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Is this one of the most hilarious scams ever ?
drussellh
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UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT
Attention,
How are you today? You may not understand why this mail came to you.We have been having series of meeting for the passed 3 months which ended 3 days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.
This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$100. 000 This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.
You are advised to contact Dr Collins Nelson.of our paying center in Africa, as he is our representative in Cotonou-The Republic of Benin, contact him immediately for the payment of your fund through the western union special payment. The Hundred Thousand Dollars will be paid to you through the western union money transfer for security purpose.Therefore, you should send to Dr Collins Nelson. your full Name,your direct telephone number and your correct mailing address .
Contact Dr Collins Nelson immediately to enable him send to you the western union money transfer control numbers (mtcn),the
text question,answer and every other relevant information relating to the western union payment.
Do contact Dr Collins Nelson. through this e-mail address of their western.union email written below.
Person to Contact: Dr Collins Nelson.
Tel:+229 99705740.
Email: [EMAIL="western.union_moneytransfer@live.fr"]western.union_moneytransfer@live.fr[/EMAIL]
Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your fund.
Regards, David Mike
For the UN Secretary-General
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Attention,
How are you today? You may not understand why this mail came to you.We have been having series of meeting for the passed 3 months which ended 3 days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.
This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$100. 000 This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.
You are advised to contact Dr Collins Nelson.of our paying center in Africa, as he is our representative in Cotonou-The Republic of Benin, contact him immediately for the payment of your fund through the western union special payment. The Hundred Thousand Dollars will be paid to you through the western union money transfer for security purpose.Therefore, you should send to Dr Collins Nelson. your full Name,your direct telephone number and your correct mailing address .
Contact Dr Collins Nelson immediately to enable him send to you the western union money transfer control numbers (mtcn),the
text question,answer and every other relevant information relating to the western union payment.
Do contact Dr Collins Nelson. through this e-mail address of their western.union email written below.
Person to Contact: Dr Collins Nelson.
Tel:+229 99705740.
Email: [EMAIL="western.union_moneytransfer@live.fr"]western.union_moneytransfer@live.fr[/EMAIL]
Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your fund.
Regards, David Mike
For the UN Secretary-General
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:rotfl:
Ooooh a new take on the old, "Mr X has died leaving his funds in the UK and I need someone with a British bank account...."
Although the English is not perfect it is far better than their usual offerings. Furthermore, the idea of scamming people that were stupid enough to be scammed in the first place is not a bad one.
Perhaps they are stepping up their game?
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" (Douglas Adams)0 -
Scamming people who have already been scammed !
I like it !0 -
PinkLipgloss wrote: »:rotfl:
Ooooh a new take on the old, "Mr X has died leaving his funds in the UK and I need someone with a British bank account...."
Although the English is not perfect it is far better than their usual offerings. Furthermore, the idea of scamming people that were stupid enough to be scammed in the first place is not a bad one.
Perhaps they are stepping up their game?
I think once you respond to these people - the game is on!!! (remember it's a full time job to these people to Scam You!!!) They continue to reel you in and pass your details (suckers list) on to others.
Whether it's that they sound too plausible, too trusting, your greed, whatever else. they are getting £££££ out of people which is so sad.
Lonely hearts, death beneficiary, lottery, compensation, holiday club, timeshare, boiler room, pyramid selling, land bank, fake branded goods, fake medicines, fake holiday home and general rentals, fake ticket websites, fake viruses and ?????????????????????????????????
How do we beat em???0 -
By playing along and wasting their time.I_luv_cats wrote: »How do we beat em???
419eater.com has a lot of hilarious stories. Some of the lengths these scammers go to are unreal!0 -
People who've been scammed before are known easy marks. This style of scam is known as a 'recovery scam', it is quite common, unfortunately.
Sadly, this targets the most vulnerable people of all - this means your parents or grandparents, or their friends are at higher risk of having any savings they managed to keep after being fleeced first time taken from them. Scammers seem funny, until you realise just how amoral they are. I have seen evidence of people being told to prostitute their teenage daughters, or stop their kids chaemo treatment to send the money to the scammers instead. They would happily see you destitute or dead, as long as they can have Rolexes and guns (and don't kid yourselves, this is what the money is spent on - it's not family food, cybercafe time costs real significant money, which could pay for meals).0 -
http://www.gadgetdetective.com/
Mentions in TECH CHAT about a dating scam that kills 10 people !!!
They have a link to some scams http://www.scamwarners.com0 -
Miss_Scrooge wrote: »By playing along and wasting their time.
419eater.com has a lot of hilarious stories. Some of the lengths these scammers go to are unreal!
Yes- string them along and get their hopes up before letting them know you know it is a scam !0 -
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That was funny lol.Owed out = lots. :cool:0
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Miss_Scrooge wrote: »By playing along and wasting their time.Yes- string them along and get their hopes up before letting them know you know it is a scam !
If you want people to ignore you, ignore them. If you respond, even knowing it's just a giggle, your email account or mobile phone number (in the case of spam texts) gets flagged as 'in use', you get marked as a 'possible', and your details will be sold on to even more scammers.
It might be fun, but it's not the way to get it to stop."Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.0
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