Scam E-mail I gotten Today

[MA-Caver]

Gotten this in the e-mail and deleted it after copying the text. Like yeah okay shure I'll OPEN an attachment from someone living in Cambodia who I have no fricken idea who they are!
Sheesh!
What is sad that there will be idjits out there who WILL open it!
The "I caught a computer virus" saga continues.
I didn't even bother to scan it for viruses because I wasn't going to be bothered by it. Maybe it did maybe it didn't... I'll never know because I ain't THAT stupid.

From: Miss. Miriam Yak.
Email: [email protected]

Greetings,

I will want you to kindly open the attached file to read the message content which I sent to you. I want to assure you that the letter have nothing to do with sending you email virus but it is a letter I will want you to read and upon your reply I will send you more detailed information as regards the letter.

Thanks and God bless you.

Miss. Miriam Yak; writing from Cambodia.

 

[Tez3]

But you could have thrown away the opportunity to be given a huge amount of money!!

 

[MA-Caver]

But you could have thrown away the opportunity to be given a huge amount of money!!

Oh... DANG IT! Oh well, next scam letter I'll check it out. :uhyeah:


NOT!

:wink2:

 

[Tez3]

Oh... DANG IT! Oh well, next scam letter I'll check it out. :uhyeah:


NOT!

:wink2:

Is there anyone you think that actually does answer those emails and really thinks they will get money?
I got an email from the 'Bank of America' saying they been having problems with my account and would I confirm all my details please including the passwords and pin numbers. It actually looked quite official, except obviously I'm not a customer. I don't even know how to become one!

 

[jim777]

Well, in case tyou were curious as to what was in the attachment, here it is:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zxaGAz5sr...1BjkRL95lg/s1600-h/Miss+Miriam+Yak-703024.JPG

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Is there anyone you think that actually does answer those emails and really thinks they will get money?
I got an email from the 'Bank of America' saying they been having problems with my account and would I confirm all my details please including the passwords and pin numbers. It actually looked quite official, except obviously I'm not a customer. I don't even know how to become one!

Yes, people do. The response rate is very low - something on the order of one tenth of one percent. But if the spammer/scammer sends out millions of emails, they are guaranteed a couple of good hits.

Why are people so stupid? That is the real question.

 

[Andrew Green]

Is there anyone you think that actually does answer those emails and really thinks they will get money?
I got an email from the 'Bank of America' saying they been having problems with my account and would I confirm all my details please including the passwords and pin numbers. It actually looked quite official, except obviously I'm not a customer. I don't even know how to become one!

Well, the unfortunate thing is it costs very little to do. You just put on a black hat and get a zombie net, you can send out millions of emails as easy as you can send out a single one. Email scams are largely automated and use resources that don't belong to the scammer.

If the sucker rate is 1 in 10,000,000 you can still make money.

A good scam will likely have a higher return then that, I imagein the paypal ones did fairly well when they first started.

 

[Ken Morgan]

But Miss Yak(?!! Short, fat lady with long stringy hair. sure you don't know her?) is so polite and religious, ("Thanks and God bless you."), she must be ok!