Do People Actually Fall For This?

[vincegamer]

This is totally un-mini related, but you all are my extended circle of friends and I like to gab.

I got this email and I just couldn\'t believe people actually fall for this stuff:

From :The Desk Of :
Barrister Terry Millard.
Bredfort lane Kingston Ave.
London.


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Barrister Terry Millard a Barrister and Solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to MY CLIENT, a nationality of your country, who used to work with the Oil Development Company in LONDON.
On the 21st of JUNE 2005, my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a bomb blast accident in london city. You can Read more about it from this site [omitted - blog site, not a news site]
All occupants of the bomb blast unfortunately lost there lives. Since i help in most of his transactions, his bank officials know me very well and has requested i notify any of his relatives and this has proved abortive and unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in recovering the family treasure that was left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this consignment was deposited as family tresure. The said Security Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confisicated within 2months from the day of the blast.
I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last name with my clients. untill I receive the receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer. I have the death certificate to back you up. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this claiming of this family treasure through.I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me.
Private email Address: [omitted yahoo address]
Best regard,
Barrister Terry Millard

I\'m not a graduate of the English legal system, but I\'m pretty sure spelling is required.
*what is a \"nationality of your country\"?
*which was it? LONDON or london city?
*how does one \"occupy\" a bomb blast?
*I didn\'t know my last name was CLIENT
- also, my last name is no way connected to my email.
*Do British firms class deposits as \"family treasure\"?
*how is treasure \"unservicable\"?

This whole thing was clearly written by someone who doesn\'t know English and was put through an internet translator.
Do people actually fall for this stuff?

 

[Wolf Fang]

i think some 1 else here on CMON got a email like that before 2

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

I have a friend in Banking.. hes told me that 1-2 times a week he has to sit people down and tell them that this sort of thing is a scam.

Yes people do fall for these sorts of things daily. especially those new to the internet and older people.

 

[Drake Farstrider]

It is really sad that people fall for this crap.

 

[Ratcals]

I like to have fun with these idiots by stringing them along for a few days making them believe I\'m actually stupid enough to think I\'m going to get money.

 

[Einion]

Apparently yes!

Originally posted by Ratcals
I like to have fun with these idiots by stringing them along for a few days making them believe I\'m actually stupid enough to think I\'m going to get money.

Done that meself with one of the Nigerian(?) bank schemes

Einion

 

[sebrushworth]

I got one of these scams in my e-mail today, pretending to be Ebay in order to get my ebay account number. The thing I got was a bit more cleverly done though, being sent from a false address pretending to be an ebay address, and linking to a private site while pretending to link to the ebay site. I can imagine people might fall for that if they\'re not careful to check up.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Originally posted by vincegamer
This is totally un-mini related, but you all are my extended circle of friends and I like to gab.

I got this email and I just couldn\'t believe people actually fall for this stuff...

...This whole thing was clearly written by someone who doesn\'t know English and was put through an internet translator.
Do people actually fall for this stuff?

Well, if you didn\'t like my wording of the document you only had to say! Look, here\'s the deal - give me one thousand of your US dollars and we\'ll call it quits Mr CLIENT.

 

[supervike]

Whats wrong with you people? Its the chance of a lifetime. These are your kin folk, and you should take part in their money.

Besides, that guy is a barrister. Which sounds like a fancy way of saying \'lawyer\', and we all know lawyers can\'t lie....There is some sort of hippopotumus oath they have.

Your gonna blow it!!

 

[Ratcals]

Originally posted by sebrushworth
I got one of these scams in my e-mail today, pretending to be Ebay in order to get my ebay account number. The thing I got was a bit more cleverly done though, being sent from a false address pretending to be an ebay address, and linking to a private site while pretending to link to the ebay site. I can imagine people might fall for that if they\'re not careful to check up.

I ALWAYS reply to those obvious scam emails. Funny how my username and password always contain strong profanity though.

 

[airhead]

Had one today... seems \"someone has been making unauthorized entry into your account\" so I had to enter my username & password to correct the problem.

Amazing thing, my username was \"bite me\" and my password was much worse. But it said thank you - still wouldn\'t let me go finish my banking at a bank I had no account at to start with.

 

[Nelson]

Hah!

I responded to that sooo long ago, so don\'t you suckers even think about trying to claim it. That ship has sailed.

On a side note, I seem to be positively burning through my bank account lately.

 

[laurence]

I want to be rich..

Where do I sign? And who do I send money to? The cheques in the mail.

>edit< Oh Nelson, you lucky devil you. If you have a girlfriend or a wife that would explain the over spending thing.

 

[supervike]

nelson reloaded??

Thats funny!lol

 

[mickc22]

Originally posted by Einion
Apparently yes!

Originally posted by Ratcals
I like to have fun with these idiots by stringing them along for a few days making them believe I\'m actually stupid enough to think I\'m going to get money.

Done that meself with one of the Nigerian(?) bank schemes

Einion

me too, he soon stopped emailing me when I said my \'fee\' for handling was £250 000

lollol

 

[tzor]

I get a lot of those. It saddens me whenever I see such emails. Oh the horror of horrid English. Oh the pain of pathetic plot lines. Oh the thought that some idiot would fall for that. It makes me want to DELETE IT ON FIRST SIGHT.

 

[Swordwind]

An even better scam is if you accedentally type goggle instead of google. A thing pops up saying you have spyware and you need to download this thing that automatically pops up to get rid of it...