NationStates Jolt Archive

Undoubtedly, most of you have received at least one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud). Interestingly, I didn't get my first one until a few months ago, but I've getting them like crazy lately, receiving more than one a day.

How often do you receive them?

Funnily enough it looks like the Nigerians are kicking of again...and this time are much more sophisticated...ok...ok...they actually bought a spell checker...albeit a second hand one...

****CONTACT MRS BRIGGS****
Dear Friend,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund transferred to a Swiss Account with the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay who is an international business man.
Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary, her contact is:
Name: Miss. Briggs Reginna
Email: regina4ng@yahoo.com
Ask her to send you the total of $1,500.000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) that I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempt to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touched with my secretary Miss. Briggs Reginna and instruct her where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time.
In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and I are having at hand.
Finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Miss. Briggs Reginna and she will send the amount to you without any delay.

With best regards
Please do not reply me on the email box below,is my private email address:
francis_891@yahoo.com
Thanks for you urderstanding

Dr.Mr Francis Duk

I do admit though that I am not quite sure about this one...there are a few references that are....unusual.

I wouldn't know, I mainly sign up to things with my tertiary email address, and since it's a Gmail account all the spam gets filtered out. Probably a few of the ten or so spam letters I get a day are like that.

My junk mail folder(fromwhich email are deated 10 days after their arrival) seems to perpetually have 60-110 emails in it. The majority of these appear to be phising scams. The first page currently looks like:
OFFICIAL PAYMENT UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION/WORLD BANK PAYMENT APPROVAL($8.3M)‏ 05:49 4 KB
Unread Part Time Full Time งานเสริมเพิ่มรายได้ ทำงานผ่านเน็ต 20,000-100,000 บาท/ด.‏ 00:54 5 KB
Unread WANG YAN KEEP ME INFORMED‏ Yesterday 12 KB
Unread Bbjpw 離-岸公司注冊地的選擇技巧196‏ Yesterday 9 KB
Unread eBay eBay Unpaid Item Reminder for Item #230113941052‏ Yesterday 11 KB
Unread Office Of The Senate House ************FROM THE DESK OF SENATOR DAVID MARK.________‏ Yesterday 9 KB
Unread Nimi Jones BUSNIESS PARTNER NEEDED‏ Yesterday 2 KB
Unread Arnod Morgan Award Notification.‏ 02/12/2007 4 KB
Unread eBay Suspension Notice‏ 01/12/2007 5 KB
Unread Zhu Li RESPOND IF INTERESTED‏ 01/12/2007 5 KB
Unread Paypla Dear member‏ 30/11/2007 3 KB
Unread Miss Prisca Camara Hellow Beloved one,‏ 30/11/2007 7 KB
Unread IRISH PROMO Ref: UK/9420X2/68‏ 30/11/2007 3 KB
Unread AWARD AGENCY YOUR E-MAIL ACCOUNT HAS WON‏ 30/11/2007 5 KB
Unread (Unknown) 注塑件表面缩水、缩孔（真空泡）的原因分析266‏ 29/11/2007 8 KB
Unread Attachment ABCmm - manchetes Declaração de Isento deve ser entregue até amanhã (30)‏ 29/11/2007 16 KB
Unread Seguridad en Linea Banamex Asesoria Juridica Banamex‏ 29/11/2007 13 KB
Unread Seguridad en Linea Banamex Asesoria Juridica Banamex‏ 29/11/2007 13 KB
Unread mary_williamsa15@yahoo.co.jp Dearest One Help‏ 29/11/2007 6 KB
Unread Swbn 行政工作统筹管理高级研修班69482‏ 29/11/2007 9 KB
Read LARRY MOORE EMPLOYMENT OFFER FROM J S COMPANY INTERNATIONAL‏ 29/11/2007 5 KB
Unread (Unknown) 行政主管的自我管理1807‏ 29/11/2007 8 KB
Unread caritas.marche@virgilio.it Phone and Email For Your Microsoft Prize Claim:‏ 28/11/2007 3 KB
Unread Mr. Donald Moore Contact Mr. Fred Owens ($450,000.00)‏ 28/11/2007 3 KB
Unread jack t มันมีประโยชน์ต่อคนที่คุณรัก‏ 28/11/2007 3 KB

Except, ya know, more graphic-y.

Most of mine originate from Burkina Faso or Côte d'Ivoire, although interestingly enough, one had a Brazilian email address. :p

I wouldn't know, I mainly sign up to things with my tertiary email address, and since it's a Gmail account all the spam gets filtered out. Probably a few of the ten or so spam letters I get a day are like that.

Yep...I use a throwaway addy if I need to give an email out when on a message board...my work and private ones are much better protected.

My junk mail folder(fromwhich email are deated 10 days after their arrival) seems to perpetually have 60-110 emails in it. The majority of these appear to be phising scams. The first page currently looks like:
OFFICIAL PAYMENT UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION/WORLD BANK PAYMENT APPROVAL($8.3M)‏ 05:49 4 KB
Unread Part Time Full Time งานเสริมเพิ่มรายได้ ทำงานผ่านเน็ต 20,000-100,000 บาท/ด.‏ 00:54 5 KB
Unread WANG YAN KEEP ME INFORMED‏ Yesterday 12 KB
Unread Bbjpw 離-岸公司注冊地的選擇技巧196‏ Yesterday 9 KB
Unread eBay eBay Unpaid Item Reminder for Item #230113941052‏ Yesterday 11 KB
Unread Office Of The Senate House ************FROM THE DESK OF SENATOR DAVID MARK.________‏ Yesterday 9 KB
Unread Nimi Jones BUSNIESS PARTNER NEEDED‏ Yesterday 2 KB
Unread Arnod Morgan Award Notification.‏ 02/12/2007 4 KB
Unread eBay Suspension Notice‏ 01/12/2007 5 KB
Unread Zhu Li RESPOND IF INTERESTED‏ 01/12/2007 5 KB
Unread Paypla Dear member‏ 30/11/2007 3 KB
Unread Miss Prisca Camara Hellow Beloved one,‏ 30/11/2007 7 KB
Unread IRISH PROMO Ref: UK/9420X2/68‏ 30/11/2007 3 KB
Unread AWARD AGENCY YOUR E-MAIL ACCOUNT HAS WON‏ 30/11/2007 5 KB
Unread (Unknown) 注塑件表面缩水、缩孔（真空泡）的原因分析266‏ 29/11/2007 8 KB
Unread Attachment ABCmm - manchetes Declaração de Isento deve ser entregue até amanhã (30)‏ 29/11/2007 16 KB
Unread Seguridad en Linea Banamex Asesoria Juridica Banamex‏ 29/11/2007 13 KB
Unread Seguridad en Linea Banamex Asesoria Juridica Banamex‏ 29/11/2007 13 KB
Unread mary_williamsa15@yahoo.co.jp Dearest One Help‏ 29/11/2007 6 KB
Unread Swbn 行政工作统筹管理高级研修班69482‏ 29/11/2007 9 KB
Read LARRY MOORE EMPLOYMENT OFFER FROM J S COMPANY INTERNATIONAL‏ 29/11/2007 5 KB
Unread (Unknown) 行政主管的自我管理1807‏ 29/11/2007 8 KB
Unread caritas.marche@virgilio.it Phone and Email For Your Microsoft Prize Claim:‏ 28/11/2007 3 KB
Unread Mr. Donald Moore Contact Mr. Fred Owens ($450,000.00)‏ 28/11/2007 3 KB
Unread jack t มันมีประโยชน์ต่อคนที่คุณรัก‏ 28/11/2007 3 KB

Yeah...it can get mad though...at the height of the scamming our exchange servers were getting well and truely hammered...until we started managing our own POP and SMTP servers....sorted out block lists and allsorts of neat stuff....then corporate moved us to Message Labs (and I had no issue with that at all....ML are the r0x0r)...

Most of mine originate from Burkina Faso or Côte d'Ivoire, although interestingly enough, one had a Brazilian email address. :p

No. Most spammers use other peoples machines and networks.

I've had the email address I use since 1996 so my junk mail folder gets well over a dozen a day.

Yep...I use a throwaway addy if I need to give an email out when on a message board...my work and private ones are much better protected.

Yours is probably more throwaway than mine, I use mine for IMing people I meet on message boards too, and for receiving email from such people. Although I don't think that the latter happens very often.

The point is having a throwaway spam magnet is good :)

No. Most spammers use other peoples machines and networks.

Well, they claim to be from either of those two countries.

Funnily enough it looks like the Nigerians are kicking of again...and this time are much more sophisticated...ok...ok...they actually bought a spell checker...albeit a second hand one...



I do admit though that I am not quite sure about this one...there are a few references that are....unusual.

"Sufferness"... very creative English, you must admit :D

Funnily enough it looks like the Nigerians are kicking of again...and this time are much more sophisticated...ok...ok...they actually bought a spell checker...albeit a second hand one...



I do admit though that I am not quite sure about this one...there are a few references that are....unusual.

Heh I just delete and block any like this I get. Not that I get that many, using my crap account for most things on the net.

It does though make me laff that these people try to sound so professional yet have free web based email. A certain pointer to fraud in my book.

Well, they claim to be from either of those two countries.

Ok...you mean in the content of the email or the origin of the system that sent you the email? I was thinking the latter...content is just fluff to me...I am more interested in the delivery mechanisms.

"Sufferness"... very creative English, you must admit :D

Oh I think the 419'ers invented an entire language around english... LOL

Heh I just delete and block any like this I get. Not that I get that many, using my crap account for most things on the net.

It does though make me laff that these people try to sound so professional yet have free web based email. A certain pointer to fraud in my book.

You'd be surprised actually at how many people use webmail accounts for biz...I've seen snr execs in large multinationals using Hotmail to conduct biz because 'our exchange server is slow'...and that is a drop in the ocean...

Yours is probably more throwaway than mine, I use mine for IMing people I meet on message boards too, and for receiving email from such people. Although I don't think that the latter happens very often.

The point is having a throwaway spam magnet is good :)

yeah spam magnet...I admit I do sometimes read them just for the hell of it...I esp love the 'Microsoft Lottery' and the 'BMW Lottery' phishing attacks...like either company would run a Lottery! LOL

You'd be surprised actually at how many people use webmail accounts for biz...I've seen snr execs in large multinationals using Hotmail to conduct biz because 'our exchange server is slow'...and that is a drop in the ocean...

You are probably right, but you know what, I personally then would not deal with these people.

Within the professional world, to act in a manner that is not professional is sorta detrimental to your business.

i have numerous accounts. one old/thowaway hotmail one i use mostly for signing up to things; one gmail one for personal communications and buying stuff online; and then a number of work accounts which (surprise surprise) i only use for work and get very little spam on.

it works quite well... lots of spam > a bit of spam > very little spam :)