Ever Respond to a Scam E-MaiL?

mikeinfla wrote:

FINALLY, my first scam mail in years! I used to just delete them but after reading this thread I have been waiting for one. Here's what I got plus my reply. If I hear back I'll post it here.

On Wed 06/13/12 1:54 AM , U.Radzeuski radvik2009@sc.com sent:
> Dear compatriot, I work for one of UK'S leading Banks. I need your
> help in the claim of 13.7m. I will give you complete details once i
> am assured of your help. You will receive a reasonable percentage for
> your help. Consider this and get back to me as soon as you can if you
> are capable of handling this project. Best Regards , Vlad.

my reply:

Hello Vlad,

It is great to hear from you. How's your family? I haven't seen them in ages and I hope your brother is doing well these days. How long has it been? I don't
think we have talked in many years but I'll give you an update on my life over the past 5 years.

7 years ago I won the Powerball Jackpot in the amount of 255 MILLION DOLLARS. I didn't needlessly spend my money I invested it in Apple and Steve Jobs
personally gave me a job with Apple over my generous donation. While working at Apple I helped develop the "glass" on the iPhone, iPod and iPad. If you have
one be careful with it as the glass can crack easily if dropped. I also invest million in Otter Box for the iPhone to protect the glass I help invent. As a
result of my wise investments I have more than doubled my 255 million and have no need for your monetary funds. 13 million is "chump change" to me so any
monetary award you have for me you can donate to The American Heart Association.

Thanks for your consideration,

Alfonso P. Schladmihndahsnick

wow!! I am envious of the use of sarcasm there!!

HAHA. Still no reply from Vlad yet, maybe he got the picture that I am not interested. By the way, when I was in high school I worked at K-Mart. I put the name "Schladmihndahsnick" on my name tag.

got another one today but briefly read it. This one was about gold bars put in a locker for me at O'Hare Airport in Chicago worth 5 million dollars. I needed to call a number ASAP because I was being charged 10 dollars a day for the locker fee. I gave a quick reply to this one, giving my usual "I'm a multi-millionaire and let's keep charging me 10 dollars a day and when it get's up to 1 million dollars I'll pay the fine". If I can find the email in my deleted box I'll post it but I opened the e-mail on my ipod then deleted it so it may be ka=put.

I don't get these scam e-mails. That kind of offends me. You mean I'm not good enough to be scamed?! That's an outrage!

I got one today claiming to be from a lady named "Pluto Calvary" (yes, really)... who's apparently dying of cancer, poor thing. She has about two months left to live but she is sitting on $20 million in bonds that belonged to her late husband who was an oil tycoon in Africa. She was hoping that I'd go into partnership with her to help distribute said $20 million to various "religious and charitable organizations." All I had to do was contact her with my bank information to get the ball rolling.

I couldn't resist, I replied "Sorry, I never go into business with anyone who's named after Mickey Mouse's dog. F*ck off."

Fat Freddy wrote:

I got one today claiming to be from a lady named "Pluto Calvary" (yes, really)... who's apparently dying of cancer, poor thing. She has about two months left to live but she is sitting on $20 million in bonds that belonged to her late husband who was an oil tycoon in Africa. She was hoping that I'd go into partnership with her to help distribute said $20 million to various "religious and charitable organizations." All I had to do was contact her with my bank information to get the ball rolling.

I couldn't resist, I replied "Sorry, I never go into business with anyone who's named after Mickey Mouse's dog. F*ck off."

People aren't stupid enough to fall for these scams are they?

manny wrote:

People aren't stupid enough to fall for these scams are they?

Somebody must fall for'em, otherwise they wouldn't keep sending'em...

Apparently e-mail scamming is a major industry in Nigeria!!

I'm stunned how many oil tycoons are in the African nations.

Fat Freddy wrote:

manny wrote:

People aren't stupid enough to fall for these scams are they?

Somebody must fall for'em, otherwise they wouldn't keep sending'em...

Apparently e-mail scamming is a major industry in Nigeria!!

If I have told Dallasblack once, I have told him twice, to stop responding to these email scams!!!!

mikeinfla wrote:

got another one today but briefly read it. This one was about gold bars put in a locker for me at O'Hare Airport in Chicago worth 5 million dollars. I needed to call a number ASAP because I was being charged 10 dollars a day for the locker fee. I gave a quick reply to this one, giving my usual "I'm a multi-millionaire and let's keep charging me 10 dollars a day and when it get's up to 1 million dollars I'll pay the fine". If I can find the email in my deleted box I'll post it but I opened the e-mail on my ipod then deleted it so it may be ka=put.

You should have told him that you've sent Ray "Bones" Barboni to pick those gold bars up.

Dark Horseman wrote:

I'm stunned how many oil tycoons are in the African nations.

And they all seem to die in plane crashes. I'm still not sure if all these guys happened to be together on the same plane, or if planes simply ram into mountains on an hourly basis down that-a-way.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

I'm stunned how many oil tycoons are in the African nations.

And they all seem to die in plane crashes. I'm still not sure if all these guys happened to be together on the same plane, or if planes simply ram into mountains on an hourly basis down that-a-way.

Haven't notice that most of the plane crashes happen in Africa these days? The airlines there all fly old planes that are not maintained, so even stepping in one is gambling with your life. Because of that, we all have a chance to get rich of those emails!

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

manny wrote:

People aren't stupid enough to fall for these scams are they?

Somebody must fall for'em, otherwise they wouldn't keep sending'em...

Apparently e-mail scamming is a major industry in Nigeria!!

If I have told Dallasblack once, I have told him twice, to stop responding to these email scams!!!!

One of them's bound to be legit eventually.

Im waiting for the day when an actual nigerian prince gets one of these scam e-mails (which makes me wonder what kind of spam, if any, people in authority like the queen of england or the president get).

OK, this is definitely the weirdest spam e-mail I've gotten in a while. I swear I am not making this up.

Hello,
How are you doing? I'm Mr. Scott Warrick and I will like to purchase (Esex Cobra Magnum Jig) from your company. Can I have a link that will take me directly to the types of toilets that you carry with the prices attached to it. What types of payment do you accept?

Have a nice day,
Scott Warrick

I'm tempted to respond and tell him that I only accept malt liquor and heavy metal CDs as payment.

I got a weird call today from John at the shipping department of the Emergency Alert System saying my paid for system was ready. He was really pushy about this so I got out my enigma anti-telemarking guide and started asking him questions. He hung up on me...

Fat Freddy wrote:

OK, this is definitely the weirdest spam e-mail I've gotten in a while. I swear I am not making this up.

Hello,
How are you doing? I'm Mr. Scott Warrick and I will like to purchase (Esex Cobra Magnum Jig) from your company. Can I have a link that will take me directly to the types of toilets that you carry with the prices attached to it. What types of payment do you accept?

Have a nice day,
Scott Warrick

I'm tempted to respond and tell him that I only accept malt liquor and heavy metal CDs as payment.

You sell ECMJ's??  Their power can be harnessed to destroy entire planets.

Fat Freddy wrote:

OK, this is definitely the weirdest spam e-mail I've gotten in a while. I swear I am not making this up.

Hello,
How are you doing? I'm Mr. Scott Warrick and I will like to purchase (Esex Cobra Magnum Jig) from your company. Can I have a link that will take me directly to the types of toilets that you carry with the prices attached to it. What types of payment do you accept?

Have a nice day,
Scott Warrick

I'm tempted to respond and tell him that I only accept malt liquor and heavy metal CDs as payment.

I actually got on on LinkedIn the other day:

Thank you for accepting my invite.It is good to join you on Linkedin.I am an investment Broker based in the Gulf Region.I cover Dubai.Oman and other Gulf Countries.

Do notify my office if you have a project that need financing so i can direct you to a genuine and reputable investment company that will handle your investment needs.

Regards,
Mohammed.

Joker - you should tell him you want to finance buying Eyesore's cd collection  

exact33 wrote:

Joker - you should tell him you want to finance buying Eyesore's cd collection