Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The Bi-Weekly e-SPAM #1
With all the amounts of SPAM that I receive, via my personal Email as well as our organization-related Email addresses I am on, I figured I might as well have some fun with it, rather than just do the catatonic 'delete'.
Here's one I received today, from the impressively-named Mr. Rodrigo de Rato Figaredo:
Kadel Finance & Security Inc
United Kingdom
From: Managing Director
Attn: Beneficiary,
From the records of outstanding foreign payments due for release with banks in France,UK,Canada,South Africa,USA,Dublin and Nigeria, your name and contact was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding foreigners' payment which are stil pending on release.
I wish to inform you that your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you reconfirm your payment details so that we can authenticate the claim legally with the IMF.
Note that from our record the IMF Board Of Directors has maped out your equivilent to the sum of US$6,000,000.00 (Six Million United States Dollars) to be paid to you in cash.
Also note that there is a lot of junks mail flying over the internet and some people are using the advantage to collect payment information from
beneficiaries to defraud them and divert there payment to another account,that is why your payment will come through Diplomatic means or through a direct telegarphic transfer to any of your norminated account.
Kindly re-confirm to us the followings:
1) Your full name and mailing address.
2) Telephone, Fax and mobile #.
3) Occupation
4) Age .
5) Any Bank account of your Choice.
In receipt of the above information, your payment will be approved and released to you.
You are therefore advised to get back to me immediately for more clarifications. Once again, I apologize to you on behalf Of IMF Board Of Directors (International Monetary Fund) for not contacting you as to paying your funds on time, which according to records in the system had been long overdue.
Please reply through my official Email.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Rodrigo de Rato Figaredo
Managing Director, IMF
It's boring and lengthy, promising me a fortune that will be paid to me once I give them all my personal info, y'know, the usual crap.
But what I liked about it is their kind warning:
"Also note that there is a lot of junks mail flying over the internet and some people are using the advantage to collect payment information from beneficiaries to defraud them and divert there payment to another account,that is why your payment will come through Diplomatic means or through a direct telegarphic transfer to any of your norminated account".
Oh, wait a second!
Iff they are warning me, it means they actually are not SPAM, right?
They can't be.
I mean, they are warning against SPAM, so they are the good guys.
I shall go ahead and send them everything they want. Maybe add my SSN, just in case they forgot to ask for it, in their haste to take care of my well-being.
After all, it's not every day you are offered Six Million USD in cash.
Strange number, by the way, Six Million, considering that next week is the Holocaust Memorial Day. Interesting coincidence.
If only they took the time to run a spell-checker on their lame attempt, it might have looked a bit more convincing...
But hey - I am rich!!! Yay!!
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# posted by Nava @ 1:02 PM 
Comments:
you mean you didn't get an email from a lawyer who is willing to reconize you as the sole family member of a British billionaire for half of the estate?
or the corrupted politician who will split with you half of a gov. budget if you'd respond promptly.
Girl, there's much more spam coming your way.
# posted by 
: 4/04/2007 3:18 PM
I did get those, plus the one from the only-surviving daughter of the lost king of someplace.
Plus tons of other ones.
This one grabbed my attention by warning me from SPAM, which is almost touching.
Check this out:
http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/rrf.htm
I think that letter might be authentic!!!!!!!!
Oh, and I have deleted the Email!
Ah well, six million USD are not such a big amount.
Clever scam - to use an existing person's name. And such a cool name!
Oh! And the urban legends that are now circulating that say at the top they've been verified by snopes. Yeah, verified as FAKE!
I have gotten so many versions of that type of spam, it's not funny. Well, actually it is funny. With that spelling and grammar (love those junks mail flying over the internet), it looks like our President wrote it! heh heh.
Yahoo is pretty good at diverting most spam to the junk box, but lately it has decided that emails from "Viagra.com" are for some reason, NOT spam... even after I've marked them as spam numerous times. Maybe I should forward them to Rush Limbaugh. Yes?
Yahoo is subtly trying to tell you something. The question is what.
I am still catching on US politics, so I am ashamed ot admit the joke got wasted on me :-&
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or the corrupted politician who will split with you half of a gov. budget if you'd respond promptly.
Girl, there's much more spam coming your way.
# posted by : 4/04/2007 3:18 PM
: 4/04/2007 3:18 PM Plus tons of other ones.
This one grabbed my attention by warning me from SPAM, which is almost touching.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/rrf.htm
I think that letter might be authentic!!!!!!!!
Ah well, six million USD are not such a big amount.
Clever scam - to use an existing person's name. And such a cool name!
Yahoo is pretty good at diverting most spam to the junk box, but lately it has decided that emails from "Viagra.com" are for some reason, NOT spam... even after I've marked them as spam numerous times. Maybe I should forward them to Rush Limbaugh. Yes?
I am still catching on US politics, so I am ashamed ot admit the joke got wasted on me :-&
