Just got an email that is one of the Nigerian scams. I haven't seen one is at least 4 years. Has anyone else been getting them lately?
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Spam
I have an email account that gets a dozen spam messages a day on average. One or two will be the "help me get $$$ out of a country" or "confidential business proposal" usually with bad spelling.
A big fraction of the spam are in foreign languages and just appear to be advertising some products.
The "notice to appear in court" seems to have mostly faded away. I was getting several a day of those for a while.
A recent trend is a scary headline suggesting martial law is about to be imposed or a financial catastrophe is about to happen. I haven't tried to figure out if their links are to advertisements or malware.
The sneaky ones are those that have the name of someone you trust leading off the title of their message. Everyone from friends to relatives, including several with whom we share email frequently.
I have blocked all messages that begin with "Hi!", "Hello!", or "Have you seen this?"
However, I have received calls saying the IRS is about to have me arrested. One came about 6 weeks ago, and a second one today. I listened to the woman who spoke with broken English. After she told me to call her boss, I very firmly told she was a scum sucking fraud and hung up!
I was getting calls from someone in broken English saying the worked for "Windows" (not Microsoft, but "Windows"), and that they have detected that I have a virus, then they want you get one your computer and run some commands for them. It's a scam where they have you open up remote access to them, then they can take over your computer.
Not me. Just lots of offers for cheap Viagra.
Please to keep this confidential, I don't want my government or my ISP to cut me off before complete this transaction. We have to complete this transaction soon as can to avoid bad possibly of non finish.
You don't know me, but network profile says you can be honest assistance for us. I am Malaka Mugu, Deposed Chief surveyor for the Nigerian Geodetic Survey. After the coup we had to flee to a refugee camp in neighboring South Africa. Before we fled, we were able to smuggle 2,400,000 (TWO Million, Four HUndred thousand) coordinates out of country. While camp has high speed DSL, we don't have total stations or survey software, so we need the help of a willing foreign surveyor to aid our use of these coordinates. By helping us ship these coordinates out of the country you will be helping to keep them out of the hands of our govenment so that they can't use them to plan raids on our Serra Leone minority. So your help will be very humanitarian, and without the coordinates government can't build bridges allowing damage to our few remaining wetlands.
Since banks have experience use numbers, we want to deposit these coordinates into bank in US where they could be safe. If you give us your bank account number we can quickly do this before the Nigerian govenment does national readjustment and makes them worthless.
Please understand for complete secrecy and confidentiality on this transaction. Please to not contack my ISP because they are in conspiracy with government to convert the coordinates to Serengeti Plane Coordinates (SPC) in Nambibian metres before we can be making use them.
No replay to the "From:" address but use "Reply-to:" directly to our refugee camp so there can be no delay.
Yours in HonestyRev. Malaka MuguURPLS.Mugu419@coorscam.org
> Not me. Just lots of offers for cheap Viagra.
That plus "Male Enhancement" & "Hot Russian Women want you. Which begs the question: Why do hot Russian women want poorly endowed guys who can't get it up?
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"Windows" Scam
> I was getting calls from someone in broken English saying the worked for "Windows" (not Microsoft, but "Windows"), and that they have detected that I have a virus, then they want you get one your computer and run some commands for them. It's a scam where they have you open up remote access to them, then they can take over your computer.
A month ago they were calling my private line daily. I finally told them I didn't have any MS 'Windows' products, I had a Mac...they stopped calling.
Their broken English seemed more Hindi than anything. Probably northern India. That narrows it down to about 258,000,000 people...
Scam the scammers
Several years ago, I was corresponding with one of those guys, ultimately trying to get them to send me $10 to prove their veracity.
This email came to one of my "throwaway" email addresses, and as a wealthy, aging, Lord Bigglesworth Snotbottom, I thought they would come through! I kept putting off sending them money because my dog was sick, sister pregnant, mother dieing, father victim of plague and any othernumber of various maladies. After they promised to mail me a travelers check, guess what, it never showed up.
