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Old 07-10-2008, 12:45 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Any way to report email scams? Or just have fun with them?

I got this email yesterday:

"from Idris Abdullah

ATTN: ,

Please be patient and absorb the contents of this email which I believe is a message that will beneficial to the both of us. I am a legal representative to late , who hereinafter shall be referred to be my client, he was killed during the crisis of land invasions and seizures of white owned farms in Zimbabwe by the supporters of the President Robert Mugabe.
CNN.com - White farms looted, destroyed in Zimbabwe - August 13, 2001
BBC News | AFRICA | Mugabe bans election challenge


Before his death in zimbabwe, he deposited the sum of USD$12.5 Million with one of the bank here in Malaysia. Basically, I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my late client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank. I have a mandate from the bank to present the next of kin to the deceased or the funds will be confiscated and so far, all my efforts to get hold of someone related to this man has proved abortive.

My Aim is to seek your consent to present you as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my named client, since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon percentage.
All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin will be provided.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from many breach of the law.
I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter extra-ordinary confidential, whatever your decision, while I await your prompt response. Please contact me at once to indicate your interest through my private email: idrisalbchambers@gmail.com



Yours Sincerely,
Encik Idris Abdullah "
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419 BAITER - Scambaiting: Stringing-along 419 Scammers for my Amusement

Great sites, tons of ways you can fuck with these people and slow their ability to exploit elderly or mentally deprived folks.
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:06 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I got this email yesterday:

"from Idris Abdullah

ATTN: ,

Please be patient and absorb the contents of this email which I believe is a message that will beneficial to the both of us. I am a legal representative to late , who hereinafter shall be referred to be my client, he was killed during the crisis of land invasions and seizures of white owned farms in Zimbabwe by the supporters of the President Robert Mugabe.
CNN.com - White farms looted, destroyed in Zimbabwe - August 13, 2001
BBC News | AFRICA | Mugabe bans election challenge


Before his death in zimbabwe, he deposited the sum of USD$12.5 Million with one of the bank here in Malaysia. Basically, I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my late client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank. I have a mandate from the bank to present the next of kin to the deceased or the funds will be confiscated and so far, all my efforts to get hold of someone related to this man has proved abortive.

My Aim is to seek your consent to present you as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my named client, since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon percentage.
All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin will be provided.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from many breach of the law.
I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter extra-ordinary confidential, whatever your decision, while I await your prompt response. Please contact me at once to indicate your interest through my private email: idrisalbchambers@gmail.com



Yours Sincerely,
Encik Idris Abdullah "
That bitch!! I got the same letter.
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some of those scammers will kill you and that's no joke.
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Old 07-10-2008, 02:04 AM   #5 (permalink)

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Old 07-10-2008, 07:53 AM   #6 (permalink)

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I always send them a couple of emails like I've been sucked in, and then tell them to ram it. Tossers.
the last one I had was from supposed rich bloke on his death bed in hospital who wanted to leave me 13 million quid. His family had tried knocking him off and he wanted me to help the starving in Africa.
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I don't know, sounds legit to me.
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Old 07-10-2008, 08:09 AM   #8 (permalink)

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SIGN ME UP!!!!! I WANT 12 MIL! Caps used for effect.
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Old 07-10-2008, 08:16 AM   #9 (permalink)

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ScamBaiting at it's finest - Scam Baiting for Fun and Justice theScamBaiter.com

419 BAITER - Scambaiting: Stringing-along 419 Scammers for my Amusement

Great sites, tons of ways you can fuck with these people and slow their ability to exploit elderly or mentally deprived folks.
Those scam baiting sites are hillarious. What some guys go through to mess with these dirtbags is phenominal. Watch out though you can get hooked and read through the posts for 8-10 hours, you just get sucked in an can't stop reading!!

As for the email it is probably from some dude in Africa in an internet cafe, sorry no $12 million waiting for you.
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Those scam baiting sites are hillarious. What some guys go through to mess with these dirtbags is phenominal. Watch out though you can get hooked and read through the posts for 8-10 hours, you just get sucked in an can't stop reading!!

As for the email it is probably from some dude in Africa in an internet cafe, sorry no $12 million waiting for you.
There was a thread like this a couple of months back and I went to that site and was sucked in for about 2 hours. That shit is too funny
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