This message was in my inbox when I checked my email tonight
I’m impressed. (Now, to mess with his head!)
I miss the part where it’s supposed to be articulate. I spotted several grammatical errors throughout and a typo in the very first sentence.
Chances are the scammer with whom you would actually end up communicating will be less articulate and probably isn’t the author of the opening message. I bet he refers to himself as ‘Mr Jarvis’, rather than ‘Mr Reeves’.
If you didn’t make a typo in the missive from that nice soldier, he effectively said you keep all the money
I like those terms! I take out 30% and then keep their 70%! OK…
I feel sorry for a bunch of guys stationed in Iraq who don’t have any of their own friends and relations stateside they can trust. It shows that no matter how many “support our troops” magnetic ribbons are on the backs of cars, our boys over there are really suffering. Perhaps you should suggest he sign up for Operation Dear Abby.
Tell him you’re grateful that he chose you as the trusted one. Tell him you’d like the money in cash, if possible. Tell him, since he’s going to make you rich, that you’d at least like to pay the shipping costs for the $14,000,000. Ask for his bank account info so you can expedite the process.
This reminds me about a story i read a few years back: when the US invaded Iraq, some US soldiers broke into the bank of Iraq headquarters, and helped themselves to several million Iraqi dinars from the vault. To avoid confusion, the provisional government would exchange Iraqi dianrs for US dollars-so these guys passed off the notes-and got rich!
this scam may even work better than the others, as many people have probably seen the G. Clooney film **Three Kings ** and will think it is legitimate, that all serviceman get access to vast wealth in the Middle East.
My boyfriend got an even weirder one the other day.
Not because it was complete gobbledegook or because it was completely outrageous, but because it was “from” an English man who was an artist and had a family and needed someone to help him process money from sales of his art to American customers.
It sounded completely “normal” in a sense that the writing wasn’t grandiose like most Nigerian scams and the premise was much different than the usual “someone has died/you have won the lottery” but at the end the dude asked for all sorts of info to be sent.
Clever, I say. Now that no one trusts Nigeria they are branching all the way out west!
Hah! I got a similar one this morning, but it was some female artist who talks about her animals and how she’s expanding her artistic style into using not just paint and brush, but computers as a medium to express herself. :rolleyes:
[Eric Cartman] Dirty HIPPIE![/EC]
I had an interesting one about a Latvian software company that wanted to break into the American market. Sadly, it would take lawyers in every single state in order to tie together bank accounts etc etc (this got rather odd, heh). So they need someone from each state to be a go-between and accept the incoming profits, take your own 10% and then they get the remaining 90%.
They stressed that you could make millions. This of course makes you wonder why they can afford to pay millions to 50 individuals, but not afford the supposed lawyer fees they need.