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Newest E-mail Scam

POSTED BY: BYTEMITE
UPDATED: Thursday, December 17, 2009 08:47
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:36 PM

BYTEMITE


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I am Mrs Mary Susan Fredrick, I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in New
Braunfels Texas. My residential address is as follows. 1811 TEAL RUN PLACE DR.FRESNO,
TX 77545, United States. I am one of those that executed a Compesation in Nigeria,
many years ago and they refused to pay me, I had paid over 240,000 while in the US,
trying to get my payment all to no avail.



So I decided to travel down to Nigeria with all my compensation documents, And I was
directed to meet Mrs. Anna Joy, who is the member of COMPENSATION AWARD COMMITTEE, and
I contacted him and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us
through emails are fake.





He took me to the paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am
the most happiest woman on earth because I have received my compensation funds of
$10.5m Moreover, Mrs. Anna Joy, showed me the full information of those that are
yet receive their payments and I saw your name as one of the beneficiary, and your
email address, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those
people,they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you. I will
advise you to contact Mrs. Anna Joy

You have to contact him direct on this information below.

MRS. ANNA JOY COMPENSATION HOUSE

Name Mrs Anna Joy

Email: anna.joy1960@gmail.com



Office Address: 13, Cole Street, Ikeja Lagos Nigeria.



You really have to stop dealing with those people that is contacting you and telling
you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them,
they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.



The only money I paid was just $750usd,take note of that.

Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact Mrs Anna Joy so
that he can help you to Deliver your fund instead of dealing with those liars that
will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your
transaction.

Thank You and Be Blessed.

Mrs. Laura Susan Fredrick.



Oh GOD. Seriously?

How dumb ARE people?


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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:54 PM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:

Originally posted by Bytemite:

Oh GOD. Seriously?

How dumb ARE people?



Billary Clinton's kosher in-law is an outlaw, a CONGRESSMAN sent to prison for masterminding Nigerian scams.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=41027

Guess what political party he's in?

How dumb are goyim?

Quote:

“Jews always have to try to deceive Non-Jews.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Zohar I, 168a

“Every Jew is allowed to use lies and perjury to bring a Non-Jew to ruin.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Babha Kama 113a

“The possessions of the goyim are like an ownerless desert, and everybody (every Jew) who seizes it, has acquired it.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, IV/3/54b

“Just the Jews are humans, the Non-Jews are no humans, but cattle.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Kerithuth 6b page 78, Jebhammoth 61a
(goyim is the kosher term for human cattle)

“The Non-Jews have been created to serve the Jews as slaves.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Midrasch Talpioth 225

“When the Messiah comes, all will be slaves of the Jews.”
-Jewish Babylonian Talmud, Erubin 43b


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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:57 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Dumb enough not to use MapQuest, apparently.

If she lives in New Braunfels (right down the road a bit from me), then why does she list her residential address as being in Fresno, a suburb of Sugarland in the Houston area, some 195 miles away?

By the way, reading a bit further, I just realized that "Mrs. Anna Joy" is often referred to as "him". Do the Nigerians do things differently than we do?

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:59 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


"How dumb ARE people?"

I wonder why the various governments don't do anything about these scammers. Afer all, the VERY dumb scammers have to give you a way to contact them. Otherwise, if you to wanted send them your money, and they didn't give you a way to contact them, they'd have a very hard time collecting. You'd think it would be easy for law enforcement to trace these people, considering they so helpfully give you their email addresses and all.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:12 PM

BYTEMITE


Quote:

By the way, reading a bit further, I just realized that "Mrs. Anna Joy" is often referred to as "him". Do the Nigerians do things differently than we do?


Yeah, exactly! I mean, if not for the fact that even the slightest reference to the nigeria scam tipped me off (Which, no, I NEVER contributed to, another strike against this), that is just so SLOPPY.

Oh yeah, just let me get my $750 dollars, yep. 9_9

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:16 PM

BYTEMITE


We actually have a local newsguy who does this segment where he tracks down scams and tries to settle financial issues people are having. He's usually successful just because the legitimate businesses don't want any publicity for mistakes, so they auto-reimburse the people making the complaints when he gets involved. He's actually the guy who found out a lot of dishes and dinnerware have really high levels of lead in them, and got one of our congressmen to float a bill setting some standards on that.

But anyway. This one time, someone got scammed, and he was called in to try to track them down. And what he found out, is that all these e-mail addresses are usually attached to empty houses that just serve as routing addresses. It was pretty much a wild goose chase. Finding one led to another, led to another. I think he quit after three, because they were scattered all across the country and in Canada.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:20 PM

BYTEMITE


PN: I *thought* you might be interested in this one. :) Wonder who's masterminded it?

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:25 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


I tend to assume that ANY e-mail I get from someone I don't know (either in real life or virtually) is a scam of some sort. Color me paranoid...

Still, if they're going to do these things, you'd think they'd at least TRY to make some effort at getting details right. The pattern of speech is all wrong for an American, the address doesn't pan out, the genders, just *everything* about this SCREAMS "SCAM!!!".

If anyone is stupid enough to fall for this, they kind of deserve to lose their money. :(

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:30 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


"... all these e-mail addresses are usually attached to empty houses that just serve as routing addresses."

And yet, they do end up somewhere real. What you need to do is track the routing of any reply that gets sent. And the bank accounts as well.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:35 PM

BYTEMITE


True, and now that I think of it, I think that ended up at a real company at the end of the whole thing, but the company wasn't the responsible party, it was an attempt to implicate someone else. Though it's possible maybe someone was working there who'd get a hold of the scam money and send it on.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:40 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Ha, turn it around - the scammers are as dumb or dumber than the scammees, you see.

I make a couple hundred a year baiting these dumbasses by reverse social engineering and playing on THEIR greed, only to have them realize the "pigeon" has turned em and they're boned for some cash themselves.

All else fails, I ram their provider for allowing such chicanery and exploitation of their systems by reaming them on various anti-spam acts which can cost them not only the penalty fee, but court time and costs (they usually ignore you, drag their feet, get cited for contempt and eventually pay out about 16-20 months later) and piss them off enough to cut that customer off.

But yeah, you can just ignore em too - me, I see it as an opportunity to stick it to someone who very much has it coming and dares not make an issue out of it via a combination of embarrassment and no desire to admit their own misconduct.

Oh, and just in case ya didn't know, most of them emails come from the southern US, no more "nigerian" than most of the predator porn is "russian" (most of THAT comes from North Carolina)

-F

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 8:53 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


I'm with Kwicko, and others, on the stupidity of the letter itself. Aside from what Kwix mentioned, who, in their right mind, would broadcast their home address, especially after supposedly collecting $10M.

I once received a 'urgent telegram' claiming that I had a special grand prize and all I needed to do to collect was pay a small processing fee.

Really? That's all I gotta do! Sign me up.

How dumb are folk? Good question, you're only as dumb as your greed. Something for nothing rarely comes out being a good thing.


SGG

Tawabawho?

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Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:48 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


That didn't surprise me in the slightest; I've gotten stuff like that in the past, with many variations. It's a pretty common scam, and yes, I've heard about it from other newscasts too, which is why when the first one arrived I knew what it was. The usual scam USED to be that some inheritance was stuck somewhere and the scamee was asked to put up funds to clear it, with the promise of splitting the proceeds. I imagine that's working less and less, so new ways are being tried.

There are a ton of variations; one news show followed the whole thing and found a person whose address was legal, and who was receiving tons of purchased items from scamees, then forwarding them on overseas for sale and receiving a portion of the profits. The worst ones are those that ask you to help them with money up front; I see enough of those have been exposed that apparently there's a new scam. No doubt the person you'd be sent to contact would want some money from you one way or another; I see "she" talks about spending $750 to ascertain the validity--they'd probably try to trick you into same, playing on your hope that there was some mix-up and there'd be money at the end. The use of "he", REPEATEDLY, however, is especially funny.

As to the dumbness, most of them are if you read them carefully. The English is a dead giveaway in most cases; as they're almost invariably from a foreign country, sometimes using a stateside co-hort to reassure you. But I disagree; the fact that they're successful speaks to the dumbness of the scamees as being greater than the dumbness of the scammers; if anyone falls for these things, it's because their greed got the better of them (as Shiny said) and they're overlooking the questionability of the offer. People can be amazingly stupid when it comes to greed, and that's the only way one of these things is successful.

Good for you for putting it up...the more people know about these things, the better. I get three lines into them and toss them into "spam", and I've gotten several. Unlike Mike, I don't automatically toss e-mails from someone I don't know; some of them have turned out to be valid. But most are scams or come-ons to purchase something, and they've gotten better at putting a comment in the tag line that will encourage people to open the e-mail, and sending them via different names hoping one or the other gets through. I have pre-open feature for my e-mail, so I glance at them then toss them into spam.

I don't think anyone here is dumb enough to fall for this crap; some of what I have received is barely legible and gives itself away immediately, but it would be good to pass this sort of information on to anyone we know; and huzzah Frem for going after them!




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Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:35 AM

BYTEMITE


Mostly the reason I posted this one was the glaring inconsistencies and because it actually makes a reference to the most well known e-mail scam in existence, which is a tip-off in of itself. Don't these people know the old phrase "once bitten, twice shy?" I'm still mind-boggled that they think anyone is going to fall for this.

It is, however, really funny and easy to mock.

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Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:47 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Ahh, but in thinking "once bitten, twice shy" you forget just HOW many people there are, and how much is gained by just ONE of them being stupid enough to fall for it! Lose one, go on to another, and I doubt few of them fall for it twice so the chance of "twice shy" still leaves millions and millions to try and scam.

Every time one of these scams stops working enough to profit, they just move on to another one until IT gets worn out.

Just think: If the scams didn't work at ALL, they'd stop trying, right? And they obvious work, despite the ease with which they could be discerned as frauds. So there's a percentage of success in there somewhere...usually the elderly most often, I'd bet, along with the ignorant greedy.




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