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    ...means nothing to no way Furore's Avatar
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    Spam emails...

    Don't they just crack you up with how stupid you'd have to be to fall for some of them? We're talking this one (several people I know have gotten identical emails):

    WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE‏
    From: MRS LIZ ([email protected])
    Medium riskYou may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafe
    Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 8:37:49 AM
    Reply-to: [email protected]
    To: [email protected]
    Dearest One,

    Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into Business relationship with you. I got your contact from the International web site directory.

    I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person I can do business with and by their recommendations I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

    My name is Mrs. Liz Gikandi. the wife of late Mr. James T. Gikandi who was the Cocoa exporting director here in Ivory Coast before he died in the year 2005. We were married for twenty years with one child called Johnson who is 16 year old. When my husband was alive we deposited the sum of Six Million United state Dollars (USD$6,000,000.00) with a Security Company Presently, this money is still in the Security Company, but my worried is recently my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next Two months due to my cancer Sickness, and since then my whole life has been a miserable one. Though what disturbs me most is my stroke condition,

    I need a Godly person who will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct, to use some part of the money for charity and orphanage and to invest the rest of the money for good business in your country so that my son will have a better future. I also took this decision because my husband relatives are not honest with my husband when he was alive, they are enemies of progress and they don't have the fear of God in them, they are not Godly and I have to avoid them having any idea about this fund.

    I want my son to inherit this money but he can not carry out this alone due to his younger age with his low mentality and to keep away from any mistake of my late husbands relatives having any idea of this deposit because the are always around us to monitor our movements to see if there is still any hidden treasure, property or money. this is why I take this bold decision to contact you personally as a foreigner for assistance, so that the Compnay can transfer the money out of this Country in your name as my foreign partner once I present you.

    As soon as I hear from you I shall direct you to the Security Company here where the money was deposited with all the informations. Please I want you and your family to always pray for my healing and to always be prayerful to God in all the days of your life. The God is our strength and with God all things are possible. I will be expecting to hear from you soonest.

    Sincerely,
    Mrs. Liz Gikandi.
    That cracked me up pretty bad actually. Note the bit I bolded, I very much doubt any of my 'business associates' are of that esteemed a character. There's also calling the recipient a 'Godly person' when my mate got it as well and he's so anti-God it's not funny. He sent an angry reply back as he felt offended.

    Oh, and then there's the ever infamous ebay phishing letter...

    eBay New Unpaid Item Message from davidmaxmark:‏
    From: [email protected] ([email protected])
    Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 5:29:29 AM
    To:

    eBay New Unpaid Item Message from davidmaxmark: #270241657095-- response required


    Dear member,

    eBay member davidmaxmark has left you a message regarding item #270241657095

    View the dispute thread to respond.

    Regards,

    eBay
    What was stupid about this document? Well it features the ebay logo, only of lower quality as it's been resized. AND it lacks all the colours of every other ebay email you'll ever receive.

    What are your experiences with email spam? Got any you found funny due to inaccuracies or just as they didn't fit the bill? This is the thread. And it could also doubly serve as an early warning for those less well suited to spotting these things.
    Last edited by Furore; 06-17-2008 at 07:56 AM.
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