Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> The other ploy I've seen in the past two weeks are messages supposedly
> from my ISP both at home & at work saying that certain mails couldn't be
> delivered and if I want to see them I should go to the inbox - in the case
> of Freeuk, the address was: freeuk.com/inbox/ray.brown/read.php? followed
> by a sessionid.
I've too received an unusual number of fake "delivery failed" messages
recently. I'm starting to fear this account will go the way of my old hotmail
account ...


>   And of course I suspect many of us are only too familiar - and weary -
> with the numerous variants of the "Nigerian" fraud (actually my first
> claimed to come from an employee of a respected South African bank), the
> more recent ones coming from "good, Christian God-fearing" people in the
> far east who through misfortune, not of their making, need to deposit
> their wealth abroad & would I mind allowing the transfer to my bank
> account for which, of course, I'll be amply rewarded. I know what the
> reward will be - being drained dry. I assume their goodness and
> Christianity is also scam and that the god they fear is Mammon.
I must give more dodgy impression - I've got a spate recently purporting to be
from relatives of the late Sani Abacha, who openly tell me they've got their
hands on large sums from him, and now want to get them out of the country
before the gov't takes the money away. They usually ask for $500 to bribe some
troublesome official into letting the transaction pass - in return I'm gonna
get 10% of the millions they'll spirit away.

>
> A curse on all scammers & spammers!
A pox, too.

                                                   Andreas

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