I have been getting multiple spams a day for various scams including many 419 scams. But until today, nobody has ever offered to send me a billion dollars or more!
Look at this:
Attention; Dear,
This offer might interest you.
My client has the sum of US$2,500,000,000 {Two Billion Five Hundred Million USD} in a Private Bank in Ghana for intelligence safekeeping. We are looking for someone with capacity and good financial strength to manage,invest and handle the aforesaid fund with good Return on Investment. If you are capable and qualified as indicated herein, we will schedule a face to face meeting to meet whom we are dealing with for better trust and understanding. Your benefits and compensation will be discussed in my next email should you agree to proceed.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Regards,
George Adams
I’ve tried scam baiting in the past, but I always get tired of it too quickly. The scammers are just not worth the waste of time. This one might be interesting, though.
By the way, when I first set up a personal web site years ago, I had a page on Nigerian scams that was like the second or third highest on that subject in the Google search results. I’ve taken it off since then, but have wondered if I put it back on if Google would remember and rank it highly once again.
I recently found in my email an offer to transfer $20.5 million from a gmail address on behalf of one Richard Douglas, “Director of Accountant Department Of The Treasury”. With a Hungarian reply address.
Maybe he was from the Hungarian Department of the Treasury? In which case the correct course of action would be to ask him to authenticate himself by sending you an authentic goulash recipe.
But alas, no, I did a quick search and (a) it’s supposed to be the US Treasury, and (b) for some reason many others are getting this same email, which reads (in impeccable English with only a few oddities such as might result from a Hungarian translating with the aid of a Hungarian-English dictionary):
Attention: Sir/Madam,
This is to inform you that World Bank and International Monetary Fund
(IMF) has given us instructions to release your outstanding payment
immediately you get back to me with your full details where you want
your US20.5M transfer to.
Now Department Of The Treasury Direct-Account Washington DC is ready
to release your fund immediately you get back to us with your full
information including your bank account details list below:
Your full Name:
Your Full Address:
Phones, Fax and Mobile No:
Profession, Age and Marital Status:
Copy of any valid form of your Identification:
Your bank account details where you want Director of Telex and Wire
Department to transfer your approved fund.
Meanwhile all legal documents will be release to you before your fund
will be credit into your bank account.
Thanks for your maximum co-operation.
Mr. Richard Douglas
Director of Accountant Department Of The Treasury