The spam-scammers aren't even TRYING any more.

11 July 2008 — dan

From: Sharon Williams <sharon_williams29@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:56:31 -0700 (PDT)
To: dan@dansdata.com
Subject: LCDs Purchase

Hello Sales,

I hold LCDS Store,So I will like to purchasing your Items Product,which is:

LCDS........................................5Pieces

So kindly e-mail me back with the Total Cost and plus the Shipping Cost together to London,E16 4SP ,So as to have you paid with my Credit Card# for you to charge for the Order from you there on your behalf.
Hope to hear from you back today.
Thank you..

Regard,

Oh, you'd like five LCDs, would you? Any preference? Five seven-segment calculator displays, five thirty-inch Dells... all the same to you, eh?

Every day for these scammers must be a new adventure. They've literally got no idea at all what might be turning up from the sort of ultra-gullible schmuck that'd fall for their "orders".

The last shreds of my faith in humanity depend on nobody at all falling for this one, though.

Despite the mention of a London address, I think this is probably yet another Nigerian, or perhaps Romanian, scammer. They get a sucker at the stated address to send everything on to them, then the sucker ends up carrying the can when the goods vanish into Africa or wherever and no money comes back.

I don't think any actual forwarding company will fall for this any more (this piece is almost six years old), but there's still a pretty good supply of individual suckers who'll believe what a brother in Christ has to say.

Posted in Scams, Spam, Strange Tales. 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “The spam-scammers aren't even TRYING any more.”

  1. phrantic Says:
    11 July 2008 at 5:32 pm

    The english was so bad, I had to read that several times before I understood what it was saying.

    I know you can send these types of emails out to virtually limitless people, but virtually limitless is still practically limited.

    Just how many spams like this would a spammer have to send out to people before the chances of even one person being interested approached 1?

  3. Daniel Rutter Says:
    5 August 2008 at 3:40 am

    A new one, just today:

    From: Christe Raoma
    Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:22:59 -0700 (PDT)
    To: dan@dansdata.com
    Subject: USD3M FRAUD VICTIM COMPENSATION APPROVAL IN YOUR FAVOUR

    I have a new email address!You can now email me at: mrsrchriste@yahoo.com

    - I HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AS OFFICER ON COMPENSATION OF FRAUD VICTIMS.YOU ARE AMONG THE APPROVED FRAUD VICTIMS.YOU ARE ONLY A VICTIM. THANK YOU. DR.CHRISTE RAOMA

    I knew I felt funny today. Now I know that it was because I'm an APPROVED FRAUD VICTIM.

  4. Daniel Rutter Says:
    9 August 2008 at 2:36 am

    And another fine example:

    From: "Larry captains" <larrycaptains@gmail.com>
    Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:43:22 +0000
    To: 10666@13337-6-6-202t1.8v
    Subject: LCD MONITORS

    Dear One
    How is business? I hope by Gods grace business is moving on smoothly. First
    of all let me introduce my self to, my Name is Larry captains from Richmond
    Michigan in The United States and my main reason for contacting you that I
    would like to order some LCD Monitors to purchase but before we proceed I
    would like you give me an answers to the below listed questions:
    1. Can you assist me with these orders?
    2. How much will 10 units of your LCD Monitors cost me
    3. Do you accept credit card as payment?
    4. How do you ship your orders?
    5. How much will it cost me to ship to a Mining company in Accra-Ghana?
    Kindly gets back to me as soon as possible so that we can proceed with the
    orders.
    Thank you.
    Larry captains

    Larry lower-case-c-captains of-Richmond-Michigan-but-currently-residing-in-Ghana would appear to require LCD monitors, not any other sort of LCD. But apart from that, he's easy. Eight-inch passive-matrix 640-by-480 screens are OK with him. He just needs ten of 'em.

    It's also good to know that fellows from Richmond, Michigan are now secure enough in their masculinity that they're happy to address other men as "Dear One".

    I loved that "To:" line, as well.


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