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For many years the author has, like most computer users, been receiving spam emails that he used to bin straight away - until one of the more outrageous ones caught his eye. Then he began to read them more carefully and, over the course of six years, selected outstanding examples of 'scam' literature.The author was especially attracted by the inventiveness of the senders, their very particular use of the English language, and the variety of the scams on offer. This ebook scrupulously presents those emails as they were received in terms of layout, vocabulary, and spelling. The author's only intervention has been to rearrange them in eight thematic chapters and for obvious reasons, to disable their various 'links'.Having worked on this project for years, the author discovered that a fair amount of people actually had taken the bait and been duped by these mails. Needless to say, the author did not send the replies that you are about to read. They have been added to serve as a light-hearted warning against tricksters, fraudsters, swindlers, et al, who seek to extract often significant sums of money from the unwary.

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Date de parution	22 septembre 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781843963042
Langue	English

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Published by The Monsell Press

Copyright 2014 Gilbert Bankual
All rights reserved

Gilbert Bankual has asserted his right
under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
to be identified as the author of this work.

ISBN-13 978-1-84396-304-2

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Contents

Cover
Copyright Credits

Title Page
Preface
Business As Usual
No Problemo
Lucky Days
Spirits, Are You Here?
Faith Book
The Good Fight
It s Only Fair
The Wedding March
Preface

For many years, like most computer users, the author has been receiving spam e-mails that he used to bin straight away - until one of the more outrageous ones caught his eye. Then he began to read them more carefully and, over the course of six years, selected outstanding examples of scam literature.
The author was especially attracted by the inventiveness of the senders, their very particular use of the English language, and the variety of the scams on offer.
This ebook scrupulously presents those emails as they were received in terms of layout, vocabulary, and spelling. The author’s only intervention was to rearrange them in eight thematic chapters and for obvious reasons, to disable their various links . Having worked on this project for years, the author discovered that a fair amount of people actually had taken the bait and been duped by these mails.
Needless to say, the author did not send the replies that you are about to read. They have been added to serve as a light-hearted warning against tricksters, fraudsters, swindlers, et al, who seek to extract often significant sums of money from the unwary.
BUSINESS AS USUAL

NUMBER ONE

Subject: Business Opportunity
Date: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 - 13:00
From: mr_shingli00000@yahoo.com.tw
Reply to: shingggli1@mchsi.com
Category: Confidential

How are youtoday and business in your country?
I am ShingLi, Bank Manager of Bank of Overseas, Taiwan.
I wouldrespectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential andrespect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail.
I contactedyou independently of our investigation and no one is informed of thecommunication.
A BritishOil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr.Courtney Steven made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit of $30,000,000.00 fortwelve calendar months and not too long Mr. Courtney Steven died from anairplane crash. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possiblesurviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to claim hisestate.
If you arefamiliar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services usuallyprefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from conventionalprocesses.
In hisbio-data form, he listed no next of kin.
Pleaseobserve utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction wouldbe most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance toinvest my share in your country.
Uponreceiving your reply, I will then furnish you with a more comprehensive detailof this transaction and what is required of you.
Please replyto my private Email: mr_shingli00000@yahoo.com.tw

REPLY

Subject: Business Opportunity
Date: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 - 14:00
From: jarvis@jarviscrookerandbadder.com
Category: Confidential

Hi there,
My country,like your country is an island. This doesn t say much about business, but saysa lot about fortitude and principle, not to mention rainfall.
I doappreciate your very personal concerns about this venture. Rest assured that Iwill keep your business proposition totally to myself and will not utter a wordabout it to my trusted, but somewhat inexperienced partners in this kind of affair.
First, letme say that I am deeply sorry about the terrible fate of your client, Mr CourtneySteven. It is difficult enough to die in a plane crash, but how worse it mustbe to die when one has just deposited 30 millions dollars of hard earned moneyin a bank account. That your client had no family to entrust his estate to musthave been a great worry to you and I understand wholeheartedly why you wouldprefer to keep the matter secret. A more conventional approach to the one youhave wisely decided to follow could only bring agony and distress to the non-existentnext of kin, and anonymity must be the only way forward. Therefore, in order todiscuss further how to implement transfer of funds and the minor details relatingto this operation, I would greatly appreciate if you could contact me at mypersonal email address:
J. Bird (at j-bird@spotmail.com - private address)

NUMBER TWO

Subject: Serious Business Offer: ... Your extremely urgent assistance
Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2008 - 16:06
From: Alhaji Gidado Musa; mrggmusid2@zav.att.ne.jp
Reply to: alhajigidado@hotmail.com
Category: Confidential

Dear Friend,

BUSINESSPROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF USD15.6M (FIFTEEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITEDSTATES DOLLARS) BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP.

I greet you most respectfully.
First, I am obliged to solicit your assistance as a result of us not having the means to transfer and secure this funds talked about herein.
I know this is a bit of an unusual reason to e-mail to you, but I, as the anchorman of this deal, decided to reach you in trust and confidence seeing the tight situation we face here.
Besides, wehave no choice since it is beyond our might to getting this deal done without aforeign partner to help swing this business deal to perfection for us. But I amassuring you that my contacting you here as a private person is without anyintention to violate your integrity, but solely due to the implicit confidencein your ability to handle this business, which to a large understanding is aspecial deal.
Pleasepermit me also to say that I got your contact from an email database listspurchased by my establishment from the Bureau of Foreign Trade Enterprise overhere. This database was specifically purchased in lieu of our demeanour here,and in search for a partner to help us fine-fettle this deal for a commissionand for our mutual benefits.

In a way ofintroduction, I am Alhaji Gidado Musa, lately a supervisory director at theMinistry of Petroleum, now a Secretary of the Contract Award and MonitoringCommittee (CAMC) of the Petroleum (Special) Development Trust Fund (PDTF) forthe Independent Republic of Nigeria.

Sometimeago, to be precise by mid last year, contracts were awarded to a conglomerateof multinational and indigenous companies by my committee on behalf of PDTF. Inthe general running of things, these contracts payments were over-invoiced tothe tune of USD16.5M in total from the overall contracts awarded. Thisover-invoicing was done deliberately as a deal by members of my committee whowere all assigned to share an office to prosecute contracts payment matters toowed contractors registered under PDTF intervention scheme on behalf of thegovernment of Nigeria. This office also afforded us a measure of privacy andone which was potent enough for us package this deal without any leakage.
In earnest,we want to benefit from the project so that we will not retire to a life ofpenury after putting in many years in the civil service. And wherein it hasbeen quite deepening for us working as gaggle of struggling individuals andwithout any retirement adoption programme to us as mere civil servants from thegovernment so far, and in the foreground ahead after we must have retired.
Given theabove reason, we now desire to transfer this money of USD 15.6M, which ispresently lying in a suspense account of PDF at the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) into an overseas account which I expect you to provide for a commission.
Fundamentally,however, we want this money to be transferred to a foreign account which youare going to provide bearing in mind that our service code of conduct lawsforbids us who are civil servants from owning foreign company or runningforeign account. Though all expenses regarding the account opening, if notalready in existence, shall be borne by you and reimbursable at the conclusionof business.
And for the present, at least, we have agreed that the following funds will be shared after it has been paid into your account:
a) 20% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the fund.
(b) 10% will be set aside as an abstract projection for reimbursement to both parties for incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transaction.
(c) 70% for us the government officials (which we intend/wish to commence a joint business in conjunction with you when we/I come for sharing).
For this matter, I would require:
a) Name and address of Company/Beneficiary.
b) Your personal fax and Telephone numbers.

It does not matter whether or not you or your company does contract projects of the nature described here. The assumption is that you won a major contract andsubcontracted it out to other companies. After all and more often than not, itis a known fact globally that big trading companies or individuals of unrelatedfield win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms forexecution of such contracts. This known principle in contract business andsub-contracting in proper is the cardinal element of strength on which we areresting our backs here in pursuit of the actualization of this mutuallybeneficial transaction.
Moreimportantly, we ha