# Really whacked email scam **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971 "2012-07-31T16:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/1 "2012-07-31T16:52:42Z")
["]Wow]([Bizarre email scam involves horse, lard and sex toy death](http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bizarre-email-scam-involves-horse-lard-and-sex-toy-death-202533.html?fb_action_ids=10150936741001237&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210150936741001237%22:10151126447171327%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210150936741001237%22:%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=)[) … a ‘hitman’ hired to kill you and threatening to arrange your death in a bizzare sex game unless you pay him. :eek::dubious:😃 I can not believe anybody would take this seriously … wonder if anybody is going to play him on that website that people post their pranking back the spammers. Would by absolutely funny to string them along as if they actually were into beastiality and _wanting_ to meet up with their horse:D ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/2 "2012-07-31T17:01:47Z")
Wow, SMERSH wants ME killed?! That is soooo flattering! I had no idea I was important enough. Too bad I’m not important enough to have the money to buy off assassins. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/3 "2012-07-31T17:35:40Z")
I saw what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/4 "2012-08-02T02:42:00Z")
> [@](#): > > …although he is quite charming for a horse, I don’t think Henry is the most sensitive of lovers." Does that mean Henry will dance the waltz with you before he beds you down? And who’s the beneficiary of this scam? Is it Mr. Kite? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/5 "2012-08-02T02:55:51Z")
I’ve seen hitman scams before, but the horse angle is a new one on me. (Also, shame on them for not including a picture of the certificate of assassination). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/6 "2012-08-02T02:58:21Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I’ve seen hitman scams before, but the horse angle is a new one on me. > > (Also, shame on them for not including a picture of the certificate of assassination). I was rather disappointed at the lack of pictures ☹ I am sort of hoping to get this one, if so I might play along - I can send back pictures of geese and sheep, and if I get my roomie to run over to the farmer down the road I can get some cow and goat pictures to send back! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/7 "2012-08-02T03:10:58Z")
I wonder if the assassin insists his name be pronounced _Te-ah-tim-eh_? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/8 "2012-08-02T03:14:07Z")
Holy… I didn’t notice the name until you mentioned it. If he has a glass eye, run! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/9 "2012-08-02T03:22:06Z")
[There’s someone claiming responsibility for the more interesting parts](http://antifraudintl.org/showthread.php?64060-Dai-Teatime-international-assassin&); they’re a scam-baiter (someone who strings scammers along and, ideally, gets them to do useless crap to the exclusion of actually scamming anyone) who wanted to make their pitch as idiotic as possible to try and make it impossible for anyone to take it seriously: > [@Kilgarragh](#): > > I’m afraid I have to claim responsibility for this. > > I’m a scambaiter over at another site and I had this lad trying a standard extortion scam on me. After a while I called him out on his scam but told him it was a good idea but his script needed some work “so it would work better on rich westerners”. I then game him the most crazy, ridiculous script I could dream up that no sane person could ever regard as anything but a joke; I even made him a “Certificate of Membership of the Guild of Assassins of Ankh Morpork”. To my amazement the lad went for it and dropped his old scam for the new silly one I made for him > > Hopefully anyone googling any of his new script would come across all the James Bond and Terry Pratchett references and would never fall for it. 😃 So, yes; _Te-ah-tim-eh_ it is, then. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/10 "2012-08-02T05:28:50Z")
There was a email spam scam I’ve seen where a email comes from a hushmail address(encrypted free webmail) saying if you don’t send three thousand dollars via western union to the info included they will report you to DEA and FBI as being a drug smuggler and you will be arrested.:rolleyes: Yea because we all know all it takes is random anonymous emails to get put away as a drug kingpin. I actually saw a woman post that she was crying and shaking and upset and she wanted to just send the money to stop worrying.:smack: That is why people bother with these scams. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/11 "2012-08-02T18:34:24Z")
Certificate of Membership of the Guild of Assassins of Ankh Morpork? Now I _really_ need to see a photo. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/12 "2012-08-02T18:38:51Z")
Bad Horse! ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/13 "2012-08-02T18:40:06Z")
Okay, I found one assassin certificate from another of his [characters](http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1837462)… ah, 419eater, what a fun place that was. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-whacked-email-scam/629971/14 "2012-08-03T03:04:58Z")
"In my line of work it’s best not to ask questions of a man with a dueling scar and a white cat. " You know something? Even if it is spam, that’s darn good advice to live by!