fonthaunt Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 "I am Ann Ben a United State armyit would be great to get to know you ,kindly permit my contacting youthrough this medium.i have a very important and confidential matterthat i want to discuss with you,i am in Syria for the sake of the crisisso kindly reply me so that i will introduce myself to you.here is mymail(removed@removed.com)Regards,Ann BenReported 20:10 July 30, 2015"If you get this email (or something similar) whether it is already blocked or not, it is not a real offer. Do not attempt to email this person or contact them in any way. Stay safe! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddisont Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Aw, and here I thought I was going to get something cool. 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonthaunt Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Reply to @maddisont: You are! A wonderfully cool reported scammer. 😉 (The reported part is what makes it cool, otherwise it’s horribly lukewarm.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbulls Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hahaha, yeah I got that email the other day, too. I love how they use the US Army as an appeal to authority and to instill trust, yet at the same time the whole thing is written so badly that it just screams Nigerian-419-scam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonthaunt Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 @jamesbulls I know! Wouldn’t you think if the scam had worked at least once or twice, they could afford to hire a nice unethical and slimy writer who at least wrote in fluent English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbulls Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Reply to @fonthaunt: shrugs As much as I understand it, it almost doesn’t matter how badly they write the content because the same message gets sent to hundreds of thousands of recipients at a time. With almost no time and effort involved, if only a tiny fraction of recipients respond, then it works out. For example, if this message gets sent to 500,000 email addresses over the span of a year (though probably more), and only .01% of recipients respond, then that’s 5,000 people who thought it was a legitimate message. If only .01% of that same population carries through to the “end” of the scam, then that’s 50 people who got tricked out of their money. If we assume $50 to $100 from each successfully targeted victim (the .01% of the .01%), then that means the scammer would come away with $2,500 to $5,000 (although potentially even more) which - depending on where in the world you live, and assuming it’s in US dollars - is quite a lot of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagarjha Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thanks for the warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emjayye Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I got that mail yesterday. The minute I got that I reported it and now she is blocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yosri21 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I got that email yesterday and I reported it’s scam .thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusuacangmon Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 i got today and reported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovenish Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I got it today. Reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subho123 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Darn received the same message today 😕 I posted another thread about i without seeing this thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genuineguidance Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Looks like it was written with the help of Babelfish! LOL“They are there for the crisis” - not sure what that means? LOL I bet what happens is they are in crisis and need you to “hide” millions of dollars from their government and they will give you half of it for being “so kind”… ha!GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonthaunt Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 Reply to @subho123: Since you’ve got it figured out, your other post was removed for you. No problem. Thanks for mentioning it. Multiple threads can make it harder to get the right information to nervous users. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinuikha8 Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I got one yesterday !I replied " Sorry busy now, contact some other seller thanks 🙂By the way in case you need to contact me later, pls contact via this mail : i d o n t c a r e y o u r i d i o t @ spam . c o m 😛 lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspiredtony Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 got the mail twice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtamzid Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I get this type of message often in a week and report them all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallika255 Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I Got same message but i only respond Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelyservices Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Everyone need to be careful, thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeus777 Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I got a message a few days ago telling me that I got several million dollars.I said something like “Wow, how stupid do you think I am. IF it is true, go send that money over to an animal shelter or a national park.”And of course I hit the report button 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudmyground Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I got an email like that, and I don’t want my respond rate to go down so I reply with a report warning. However today I notive my respond rate is now 50%, which is not likely as I answered every mail I got. Not sure what happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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