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Those crazy scammers...
2006-08-22, 12:56 PM #1
About 2 hours ago, I got this in my gmail inbox:

Quote:
Hello
Please read very carefully and am wating
for your urgent respon about this proposal,
hello my name is Samir from egypt
am presently on political assylum now.
l got your email contact from my research on the
net because am presently looking for honest person
who can help my client to invest his fund in Real Estate
Investment and commercial properties.
I will be very intresting to start a new life in your country
with your assistance and co-operation on this issue concerning
my client fund.
So please if your in good position to help me, please send me an
email at this email address ( amin04@o2.pl )
indicating your desire to help me invest this fund in your country
and beyond. l urgently wating for your reply by end of the day,
I hope to me you very soon.

Best Regards & God Bless

Samir Saad Amin

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It's obviously one of those Nigerian scams with a new angle. (The Nigerian expatriate prince is now a Real estate investor from Egypt)

Perhaps I should ask him to give me his bank information so I can transfer the funds into my account for safekeeping. :P

How many of you have gotten these kinds of messages?
2006-08-22, 2:16 PM #2
I was bored.
Quote:
Hello ,

Please read very carefully . and I am wating waiting urgently for your urgent respon response about to this proposal , . hello my My name is Samir and I am from egypt Egypt. I am presently on political assylum asylum now. l got your email contact from my research on the net because (irrelevant) and I am presently (word overuse) looking for an honest person who can help my client to me invest his fund in Real Estate real estate Investment and commercial properties . (clarity) I It will be very intresting interesting to start a new life in your country with your assistance and co-operation on this issue concerning my client fund . (redundant) So please , if your you're in good position to help me, please send me an email at this email address ( amin04@o2.pl ) a reply indicating your desire to help me invest this fund in your country and beyond . (?) l urgently wating for await your reply by end of the day, (?) I and hope to me meet you very soon.

Best Regards & God Bless ,

Samir Saad Amin
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2006-08-22, 2:20 PM #3
Eat it.
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2006-08-22, 2:20 PM #4
I've gotten a bunch like this in the last few days. They're starting to slip through the spam filters!
nope.
2006-08-22, 2:25 PM #5
Same old scam, slightly different story. Hell, I got one in the mail a while back saying that I was the recipient of $12,500, but that I needed to send in $1700 in processing fees before I could get the cash prize.
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2006-08-22, 2:26 PM #6
Originally posted by Freelancer:
I was bored.


Just wondering .. did you do all that markup by hand, or did you use some tool (like Word's track changes thing but for BBCode? I guess) .. because that looks incredibly, incredibly tedious.
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2006-08-22, 2:29 PM #7
I did it by hand. I would have used Massassi's editor for the color, but since it doesn't give you the option to apply strikethrough to highlighted text, it was easier to write it all out.
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2006-08-22, 5:54 PM #8
Originally posted by Avenger:
Same old scam, slightly different story. Hell, I got one in the mail a while back saying that I was the recipient of $12,500, but that I needed to send in $1700 in processing fees before I could get the cash prize.



Even though it's obviously a scam, I would have written back for fun to ask them to deduct the $1700 from the prize money instead, just to see what they do.

an interesting side note-- .pl is a polish domain extension, so unless the're spoofing it, it kind of gives away the fact that it's not really a guy from egypt.
2006-08-22, 5:58 PM #9
I've also been getting a lot of stock tips spam lately... usually with very misleading message titles and meaningless text to evade spam filters. Of course, any investment advice is generally worth what you pay for it...
2006-08-22, 9:41 PM #10
Reply back! See how long you can string him along, and what you can make them do. I read a transcript of another guy doing that once, and I've tried my hand once or twice.

It's fun. :)
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2006-08-22, 10:18 PM #11
Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
I've also been getting a lot of stock tips spam lately... usually with very misleading message titles and meaningless text to evade spam filters. Of course, any investment advice is generally worth what you pay for it...

I've been getting those too. I wonder what we signed up for. :confused:
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2006-08-22, 10:19 PM #12
Brian is selling all our email addresses to spammers! :mad:

:P
"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009
2006-08-23, 12:06 AM #13
Real Estate Terrists!
2006-08-23, 12:50 AM #14
What scares me is that my university policies brochure for this semester sounds eerily similar to the way these scammers write.
Originally posted by UPB:
It is your responsibility to make verify that you are register for class you are taking.
*shudder*
2006-08-23, 1:56 AM #15
I tried to scam a scammer like that, but each email I got from them was more stupid than the first.
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2006-08-23, 3:03 AM #16
I haven't got these emails for a long time. The filter must have worked properly.
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