Email Scam

[RICHARD]

I got this email today.......This one slipped thru the filter, so I decided to be helpful.


-----Original Message-----
From: Patti will Franklin <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 12:35 am
Subject: Hello


My name is Patti Franklin , a widow dying of critical illness. You have been chosen to be the sole beneficiary of USD 1.5m, inherited from my late husband. I need a good spirited person to use these funds properly for Good works and charitable ventures. Please treat this matter with urgency as I will need your complete devotion. Kindly reply for further details.Patti Franklin
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My response?



I was going to contact you and ask you for a loan anyways.

Could you send me your info so I can send you a request for 4,800 dollars until the 1.5 million is mine?

I need the money for rent and cigarettes, I won't lie to you. I also am an alcoholic and have run out of money for booze.

I am going thru withdrawls and could really use a drink.

I know Jesus would want you to help me. Jesus loves little children and drunks.

[moosmom]

Oh RICHARD, you are too funny!!!! I get these emails ALL the time!!:mad: They're VERY annoying and go right into the "spam" file.

[RICHARD]

Oh RICHARD, you are too funny!!!! I get these emails ALL the time!!:mad: They're VERY annoying and go right into the "spam" file.

I'll email them back this afternoon asking for money to buy a car.;)

I'll post it.:D

[Karen]

Oh, Richard, by replying, you have just confirmed that your email address is valid to the horde of spammers!

[RICHARD]

Oh, Richard, by replying, you have just confirmed that your email address is valid to the horde of spammers!

I never open anything that I do recognize and I do not open attachments.

I get the feeling that they will block my address when I start asking for more stuff. And I do want their info, too!

:D

[lvpets2002]

:) Those kind of spams are always on my work computer.. I just hit delete.. Then shake my head of how stupid they read..

[moosmom]

Can't wait to see what kind of reply you get!!!

[Puckstop31]

I have a :love: / Hate relationship with SPAM(mers). Its a pain to deal with for my clients, but it is also a big market for us. Anti-Spam tools are getting better and better all the time.... Our clients have a need (albeit a necessary evil in todays world) to have sufficient anti-spam tools that prevent both normal inbound spam and spammers using their email servers as a relay.

Surf safely folks.... Its one thing to open a spam message.... Its a whole other can of worms when they start using your IP ro relay spam messages to the world.

[RICHARD]

My follow up....

Hello,

Since you were good enough to tell me about my good fortune, I was wondering if you could help me by
Sending me 50,000 USD so I can buy a four wheel drive truck,

I have seven children -ages 5-14 - that have to walk 12 miles to school and then to work in the afternoons picking cane sugar to make rum.

If you send me the 50,000 dollars USD in cash -I prefer cash only because I cannot afford a bank account to cash checks.- I can purchase that truck to carry them to school and to work.

I also can travel across the valley to purchase my Viagra to satisfy my wife, she demands that I keep her happy.

The truck will make our life happy. But, only if you can send the CASH MONEY, 50,000 USD to me.

Better?

Open a bank account and send me the authorization code, that way you will not have to send the cash money - 50,000 USD by mail.

God bless you for thinking of my and my plight.

You can send me the 4,800 dollars, by the same way, open a bank account and forward me the code.

I will take the money and your good will with it. That way I can show you that I trust you and you can trust me.


Remember, USD ONLY. It says on the monies, IN GOD WE TRUST. I am not god, but you can trust me.

I swear on my children's and wife's life.

God bless you and please send me the info.

[Catty1]

Since so much spam is sent out by computer, your replies likely went back to a computer - a spambot.

I doubt you will get a specific reply. But let's see what happens.;)

[moosmom]

Oh brother!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

[sana]

Oh, Richard, by replying, you have just confirmed that your email address is valid to the horde of spammers!

I was gonna say the same! Now I know why I keep getting millions of Spam emails in my hotmail account, I replied to a few spam emails.:rolleyes: Now they all go to Junk Emails :p

[sana]

I get all types of new scam emails, all the time you can say. :p Every new scam email is nearly always in my Junk Mail :p

[happylabs]

LOL! Love your sense of humor Richard.

[pomtzu]

I can't fathom how anyone with even one working brain cell, could fall for any of these scams. Evidently they do tho, as the spam marches on.

I get a kick reading some of them. And no - I don't respond or follow any links. And the ones that ask if I'm dead or alive??? - so tempted to send back and tell them that I'm dead so pass the word to everyone else and stop junking up my mail, even tho Google is good and catches most every one and sends it directly to my spam box and not my in box. Geeze - I have won millions and millions and millions thru on line email drawings, been willed outrageous sums by total strangers, been propositioned to partner with bank officials who have millions in undetectable accounts, asked to help move millions of Sadam's secret hidden money out of the country by our servicemen, pleaded with by orphans and widows and those dying of cancer with no one to leave their millions to - please take my money and use it for the downtrodden and unfortunates - please help me get to "your country" - and most everyone evokes the name of Our Lord God or the like, to help the cause along. Such scumbags - every one of them! :mad:

They all need to pass English 101 too - their composition and use of some words is nothing short of pathetic and laughable at the same time! I got one a few days ago - a very long and drawn out one - in all capital letters and all one rambling sentence. It gave me a headache just looking at the mess, without trying to actually read it!. :eek:

And of course Robert Mueller, head of the FBI must have really taken a liking to me. I get at least one email each day from him, assuring me that these Nigerian officials are on the up-and-up, and it's okay for me to send what money they are asking for to release the mega millions to me. :rolleyes:

[Medusa]

I think the worst is when they bring pets into it. I got one that said a woman is dying and in need of finding a home for her little Yorkie. She would send me money to be able to have the Yorkie sent to me if I'd send her my complete address and bank account info. I didn't open the email directly but went into "properties", etc. and read it that way. They're shameless.

[Marigold2]

Richard you are too funny.


Who falls for this? The elderly, the uneducated, the people that believe in pearchers like Jim Jones or any of the thousands of weird and out there groups of people who swear they have found the true path to God.

Mostly it is the old, sitting at home, with no family close by. Those that remember suffering and hardship, those who are good of heart, kind of soul and a bit short on brain cells due to age.

It is shameful and these people should be punished by a horrid beating who cheat old people out of their life savings.

[pomtzu]

I have to "politely" disagree with Marigold, as she makes it seem that the old/elderly have diminished brain cells, and thus are less than par in the reasoning/intelligence department, and would therefore fall for these scams. Most truly elderly people would never even see an email scam, since most don't even have a computer.

True - some that play into the hands of these scumbags are elderly - but the majority are just ordinary people who see a way to make some easy and big bucks - probably quite under-educated - trusting and confident that this is the real thing - and just not wise to the ways of the world.

[RICHARD]

Still no reply.;)

[moosmom]

RICHARD,

I'm SURE she's at the bank getting a bank check cut for you...NOT!!!

[RICHARD]

RICHARD,

I'm SURE she's at the bank getting a bank check cut for you...NOT!!!

YOU just don't want me to get a new truck......:D;)

[Catty1]

If only it was a real person, you MIGHT have a chance! ;):D



A program (spider, bot, crawler) on the Internet that gathers e-mail addresses to send spam to. There are countless e-mail addresses on Web site "contact us" pages as well as on blogs and newsgroups. Since they are typically coded in the "mailto" format, which when clicked, causes the address to open an e-mail message window, they are easily located

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=spambot&i=57361,00.asp

[Laura's Babies]

There is a web sight somewhere that I have been to several times where people who got those scam emails, played along with the scammers and string them along for a long time... It's a web sight where they post what they tell the scammers and how they string them along and some of it is some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. Wish I could find it now!!

[Freedom]

I thouht of this thread just now.

I was "browsing" through craigslist, the farm and garden. Someone is selling a Craftsman ride on tractor mower, with a plow attachments, and all sorts of accessories for $550.

Anyway, he ends the posting by saying you need to be able to come pick it up, I can help you transport it, and no I do not want to ship it to your uncle in Nigeria.

:D

[Marigold2]

LOL thats funny Freedom