The worse email ever

I've had this one below several times

15 INDEPENDENCE DRIVE.
EKULU ENUGU,

234-80-33152366.

Dear Sir/Madam,

HOW ARE YOU DOING?

I am contacting you believing you are a honest and trustworthy person.
I believe you will not betray the confidence I have in you to have
contacted
you even though we've not met before.Besides,I only got your address
through
the internet.

I am Mr. Ladi Tafida,General Manager (Operations)Eastern Banking
Unit,United Bank For Africa plc. There is a dormant account which has not been
operationalfor over a decade now.The account has a net balance of
US$133,000,000 (ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY- THREE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS}
The owner of this account was Engr. Smith B. Andreas,a Briton
and manager of Petro-Technical Support Services.On investigation I
discovered that the account owner is deceased.He died over Ten years ago.I also
discovered that neither his company nor anybody was named a beneficiary of the
fund.If the money is not claimed and the bank discovers this lapse,the
money would be forfeited to the Federal Government but the directors in there greedy
fashion would siphon it to their individual account.

All I want you to do is to collaborate with me by standing in as the
beneficiary because Management is ready to approve the remittance of the money to
any foreigner who has correct information of this account.Beside I would use my
position to facilitate prompt remittance of the fund.Send to me immediately the your bank account information of any bank of your choice where you want the money to be transfered.You may open a new account if you so wish.If for any reason you think you're incapable of this transaction, you may recommend anybody whose integrity is not in doubt. I shall however provide you with directives on what to do as
we proceed.

Contact me on my private telephone numbers above or through my email
address with information about your full contact addresses including personal
telephone & fax numbers and Bank information immediately if you are interested.

As soon as I get this information,I will consult a probate lawyer on
your behalf as the beneficiary for the drafting and notarization of the will and to obtain the neccesary documents and letter of probate/Administration in your favour so as to put you in better position as the beneficiary . Also, I need little information about yourself and what you do for living as well as a strong assurance that you can guarantee the safety of the money when it gets into your account .

At the conclusion of this business, I shall travel to your country for
sharing.I have mapped out 25% of the total amount for you for assisting me,5% to take
care of all expenses from both party and the remaining for me.

I look forward for prompt reply from you.

Warmest Regards.

Ladi Tafida
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Originally posted by amazingtrade
Email spamming scripts are very easy to write in PHP so I am guessing that is how they are doing it. Also I read a report saying that 80% of web users do not use a proper firewall which is a huge security risk as the recent viruses have shown as worms can infect your computer and retreive all your addresses stored in outlook and then store them on their database.
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Jeez AT, these kids nowadays. It's only 10 years since Windows 3.x...and we were having to add IP as an extra..
Why do we all have to use a firewall?? Can't we just have a system that anyone can use [geek or otherwise?]. I mean fair enough, if you're looking where you shouldn't be..and you think the Feds are after you...etc
Anyone can look for an Outlook database on my PC..cos it ain't there. And I think viruses gave up on my Win95 a while back..
 
Originally posted by amazingtrade
Will I also get the junk filtering with this? I will probably sign up and if its good I may get the paid account to remove the tag lines.
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Yes - you get the junk filtering. The free account has some limits on importing POP mail from other accounts though. Best read the details.

Michael.
 
Thanks I will check that out tonight, if I have to pay its only £10 or so.
Jeez AT, these kids nowadays. It's only 10 years since Windows 3.x...and we were having to add IP as an extra..
Why do we all have to use a firewall?? Can't we just have a system that anyone can use [geek or otherwise?]. I mean fair enough, if you're looking where you shouldn't be..and you think the Feds are after you...etc
Anyone can look for an Outlook database on my PC..cos it ain't there. And I think viruses gave up on my Win95 a while back..[
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The point is is that there is always hidden programs in the form of freeware you may not be aware of, can you account for every single file on your computer? With windows 95 its a bit easier but with XP there must be 10,000 files alone fo the operating system.

He should not all need firewalls but I did an experiment with XP and used it without a firewall at the height of the Blaster virus and within ten minutes my PC kept coming up with the 60 minute shut down warning.

I use a router now for my connection as its far more reliable and secure. (at least in theory)

Martin I take it you remember the Trumpet Winsock.dll well then. I remember having to load that everytime I needed net access with win 3.1
 
The effect you described - the Nigerian thing - is known in Psychology as the foot in the door technique: you yeld a little, you're bound to yeld further.

In ethology it is known as the Concorde effect: since you just put in some serious money you'll try very hard (put more and more money into into it).

There is a very interesting book on this kind of psychological effects:

Influence , by Robert Cialdini. Do an Amazon search and buy it, read it through, and you'll suddenly become a more inteliigent person.

Simple as that: once you know the mechanisms, you are - relatively - protected from the effect.

tThis is the link;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...73967/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-7372091-6410205

It is well worth it: you'll save yourself a lot of money. I tried it, actually tested it, and got away with it.
 
I read somewhere (years ago) that everythime this guy received junk mail (via snail mail) he'd open it up, and post it back in another piece of junk mail he'd already received...!

I'm tempted to do the same with some of these nigerian e-mails I recieve...:MILD:
 

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