Ultimate Scam Spam??!

philgee

Just received this email:

:rotfl:

ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC
SCAM COMPENSATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT
ECOWAS NATIONS STATE/UNITED NATIONS
2008 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
YOUR REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 FOR $150,000 USD ONLY.

This is to bring to your notice that our bank (ECOBANK INTL. PLC) is delegated
by the ECOWAS/UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay victims of scam $150,000
(One Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars Only). You are listed/approved
for this
payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount.

On this faithful recommendations, want you to alert you that during the last
U.N. meetings held at ABUJA (WEST AFRICA), it was accessed/ accumulated of
reported cases of fraud that the money lost by various individuals to Africans
scam artists operating in syndicates all over the world today is over $239
Million United States Dollars in year 2007 to fraud in USA alone.

http://www.techspot.com/news/29644-US-Citizens-lost-239-million-from-Internet-
fraud-in-2007.html

In other to compensate victims, the ECOWAS/UNITED NATIONS is now
paying victims
of such scam $150,000(One Hundred And Fifty THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH) in
accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations.

The payments are to be remitted by ECOBANK PLC NIGERIA as corresponding paying
bank under funding assistance by CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. Benefactor of this
compensation award will have to be first cleared by ECOBANK and confirmed as a
victim from Africa Scam before scam payment can be effected. We shall feed you
with further modalities as soon as we get response from you on how you can
receive your compensation payment award.

Send a copy of your response via email or call your remittance officer quoting
your PAYMENT CODE NUMBER(ECB/06654).

NAME: MR.ANTHONY OBOH
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:
ECB/06654 $150,000 USD.
TEL :+234 80566 10423
+234 80369 20291
Email: anthony.oboh@live.com

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Doris Udoh
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

superscaper

When I saw the thread title I thought "not another spam warning" but I have to say this is pretty original and funny. Almost genius in it's poetic irony. A scam pretending to offer compensation because of the known Nigerian scammers. Just brilliant!! Definitely spam taken to another level. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

shady-1968

superscaper wrote: »

When I saw the thread title I thought "not another spam warning" but I have to say this is pretty original and funny. Almost genius in it's poetic irony. A scam pretending to offer compensation because of the known Nigerian scammers. Just brilliant!! Definitely spam taken to another level. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I have just recive thi email, is there anywhere we can report it?

superscaper

shady-1968 wrote: »

I have just recive thi email, is there anywhere we can report it?

Not anywhere that'd make the slightest difference. The only long term way to defeat spam is to simply not fall for it or buy products from the spam. If it wasn't for that small percentage of [insert your own description here] people who actually hand over money to spammers and scammers they wouldn't do it. It's actually very profitable for them.

Personally I give a unique email address to each company and dump any address that attracts spam. On my domain (myname.co.uk) I've got about 300-400 email addresses (e.g. [EMAIL="amazon@mydomain.co.uk"]amazon@mydomain.co.uk[/EMAIL]). If I get spam I know who passed on my address. At present on all those addresses I get zero spam. Best thing is just have a smart strategy and plenty of redundancy.

x_raphael_xx

shady-1968 wrote: »

I have just recive thi email, is there anywhere we can report it?

Send it to 419 Eater website, they have fun with scammers, check thier website, hilarious!!