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What the Spammers Are Up To Now

Author: jak (add to friends)

What will the spammers come up with next?

Has anyone else received this one that dropped into my folder yesterday?

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Top of the day to you as I hope my e-mail meets you well. My name is Joey Jones. (Sgt). I work here in Ba'qubah, Iraq as a military attache with the United States Army's engineering unit. Myself and a colleague have about $2.3 million USD. We found this money during a raid on insurgents in Al Fallujah and later discovered that it was from part of the loots meant to fund the insurgencies here in Iraq .

We long had this money lodged some were around Jordan, and now we need to move it out of the country. My colleague and I need a good partner someone we can trust to actualise this project. The money is presently safe were we lodged it for secured purpose. Since one can't send such money through the banks here without raising so much dust, we need your support and assistance in this regard. We are moving it through diplomatic means to your nominated location and address directly or a safe and secured place of your choice using diplomatic courier service.

But can we trust you? Once the funds get to you, you take your 40% out and keep our 60%. Your role in this project is to find a safe place where the funds can be shipped to and received. Our part is sending it smoothly to your nominated location.

It went on to give an email address for me to use if I was interested.

Normally I don't read my spam, but the sender address of this one intrigued me and I took a look. At least it has given me something to write about here today. I just hope it doesn't reach any really gullible people.

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Comment from: tbelshaw [Member]
I've had a few of those Jak LOL.
A word of advice for everyone.
The latest pain in the butt, is recieving emails that you have apparantly sent to yourself but when opended they are usually ads for viagra etc.
This is called spoofing, once they get hold of your email address they start using it to send mails that have apparantly been sent from your own email account. There is no virus or spyware involved in this, so just delete them if you get any.
The other thing you can do is put your own email address in your blocked senders list. This will bounce them back to the orignal sender and will hopefully stop them sending. It won't affect your other legitimate email.
PermalinkPermalink 2009-01-08 @ 14:14
Comment from: davidr [Member] · http://www.freewebs.com/dwrob/
This looks like a variation on the old Nigerian Development Minister email.

In that one, they want to launder $125 million through you bank account, but to do so they need your account number and your pin code so they can access it. You never see the money and you never see the money they clean out of your account again.

It plays on greed and surprisingly (or maybe not) some people do get caught by it. A woman in Cheshire lost £30,000 on it by giving them the information they wanted. Idiot.

I always operate on the principle that there’s no such thing as a free lunch and if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
PermalinkPermalink 2009-01-08 @ 14:23
Comment from: linda d [Member] Email · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/linda
Makes a change from the Nigerian diplomats!
PermalinkPermalink 2009-01-08 @ 14:25
Comment from: morgana [Member] Email
Hi Jak Yes I have had spammers like that. In fact opened up today to find some guys
in Iraq had stolen some money in a raid have it ready in Lebanon and offered 40% of the takings if I would help! Well I never did?
PermalinkPermalink 2009-01-11 @ 19:01
Comment from: gillyflower [Member] Email
We get these emails here too. I always check my emails first on webmail so I can delete anything potentially dodgy before downloading to my computer.
PermalinkPermalink 2009-01-14 @ 10:29

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