Sad and Pathetic e-mail.

I recieved this in a e-mail this weekend. Pretty sad and pathetic. To make up these kinds of lies to try and steal money from good people. I suspect it is from one of those Nigerain scammers.

FROM SGT .JAMES CLAYTON
Hello Buddy,


I hope my email meets you well. My name is Sgt .James Clayton jr. I am in the Engineering military unit here in Baghdad in Iraq , with Oesophageal cancer which has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few weeks/month to live, according to medical experts. My late 2 colleagues who died last week in a bomb blast and I found a huge sum of $25 Million USD in Baghdad neighbourhood (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm) that we have successfully moved out of the country to Germany via a diplomatic courier service. I am contacting you because i want you to help with claiming of this merchandise an d help me distribute them to charity organizations and homeless people.


I feel distributing the funds would be a way to appease the LORD and also want God to be merciful to me and my late friends and also accept our souls ,because we have killed so many in the war, but we where only serving our country. I have decided to give this sum 0f $25 Million USD to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth.

I will want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity organizations like i have said earlier. I have set aside 30% for you and your time. The most important thing is that can I TRUST you Once the funds get to you?, and also would you distribute the rest 50% to charity organizations?. Your own part of this deal is to contact the DIPLOMATIC COURIER SERVICE on how the consignment can be released and sent down to your home address and also find a safe place where the fu nds can be kept. If you are interested I will furnish you with more details.

But the whole process is simple and we must keep a low profile at all times because if the authorities are aware of this funds, it would be seized and used for purchasing ammunitions and irrelevant accessories, whereby we have so many sick, homeless kids dying with hunger..

I am awaiting your urgent response on my private email address,


IN GOD WE TRUST!!!!


Regards.

SGT .JAMES CLAYTON

 

I't's obviously something done without prior though on the part of the composer.
It's like something you'd expect to hear in a cartoon!

 

LOl True. Or a soap opera. I cant tell you how many times I have "won" the UK or Irish Lottery. Or Inherited millions from a relative overseas or some other money related scheme LOL.

 

It would be funny if it weren't an insult to those genuinely serving in Iraq.

Anyhow, I really can't put any more money in my bank account - I'm already looking after after several million dollars from Prince Oguhbademgewayo of Nigeria while he decides which charity he wants to donate it to......

 

More Spam. Surprisingly not from some one in Africa.

I found a website about one such scam, and how a guy managed to get the Scammer to send him $50 (after a long ordeal) to prove the guy was 'for real' before he would send money. Pretty funny stuff.

 

I remember reading that someone actually got a scammer to video himself doing the whole Monty Python Dead Parrot skit LOL.

Check out this site .

Welcome to the 419 Eater

 

a spam, an insult for those who are serving, and an insult to our intelligence. Man I wish I could punch the spammer in the face.

 

Yes it is. Like I said I hope no one falls for it. The 419 group does a great job of fooling these criminals into making fools of themselves.

 

bud I get these monthly, just delete them ........

 

This is the first I have seen or recieved that use an soldier from Iraq. Most I have seen are so called "Barristers" or "Representatives"

 

He must be one rich prince, because I'm doing the same for him...

Seriously though, I have seen this sort of scam in various formats and i find it hard to believe that anyone would fall for it...but i'm sure they do.

 

I wonder what the success rate is in duping someone to send info and money?

 

i agree, truly sad that there are people who live this way.

 

I shall be having words with the 'offisial legality representor' of Prince Oguhbademgewayo, those bonds are mine, and mine alone, I'm banking on them to buy at least 40% of Ugandan oil reserves next year.

I certainly don't advise everyone (or even anyone) do it, but I've dabbled in the odd bit of scambaiting with the help of that 419 site, and it can be enormously entertaining . (according to them it's estimated that the scammers reap in over $1.5 billion annually & the average victim pays out $20,000... I do find myself thinking people should engage their brain more before engaging in financial exchanges with any stranger, web-based or not.)

Don't touch 'em with a bargepole if you're not comfortable with how to do it though! (and get an email address that not one single financial transaction goes through for exclusively web use, not one of these slime has ever found their way to my 'proper' email address because of that simple caution).

Cheers,
Adam.
Legality representor -English Branch - Idi Amin memorial Oil fund.

 

Yahoo mail filters manage these quite well.

 

good point Otto, greed does crazy things to people!

 

A few years ago on the forums, a guy tried to pass himself off as a WWII veteran and P-47 pilot. Erich spotted his birthday was off by ten years and took him to task for it and he did not post again. I wish I could remember his forum name but I forgot it. I thought that was rather low in the moral values.

We also had Colt who was pushing Japanese treasure maps.