These are (or will be) some of the more out-of-the-ordinary spams I've received.
Since I can't stop the shaggers (despite fnarr.net being protected by SpamAssassin),
I've decided to write them up. Some of the names used by the spammers are very
imaginative, or at least they were. Maybe I'll receive some more :-)
The reason I started this site is that I recall getting a spam from Dr. James Badmus,
a bank official in Lagos, Nigeria, and, well, you know the rest. Obviously I deleted it.
Imagine my surprise to open my inbox today to find that James has moved on...
Part-time Job offer
by James Badmus,
Having quit his job at the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland.
James is now freelancing and is "fully residing in Ireland, Dublin".
However, his "funding were by my American counterparts" and because he
has a deadline to meet, he doesn't want the bother of opening an account in
the US.
Instead he'll send you a US cheque and you send him 90% of the cheque value by
wire transfer immediately as he no doubt will need the money urgently to
fund his mission to save the "rare and vulnerable plants in tropical West
Africa", and when the cheque clears, you get to keep it all!
What could possibly go wrong?
Godson's Deathbed conversion,
by Richard.Godson1@hotmail.com
(or perhaps just plain old
Richard.Godson@hotmail.com).
Richard's yet another "Irish(Dublin)" national, a rich but miserly dude whose
oesophoegal cancer has "defiled" all
forms of medical treatment, who now has only weeks to live (apparently he's in
remission because I remember getting this exact same spam last year.) At any
rate he wants to donate all his money to charities, and doesn't trust his
relatives, so he's decided instead to ask some bloke he's never met to
distribute the "huge cash deposit of twenty eight million dollars
($28,000,000,00)" (note the unusual punctuation of that figure.) That would be you.
All he needs is your bank account details. You get to keep 10%.
What could possibly go wrong?
James Badmus, Media Consultant,
via meliss. She may have led him up the garden path a bit as this is
the second in a series after she replied to his original spam invitation
in a spirit of scientific investigation! Alas I don't have the original,
but anyone who has it is encouraged to send me a copy. I'm always glad to hear
from James Badmus.
James, it seems, has moved on from saving the vulnerable plants in tropical
West Africa and is now apparently soliciting models for an RAC Motoring
magazine:
"Presently the company needs a model to advertise their products and am [sic] giving you the offer."
They'll send you a cheque for $650 to start with. Alas there will no doubt be
a problem with the cheque and they'll request your bank account details to
expedite payment. What could possibly go wrong?
