Apr 05 2007
A New Twist on an Old Scam
I just received this email:
From: “DAVID JONES” infodepth80@bellsouth.net
To: d@jones.net
Subject: RE: HELLO FRIEND
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:10:26 -0400
Dear Friend,
Good day to you. I may have to trouble your sense of personal achievement and reward for an opportunity properly taken advantage of. I am Mr. David Jones, a representative and attorney to Kenneth Lay, the former chairman & CEO, Enron Corp.Industry: Energy & Natural Resources Home, he was jailed and facing trial on charges of corruption and embezzlement of funds but, presently death now. While in Power. He deposited fifteen million united states dollars ($15,000,000.00) with me when he was in power as the chairman.
I am contacting you because I want you to deal with the bank and claim the money on my behalf since I have declared that the Funds belong to my foreign business partner. You shall also be required to assist me in investment in your country. I hope to trust you as a God fearing person who will not sit on this money when you claim it but rather assist me properly to share in this ratio, 60% to me and 40% to you. When I receive your positive response I will give you viable information relating to this project i.e. the Finance institution where the money was deposited and the required documentation that will enable you lay claims to the funds, which is very important. What I need is for you to indicate your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money as the beneficiary .
Once I have your details as stated below, the finance institution will contact you for Release of the funds to your account. As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully transferred into your account, I intend to use my own share in acquiring some estates abroad. For this too, I will need your assistance to acquire and manager the properties and you will be paid based on a certain percentage agreed on by both parties. I guarantee you that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me urgently by E-mail:(djones050yahoo.co.uk)and provide me the following:
1. Your Full Name
2. Your Telephone and Fax Number
3. Your Current Contact Address.
I look forward to your prompt response.
Best Regards,
Mr. David Jones.
Now this is a new one. This is not some fictional, foreign dignitary. No, this time he went for a disgraced CEO, The government has picked over every detail of Lay’s life. The feds probably know more about what he likes for breakfast than his wife did. So this spammer, the alleged Mr. David Jones, somehow thinks that I will believe all this and want to give him the $30 or so I have in my checking account.
Gotta love them spammers that give you a laugh.
Edited to make email links even more attractive to SpamBots. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
LOL! What will the spammers come up with next…
Any email that opens with “good day to you,” has got to be good.
Woohoo! With email like that who needs to play the crap tables. In the mean time I have some great swamp land in Florida I think you’ll be interested in…
You have to checkout Steve Graham’s site and his post titled “How to Screw With 419 Spammers” He really gives these guys a hard time. It’s too funny.
Stratman, that is hysterical! I got an email once, not long before I started blogging, from someone claiming to be a doctor in Switzerland. I had fun with him - correcting all his spelling and grammatical mistakes and breaking the news about the bank he had chosen, since I did happen to work for banking recruiters with offices in Switzerland at the time. I wish I had saved that one.