Amongst this morning's SPAM that got through

[erick (Eric)]

You just have to laugh at the dumbness of it:-

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On behalf of the Obama's Foundation, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary
of $1,000,000.00 USD in compensation of scam victims.Do contact the
Managing Director of the HSBC BANK,UK with the following details: You are
to fill the appropriate form and submit to the bank.

[1] Full Names:____________
[2] Contact address____________________________ __
[3] Direct Telephone No: ________________
|4| Occupation : _________________________
[5] Age :_______________

Managing Director of the HSBC BANK,UK
Name: Mrs. Roseline Wood
Private Email:mrsroselinewoods@luckymail.co m
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[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Congratulations!

I'd suggest waiting to claim the money until the exchange slips a bit...

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Ahh, drat that one didn't get to me yet, though I have won a few lotteries today and am helping to get some millions of dollars out of Nigeria (just a normal day at the office). You do have to give the little darlings some points for effort and originallity. But why would you contact a UK bank for Obama's money??

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I can show you how to stop receiving this sort of spam.
Just send $10 to this PO Box.........

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Makes you wonder how this stuff still goes around

[bojan]

Originally Posted by lacad01

Makes you wonder how this stuff still goes around

Well, there are always people who will think this is genuine..

I am still laughing when that Aussie guy comes to my mind.. a year or two ago he arranged a wedding with a wife and was given 100 sheep along, somewhere in Nigeria .. and he actually went there!! To be beaten and held for ransom of course..
Now how stupid (and desperate) is that?

[Octane (Humayun)]

www.419eater.com

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[Nesti (Mark)]

Can't even remember the last time I received spam. Must have been years ago.

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Originally Posted by Octane

www.419eater.com

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Cracked myself up reading some of the scambait stories

[outbr34k (Sarah)]

tehehe what on earth do you people do with your email addresses to get spam? I never ever get spam.

There was one time however where due to some lack in security every student at the university received letters from a few nice russian women looking for husbands here in Australia then again thats what happens when you skimp and let students run your IT department with no practical IT experience...

[erick (Eric)]

It snuck through my work's (a University) SPAM filter (SpamAssassin) this morning. It was addressed to info@obama.com and BC to me (and a huge list of others I'm sure). I only see a couple a month. The last information I saw was from 2006 when there was a peak of 900,000 email messages in one day of which only 50,000 passed the SPAM filter (and there were not many false positives)!! A shocking waste of bandwidth.

My work email address is easily captured from the University's website.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by erick

You just have to laugh at the dumbness of it:-

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On behalf of the Obama's Foundation

I wonder how many Obama's are involved in that foundation?

Managing Director of the HSBC BANK,UK
Name: Mrs. Roseline Wood
Private Email:mrsroselinewoods@luckymail.co m

If I worked at HSBC, would I be lucky enough to get an email address in the luckymail domain, or is that only for senior execs?

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Heres one I received recently and laughed upon seeing it opens with a spelling error.

Hurry send them $298 so you can collect 7.5mill! Perhaps if you're bored you can email them and mess with their heads. Anyhow for your amusement....

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Attnetion,

I have waited enough to send your cheque bank draft $7.5m united state US dollars for your compensation but I did not hear from you since and the time the bank draft will be expired is getting near, I finally arranged with the bank manger of BANK OF GHANA PLC MR.KOLO and he has coveted the bank draft into cash payment and package it in a diplomatic box the arrangement has been finalized with UNIVERSAL EXPRESS DELIVERY COURIER COMPANY THE RELIABLE DELIVERY SYSTEM to send the package through diplomatic courier service I have contacted them and they told me that you should forward all this information below to them.

Please carefully Reconfirm your full house address, your private Mobile phone number and send it to them to avoid wrong delivery of your consignment to your doorstep.

FULL NAME.......................
OCCUPATION......................... ....
YOU’RE HOUSE ADDRESS...............
AGE................................ ..
TELEPHONE NUMBER......................
FAX NUMBER............................. ..
OFFICE ADDRESS............................ .......
NEAREST AIR PORT............................... ....
PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION: (PASSPORT OR DRIVES'
LICENSE ...................................

Also remember that they did not know the content of the box I registered it as an Africa cloths. They don't know that it contents money. This is to avoid them delaying with the delivery of the box to you .I don't want you to let them know that the content of the box is money. JUST FEEL FREE AND CONTACT THEM WITH THIS EMAIL: universaldelivering@mail2world.com OR universalexpress19906700@yahoo.co.j p

Note: That you have to pay them for delivery fee which is $298,00 only.

BATCH NO AX277
SHIPMENT CODE 33XZS
THE AIRWAY BILL NUMBER.GX843KR
CONSIGNMENT REGISTERED CODE NO XGT476.
SECURITY CODES NO SCT/2071DHX0
CONTACT PERSON /MR.UGO EGODINMA.
ADDRESS NO4/7 WHITE HOUSE BUILDING 6TH FLOOR ACCRA GHANA.
TELEPHONE NUMBER. +233-541-005-788.

BEST REGARD'S.

MRS.PAULINA NDIDI ESQ,

[Jen]

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

This week alone I have won/inherited enough $$$ to allow everyone on this forum to retire in the manner I would like to become acustomed too.
Everything from Obamas Foundation to some "lady" in dire straights because she's not allowed to inherit her deceased husbands estate and some bank manager who wants to deposit unclaimed bank funds into my account, at last count around $600million and counting. They messages are also getting through the spam filter at work (govt).

Adrian

[JimmyH155]

Well, Geoff, Mrs Paulina Ndidi certainly has a firm grip on the English language. So you are in for 7.5 million eh??
I cannot imagine anyone sounding less convincing, and then when she signs herself as Mrs Paulina Ndidi, ESQ, I just cracked up!!