Spam/Scam - Asks you to Email them

[fonthaunt]

"I am Ann Ben a United State army

it would be great to get to know you ,kindly permit my contacting you

through this medium.i have a very important and confidential matter

that i want to discuss with you,i am in Syria for the sake of the crisis

so kindly reply me so that i will introduce myself to you.here is my

mail(removed@removed.com)



Regards,

Ann Ben

Reported 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! 🙂

[maddisont]

Aw, and here I thought I was going to get something cool. 😃

[fonthaunt]

Reply to @maddisont: You are! A wonderfully cool reported scammer. 😉 (The reported part is what makes it cool, otherwise it’s horribly lukewarm.)

[jamesbulls]

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.

[fonthaunt]

@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?

[jamesbulls]

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.

[sagarjha]

Thanks for the warning.

[emjayye]

I got that mail yesterday. The minute I got that I reported it and now she is blocked.

[yosri21]

I got that email yesterday and I reported it’s scam .
thank you

[dusuacangmon]

i got today and reported

[ilovenish]

I got it today. Reported.

[subho123]

Darn received the same message today 😕 I posted another thread about i without seeing this thread!

[genuineguidance]

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

[fonthaunt]

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. 🙂

[shinuikha8]

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.

[inspiredtony]

got the mail twice

[rjtamzid]

I get this type of message often in a week and report them all the time.

[mallika255]

I Got same message but i only respond Sorry.

[timelyservices]

Everyone need to be careful, thanks for the info.

[zeus777]

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 😛

[cloudmyground]

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