got an e-mail this morning that went like this: [ QUOTE ] Attn. I am Mr. Markson Fred an accounts officer in a financial institution, I discovered a dormant account with a large amount of money valued $6,570,000.00 (six million five hundred and seventy thousand us dollars). Upon my investigation I discovered it belonged to one of our late clients Mr.Herman Fritz that died in an automobile crash in November 1998. I got your details in my search for any possible relation to Mr. Herman Fritz. Unfortunately the deaced died along with his wife in the accident which became aparent for me to search for the kin to Mr. Fritz The banking law here stipulates that if any money remains unclaimed for a period of six years, it will be forfeited to the government as it has and would be decalred as unclaimed bill and the funds will be sent to the governments account. A local citizen cannot stand as a kin to a foreigner. It is upon this discovery that I have decided to contact you to ensure that the funds is used for some viable project as it ought to be instead of using the funds for malicious purposes, if you get this mail please know that your name came up in the geneology search for Mr.Herman Fritz family. If you are willing to assist retrieve the funds and place in a trust fund pending when the actual relation of Mr. Herman Fritz would be found you can indicate so by your response to marksonfred@netscape.net I will need to intimate you on how we would go about securing the release of the funds to you. Anticipating your urgent reply. Best regards, Markson Fred [/ QUOTE ] so i'm guessing that this is some hoax, but have never heard of it. anyone else out there seen it before? grammer, lack of identification, the fact that it's an e-mail and not a registered letter, spelling, etc., all add up to a scam, but i haven't figured out yet what it is or how they can snag you with this. is it a way to get a foot in your door for further scams? if you respond to this will they be asking you to put this money and some of your own in an account or something (which, of course, will disappear without a trace)? btw; i never even opened it; i copied it using the preview feature of outlook. i'll probabaly delete it without ever opening it.
I get 'em once a day,Atch.....don't worry,ponder,consider, or bother reading them.... Flush 'em..they are all scams....and for your own good,don't open ANYTHING in your bulk folder with an attachment....
I hear the Brooklyn Bridge is up for grabs. That'll go nicely with the swampland I bought in Florida.
Holy shit! What a coincidence! I just got this one... [ QUOTE ] Attn. I am Mr. Flathead Von Offenhauser, a blinker oil salesman in SoCal (Southern Calcutta), I discovered a dormant barn with a large amount of early American hotrods valued $6,570,000.00 (six million five hundred and seventy thousand us dollars... thirty-five million canadian... one-hundred-ten million on eBay). Upon my investigation I discovered it belonged to one of our late clients Dr. J Michiganbitches that tragically drowned in a vat of lock-out coolant in Febtober 1998. I got your details in my search for any possible relation to Dr. J Michiganbitches . Unfortunately the de-iced died along with his orcabetty in the accident which became aparent for me to search for the kin to Dr. J Michiganbitches. The car club law here stipulates that if any ride remains undriven for a period of six years, it will be forfeited to the club as it has and would be decalred as unfinished project and the car will be sent to the clubs garage. A gold chainer cannot stand as a kin to a rodder. It is upon this discovery that I have decided to contact you to ensure that the rods are used for some driveable projects as they ought to be instead of using the cars for malicious trailering purposes, if you get this mail please know that your name came up in the hambeology search for Dr. J Michiganbitches family. If you are willing to assist retrieve the cars and place in a workshop pending when the actual relation of Dr. J Michiganbitches would be found you can indicate so by your response to germluvsnads@jalopyjournal.com I will need to intimate you on how we would go about scrounging the release of the hot rods to you. Anticipating your urgent reply, and looking forward to intimating you. Viva da HAMB, Flathead Von Offenhauser [/ QUOTE ]
Classic Pigeon Drop scam....better be carful opening these kinds of emails....might have a virus attached.
I get those about three times a month from some "bank manager" of a bank in Africa of course. Lately I've been getting "Unable to deliver" emails that look real close to my server's real messages of that nature that have some Email addy I have no record of and never sent, not myself anyway. Is/can someone else be cloning my Email addy and sending spam/viruses with it? Do I have a virus doing this? I have a Mac so I can't even open an .exe if I want'ed to so that's ruled out.
DRJ Macs are not real prone to viruses. Doesn't mean that you don't have one. Most are written for PCs running MS software for whatever reason. I get phoney stuff saying that I had undeliverable mail all the time. I never open the attachment. I did send one back to Ma Bell with tha attachment attached and they sent me an ugly gram and asked that I never send the virus to them along with the suspiciuos email. Nuff said? I'm on my way out the door but I do have the FBI email addy where they are collecting the we found money scam emails. When I get home I'll post it. The PknBner
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Attn. I am Mr. Flathead Von Offenhauser, a blinker oil salesman in SoCal (Southern Calcutta), I discovered a dormant barn with a large amount of early American hotrods valued $6,570,000.00 (six million five hundred and seventy thousand us dollars... thirty-five million canadian... one-hundred-ten million on eBay). Upon my investigation I discovered it belonged to one of our late clients Dr. J Michiganbitches that tragically drowned in a vat of lock-out coolant in Febtober 1998. I got your details in my search for any possible relation to Dr. J Michiganbitches .... [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] Damn, He was my Great Uncle! This is the first I've heard of his death. I am very over come with grief at this moment. Please advise me where to pick up my inheritance.
You guys are all rubes. While you're here doubting the validity of the above message, I'm sipping on a Mai Tai in Barbados. I struck while the iron was hot and pocketed a cool $6 million, and then I cut town for a while. Don't think that every wierd email that falls in your in-box is a hoax.
[ QUOTE ] Lately I've been getting "Unable to deliver" emails that look real close to my server's real messages of that nature that have some Email addy I have no record of and never sent, not myself anyway. Is/can someone else be cloning my Email addy and sending spam/viruses with it? Do I have a virus doing this? I have a Mac so I can't even open an .exe if I want'ed to so that's ruled out. [/ QUOTE ] Most likely it's someone that has your email in their address book got infected and the virus/spam is mailing itself using your address as a return address. Nothing to really worry about. Just keep from opening the attatchments. If your using OSX then there is only one real virus to worry about and it's not spreading very quickly at all.
Monkeyman! It's amazing how far this scam has reached... these guys scour the net looking for ANY working email, and try and get folks. What's funny is they don't even change the story line at all...
This should be a givaway... [ QUOTE ] Unfortunately the deaced died along with his wife in the accident which became aparent for me to search for the kin to Mr. Fritz [/ QUOTE ] Kin? I mean REALLY kin!?! What lawyer says that let alone writes it down!!!! Sheesh... kin They must be looking for total fucking idiots... ..glad they didn't find one.
[ QUOTE ] I get those about three times a month from some "bank manager" of a bank in Africa of course. Lately I've been getting "Unable to deliver" emails that look real close to my server's real messages of that nature that have some Email addy I have no record of and never sent, not myself anyway. Is/can someone else be cloning my Email addy and sending spam/viruses with it? Do I have a virus doing this? I have a Mac so I can't even open an .exe if I want'ed to so that's ruled out. [/ QUOTE ] those are just spoofed emails. usually the attatchment , where your original message would reside, now contains a virus. When you try to open it to figure out what the fuck you sent to hello@beer.com while you were drunk, you get the virus.
I get the Nigerian one often. One day when bored, I sent him (her?) a reply with all kinds of phoney information. He (she?) actually replied and said that my credit card was no good. Don't worry, my system "hides" behind TWO different firewalls. Plus the email addy was no longer in service, my service bureau forwarded it to me.
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