NationStates Jolt Archive

link (http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2008/09/your-urgent-help-needed.html)
This isn't actually one, it's some form of crazy satire
Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a
transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion
dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most
profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may
know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the
1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds
as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names
of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family
lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person
who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account
numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the
funds.

Yours Faithfully

Minister of Treasury Paulson

Just thought I'd share. So, anyone tihnk of a way to make this thread non-spammy? Discuss something!

The Republic of America? lawl

Now I'm kind of disappointed it isn't a real scam email...

Thanks for the info, is that non-spammy enough?

The funny thing with these is that the spelling is always wrong, along with a few other inaccuracies. But the sad thing is that people believe them.

My Aunt used to work in the electronic security for a bank, and she would see the amount of emails sent to clients that would say they were from the bank, and needed their ID number account number and password. All of these had obvious spelling mistakes but some people would still send this info to them, while some people did ring up wanting to know what the problem was she would tell them the standard we do not ask for this info over the internet and she would then ask them to go through the email and ask them to tell her the mistakes, once they were looking for it they noticed how many their actually was.

But the sad thing is that people believe them.
It's a scam scam email.

It's a scam scam email.

As ye sew so ye shall be sowed. Fair enough, but the rest of my post still stands.

As ye sew so ye shall be sowed. Fair enough, but the rest of my post still stands.Actually, where the obvious spelling mistakes are concerned: I went to an extras casting event for "Inglorious Bastards" recently. The casting agency spelled it "Inglourious Basterds"...

I am the son of the late President Nixon, looking for help transferring a sum....

It still boggles my mind that people fall for these but I see them at least once a month or so (I work in banking).

As ye sew so ye shall be sowed. Fair enough, but the rest of my post still stands.

This is like being lulled to sleep by Bible verses and then being rickrolled.

The Bailout being cast as a classic email scam is at least mildly clever.

This amuses me.

The Bailout being cast as a classic email scam is at least mildly clever.

Truly, the bar for political comedy has been irrevocably raised.

Actually, where the obvious spelling mistakes are concerned: I went to an extras casting event for "Inglorious Bastards" recently. The casting agency spelled it "Inglourious Basterds"...

lol

This is like being lulled to sleep by Bible verses and then being rickrolled.

I wish I could find the thread where this happened. If you didn't see it, someone made a thread and this was posted in it that started off quoting the bible and then in the middle it had the words to the song. Actually it may have been in the Spore thread, was it the Spore thread? *Slinks of the the archives*

lol



I wish I could find the thread where this happened. If you didn't see it, someone made a thread and this was posted in it that started off quoting the bible and then in the middle it had the words to the song. Actually it may have been in the Spore thread, was it the Spore thread? *Slinks of the the archives*

I think so. It was a blog about how Spore was preaching Evolutionary propaganda and should be banned and the verses that proved Spore wrong eventually turned into RickRoll lyrics. Very well done satire. Subtle too.

This is not funny how dare someone mock our bail out as blagh blagh



Who am I kidding? I LOL'd

Just thought I'd share. So, anyone tihnk of a way to make this thread non-spammy? Discuss something!

You must live in a vacuum or have a brand new e-mail account this scam has been around for a very long time. :(

You must live in a vacuum or have a brand new e-mail account this scam has been around for a very long time. :(

Ah Celtlund, what will we do with you?

Place you in a home for the aged probably.

Go find your glasses or ask Mrs. Celtlund to read the email properly for you and you'll see it's a parody on the 417 scams.

:)

Ah Celtlund, what will we do with you?

Place you in a home for the aged probably.

Go find your glasses or ask Mrs. Celtlund to read the email properly for you and you'll see it's a parody on the 417 scams.

:)

Just quietly put me away and ask Mrs. C to bake you some home made cookies and serve them with a big glass of ice cold raw milk. :fluffle::fluffle: Y'all got me. :(

Just quietly put me away and ask Mrs. C to bake you some home made cookies and serve them with a big glass of ice cold raw milk. :fluffle::fluffle: Y'all got me. :(

There there, here's a blanket for your legs, now you just sit and watch some daytime TV and that nice Dr. Goofballs will be along to see you shortly.

There there, here's a blanket for your legs, now you just sit and watch some daytime TV and that nice Dr. Goofballs will be along to see you shortly.

Thank you. I'm sorry but who are you???

Thank you. I'm sorry but who are you???

The one who's eating all your cookies.

The thing with this scam email is that it's pretty much what the government is doing, and they don't even need to ask really, they're just dipping into your future.

Necessary but par for the course really.

Thanks for the info, is that non-spammy enough?

The funny thing with these is that the spelling is always wrong, along with a few other inaccuracies. But the sad thing is that people believe them.

My Aunt used to work in the electronic security for a bank, and she would see the amount of emails sent to clients that would say they were from the bank, and needed their ID number account number and password. All of these had obvious spelling mistakes but some people would still send this info to them, while some people did ring up wanting to know what the problem was she would tell them the standard we do not ask for this info over the internet and she would then ask them to go through the email and ask them to tell her the mistakes, once they were looking for it they noticed how many their actually was.

...there actually was. THERE, not THEIR.
or was that a delibrate speeling mistake that proves this isn't the real Blouman?
Who is then?! Tell me!

...there actually was. THERE, not THEIR.
or was that a delibrate speeling mistake that proves this isn't the real Blouman?
Who is then?! Tell me!

I got his password from an email I sent him saying that Jolt needed to reset their servers and needed the account names and passwords to reboot the system, haha.















Oops, I didn't see that, I will say I know the difference between the two I don't know why I didn't pick it up during the proof read either. Oh well the real Blouman is back. Don't know if that is a good thing or not :p

I wish I could find the thread where this happened. If you didn't see it, someone made a thread and this was posted in it that started off quoting the bible and then in the middle it had the words to the song. Actually it may have been in the Spore thread, was it the Spore thread? *Slinks of the the archives*

It was the Spore thread and I read it when it popped up. I honestly had to read it again because I was one of the lazy ones that skipped to the comments at the end.

Which is why I said it here, because it has to be the best rickroll in the history of mankind.

The one who's eating all your cookies.

Isn't that what this whole circus of shameless greed and malfunctioning capitalism is all about? All your cookies have been eaten, now the people who ate all those cookies desperately need more cookies, because their traditional means of cookie-snatching have proven gravely insufficient as of late. So now they yearn for government cookies, even though they were always opposed to giving cookies to the government, being firm advocates of the free cookie market and all that jazz. And guess what? In the end it's going to be you who has to bake the cookies that they will consume as if nothing happened.

You know they've renamed the "bailout"? Now it's officially called (no, I'm not making this up) the Troubled Assets Rescue Program (http://www.geekstir.com/its-a-tarp)

Isn't that what this whole circus of shameless greed and malfunctioning capitalism is all about? All your cookies have been eaten, now the people who ate all those cookies desperately need more cookies, because their traditional means of cookie-snatching have proven gravely insufficient as of late. So now they yearn for government cookies, even though they were always opposed to giving cookies to the government, being firm advocates of the free cookie market and all that jazz. And guess what? In the end it's going to be you who has to bake the cookies that they will consume as if nothing happened.

Yes, but you forget the Oreos in the equation, one cannot bake Oreos. They must be crafted by the finest mechanical machines.

Hmm... how droll.

You know they've renamed the "bailout"? Now it's officially called (no, I'm not making this up) the Troubled Assets Rescue Program (http://www.geekstir.com/its-a-tarp)

So it's like a protective covering for financial institutions with more guts than brains?