What I reprint below is, of course, a Spanish Prisoner scam (a.k.a. the 419 scheme or the Advance Fee Fraud scheme) about which there have been numerous Internet alerts and even television programs exposing it. And yet the emails keep coming… And that means that they still work on some poor fools.
“The Russian Foundation for basic research would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business development.
Kindly note that you will only be chosen to receive the donation once, which means that subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again. Take time and thought in spending the donation wisely on something will last you a long time. Recipients are only eligible to be awarded this donation once. You are required to contact the Executive Secretary below, for qualification document you will be given your donation pin number,which you will use in collecting the funds.
Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (N-222-6647, E-910-56) in all discussions. You are required to assist in the documentation of your donation by filling the requested information stated in the form below.
DONATION DOCUMENTATION FORM.
Kindly provide all required information.
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
STATE:
COUNTRY:
TEL:
FAX:
AGE/DATE OF BIRTH:
SEX:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
IN A BRIEF EXPLANATION, HOW DO YOU INTEND TO USE YOUR DONATION FUNDS IN IMPROVING YOUR STANDARD OF LIVING.
Executive Sec. Barr.Brian Millavic
Email: barr.brian.milliavic2@live.com
brian_milliavic_rfbr02@yahoo.com.hk
Regards.
Mr.Vikki Malcom
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This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/”
Note the obviously fraudulent email addresses. Even if, for some reason or other, some mad fool or organization did want to distribute funds for some purpose or other, they really wouldn’t have Yahoo! or Microsoft Live email addresses and it wouldn’t be arriving via a mass mailer.
But the stream of scam emails never seems to stop. This one caught my attention simply because it wasn’t some Middle Eastern bigwig with money trapped in some bank somewhere (See Banks Need CRM!) and neither was it a notification of my winning a lottery that I never bought a ticket for (I seem to have every lottery in Europe chasing me to give me money).
It was more ridiculous still. A Russian Organization wants to give me money just to find out how I’d spend it. Oh what a worthy topic of research.
What would I do? Devote it all to putting an end to scam emails, perhaps.
