Friday, January 23, 2004
IT'S THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME! (annotated)
Here's the beginning of an email I received today:
>From: "MRS JEWWL TAYLOR"
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:31:08 +0100
>Subject: COMPLIMENTS
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6900 DM
>X-RCPT-TO:
>
>
>I Beg You In .
>
>With all sincerity and humility i am Jewel Taylor,the
>wife of the deposed President of Liberia, Fomer African colony of the United states Of America.
It's not a good con when there are obvious lies in the very first sentence of your scam. Liberia was never anyone's colony. But I guess they figure that anyone dumb enough to fall for this scam is not going to know what constitutes a "colony."
Here's the beginning of an email I received today:
>From: "MRS JEWWL TAYLOR"
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:31:08 +0100
>Subject: COMPLIMENTS
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6900 DM
>X-RCPT-TO:
>
>
>I Beg You In .
>
>With all sincerity and humility i am Jewel Taylor,the
>wife of the deposed President of Liberia, Fomer African colony of the United states Of America.
It's not a good con when there are obvious lies in the very first sentence of your scam. Liberia was never anyone's colony. But I guess they figure that anyone dumb enough to fall for this scam is not going to know what constitutes a "colony."
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