Oh boy! The FBI owes me millions!
Exciting e-mail received today!
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Tel/Fax 202 386 6756
Website: www.fbi.gov
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday To Saturday:Dear Beneficiary,
Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is to the tune of $12.5million due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.
I'm rich, rich, rich!!!
The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Umaru Yar’Adua to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes.Now how would you like to receive your payment? because we have two method of payment which is by Check or by ATM card?
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That’s some fiction writing, there. But it’s not causing me to suspend my disbelief. First, “Miss Ross Campbell” seems confused about his/her gender. And also about how things work in this country. Finally, about spelling (Note “monitory”)
Maybe in Nigeria, or wherever this e-mail came from, governmental corruption is so bad that the government could cheat a freelance copywriter out of $12.5 million.
“Miss Ross Campbell” obviously is not aware of the newest e-mail scam technique. It’s very simple. The subject line promises some big goodie, and the content of the e-mail says, “Send name, address, e-mail address, bank name and bank routing number immediately.”
Well, just a nanosecond of thought tells me that anyone wanting to send me $12.5 million would already know all about me — especially the FBI!
Can there actually be people stupid enough to respond to these scams?
Wait. I forgot about Tea Party people.
Could have done without that last line. How do you go from email scam to bashing the Tea Party? You did not forget them. Sounds like they got under your liberal skin. I get these emails all the time. If they were all real, I’d have enough money to buy Nigeria.
I recieved this same message yesterday, although I have never responded to a one I continue to recieve them. Does anyone know that forwarding address to send them too?
Frank, it’s my personal opinion that people who follow Dick Armey and others by yelling to disrupt a civil discussion of health care reform are stupid. Here’s why: these are the very people who live on Social Security and rely on Medicaid and Medicare to take care of them. Yet somehow, they have been incited to hate the government that provides these services.
Dick Armey has insurance companies as lobbying clients. He has led an army of fools to do work on behalf of his clients. If not stupid, they are at least unwitting pawns in a game that they don’t understand.
Tanya,
On Yahoo!, at least, you scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click where it says, “Full headers.” This will reveal the path of the e-mail: where it came from, and how it got to you. Then you hit the “Spam” button on your e-mail program. They’ll use your info to make your spam filter smarter, so you won’t get so many of these.
good luck!