Foo - Do people really fall for this bull?

THis is the most recent email, at least the other scam emails are written by a reasonably more educated person but this is pathetic.
Dear Sir/madam
I am Mr johnson verzi,we are a group of business men who deal onraw materials and export into Europe/America.

We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in America/Europe as well as making payments through you to us.If you are interested in transacting business with us we will be very glad.
Please contact us email with this for more information.

Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services as our representative in Europe/America.
1 Your full name----------------------------------
2 Your telephone number----------------------------
3 Your fax number-------------------------------------------
4 Your driver license----------------------------------------------
5 Your Bank account information----------------------------------------------

Please if you're interest to represent our company kindly fill this form you are entitle
to 10% of any payment made to you as our company representive send your reply to (johnjohnsonjohnson@yahoo.com)
Thanks,

CEO

Mr johnson Verzi

yes

That's hilarious...I mean mind those .01% of people who actually reply to those. We got to consider what kind of people are sitting behind those computers writing these emails...Pathetic

I always reply with the fax and telephone number of my local police station :D

You are right....you see them all the time, but that is one of the lamest ones I've ever seen! :eek:

"5 Your Bank account information----------------------------------------------"


BUA AHA HAH HAH A

What's the big deal?
So I have 22 metric tons of raw copper in my garage and no money in my bank.

Copper is the new Scandium. Just you wait!

johnsonjohnsonjohnson@yahoo.com
And they dont even tell you the name of the "company"

If .0001% of people that recieve these respond with legitamite information and it gets sent to 100 Million People

100,000,000 * .000001 = 10,000 responents.
If each of those people have an average of $500 dollars stolen from them:

10,000 * $500 = $5,000,000.

That is why these people do these scams. If enough people are greedy/dumb enough to fall for it, they will get a lot of money with little or no legal reprocussion since they are in Nigeria.

If you get a laugh when recieving these, you'll like this site even more: http://www.419eater.com/

Basically a group of people that scam the scammers. Some things might not be safe for work, so use caution.

You fell for it by opening it. And you wonder why you have so much spam?

Now, if you want to have some FUN with these sleazeballs…

www.xanga.com/fierceman

I work for the Oz government agency responsible for financial and investment regulation. We get the same people caught out on investment scams over and over again. Of course, it's never their fault.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

Just think of how many people would fall victim to this scam if WalMart sold computers in more of their locations? :D
and what is the target market for Walmart.com? (besides me! :eek: )

i cant help opening it. With thunderbird once you even select it, the message appears on the screen below

If you think that's an obvious scam....check out this transcript from Yahoo Messenger from about a year ago.

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barnes_suzy (8:02:01 PM): Hi
king_termite1970 (8:02:53 PM): Um.....hi. Do I know you?
barnes_suzy (8:03:04 PM): mmm,not really
barnes_suzy (8:03:14 PM): but i just want to chat with u on some issue
barnes_suzy (8:03:19 PM): cos u profile sound so nice
king_termite1970 (8:03:27 PM): Issue?
barnes_suzy (8:03:50 PM): yep
barnes_suzy (8:04:01 PM): can i have ur email so i can send u my pic and the full info
king_termite1970 (8:04:11 PM): How did you find me?
barnes_suzy (8:04:24 PM): on,yahoo i d
barnes_suzy (8:04:37 PM):
Yahoo! ID: king_termite1970
Real Name: Chris
Nickname: Termite or KingTermite
Location: TampaBay Area, FL
Age: 33
Marital Status: Single
Gender: Male
Occupation: I could tell you...but then Id have to kill you
king_termite1970 (8:04:45 PM): Just stumbled across my profile? What were you looking for?
barnes_suzy (8:04:54 PM): did u see that
king_termite1970 (8:05:01 PM): Yes....from my profile
barnes_suzy (8:05:11 PM): i only want to invit you for an business relationship
barnes_suzy (8:05:22 PM): am from liberia
barnes_suzy (8:05:24 PM): emale 27
barnes_suzy (8:05:27 PM): female
king_termite1970 (8:05:33 PM): Liberia?
king_termite1970 (8:05:39 PM): Business?
barnes_suzy (8:05:40 PM): yeah
barnes_suzy (8:05:44 PM): yes
king_termite1970 (8:05:49 PM): What kind of business arrangement?
barnes_suzy (8:06:12 PM): can i have ur email so i can send u the full business proposal
**** Here they sent me a picture of a cute black girl ****
barnes_suzy (8:06:49 PM): u se me
king_termite1970 (8:06:58 PM): Not until you tell me more about the deal
barnes_suzy (8:07:12 PM): am having a fund
barnes_suzy (8:07:28 PM): in whish was deposited for my by my late dad
barnes_suzy (8:07:54 PM): so now am seaching for an honest person to assist me carying it out from security company to a safer lad..
barnes_suzy (8:08:04 PM): because of the crisis going on down here
barnes_suzy (8:08:09 PM): did u unerstand
king_termite1970 (8:09:43 PM): I know I didn't have a pic on that profile, so maybe you couldn't tell that STUPID wasn't written on my forehead.
barnes_suzy (8:10:56 PM): lol
barnes_suzy (8:11:01 PM): i guess u r getting me wrong
barnes_suzy (8:11:29 PM): am only seeking for help from u
barnes_suzy (8:11:34 PM): if u can't u let me know
barnes_suzy (8:11:42 PM): sorry for any inconvinecess
king_termite1970 (8:12:01 PM): SOrry....I don't help people.....I'm a mugger...I only steal from them!
barnes_suzy (8:12:13 PM): hoo,bye

There is also some really great stuff here:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

It's amazing what people will fall for.

Yay friends for me to spam! Heh I have a program I use to send scammers/spammers several hundred emails telling them to P*** OFF!

Gimme emails and I can p!ss them off. :D

Heh some moron tried that with me a while back.

He wanted to buy some of my company's product...however he didn't know what company I worked for, let alone what he wanted to buy...I asked him what gear, and he just kept acting like a moron. After a while of this, I was starting to think it was a kid, nobody's grammar and vocabulary sucks this bad...well except for your average middle-school puke. (hey I was a middle-school puke at one time...therefore I can mock them too...I earned my stripes :p)

I also loved how he didn't even know what my company made...it could have made blenders, pool toys, dead chipmunks, or something dark and sinister....like soybeans.

I eventually told him to go scam somebody else, I'm not interested and my company is not interested in dealing direct with customers, that's what channel vendors are for....that seemed to get him all angry.

...then he dropped the "your IP is...." bomb....hooray he found our network provider's switch....what a trooper...he's about 4 more hops from my building's firewall, and another 3 hops from my PC....looks like someone discovered tracert, and was too impatient/ignorant/stupid to make sense of the output. Doesn't matter anyways since that was AT&T's toy right there...how he thinks AT&T makes network hardware is beyond me.

...at that point he just started up with a hostile line of questioning, of which I just pulled the "if you don't know, you aren't allowed to know" line...which at the time I was more than allowed to do, considering the type of products I was working on....heck even the board members heard that line more than once.

Well here comes another moment of monumental genius...he discovers my Yahoo profile! OMFG I R HUMAN!!!! Of course now he's just spewing plain old threats....a quick IP trace, and some creative use of the internet, and I discovered this moron was scamming from his house, in the US! So...gogo terraserver! After asking him if the house at the end of the cul-de-sac was his...long pause...

..."how did you know that?"
..'kid, I was on a keyboard back when you were nothing but a gleam in your father's eye...now get offline before I call your parents'
*moron is now offline*


...if only i had a nickel for everytime I have seen a web scam...I would have a fully decked out custom chrome plated mountain bike right now....dripping with chrome...anything metal that's not going to see regular friction..well except for the chainrings...those will get it too!

Emphasis on dripping....seriously...I would have enough chrome on it to put a harley to shame.

Heh some moron tried that with me a while back.

He wanted to buy some of my company's product...however he didn't know what company I worked for, let alone what he wanted to buy...I asked him what gear, and he just kept acting like a moron. After a while of this, I was starting to think it was a kid, nobody's grammar and vocabulary sucks this bad...well except for your average middle-school puke. (hey I was a middle-school puke at one time...therefore I can mock them too...I earned my stripes :p)

I also loved how he didn't even know what my company made...it could have made blenders, pool toys, dead chipmunks, or something dark and sinister....like soybeans.

I eventually told him to go scam somebody else, I'm not interested and my company is not interested in dealing direct with customers, that's what channel vendors are for....that seemed to get him all angry.

...then he dropped the "your IP is...." bomb....hooray he found our network provider's switch....what a trooper...he's about 4 more hops from my building's firewall, and another 3 hops from my PC....looks like someone discovered tracert, and was too impatient/ignorant/stupid to make sense of the output. Doesn't matter anyways since that was AT&T's toy right there...how he thinks AT&T makes network hardware is beyond me.

...at that point he just started up with a hostile line of questioning, of which I just pulled the "if you don't know, you aren't allowed to know" line...which at the time I was more than allowed to do, considering the type of products I was working on....heck even the board members heard that line more than once.

Well here comes another moment of monumental genius...he discovers my Yahoo profile! OMFG I R HUMAN!!!! Of course now he's just spewing plain old threats....a quick IP trace, and some creative use of the internet, and I discovered this moron was scamming from his house, in the US! So...gogo terraserver! After asking him if the house at the end of the cul-de-sac was his...long pause...

..."how did you know that?"
..'kid, I was on a keyboard back when you were nothing but a gleam in your father's eye...now get offline before I call your parents'
*moron is now offline*


...if only i had a nickel for everytime I have seen a web scam...I would have a fully decked out custom chrome plated mountain bike right now....dripping with chrome...anything metal that's not going to see regular friction..well except for the chainrings...those will get it too!

Emphasis on dripping....seriously...I would have enough chrome on it to put a harley to shame.

How were you able to find his address info?

How were you able to find his address info?

Teach us oh mighty savior...Us here on Bike Forums will put a end to these spammers. :D

Don't underestimate the stupidity or greed of people duped by seemingly obvious spam scams. :crash:

Teach us oh mighty savior...Us here on Bike Forums will put a end to these spammers. :D

On some networks, you can trace an IP right down to the house it's at. Many you can trace it to the local providor's building. Most just spew out somewhere that the providor owns. (My IP says I'm in Richmond, VA but I'm near Detroit, MI).

By TRACERT'ing the guys IP he could then put it into a US Tracer, which most likely game him the location. Then went to TerraServer and got a satellite image of the area.... voila.

What I like to do when I get this kinda stuff is I reply using my "junk mail" e-mail address and give the particulars of our national police's commercial crime unit. That sometimes helps more than shouting at my monitor.

[QUOTE=phantomcow2]THis is the most recent email, at least the other scam emails are written by a reasonably more educated person but this is pathetic.
Dear Sir/madam
I am Mr johnson verzi,we are a group of business men who deal onraw materials and export into Europe/America.



Please if you're interest to represent our company kindly fill this form you are entitle
to 10% of any payment made to you as our company representive send your reply to (johnjohnsonjohnson@yahoo.com)
Thanks,


i JUST LIKE THE johnjohnsonjohnson@yahoo email address. that sounds like a secure place to send bank data. hmm yes. i will run a successfull business from my yahoo account at the local library.

i JUST LIKE THE johnjohnsonjohnson@yahoo email address. that sounds like a secure place to send bank data. hmm yes. i will run a successfull business from my yahoo account at the local library.

You mean it's not really John Johnson from Johnson & Johnson?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

A famous (I use that term loosely) person seems to be in deep doo-doo after getting involved with the Nigerian bank scam.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9073949/

Don't know if anybody falls for these, but, subjects from my inbox:

On fill of racialism himself - on a Hoodia offer(some kind of weight loss stuff)
Re: On lose he torrential scutcheon - Rolex offer(sounds like I should jump on that, huh?)

A couple of people who have fallen the Nigerian scan and been killed. They actually flew to Nigeria with cash. Never to return.

I have actually not recieved a single nigerian scam for a few days...
now its been a 50/50 mix.
one half is "LOTTERY WINNER, CLAIM YOUR 5 MILLION DOLLAR JACKPOT". From the UK lottery...
And the other half is some business man from Russia

Here's some cool anti-scam stories:

http://www.geocities.com/jaccountinfo/DavidKabilaScam.html
http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com