Monday, September 18, 2006

Spam Evolution

Fascinating. A new variant. Anybody else got a funky, offbeat version of the Nigerian Scam recently?

"Hi, My name is XXXX XXXXXXX, my mum, dad and older brother died in the explosion on Piccadilly line train number 311 travelling south from King's Cross station to Russell Square. You shall read more about the explosion on visiting this website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/what_happened/html/russell_sq.stm
My dad’s older brother took our house my mum’s car, dad’s car and everything we own and sold them, him and his wife moved to china and took me along. we've lived in china for 5 months and it's been hell for me, I am now 18years old with the dream of becoming a model which my mum has always wanted me to be, My mum and dad died leaving the sum of five million pounds only with a bank which no one knows of, I discovered the certificate issued after the money was deposited in my parents safe box. Please I am looking for a God fearing person who will help me collect this deposit I will give you more details when I get your assurance and willingness to help me. I will come over to your country and start a new life and invest my money on my modelling project. I have set aside 10% for you and for your time. Please get back to me as quick as possible; please keep this strictly confidential because I don’t want to loose the money to my dad's brother. Please reply to Email: XXX@xxx.com
Thanks"

52 comments:

Anonymous said...

Speaking as an Englishman, using 7/7 as the background rationale for this scam is pretty shitty. They didn't even have the decency to reference some far off dictatorship like Lower Umbongoland, or some mass murderer we've never heard of like Mobuto Sese Seko.

-lee

Simon Underwood said...

Interesting attempt, but more than a little stupid given the easily checkable list of verified deaths on that line, thus instantly negating the whole story. I do like the specification that whoever helps must be "god-fearing", although what purpose that serves here defeats me. Perhaps a god-fearer will be less likely to cap her and take the whole 5 mill once it's collected.

And agreeing with lee above, this is a shitty story to run a scam with. Fuckers.

Anonymous said...

I've had one much like this with a CNN article (that was a dead link) instead of the BBC. Didn't keep it though.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Rogers was confused by the email, maybe it wasn't a nigerian style email scam afterall, it was proto-pitch from a spec monkey on their magnum opus,
Terror Star...
A heartwarming tale of a beautiful young woman (natch, like anyone would care about an ugly one) who overcomes a series of tragedies (ripped from todays headlines!) to find happiness & fame as a globe trotting supermodel (and, maybe, fall in love) through a helpful benefactor with a bank account and negligble ethics from the other side of the world. Thrills! Chills! Hitchcockian fiduciary intrigue!
Expect your people to get a call from her people.

Anonymous said...

The email wasn't sue-pevensee@gmail.com, was it?

(verification word: Drega, the dreaded Slovakian secret police unit)

Milehimama @ Mama Says said...

Flea, they already made that one, remember Zoolander? Okay, so he overcame coal mining and being related to Christopher Walken instead of a series of tragedies. Although Owen Wilson's wife was tragic...
I never get interesting spam. Just Chinese guys trying to get someone to launder their money.

Maya's Granny said...

Ya gotta give them a D- for this effort. They just keep tryin' and tryin', don't they?

(How do you properly punctate the combination of ' and ,?)

Anonymous said...

I've seen one that used the Iraq war & Iraqi oil money as the basis for the scam. I think they've finally figured out we're wise to the old scam and have felt the need to try to get with the times. If the scammers wise up any more, we're not going to be able to have any fun stringing them along...

Anonymous said...

I saw one recently that, instead of trying to get me to give them my bank acct numbers, asked that I buy a bunch of stuff - cars, computers, PS3s, and so on - and send it to them, and they would reimburse me for it with a hefty bonus/service fee.

wtf?

Hugh Williams said...

Lemme see if I can do a worse approximation of how an English citizen would write this dreck:
********************
Oy, me mum and me best blokes were 'avin a pint down a' the pub, watchin' the game on the telly, when a 'uge explosion shook us down to our knickers.

"Fookin' 'ell," I said, "Looks like me 'ole family got blown up."

Send me your bank account #s so that I can pursue me dream of being a model in "The Big Book of British Smiles".

GM Doug said...

Oh I can so beat this one...

First of all some background. I'm the General Manager for the Edinburgh Wolves - a (American) Football outfit in Scotland (that's the UK). Now I won't pretend this is a galmour role - it's all volentary and I've plowed enough of my own money into the team trying to keep the dream alive. (I'm just an IT programmer in real life).

But anyone who's done ANY research on the state of Football in Scotland will know we have NO money. None - I'd beg you all to contribute but there's more important things in the world. Any basic research will give you some idea we (Edinburgh Wolves) have no cash.

But one young man based in I think it was Nigeria - but I can't be certain - e-mailed us out of the blue.

I'll paraphrase now...

"Dear Sir,
I am aware you are the manager of a Football club in UK.

I am a talented player who has been scouted by other European clubs and have been offered a 3 year contract worth over $10,000,000.

However because of my family situtation I am unable to escape my native land without your help.

My father was a god fearing man who was my manager and held my playing rights. He was killed recently by rebel environmental terrorists and in his will he stated that my playing rights can only be sold to a club in the UK for no less than £100,000 british pounds.

Legally I cannot go against this will. This means should I play in Europe I would be forced to play for only £100,000 in the UK but I have been offered over $10,000,000 to play for a team in mainland Europe.

Therefore I propose an allance you can buy my rights for the UK for £100,000 and then my agents will arrange for my transfer to mainland Europe where you will recieve 10% as my agent which will be over one million dollars.

Your club will be much richer and will recieve plenty of publicity.

I look forward to hearing from you."

First of all he's confused Soccer (as I call it to annoy my fellow Scots) and Football. Secondly I'm certain he's e-mailed every club in Scotland and probably across the UK trying to get us to bite.

But I have to say... it's a nice idea. We did reply to him asking what position he played and if he had any game film.... no reply.

Anonymous said...

Shameless. This one should be hunted down and beaten severely!

Anonymous said...

I do like the specification that whoever helps must be "god-fearing", although what purpose that serves here defeats me.

in large swaths of our benighted land 'god-fearing' goes hand-in-hand with 'macho.' and what red-blooded chunk of american manhood isn't going to leap at the chance to defend the foreign hottie from her scumbag euro-trash brother - and liberate her from a commie enclave to boot! of course, the promise of easy money is just a fringe benefit. honest.

Texaco said...

Now I really don't want to freak you all out, ok, maybe I do, but you've got to read this article but you've got to read this article to believe it. What must life in africa really be like? Would they be better off if we built some Walmarts there?

Anonymous said...

Gee, five million pounds huh?
What's 10% of that in U.S dollars?

Anonymous said...

Ah...the "spanish prisoner" scam. Never gets old.

Check out snopes.com and search for "spanish prisoner." This basic scam (also the Nigerian email, European lottery, etc.) dates back to the 1500s.

Those willing to take advantage of others will use anything at their disposal. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

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