Even Interpol is sending me spam
by subacati
As regular readers already know, I like to publish the spam fraud that I receive.
I do this in the hope that it will prevent some people from becoming victims, but also for the laugh value. :left: …
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INTERPOL SPECIAL INVESTIGATION AGENT.
MR. ANTHONY D. LOEHNIS & ASSOCIATE ADDRESS: Marsha Street 2. SW1P 4DF. London. United
Kingdom
:
info.##################@london.com
Attention: Beneficiary,
I am officially sending you this e-mail in order for you to be aware of the good news of
your funds, before I proceed, I will like you to keep away this message from any other
person around you, because we have decided to conclude this issue with you alone. JANUARY
30th 2011 a meeting was held with the General Director of the Interpol and some other top
officials in the United Kingdom concerning the online internet scam in conclusion; I was
assigned by the Interpol to fly down to South Africa for special investigation concerning
the delay of your payment. After some investigations, I noticed that your funds are still
in the Federal Suspense Account" of Reserve Bank. Meanwhile those people that you have
been dealing with are not from the right office, they are only using you to make money
for their own benefit (you must have realized that you have been paying for different
documents without any result till now.
You need to understand that my coming down to South Africa is because of your matter, and
I have to accomplish the transfer before returning to United Kingdom, I am the only
person officially and legally assigned to process and release your funds. At this point
in time I only need your full corporation and you have to seize every communication with
any other person or persons (be it bank or any other organization what so ever) different
from me to avoid being misled. Do not allow anyone to deceive you any more, at list you
have seen that your time and resources has been wasted all these while. So, stop
communicating with the wrong people. I have taken your funds documents to the Reserve
Bank for confirmation and they have been working on the release of your funds, the amount
of US$ 800,000.00 only has to be released this year and the balance will be released to
you by next year (2013). Meanwhile, I will need your information as stated below so that
I can know how to update you as soon as everything has been settled.
Full Name:
Address:
Tel:
The total amount in question:
Occupation:
Upon the receipt of this information, I will email you or call you and give you code on
how to communicate with me and I will always keep you updated concerning the progress of
the transfer of your fund once again you are advised to seize all communication with any
other office or person to avoid being misled, and whenever you receive any message from
anyone, kindly forward it to me so that I can make a proper investigation on it. Failure
to follow my instructions you are bound to regret everything so wake up now!
Yours Faithfully
Mr. Benson D. Stanfield
Interpol Special Investigation Agent.
Contact E-mail:
######################@london.com or ###################@yahoo.co.uk
🙄
This shows just how opportunistic these scam artists really are! I have never been taken by any off these email scams and have no dealings with any previous fraudsters. This was sent out to me, and everyone else on their mailing list, in the hopes that;
a) We have been taken for a ride at some time in the past,
b) We are just starting to realise that we were taken,
c) That we would be stupid enough to assume that Interpol would just step in, save the day and still pay us our missing millions that we never earned in the first place! 🙄
😆 😆 :lol:Thanks for the laugh, Aadil 😀
I got that same one – or similar – few times so far. One could think that Interpol (as well as FBI and CIA) has better things to do 😛
Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:
:p They are good comedians, aren't they?
I do find it hard to believe that *anyone* gets fooled by this twaddle – but I suppose it must pay off, otherwise the scammers would be doing something else instead…The address is interesting – UK has the numbers before the street name (and so I think does USA. I know Australia & NZ do). So if actually from anyone originating in UK (including the spam writer), I think it would say 2 Marsha Street. Interestingly, that Post Code (SW1P 4DF) is probably The Home Office, in Westminster, central London (on Marsham Street) – UK postcodes pretty much identify the building, the actual address – and you can look it up on a map (as I did). That's a very cute touch.
Thanks for that interesting tidbit FlaRin! :hat:In South Africa, whether the number comes before or after the street name depends on language. In English it's before, whereas in Afrikaans it's after! :p
Yr. welcome 🙂 I wouldn't mind betting that this spam, while possibly originating from UK, is generated on behalf of a centralnortherneastern european outfit, possiblyprobably based in UK. And at the bottom of London.com's 'about us' page (it's a tourist-guide website), are the following words :Originally posted by london.com:
\edit : also, if you google the name 'ANTHONY D. LOEHNIS & ASSOCIATE', you'll see that name appears in quite a number of other reported online scams.\extra edit : A little further investigation shows that name links to a certain 'Alpha bank', which, when you look for it, redirects to a Romanian website. Once I've switched on my virtual C: drive, I might see where this takes me. :up:
OMG! That mail really is funny. Really unbelievable. But many women in my country lost hundreds thousands of money believing in 'love mails scams' from men whom they just believe to be what they are! The police mainly traces them to Nigeria. :-S
Yes, this type of thing is way too common and some people do fall for it. 😦
another one I won't falling for. :p
Have you ever thought these scam messages can be just scam, and send to you just for fun because you then share them online for fun :DWriting funny spam messages could become an art form :sherlock:
Originally posted by serola:
Now that's an interesting thought! :lol:@FlaRin, The cartoonist forgot my beard! :whistle::p
😆 – yes, and I thought about spamming this post with scientist jokes…
Originally posted by FlaRin:
So, that is how you make scientist mad 😆
Mad vs Annoyed – which one is ours? 🙂
Well, then it must be annoying not to have as fun as in movies 😀 Although, in real life the strange looking equipments are fully functional.
Much less bubble and squeak! :p
Hahahahahah! I feel so much more better now that I can see the comic strips! I'm on mobile most of the times!
Originally posted by Zulia:
Yes, that does make it a bit more challenging! One reason I had to get a computer! :p
😆 😆 😆 … thanks Aadil – very funny and highly topical! :yes:I posted on the Nigerian scams a few months back but didn't have the idea to make it funny! Love the all cartoons here in the post and comments 😆 .. and here's what I found in my search: .:D
:lol:Originally posted by lokutus-prime:
I find that these guys have a knack of making it funny all by themselves! :p
😆 … as demo'd in the hilarious example you've shown us! :p
😆
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Cute photo! 😆
That Tina Yak, man – she's a babe!! 🙂
I think I pulled Tina Yak in a pub once. Not my finest moment! :irked:
I wasn't…at least, I don't think that I was.
Drinking this, were you?…. 🙂
Originally posted by harrytheman:
That depends of how many Fat Yak's you had before… or during :whistle:
:p
sexyyyyyy!!!!!! :drools: