Official "419 Scam-Mail" Thread

[kladner]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Humour is such a subjective thing...

Indeed. This one seems so naive as to be sad.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by kladner

Indeed. This one seems so naive as to be sad.

Concur.

[VictordeHolland]

We have a winning cheque of $6,480,000.00USD to deliver to you. Open the file attached for more details about your delivery and your winning. The file attached is not a virus it's safe to open,and is about your winning delivery . If you happen to find this message in your spam-box , kindly move it to your inbox as it may be because the saver was slow , that was why the message was sent to your spam-box instead of your inbox.

No name, bad punctuation and 6.48 million dollar for free, why not?

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by VictordeHolland

No name, bad punctuation and 6.48 million dollar for free, why not?

Haha, that reminds me of the classical Albanian Virus popup message: "Hi, I am an Albanian virus but because of poor development of the technology in my country, unfortunately I am not able to harm your computer. Please be so kind to delete some of your important files yourself and then forward me to all persons in your contact list. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards, Albanian virus"

[xilman]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Haha, that reminds me of the classical Albanian Virus popup message: "Hi, I am an Albanian virus but because of poor development of the technology in my country, unfortunately I am not able to harm your computer. Please be so kind to delete some of your important files yourself and then forward me to all persons in your contact list. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards, Albanian virus"

Reminds me of a Usenet .sig which was popular back in the day when Usenet News was the only mass-subscription social networking. I'll add it to the end of this post so you see it in the wild.

Some of us got into trouble from admins who failed completely to see the joke.

Paul

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!

[Spherical Cow]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Haha, that reminds me of the classical Albanian Virus popup message: "Hi, I am an Albanian virus but because of poor development of the technology in my country, unfortunately I am not able to harm your computer. Please be so kind to delete some of your important files yourself and then forward me to all persons in your contact list. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards, Albanian virus"

Wonderful! Thanks for posting that- it made my whole day!

Norm

[kladner]

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Lovelyn Williams, a well known business woman. I am 69 years old, I leave in Utah, U.S.A. I am a good merchant, I have industries and companies, with some good stocks in various banks. I have spent all my life, investing in corporate business. All the way I lost my husband and two beautiful kids in a ghastly car accident that took place sometime in November 2009. I must confess that I was a woman very greedy, which caused my present ordeal.

I don’t know much and I don't care about people, since in my present experience it is difficult for me to sleep and have rest. Later in the year 2016 February to be precise, I got a letter for medical check up after a brief illness as my personal Doctor can testify that I have a cancer of the lungs, which can easily take off my life soon. I found it uneasy to survive myself now, because a lot of investment which cannot be run and managed by me again. I quickly call up a pastor/prophet to give me positive thinking on this as a solution and he advised me. He ministered to me to share my properties and wealth, to the needy in society such as the motherless baby/orphanages and homeless people that needs money for survival, both students from less privileged homes that need money, business women and men for their investment and for the future raising.

Because of the above reasons therefore, I am writing this letter to people who really need help from me, both student in colleges, high school, to contact me urgently. So that I can make available preparation on that, especially women of the present day, who are divorced by their husband, and cannot, survive in the mist of feeding themselves.

Please contact me and stop weeping, probably let me know what you really need the money for, and if you can still help me to distribute money to the nearest orphanages, motherless homes in your city. Now am so much with God, am now a born again. May the lord bless you, as you reach me, please I wish to remind you, that you should not belongs to scammers or any act of fraudulent things on the internet or try to scam me on this please be honest with me. I will give more information to you as I await your response immediately. Please reply me on this email address, lovelynwilliams8@gmail.com.

Best Regards,

Mrs Lovelyn Williams.

[Chuck]

I've started seeing an email message nearly every day with various senders such as "Dodge", "RamTrucks", "Ford" etc with the subject line "Best Cars for 2018".

I do a view message source without opening the message and it is invariably some scam sex-type site.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by Chuck

I've started seeing an email message nearly every day with various senders such as "Dodge", "RamTrucks", "Ford" etc with the subject line "Best Cars for 2018".

I do a view message source without opening the message and it is invariably some scam sex-type site.

Such things go into my ever-expanding Junk list. Anything promising Great This or That in the subject, but has no body if remote images are blocked, is clearly garbage. Cars, "military grade" flashlights, amazing dietary supplements, date offers from strangers, extended auto warranties, "male enhancement".....

[Uncwilly]

Today's latest:

Dear friend,

This is to inform you that after so many consultations we came to a conclusion
that you are no longer interested in our service, therefore we have decided to
send to you an a withdrawal application form to fill and sign that you are no
longer interested on your fund anymore encase if anything happen to the fund.

Finally you are hereby advice to open the attached file, fill it correctly with
your signature and return it to us for the dis-ownership of the said fund ($5.5
millon) Five million Five Hundred Dollars.

Best regards,

[kladner]

A few days back.....

Please pardon me for this unsolicited email.

I have a lucrative/confidential deal that might interest you, but need
your permission to disclose details.
Hope you still use this email?



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