So I get in from work tonight and discover this email, looks like I won't be needing my Euro millions ticket for tonight after all, wonder if I can get a refund. Let the spending commence!! Greetings! Dear: Do accept my apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics, I want to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you. My name is Aishwarya devan (Esq.), a personal attorney to my late client. I wish to know if we can work together. I would like you to stand as the next of kin to my late client who has an account valued 6.5million United States dollars with a bank. He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate. The board of directors of his Bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money or forfeit the money to the Bank as an abandoned property. Fortunately, both of you have the same last name, therefore it will be very easy to make you become his official next of kin. If you are interested, do let me know so that I can give you comprehensive details on what we are to do via/ [email protected] I urgently hope to get your response as soon as possible Yours sincerely, Aishwarya devan(Esq.) Anyway, I'm off to contact my new friend and personal accountant Aishwarya, I'll check back in a couple of days to see if we've signed Defoe and the elusive Nzogbia, as for now me and the lads are going to get trollyed. Let the good times roll!
You did better than me mate, i got this today.... New York State — Department of Motor Vehicles UNIFORM TRAFFIC TICKET POLICE AGENCY NEW YORK STATE POLICE Local Police Code THE PERSON DESCRIBED ABOVE IS CHARGED AS FOLLOWS Time 7:25 AM Date of Offense 07/02/2011 IN VIOLATION OF NYS V AND T LAW Description of Violation SPEED OVER 55 ZONE TO PLEAD, PRINT OUT THE ENCLOSED TICKET AND SEND IT TO TOWN COURT, CHATAM HALL., PO BOX 117 Surely the worst phishing scam ever?
Do people actually fall for this ****? .... Well actually, I guess some must or they wouldn't bother. Is New York nice then BB? Always fancied going there but haven't got round to it!
Well' i've been to New York twice, but in February i was in Antigua. Summat tells me that there wouldn't be about 300 people cc'd into the email if it was kosher, haha. That was a bigger giveaway than the fact i ain't been to New York since 2006! *** Edit - 'The person described above is charged with' Is that my email address they are charging, or one of the 300 odd random names in the cc? Is my first name and a random selection of numbers @sky.com chargeable? Ha ha.
I had one on Monday telling me that there had been three failed attempts to access my on line bank account at Lloyds Bank and that for security reasons I had to follow the link and log in correctly to reaqctivate my account. I dont have a Lloyds Bank account!!!!! They had cut and pasted official looking bank headers etc so I can see how some people could fall for it if they did have an account with the bank
Hah, aye I got the same one mate and I don't have a Lloyds account either. Couple of days later I got a Santander one (who I do have an account for), guess they just spam the same people with all banks until eventually they find some nugget that falls for it.
The key is to simply look at the email address it was sent from, they are usually some random name. The spelling and grammar is usually woeful as well, i get Natwest ones without a capital W!
