419 candidate

[jumpy]

Dear Beloved
I am sending you this mail in good faith. I am Mrs. Dorothy Armstrong now undergoing medical treatment for cancer. My late husband was a contractor with the United Kingdom consulate for many years before his death in 2002. We have an account with a financial institution in the UK where we deposited our life savings. Recently, I have being diagnosed with a terminal cancer and only have few months to live due to the cancer problem.

Having known my condition; I have decided to nominate you as my beneficiary since the financial company has now written me that the length of time agreed upon to hold my funds have now expired. My desire and purpose is for you to promote humanitarian works. I.e. assisting the less
privileged and building orphanage homes in your country and to upset my medical bills.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. I will give you further details when I hear from you via email: mrsarmstrong@dofastmail.info

In His Arms.
Mrs. Dorothy Armstrong

I think I'll sign that email address up to some nasty spam websites. Feel free to do the same - spam the spammers, oh the irony

I've got quite a few junk mail emails in my hotmail inbox... muhuhaha!

[Herr-Berbunch]

I remember reading once about a guy who replied to these things agreeing to help with their plight, but also that he was wary and had heard of people being conned out of money, so could they prove their worth by sending a token amount (something like $1) to him.

Some did, some didn't. Needless to say he didn't continue assisting them.

I've just had a quick check on snopes, and it's doesn't appear to be there, so must be true.

[Takeda Shingen]

Seems legit.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I remember reading once about a guy who replied to these things agreeing to help with their plight, but also that he was wary and had heard of people being conned out of money, so could they prove their worth by sending a token amount (something like $1) to him.

Some did, some didn't. Needless to say he didn't continue assisting them.

I've just had a quick check on snopes, and it's doesn't appear to be there, so must be true.

You're probably referring to 419eater.com, tons of fun stories to discover there:

[Jimbuna]

Just emailed my bank details....expecting a response/donation soon

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by Penguin

You're probably referring to 419eater.com, tons of fun stories to discover there:

Thats site is pure comedy gold. I think I read about Mister bread on the head. The e-mails to him saying he didn't do it right, and making him do it again (and again) were hilarious.

Then when he realized he was being messed with , more lulz to be had.

[jumpy]

hehe, we have a term on another forum when a user posts a picture claiming to be their new car/house/computer/girlfriend etc "Hovis, or it didn't happen" - the user has to pose with a loaf of hovis bread to prove legitimacy.... in one case it let to a member taking a photo of himself with only a loaf of bread covering his private parts, I forget why, but it became an epic thread with much amusement had by all, eventually someone went a bit too far and the thread was locked.

[jumpy]

and some more

Dear Partner,

I have sent you this mail because of the need to open discussions with you. I don't want you to misunderstand this offer in any aspect, if it is okay with you I ask for your full cooperation.

We are representing a client, who gave us your contact for possible representation of investing her funds in your country. She wishes to invest in a stable economy; her interests are in investment areas (REAL ESTATE , ENERGY AND ANY OTHER GOOD INVESTMENT AREA) with potentials for rapid growth in long Terms. If your country's law allows foreign investors, she is ready to invest her funds with you as her partner, Pending when both of you agrees on a particular terms.

Please, get back to me with if you are capable of handling an amount of over twenty million dollars for the purpose of investments.

Regards,

Andrew.

Sev-CT

Dear account holder,


This is an automatic message by the system to let you know that you have to confirm your account information..
Your account will be frozen temporary after 48 hours in order to protect it. The account will continue to be frozen until it is confirmed.
Oance you have updated your account records, your information will be confirmed and your account will start to work as normal once again.
The process does not take more than 5 minutes

To proceed to confirm your account information please click on the link below and follow the instructions that will pe required.


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Euro Millions
Date of Draw:Friday, 8 July 2011
Draw Number: Ref Number: 2011/36
Draw numbers: 12 - 13 - 23 - 40 - 49 Lucky Draw Numbers 7 & 10 Match 5+PB
Winning Number:7 Match 5+2PB Winning Category 1
Amount of Winning: 4,576,070.50EUR/ US$ 6,517,239.61
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Name: Leon Deschamp Email address: lott.euromil@hotmail.com
You will receive further instructions on your acknowledgment of this email notice.
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lol since when did any 'lottery' use a Hotmail address of all things


I guess the credit crunch really is a global phenomenon - all of these are from the last week. It's a little out of the ordinary for me as usually I get very little of this kind of thing, mostly it's US adverts for loans or canadian medication.