Principle. My Father (Late Dr.Tinjankaba Calvaho) died on the 22nd of March, 2003 living Millions of Dollars and Pounds in a Foreign Banks including Large number of Estates and Companies which has already been claimed by the Children's of my Father's First Wife currently parading themselves as the sole Inheritors to our Father's Estates and Funds. This has caused series of problems between our family and the family's of my late father's First Wife and till date, the problem has not been able to be resolved even in Court. However, I have been able to trace our Father's unclaimed Money to the tune of £35.7 million lying at UBS Investment Bank in London. I have conculded every arrangement to claim the funds before the Children's of my Father's First Wife will bounce of the funds for inheritance. In addition, Since the death of our Father, our own side of Calvaho Family has been in a serious severe financial distress because the First family has confiscated all that our father has laboured for the interest of the entire families.
Therefore, It is my wish to present you before the Bank for claiming of this funds on our behalf as our own part of benefits from our Late father's funds so that the funds will be released to your nominated bank account without any further delay. We will offer you 40% of the funds for your kindest assistance should in case if this offer pleases you. This funds is the only hope of our livelihood otherwise we will turn to a begger oneday. Finally, I will appreciate if you will send me your direct telephone numbers for discussion of this deal infurther details.
Yours Sincerely, Zedex Calvaho
Hey Russ,
ReplyDeleteA couple of things:
1. I noticed the picture of The Joker from the Batman series. You know who did the voice-over for The Joker's character? Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker). How's that for useless information?
2. How do all the email scammers find you?
3. That is my all-time favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon - thanks for posting it! "Stop steamin' up my tail!" Ha! Still makes me laugh!
Hi Wade,
ReplyDeleteMark Hamill, yes I knew that one.
Hmm, my guess is that the scammers may find me through the following:
Blogs
Christiancafe.com
MeetChristians.com
One of the music trading sites I am listed on.
Unfortunately, a price I paid to receive as many email questionnaires as I did was to have one of my email addresses listed. I have two others as well, one for each blog, in case someone wants to send me a private message that is not appropriate or wanted in the comments.
I like Bugs Bunny. I must confess that when I was a kid and teen I would do the Mexican slap with my German Shepherd Husky. I would NOT slap him, but would hit him lightly with an old shirt which he would quickly sink his teeth in to.
Cheers!
How about writing the scammers back offering to clean up their spelling and grammar for a small fee...?
ReplyDeleteFunny. My Mom already made the comment that I should not post an email with such bad spelling and grammar. I pointed out that although I did not change the content that I cleaned up the spacing in order to make it readable. Mom did not like that!:)
ReplyDeleteCheers!
i received the exact same letter but with a different family name and country. but I don't fall for sucgh crap. anyone who offers money via email is not worth a cent of trust. who in their right mind would transact via email?
ReplyDeletei love the bugs bunny cartoons. they are my fave.
Thanks Army,
ReplyDeleteWhat you are stating makes sense. Thanks for the information. Sadly, I suppose there are some out there not in their right mind!
This just arrived through email:
Congratulations!
Dear Customer,
You've been selected to take part in our quick and easy 5 questions survey. In return we will credit $100.00 to your account - Just for your time!
Please spare two minutes of your time and take part in our online survey so we can improve our services. To participate in this survey click here.
Don't miss this chance to change something.
© Copyright © 2007 Downey Savings And Loan Association.
Russ
ReplyDeleteThanks for forwarding the original. I can see all of those empty line endings. Consider my following comments:
I would say that the original was typed on a regular typewriter, not a word processor. On a typewriter the writer must press the "return" key at the end of each and every line in order to get to the next line. Between paragraphs, the return key must be hit twice! Then when this is copied by a word processor, the program or software reads those "return" signals too, and goes to the next line instead of just continuing on. That is the reason for all the spaces!
A great indication that this is "scam".
So if you get any more of these, my suggestion would be to ignore them and not spend time passing them around. You can't stop them coming in I guess because the sender name list is so very long, and you can't block a name you
don't know.
Those are my thoughts!
Thanks, Mom.
ReplyDeleteIf I publish the scammer emails or not, in general, they will not stop arriving by email. The exception is the Eastern European dating scammers that will stop emailing once they know that I can publish their information on my blog. Therefore at this point I would rather expose these people as frauds in order to bring some good to the situation. Through Site Meter I can see that each week people do web searches on scammers and view my related blog articles and comments.
Okay, please, please, please, suspend my 'account' 'TD'. Then we can stop these stupid emails!
ReplyDeleteDear Valued Customer,
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As a part of our ongoing commitment to provide the "Best Possible" service and Protection to all our Members this year, we are now requiring each member to validate their accounts using our new secure and safe SSL servers. To validate your online banking account click on Log In To Online Banking. This Email has being sent to all TDCanada customers, and it is compulsory to follow as failure to verify account details will lead to account suspension.
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I wonder if Zedex has a brother named Fedex.
ReplyDeleteVery good.
ReplyDeleteZedexcon?;)
hello Russ! I tagged you in my "Not again..." post :)
ReplyDeleteThis just came in by email:
ReplyDeleteDear Friend,
I am interested in establishing and operating a very viable business as a means of investment abroad. I do not know too well on how this is done in your country, So i will need you to help me in this regard.
My preference is any good profit yeilding businesss and i would appreciate any viable ideas you could come up with. I will also need you to help me look for properties like homes and lands for sale as i am proposing to invest the sum of Fifty Million United States Dollars ($50,000,000 USD) for this. I do not know if you can and will be of help to me.
For a brief on my personality; My name is John Bredenkamp (mr.johnbredenkamp@yahoo.co.uk) , a zimbabwean based in U.K. I was into private Shipping Business. I am 62 years of age, married with a wife and 4 lovely kids. I dropped my Shipping business because it wasn't producing profitable income. I have had so much problems with the British Authority just because am a foreiner i believe.
My need for this business proposition and to acquire these properties is very urgent as i am planing to move out of this country with my family down to your country. I want you to also help in finding a good home where my family and i will live in ( Mini Estate ).
Please i expect your prompt reply so that we can proceed swiftly. I will need your phone and fax numbers for easier communication with you if i am unable to access my emails.
My Personal Email - mr.johnbredenkamp@yahoo.co.uk
Best Regards,
John