"I have registered your Compensation Fund of ($12.8Usd) with FedEx Express Courier Company with registration code of (011-827-8947) for 48hours Delivery. I packaged the total sum in a Consignment Box sealed as Christmas Gift & succeeded in it with FedEx Express Courier Company to ensure the delivery is complete within 48hours as we agreed… I have paid all the fee involved for the Delivery except their Security Keeping Fee of (US$95.00) which you have to pay them as beneficiary of the Consignment. "
So let’s see. If I send you $95 you’ll send me $12.80. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
My eyes are rolling so far back in my head I’ll bet you heard the CRR-RR-ACK clear across the oceans.
Went to check out what’s in my Spam folder thanks to this thread, and found “Here’s your Steam key” email from an indie game dev - I had bought the game ages ago and now that they got to Steam they had sent me a key. Should check the Spam folder more often I guess.
Also, a bunch of Facebook notifications sent to me from Vietnam. You’d think they’d mask that email address when they go through the trouble of looking legit otherwise.
How about bizarre solicitions on Skype? I have a ton of these…from women who want to “be my firend”? Even linked in seems to have been hacked…I get requests to “join a network”-from people I never heard of.
Yes, I think linkedin has been hacked.
I can’t use all this Viagra the Canadian Pharmacy keeps offering me (don’t have the correct parts) so if anyone would like me to forward these e-mails, just speak up.