Classified Material: New variation on the Nigerian Letter?

[MrLinus]

I'm so easily amused by stuff. This was entitled "Classified Material" (I had to open it, of course). Sigh. Total silliness IMHO. Who wants to reply?



Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:56:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: drr1002003@yahoo.co.in
Subject: Classified Material
To: msmittens@msmittens.com
Message-id: <0HQ100434D20V5@wmsu21.tfn.net.tw>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Priority: 3
Status: R
X-Status: N
X-KMail-EncryptionState:
X-KMail-SignatureState:

GOOD DAY,
MY NAME IS NOT IMPORTANT FOR NOW.
WHAT I HAVE MAY BE OF INTEREST TO YOU. IT IS A BUSINESS PROPOSAL THAT WILL
BE BENEFICIAL TO YOU AND I. I LIVE IN WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO, CANADA. I AM 46
YEARS OLD AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING IN A BANK IN ONTARIO FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS
WHERE I AM AN ACCOUNTS MANAGER. I WILL GIVE YOU MY FULL DETAILS ON YOUR
REPLY TO THIS LETTER.
MY AIM OF CONTACTING YOU IS TO SOLICIT YOUR CO-OPERATION AND ASSISTANCE BASED
ON AN ACCOUNT UNDER MY MANAGEMENT CONTAINING $12M (TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS)
WHICH HAS REMAINED DORMANT FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS. THIS CCOUNT WAS OWNED BY
THE LATE MRS. LETICIA CARABAS AND FOLLOWING MY INVESTIGATION, I FOUND OUT
THAT SHE DIED ON MAY 1992 VIA A CAR CRASH IN THE BAHAMAS AND SHE LEFT NO
CHILDREN OR NEXT OF KIN. I WILL INFORM YOU MORE ON HOW WE CAN GET THE MONEY
IN HER ACCOUNT TRANSFERED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT IF YOU AGREE TO CO-OPERATE WITH
ME ON THIS ON YOUR REPLY TO THIS MAIL. I WILL ALSO GIVE YOU MORE PERSONAL
DETAILS OF ME AND THE TRANSACTION ON YOUR REPLY. PLEASE TREAT THIS AS
CONFIDENTIAL,URGENT AND OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
YOURS SINCERELY,
ME

[el-half]

lol, indeed so funny, I would reply, just to see how the guy further reacts, could be fun...:D

[prodikal]

For a start the people in question say they are in Canada but the have a yahoo.co.in email address which we all no that .co.in is India and if they were in Canada it would be .ca and all the caps doesent make it believable in any way *sighs* there will be some one who will fall for it there is always those homers of the world perhaps you could report the address to yahoo and tell them that it is being used to solicit scams throught the net zone-h.org had a instance with the Nigerian scam here is a link if you want a look see link ! (http://www.zone-h.org/en/spam)

Ahh well tommorow another scam will be dreamed up its sad that people could actually be duped out of there hard earned cash maybe ISP should have a general intelligence test before they let people sign up for an account with them

[MrLinus]

Teehee.. for giggles, I replied..

Ok.. so what do you want from me?

I expect this would be a "hook, line and sinker" response.. :D.. And I'll let everyone know what the response to that is.

Well, that all said, there is some facts to consider:

- Just because the address is .in doesn't mean the person isn't in Canada (however, a trace of the address shows it to come out of Singapore?!)

- In Canada, if someone dies without an estate and/or there is a "forgotten" bank account (over 10 years I believe), anyone can go and claim the funds (less taxes of course). So to the greedy, this kind of thing would be "found money"

[prodikal]

- In Canada, if someone dies without an estate and/or there is a "forgotten" bank account (over 10 years I believe), anyone can go and claim the funds (less taxes of course). So to the greedy, this kind of thing would be "found money"

So the poeple have at least done there home work and the Singapore address could be a proxy who knows *shrugs* can these people be prosecuted in there country for acts like this ? has there been actual proof of people falling for these and being ripped off ? the really sad thing is if any of them did get caught prosecuted (etc) there will be some one waiting in line to take over and the process start's all over again

[Nightfalls_Girl]

It sounds like a cheesy scam, attempting to get you content and confadent with in them ("Me")
And evenhalily getting there Bank account details, coursing the victom a loss, not a gain.

Tho it is just a thought, and it is just my thought at that.


Nightfalls_Girl

[MrLinus]

Apparently it's not that new:

http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/column/canadianscamletter.html

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-rcs/2003-12/msg00002.html

Seems relatively rare however.

[SirDice]

Check out Scam-o-rama (http://www.scamorama.com/) if you want to know more about those 419 scams.

[mark_boyle2002]

LOL, I have the best site of them all.

http://www.sweetchillisauce.com

This guy actually strings these people along as far as he can. And in some cases makes them end up paying.

[phishphreek]

Wow! Thats some deal! You can't pass that one up... MsM. I took the liberty of replying for you. ;) Now... be sure to toss a couple of bucks my way when they transfer all that money to you. :)

[silent-mage]

wow thats great, i cant believe ppl in canada actually have a law like that. whoa nice line Ok.. so what do you want from me? rofl thats great, i would mess with him to see what he/she is really up to.

[SirDice]

Hehe. Not to long ago I found a site that gave some hints and pointers on how to scam the scammers. This guy even got them to send him pictures with the scammers holding up signs that said D'Arth Vader. Really funny pics. Unfortunately I cannot remember the site :(


Edit: Aaah. Found it again http://419eater.com check out the pictures ;)

[Maestr0]

Check this out, this guy is hillarious.

Dear Gullible

I know that this email will surely come to you as a surprise, but I will crave your indulgence to view it seriously and I apologise, but I hope that it will be a welcome surprise. Before I run out of steam, I will like to introduce my self and go straight to the point. My name is Dr.Graham Douglas a banker. My primary reason for writing to you is to seek your partnership/assistance in a business transaction. I need your partnership and assistance because of the following reasons:

Oh for ****'s sake.... it takes this prize **** 3 pages of semi-coherent dribbling to outline a ludicrous plan to launder $18,500,000 US. If the recipient (yours truly) doesn't help with the plan, then "corrupt Nigerian officials" will get the money and use it to buy guns, and will probably shoot babies with them, but if help is given, 30% of the profits are mine for the spending. If my calculations are correct, and they ****ing are, this means $5,550,000 in Duane Eddies

Surely, you must have some questions or may be you just need further clarification. I will be happy to receive a telephone call from you or a fax message to this effect, this will enable me explain further what the next step is and the general plan

Dr.Graham Douglas.

He strings along Mr.Douglas finally each message getting stranger and stranger. This guy is the stuff of dreams for scambaiters.
Graham,

Hey!whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssuppppppppppppppp dude? Take a chill pill, cool your jets maaaan, 18,500 dead presidents ain't nuttin' to a gangsta playa o-g hustler pimpin' be-yatch like Ol'Normy,

Is that all you need? if you needed more, and you were too embarassed to ask, I think I can trust you with anything up to 100 big ones

Oh yes, how would I like to receive my documents? I know it may be a little awkward but I think in the best interests of our watchword, "confidentiality", these documents should be sent by carrier pigeon, failing that, could you send someone with them secreted about their person e.g. rolled into a tube and inserted into the anus cavity like some kind of Columbian drugs mule?

I hope man-man love is socially acceptable in your country, Graham, because frankly,

You turn me on



This stuff is golden. :)
http://www.fattibastardo.com/fraud.html

-Maestr0

[silent-mage]

ROFL, Maestr0 that is definately golden man. That is so halarious. Man im gonna get my cd that i have with phone calls that people called Apple to complain about their computers, ill share it with all you guy

[gore]

Ugh. Doesn't anyone here know how to scam a scammer? come on now guys :)
______________________________________________
From: scammer@yahoo.com

Dear sir,

I have received the reaply you made to my message. You have $20,000.00 in a bank account in another country in the form of cds? "I believe you said to cash them in now it would take $3,000.00 in US money, but then you would be able to send me $16,000.00 of it to continue this transaction. I want to thank you for your help in this matter. I will send the money via paypal to keep this confidential as we have both agreed that confidentiality is for the best. You should have the money soon, please e-mail me as soon as the funds transfer. Thank you sir.
__________________________________________________________________________________

Well, he either has a sence of humor, or I'm about to have some quick cash. Who wants a pic of the new stuff I'll get if he really believes this? ;)

For those of you here that have talked to me alot, phishphreek, prodikal, The_jinx, you'v all talked to me alot, so this comes as no suprise. Cause you all already know I can scam the shit out of people ;) Hehe.

[Ennis]

Me takes down lots of notes, time to wreck some revenge!

[mikema]

Haha, Singapore is nice and rich place, you'll be rich soon. I got some from HK. Goodluck!

[labchick64]

Ms. Mittens please let us know if he replies. I would love to see what he says if he does reply. This is too funny!

[mikema]

I got a few canadian site that allow smtp relay, so I could easily forge some sweet email to Ms.M. But I dont get: besides spam,social engineering, what else I can do to the server (not malicous thing)? :cool:

Should I report to ORDB.org? OR tell the server admin?

[MrLinus]

Actually, I'd be tempted to just report them to ORDB (Blackhole MAPS guys). Often admins of mail servers don't take kindly to individuals telling them but if an org does it (or worse, a user complains they can't send emails), it opens their eyes more.

[foxyloxley]

Personally I would agree with MsM and report the mail.
Nice as it would be to turn the tables, sometimes you just want people to go away ??