I’m gonna be rich. So I’m looking for a tropical island that I can live on just like Richard Branson…here’s how I am going to be so damn rich so that I can say to all of you “screw you all! muhahahahaha”
From The Desk Of, Mr James Owusu.
The Regional Manager
Ghana International Commercial
Bank,Accra Branch Ghana.
West Africa.Dear Friend,
My name is Mr James Owusu . I am the Regional Manager of Ghana International Commercial Bank, Accra branch Ghana. I write you this proposal in good faith; I am married with two lovely children.
I am a man of peace, and have sincere respect for human feelings and opinions. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I as the Regional Manager of Ghana International Commercial Bank , Accra branch Ghana it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city, Accra at the end of each business year.
On the course of last two years , 2006 business report, I discovered that the branch in which I am the Manager made 9.3million United States Dollars ($9,300,000.00) which my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call Escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as commission.
There are practically no risks involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, it will be simply a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account under few working days.
If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you are the first and the only person I am contacting for this transaction send me an email as soon as you receive this message ,so that we can go over the details.
Thank you in advance and may God bless you and your family.
Sincerely,
Mr James Owusu.
err…where the feck is all my money now? My account’ve been cleaned out! And I see I’m subscribed to about 2,000 porn sites as well on top. Bah humbug…
Seriously though - most people would see the email above and think - surely no-one is daft enough to fall for it? But sadly yes there are always a sucker born every minute. Billions of spam is sent out - less than 0.01% probably responds to it - but those 0.01% = money and so keep the spam going - sending a billion spam email cost little and yes they actually make money off it.
I’ve got a decent spam filter where I don’t even get any spams delievered to me - however nothing’s perfect so sometime one or two get past. I then use the email client’s inbuilt spam filter to finish off the rest - for this I use Evolution or Thunderbird. And never every allow your email client to download images in emails - some of these that appear in spams is used to verifiy your email address.
Finally - whenever using any online services - there are two ways you could do this: IF it’s just a temporary thing - one off access - then never use any real email addresses - first of all use BugMeNot to see if there’s a username/password you can use. If there’s nothing then use a “throwaway” email address - this is a temporary email address that is just created to get emails but does nothing more - Mailinator is excellent for this - you just make up an email address ie - idontwanttobespammed@mailinator.com and then go to Mailinator and type in the username part (idontwanttobespammed) and you get immediate access to the inbox of that account and see what’s there. Nothing more to be done really.
And now we end with the honorary Monty Python spam song…
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