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Geek Culture / HAHAHA gotta love spam emails

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Eric T
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2003 08:37
heres a good one i just got.

Quote: "BANK OF AFRICA
ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE.
TEL: 225-07 60 29 61
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Rev. Dr. Kenneth Spiff a Senior Manager at Bank Of Africa here in
Cote
D'Ivoire. Though we have not related in the past, I am compelled by the
important nature of the opportunity at hand to contact you so that we can
explore avenues for cooperation in this mutually rewarding project.
A very wealthy deceased customer of our bank, Mr. Talbot Camara - a Sierra
Leonean and one time minister for natural resources in that country left
some large amount of money in a special domiciliary account with our bank
since his death in 1998.
In his Will which has just been made available to us by his Lawyer and
family, he shared his other wealth located in some other bank accounts
judiciously among his family members and local welfare organizations, but
requested specifically that the money in this account with our bank be
allocated 100% to a foreign organization or individual trustee who will
utilize it strictly for charity.
In this Will also, he gave SOLE AUTHORITY for the nomination of this foreign
trustee to his personal Lawyer - Mr. DON CLARK and the Head of the
Domiciliary Account Department of my bank, which position I am occupying
at
the moment.
So, the choice of a foreigner for this project is in strict compliance
with
the WILL of the deceased account holder who believes that the fund will
be
better utilized by a foreign trustee since there will be no interference
or
manipulation by local authorities.
Due to the exigencies of Ivoirean legislation, there became the need to
acquire a Letter Of Administration from the Ivoirean Probate Registry to
give legal impetus to the execution of this Will in Cote D'Ivoire. For
this
reason, the execution of this WILL could not materialize until last month
when the Court in Cote D'Ivoire issued the final Letters Of Administration.
Having secured this Letter Of Administration from the court, the authority
for the appointment of an administrator for this fund now lies solely in
my
hands and that of the Attorney. Both of us (Myself and the Attorney) have
met several times over this issue and have agreed mutually among ourselves
to transact this inheritance in a way that will be beneficial to the foreign
trustee, GOD and us
In fact, we have decided to utilize only 50% of this fund for charity while
reserving the rest for ourselves. After deducting the overall cost (both
foreign and local) incurred in executing this project, whatever balance
left
from the outstanding 500% will be shared equally between myself, the
Attorney and the foreign partner who will assist us to receive this money
as
the appointed trustee.
Also, the foreign partner will receive in addition to his share, the 50%
earmarked for Charity under the STRICT AGREEMENT that this part MUST be
spent for Charity through him or his organization in compliance with the
wish of the late account holder.
My reason for contacting you therefore, is to solicit for your cooperation
in this project so that your name or that of your company can be used as
the
appointed foreign trustee to whose care this money will be transferred.
However, it may require that you shall be physically present here in
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire with my assistance to complete the necessary
procedures. There is absolutely no risk involved as we have the copy of
the
Will and Letters of Administration to back the transaction. But you must
also understand that a transaction of this nature and magnitude requires
absolute secrecy so that no one else hears about it especially, our mutual
agreement to utilize and disburse this fund as stated in the paragraph
above.
If you accept to offer your cooperation for this project, please reach
me
urgently through my email address or give me a call on the above stated
telephone number to enable me give you the full schedule of the transaction.
You should also provide me with your private telephone and fax numbers
for
intimate communication.
Best Regards,
Rev. Dr. Kenneth Spiff
Director, Domiciliary Dept.
BANK OF AFRICA"




hahahahahahahahah this is so funny... and it came from a yahoo.co.uk email address..lmfao not an african one...hahahaha how stupid are people these days.

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Posted: 23rd Sep 2003 12:12
The even more stupid ones involve time-travel...


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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2003 13:43
Rofl, I remember that TCA.


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IanM
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 01:32
I never did get paid for that time-travelling wristwatch

Quote: "how stupid are people these days"

Very! The only reason that spam like this still exists is because it's still fooling people - unfortunately.

Good news - countries are starting to outlaw spam (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm)
Bad news - countries are only just starting to outlaw spam

I don't think it'll all disappear in my lifetime
Easily Confused
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 06:59 Edited at: 24th Sep 2003 07:01
Spam maybe becoming outlawed, but it wont stop it. If they can't spam via E-mail then they will do it via the web itself, there are already whole websites dedicated into fooling the gullable into parting with their money. Sad, but true.

Some call it E-Bay hehe

Unfortunatly spam will remain with us for as long as the internet exists.

Time travel!? Oh come on! You gotta be kidding. And people actualy fell for that?

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Unless your name is Bob Ross, then you can do it in thirty minutes.
Shadow Robert
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 07:10
Spam is already outlawed here, people who are receiving such within the state of California need to forward the offending emails to a special address which tracks them down and does something.

that aside though gotta say generally i don't get junk/spam mail much, what pisses me off far far far more are telemarketers trying to sell you long-distance or double glazing...
i got one of those machines recently which goes online every week or something and downloads a list of numbers and when it detects them calling diverts them or something. Might even just hang up on them - i dunno, just know i've not had any annoying calls like that since.

Now if only i can find out howto stop getting "pre-approved" credit card notices or charity letters, i'll be laughin'

Grim_Reaper
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 11:03
lol telemarketers are fun to mess with.

Telemarketer - "Mr. Frensley I'm calling from blah blah blah and i was wondering if i could interest you in some blah blah blah"

Me - "I'm sorry can you repeat that?"

Telemarketer - "I'm calling from blah blah blah and i was wondering if i could interest you in blah blah blah blah"

Me - "Oh I'm sorry, my TV was up to loud, can you repeat that?"

Telemarketer - *sigh* "I'm CALLING from blah blah BLAH and i was wondering if i could interest you in blah blah blah"

Me - "WOW! that sounds really neat! I would really like to own one of those!"

Telemarketer - *explains for an hour what the hell it is they are selling and why i "need" to have it*

Me - "That is just TOO cool! wait until I tell everyone about this exciting new product!"

Telemarketer - "Well its been a pleasure talking with you Mr. Frensley, so I assume I can expect you to be a customer with us?"

Me - "Nope "

*click*


hehehe

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Preston C
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 14:23
lol


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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 16:19
Why not have an unlisted phone number (like moi) ?


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 18:39
there is a gov web site (USA) to put your number on so you can fine telemarks when they call. something like www.donotcall.gov or something similar - check google

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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 20:43
And for those wondering, I'm XD - so you wont find me in the phone book


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Preston C
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Posted: 24th Sep 2003 23:59
I got an unlisted phone number, but they still manage to find me


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Posted: 25th Sep 2003 00:48
You poor thing


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