2 posts tagged “spam”

I really don't know why I get such fabulous spam at work. I don't get anything even remotely like this on my home e-mail, but when it comes to work, yee haw, it is the world's best spam.

Today's spam is a marriage proposal. Ahem, I mean, it's not spam. It's for real. And I'm considering it. The eloquence of this e-mail has won me over.

hello,
   my dear lovely and precious lady how are u and ur lovely and precious
family over there in ur lovely country.pls i am here to introduce my self a
little beat .i am joe by name and a single man of 31 years  old from west
africa.i am seeking for every good and precious lady for marriage.i am here
to tell u that there is nothing that pass love and  honest. is what brings
understanding in a family,money is not every thing in a family.because peace
and love brings every happy family,when a man is very honest to his wife and
make her to feel happy all the days of her life on earth.i pray that
almighty God will offer me and my lovely princess long life and prosperity
and precious peace betwin our selves.because what ever that pleases my wife
is what that will pleases me as long as she will be so happy with me.because
i will not aloud her to be hurt in her life.i will be very honest to her
untill the rest of my life on  earth.this is my
msn(prince_gld2@hotmail.com)phone number +22506238389).
  urs precious joe.

How can I say no to this? He found my e-mail address and knows -- he knows sight unseen -- I am the right woman for him.

I'm really trying to figure the angle out here. I think it will be that he wants to set up a nice home for us in Africa and if I just wire him some money, he can make it happen. Or, it'll be that he wants to come to the U.S. to be with me, and, you guessed it, if I wire him some money, he can do that. I like that he even includes his phone number.

Part of me says there is no way a woman is this lonely, but, I guess I could be wrong, sad as that is.

If you're looking for me, I"m moving to Africa to be with my precious joe. Sure, I know nothing about him, but he has won me over. And he's looking for a wife. After contacting me, it'd be rude to say no.

I get an e- mail today purporting to be a user e-mail from eBay:

Allegedly, I sold some tickets to a Houston Texans-Miami Dolphins game. The e-mail purports to be from the buyer and says:
Sorry i cannot open the document where your banking detail are. Please email me your details and i will deposit. Hope to hear soon from you.

The reason this phishing scam is so bizarre is, what kind of targeted niche is that? This goes well beyond the "We're updating our records" scam. This one takes a gamble that I either A) sold Texans-Dolphins tickets B) Am so stupid i don't remember sellling them.

I would say there would really only be one person this scam works for and that would be, obviously, the person who actually sold them. And, the auction ended Sept. 20. The buyer of these tickets to a game that was Oct. 1 is contacting  me two months later to tell me that he's sorry he's been a little late on the payment?

It took all my strength not to e-mail the person and say "Please let me know if this scam works. I'm intensely curious."