LOL old school scam email (made me laugh)

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  1. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    havent seen an email like this for years, i thought they had moved on because nobody could possibly fall for this.

    i love the English in it and the silly email and contact address for fedex (the @live.com LOL)

    also love the crap at the bottom about FEDEX damaging it if its there more than 3 days. what they gunna do take sledge hammers too it if i dont pick up my parcel cause im lazy and leaving it a week.

    anyone else got any good SPAM recently ?
     
  2. lex90

    lex90 Minimodder

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    I <3 Gmail spam filters. Havent seen any in years.
     
  3. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    About the best Spam I've had is a penis enlargement with the title "I gained 4 inches" from a female sender. Sadly, all my spam is boring :(
     
  4. naokaji

    naokaji whatever

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    You are his best buddy, but he needs your Full name first of all..

    :wallbash:

    Those scammers really should put some more effort into their work.
     
  5. Mr Flibbles

    Mr Flibbles I'm not part of the solution....

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    I have my Junk folder full of these, and they are a good read. It amazes me that the spelling is horrendous. For a formal letter, I would assume that they would try and use spell checker....lol

    the 419 scam and always be the same, there are some people that will fall for these emails, especially when they fall in financial hardship, these mails seem like a god send, and $300.00 for $700k and upwards is a tempting offer.

    It used to be called the "Spanish Prisoner" scam which is years old, if memory serves back in the early 1900's.

    There are loads of variations about atm but follow this link for a real laugh:

    http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/massage.htm

    This made me really laugh.
     
  6. Westovski

    Westovski What's a Dremel?

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    It always makes me laugh with the ones from the banks/credit agencies.

    They'll have gone to all the trouble of copying the images and making the help and support links redirect to the correct place and all that stuff...and then they'll spell the bloody bank name wrong.

    Love it!
     
  7. Scirocco

    Scirocco Boobs, I have them, you lose.

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    Wrong cut and paste? Maybe she was supposed to be sending the breast enlargement spam from that email account. ;P
     
  8. chrisb2e9

    chrisb2e9 Dont do that...

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    I have to wonder how many of these e-mails I have. Thank god for spam filters...
    [​IMG]

    Crappy pic, it says 2430 in the spam folder
     
  9. pistol_pete

    pistol_pete Air Cooled Fool

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    This bit sounds believable.
     
  10. sui_winbolo

    sui_winbolo Giraffe_City

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  11. Constructacon

    Constructacon Constructing since 1978

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    Not saying damage. He's trying to say demurrage


    de⋅mur⋅rage

    –noun Commerce.
    1.the detention in port of a vessel by the shipowner, as in loading or unloading, beyond the time allowed or agreed upon.
    2.the similar undue detention of a railroad car, truck, etc.
    3.a charge for such undue detention.

    Basically extra charges if it's not picked up on time.

    Anyway - It's still a laughable scam email
     
  12. yakyb

    yakyb i hate the person above me

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    whats sad is that people do actually fall for this ****
     
  13. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    yeah, ive no sympathy for people that do, its harsh i know but if your that stupid then you deserve it.

    anyone who believes that someone you never heard off but is "getting back to you or hasnt heard from you" wants to send you 700k or 1mil etc all you need to do is send $300 to them to release the funds needs a serious check on their IQ.
     
  14. Mr Flibbles

    Mr Flibbles I'm not part of the solution....

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    Just had a look in my spam folder and got an email from a brewery!!! this is the format as i recieved it:

     
  15. Picarro

    Picarro What's a Dremel?

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    I love these. If I had a trojan on my computer, I would get someone to make a bot the replied with the trojan to all spam mails. It would be awesome :D
     

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