This just hit my inbox
Come on Fernando, work with me here. What details do I need to send? Or are you assuming that after all helping all of those Nigerian princes get their millions out of the country, I would just know what to send.
If you read that in Nick Kroll’s Chupacabra voice, then it’s actually quite enjoyable.
Well, if you had gone through with that “Learn To Be A Psychic At Home” course, it wouldn’t be a problem now, would it? 
No links or anything?
For the last year or so, I’ve been getting a ton of emails that look basically like that, but then say “If you are having trouble reading this email, click here” with a link.
The scammers probably think it is too much hassle to spin a new story. It is just not worth the trouble. First, you have to write up a character, and wealthy widows and desperate businessmen are just too cliche. Second, you need credible names, and people are catching on with the phone directory trick. Finally, you need to write with an authentic business prose and include enough details to look credible.
No matter how hard you try, those who are too canny not to fall for the scams won’t, and the gullible ones? Heck, that one line should be enough to get them send follow-up messages to ask about the prize. They may even include their address and phone number without the scammer asking!!
This, my friend, is efficiency.
I posted the entire message. Title, his name and that is it.
:smack: Damn it!
The answer’s simple: the check you sent to the “Learn To Be A Psychic At Home” folks bounced like a rubber ball! (Of course, they knew it was going to do that. . .)
But you’re right. It’s a lot more fun when the phishers/spammers/scammers at least use some imagination/creativity!
My all time favorite scam story has to be the Nigerian astronaut.
Google it and enjoy,I’d have sent them a dollar just for the laughs that one gave me.
Yesterday we got Viagra/Cialis spammers on a message board I participate on.
A pregnancy and childbirth message board.
Imagine how well that went over with a bunch of hormonal postpartum women…
For some reason, I read the scammer’s name in Chevy Chase’s voice in my head, and thought, “Fernando Franco Hernandez is still dead…”
My favorite spam was
From: $sender@$domain
Subject: $subject
$rand_text
That was it. Somebody forgot to escape their variable names somewhere…
It could’ve been a joke… I remember I made a joke once about sending out 5 cent cookies if people gave me social security numbers n stuffz. I also added something about having a nigerian prince as a friend xD I got a warning for that. -_-" Who in their right mind would think I’m a scammer?
Where should I send that SSN?
Lol, I just had to do a google search to find out what ssn meant xD Hey but um what do you need a ssn for though? isn’t it just like taxes and stuff? what would scammers do with that?
Social Security Number
Lol, yes the google search already provided me with that information xP. I’m just wondering why you need a Social Security Number in the first place and if you gave it to other people, why it would be such a huge deal?
Because you can establish an identity as the person the number belongs to, open credit cards in their name, establish I.Ds and wreck other havoc.
Ahhh…