Funniest phishing scam

[parkerman]

Like all of us I have received a number of phishing scams over the last few years. Mostly they are very boring telling me about inappropriate activity on bank accounts I don't have and that if I give my name, address, account no., pin number, security code number, inside leg measurement etc. it can all be sorted out.

However, today I received one which I think is possibly the funniest I have ever received. It purports to be from David Cameron and tells me that I have just had a £2,000,000 inheritance payment deposited in an ATM account and if I send off all the usual information to William Hague at the Foreign Office I will receive a card which will allow me to get at it. However, I have been warned not to contact anyone in the Government to see if the email is genuine because if I do I will not receive my payment. What the Foreign Office has to do with inheritance is not really explained.

Do these people honestly believe that anyone will fall for this nonsense?

[alan45]

The sad thing is that there are some gullible people out there who will fall for this nonsense. If they send out 100000 emails and less than half a percent respond they stand to make huge money

[parkerman]

I had another great email today from "McDonalds". It asked me if I would like to take part in a customer survey. There were five superficial questions, including one which asked which drink did I prefer at McDonald's Coke, Pepsi, Fanta or Coffee. Considering they don't sell Pepsi at McDonald's that would be a bit difficult to say that was my favourite. Anyway after the five questions, I then had to fill in my name, address and....... full bank details (just for verification of course....)

[Abigail]

I think it's about time I resent my begging email. I've moved country now and I'm in need of some gullible people to fund my lifestyle. Hmm do you think if I said I have terminal cancer and a dozen kids to feed that I'd get some sympathy? Or maybe it could be that my only child who worked in the paddy fields got eaten by an alligator and I need some money to pay a guy to shoot the gator and get my child's body back so I can bury it.

[Chloe O'brien]

How much did you get after the last begging letter was sent Abigail.

[Abigail]

How much did you get after the last begging letter was sent Abigail.

Erm... not a lot really... Somebody scuppered my sca*cough* plea by posting a thread on a message board.

[alan45]

Erm... not a lot really... Somebody scuppered my sca*cough* plea by posting a thread on a message board.

Dont worry Abigail I have a very good friend who is the Investment Manager in the Central Bank of Benin. He has $12, 000000 (twelve million dollars) sitting there. All you need to do is forward your bank details, your passport number and a recent photo and he will arrange to have the money in your account o Blessed One.

[Abigail]

Dont worry Abigail I have a very good friend who is the Investment Manager in the Central Bank of Benin. He has $12, 000000 (twelve million dollars) sitting there. All you need to do is forward your bank details, your passport number and a recent photo and he will arrange to have the money in your account o Blessed One.

12million dollars is an awful lot of money. I'm going to fish my passport out and get right on this. The things I could do with that much money.

[parkerman]

I've just received this email...it's got to be the best yet:

"Greeting

I am Safia Farkash Gaddafi, Second wife of late Muammar Gaddafi. I have been a slave and brutally abused in my late husband's house and family ever since i married him and i have been looking for a way out of the marriage I thank Allah that i am presently in Algeria now with my daughter Aisha and son and even as the news of his death on 20th of October 2011 came to us. I and my children feel the shock of his death and son late Mustassim Gaddafi but at the sometime we are grateful to Allah that we finally have our freedom from his hands and his loyalist because people of Libya is now free from a horror rule of 42yrs of government.


This is the best opportunity for me to run out of the hell marriage i got involved to live a better and free life. I succeeded in moving out $12.5 Million from my late husband's underground safe which he accumulated from crude oil etc ,and the money was move to a bank fiduciary vault escrow in Europe, due to the fact the UN, USA, EUROPEAN COMMITTEE have put sanction on late Muammar Gaddafi and his family it is not wise for me to use my name as the depositor of the fund in the bank, so i decided to look for someone else not related to me or loyal to late Muammar Gaddafi as the depositor of the fund, that is why i am soliciting for your partnership to complete this transaction.

I am willing to give you 40% of the sum for securing the fund. I will meet you where ever you want me to meet you as soon as you receive the fund for my 60% share so that i can start a new and happy life.

The late Muammar Gaddafi life have come to end and he paid with his life and son the crimes he committed against humanity and i know that people of Libya under NTC will conduct election for the first time since 42yrs now that the enemy is dead. I will send you further information concerning the fund deposit as soon as i hear from you.

Please, if you are not interested do not disclose my intention so that it will not get to my late husband, relatives or loyalist as they will burn me alive with my entire family.

As soon as this transaction is completed i will leave Algeria to meet you where ever you want me to come. This transaction is 100% safe on your side. I need your help urgently because we do not have time to delay this.

If you are interested do get back to me for further information on my private email ([email protected]).

I wait to hear from you

Sincerely
Safia Farkash Gaddafi"

[alan45]

You would think that she would at least be able to spell her beloved husband's name correctly