Hilarious email scams
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Meh, I've only ever gotten that african prince one or whatever. I think I might have gotten one fromr a "woman" who was trapped in some foreign nation and needed help getting to America or something, but apparently had a ton of money she could share with me upon arrival for some reason. I think I played along for a couple of replies just for shits and giggles. At least they tried to play it off subtly at first by saying she just wanted to talk and found me by browsing a mutual website where I'd had my email listed publicly at the time. Sadly, it was a gaming forum, so it was obviously bullshit from the get-go aside from the other little details that seemed off which I can no longer recount.
Since I make sites or own them or whatever I get these fun emails telling me I have to have them inspected or certified or update my domain and spend anywhere from 100-5,000 dollars to have it done. It's really amazing since they will sometimes actually identify websites. One I'm pretty sure I have privacy on so it was like c'mon guys what the hell.
I'd copy one of them but they're not as frequent as you'd think.
I'd copy one of them but they're not as frequent as you'd think.
I occasionally get one offering to buy my shares for way under price.
(They get my email from the shareholder registers of publicly traded companies.)
The funny thing is, they're legally obligated to inform me of the actual worth of my shares when they offer to buy them. So the end result is an email saying what boils down to, "You have shares worth $10,000. We will buy them for $3,000. Good deal, yeah? Just sign here."
(They get my email from the shareholder registers of publicly traded companies.)
The funny thing is, they're legally obligated to inform me of the actual worth of my shares when they offer to buy them. So the end result is an email saying what boils down to, "You have shares worth $10,000. We will buy them for $3,000. Good deal, yeah? Just sign here."
Well I've never gotten anything quite that far-fetched, but I do get a particular format a lot: Someone representing Burkina Faso, with a different name each time (they try to cover all ethnicities) wants to give me the family fortune of someone who died, with their entire family, in a plane crash. And they link the same article every time, where that exact thing apparently happened. Unfortunately, still doesn't fix the spelling errors and poor wording. In fact, I think I could make a quick buck myself by proof-reading these things.
In another case, the email asked for my password for something to do with running out of usernames (what bollocks), but the genius of it was the person had input their name as Yahoo! Alerts, so it would say that's who it was from even though when scrolled over it was a personal email address. I alerted Yahoo.
Lastly, a friend of mine got the typical Prince of Nigeria wants to give you all his money and replied "Well that's ironic because I'm the King of Australia and I have a similar problem. Maybe we can help each other."
In another case, the email asked for my password for something to do with running out of usernames (what bollocks), but the genius of it was the person had input their name as Yahoo! Alerts, so it would say that's who it was from even though when scrolled over it was a personal email address. I alerted Yahoo.
Lastly, a friend of mine got the typical Prince of Nigeria wants to give you all his money and replied "Well that's ironic because I'm the King of Australia and I have a similar problem. Maybe we can help each other."
