I never tire of receiving spam emails

[Calum]

just got this one:  

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 02:30:32 -1700
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Norton AntiVirus 2003
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Dear sir.
You are incredibly stupid if you think i need antivirus protection.
I use linux. If you could read, you would be able to SEE that from my email address. linux does not require antivirus protection except for to stop it from transferring windows viruses to moronic windows using computers.

Why are you forwarding me this rubbish anyway? I do not even know you. Kindly stop wasting my time and yours with this stupid attempt to sell me software which is entirely redundant and useless when faced with any decent operating system.
Best wishes,
Calum Carlyle

[ January 09, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]

[Kintaro]

I got an email telling me to my McAffe or whatever and i went to there site and told them i will never buy one of there products because they use Spam.

[Calum]

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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:16:25 -0500

Dear Sir/madam.

Request for urgent business relationship.

   First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is
by its nature as been utterly confidential and classified. I got your
email address from an internet listing.as i will immediately put your
mind to rest in that regard. I therefore apologise for infringing on
your privacy.

  We are top officials of  the federal government contract review
panel, and due to our very membership of this panel, we are privy to
the information I am about to resume to you in trust and confidence
as obtains in the urgent business relationship we solicit for. We
crave your indulgence for total confidentiality.

  We are instrested in the importation of goods into our country with
funds which are presently trapped in this same country, Nigeria. In
order to commence this business, we solicit your assistance in the
area of FREEING the said trapped funds and utimately your RECEIPT and
CUSTODIAN of this funds abroad.

  Explicitly, the source of this funds is as follows: During the
regime of our late head of state, Gen.Sani Abacha, the then
government officials set up private companies and lobbied the award
of contracts to  their companies, these contract were grossly
over-invoiced in various ministries. Fortunately, NEW CIVILIAN
government set up a contract review panel (C.R.P) where we hold
exalted designations and we have successfully identified several
inflated contract funds, which are presently floating in the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

  We desire to release a particular contract fund from the very
several, but due to our position as civil servants and member of this
contract review panel, we can not aquire this fund in our names and
without a much needed foreign assistance. I have therefore been
deligated as a matter of trust by my colleagues to source for an
overseas partner INTO whose ACCOUNT the sum of US
$31,000,000.00(thirty one million United States Dollars) being the
contract funds of their particular WILL BE PAID BY TELEGRAPHIC
TRANSFER,hence this written request.

 We propose a sharing ratio upon the success of this transaction as
thus:

* 70 per cent for us ( the officials)

*20 per cent for the foreign partner (you)

*10 per cent to be used in settling taxation and local and foreign
expenses incurred by all parties involved during the course of this
transaction.

  Please note that this transaction is 100 per cent safe and we hope
That The Funds Can Arrive Your Account within ten (10) banking days
from the date of our receipt of your following details: A suitable
name and a corresponding bank account into which the funds can be
paid.

  The above information will enable us to write letter of claim and
job description respectively. This way, we will use your company's
name (or as applicable) to prepare the necessary documentary
foundation and apply for payments and re-award to the contract in
your company's name.

  We are looking forward to doing business with you and solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction.

Please acknowledge receipt of this important letter by replying
soonest, so that i can bring you into our complete picture of this
pending project as soon as possible.
use this email address to [email protected]


Yours faithfully,

Dr. Philips Denies.

 

 

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you know what? this is about the twelfth or fifteenth email i have got from people who are from nigeria and who have a shitload of money! i think somebody should look into where all the nigerians are getting all this dough from!

Please feel free to spam the emails of these spamtastic arseholes by the way...

[Refalm]

They looked realistic when I got my first, but when I got one a day, I really began to wonder  

[Fett101]

No wonder they're broke.

[Calum]

yeah, that's the thing. if all these people all had the money the way they say they have, since they all seem to have come by it in immoral ways of legal questionability, then it pisses me off a lot since they are ripping off their countrypersons!

i think some of the people really do have a shitload of money but they are using the foreigner as the fall guy, and they will end up keeping the money and perhaps suing the foreigner when they turn him/her in or variations on that theme.

pretty sick and i agree it's no wonder their actual country is broke if all the rich ones are creaming it off the top.

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]