Ha ha they cannot even get this right

Oct 07, 2016 12 Replies

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Brian Gaff 9 years ago

Scammers take note of the obvious problems in this email to me.

Hello!

You may be sceptical about this email due to the proliferation of Internet scam. And notable amongst these scam is the "lottery scam", which is wide spread. The victims are mostly ignorant of the fact that, a lottery prize cannot be won without the purchase of a lottery ticket. Also, a genuine lottery company does not demand any fee/fees from its winners before releasing prizes to the winners. Even if the prize cheque needs to be couriered to the winner, it is done at the expense of the lottery company and not the winner.

I work with the National Lottery and I wish to present you as the winner of an unclaimed prize of the total sum of 8,168,679.00 pounds for our mutual benefit. I shall furnish you with more details when you signify your interest to cooperate with me.

Thank you for your time and God bless.

Regards, Mark Harris.

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damduck-egg 9 years ago

The most obvious problem is that you feel the need to bore us to death with it.

G.Harman

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Lobster 9 years ago

On 07 Oct 2016, "Brian Gaff" grunted:

Bear in mind it could well be deliberate... consider that the scammer's aim is somwehow to extract cash from the punter, who will of necessity have to be extremely gullible to fall for whatever request is made by the scammer.

So far the scammer has had to do nothing other than send out 10 billion spam emails, in the hope that 1 or 2 might come good. He doesn't want to attract 1000 replies to his original message, by makinmg it sound vaguely plausible, as that will cause him an awful lot of wasted time working up

999 victims before he finds his mug. Much better to attract just 20 or so especially 'vulnerable' people by sending out a message like this, and then you've only got 19 to get through till you hit paydirt.

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John Rumm 9 years ago

The poor grammar / spelling / implausible / illogical bits in these are often deliberate - they are designed to filter out all but the most gullible!

So the fact you have "seen through" (metaphorically) the scam, means they would like you to deselect yourself from the running - saves them needing to do it.

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harry 9 years ago

Yup. If you want a laugh, why not lead them on a bit? Waste their time.

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GB 9 years ago

First sensible thing you've said for ages, Harry.

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Andrew 9 years ago

"God bless" = Nigerian.

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charles 9 years ago

not always, A Cousin's wife ends her emails that way - she's a Malaysian Chinese.

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John Rumm 9 years ago

While I am content to do that with call centre scammers telling me my computer has a problem, I am less keep to verify a working email address for a spammer.

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Cursitor Doom 9 years ago

[...]

Sincerely yours,

His Excellency Prince Ali Umbongo, Lagos, Nigeria.

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Huge 9 years ago

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IME it makes precisely no difference. I've led them on for weeks before now.

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Zephirum 9 years ago

The Sakawa boys from Ghana that haunt Skype use it as well.

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Zephirum 9 years ago

Reply from a throw away address ?

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