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[greek.god]

Hi,

Take a look below at an email I received. After the email is my response.

Good Day!

My name is Linda Johnson, I am with the US Army and I am serving in the 1st Armoured Division in Iraq. Me and my partner discovered and moved funds belonging to Saddam Hussein.

The total is $25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five million US dollars) this money is being kept safe. Click on this link to read about events that took place here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Basically since we are working for the American government we cannot keep these funds so we want to transfer the funds to you, so that you can keep it for us in your safe account until after our service.

We will divide the total fund this way, 80% for me and my partner while 15% will be for you and the other 5% will be set aside for any expenses that might be incurred.

This business is should be kept confidential due to the nature of our work and present status.
If you are interested send me an e-mail signifying your interest including your private telephone/fax numbers for quick communication.

Anticipating your immediate response.

Sincerely
Ms Linda Johnson & Private Alex Ramon

Dear Son and Daughter of a Pigs Whore,

Go back to war torn Nigeria where you belong you decrepit low life con man/woman. The 1st Armored division left Iraq in 2003. If you're gonna run a scam at least get the facts straight you fuck... idiot.

Kind Regards,

A local cop who has just sent your IP address to Interpol

[devil]

You should never reply to or bounce scam. Now they know you read it and you will be placed on top priority.

[Cyprus4MeSoon]

You should never reply to or bounce scam. Now they know you read it and you will be placed on top priority.

Thanks for that info Devil. I have never replied to them, but must admit I have bounced them, I thought this was showing them that the email address did not exist

I will just delete them in future.

[paul]

if it sounds to good to be true IT ALWAYS IS....

[Hazza]

Next time Greek.God, reply to them, tell them your name is "Malaka" and when they ask for your phone number, give them the phone number to the local police station

[DANGAMAN]

Give em Cyprus-grump's details

That will make him happy

Sorry mate.

[cyprusgrump]

Give em Cyprus-grump's details

That will make him happy

Sorry mate.

[greek.god]

Thanks for the heads up..never had a problem replying. Good anti-virus and spyware and have masked my IP.

[MariaEvri]

hehe neat respond there. I remember this old website, where people were replying to spammers and basically were.. spamming the spammers! It was really interesting (and fun) to read Ill see if i can find it

[Crivens]

if it sounds to good to be true IT ALWAYS IS....

Even easier than that. Just absolutely ignore and junk anything that doesn't come from anyone you know. And even then ignore what they link to. But then all this crap gets an audience with a lot of older people. I have worked in IT for years and even with massive warnings to my dad he still manages to fall for a couple of these things. "But they didn't want my bank details! First just a phone call to the Spanish lottery to check on our winning ticket. So I phoned. After all it was a million Euros!" was the last one. Sigh. You haven't been to Spain in 5 years, you've never played any lottery ever, and first time I've heard that a ticket bought at a store knows your contact details. Only a 20 minute phone call wasted to Spain then. Sigh...

Best thing I ever saw was that Lycos screensaver that kept accessing reported dodgy websites. When there are millions of peoples using it then it essentially kills those websites Annoying politically correct type people brought that one down. Just need something similar, especially for sending millions of emails to spam monkeys like this one.

I remember reading years ago how ISPs were going to start charging per email you send. The idea was that each email costs like 0.01p or somesuch, and if you sent less than like 10p's worth every month then they wouldn't charge you. But because a lot of these places send out millions of emails in the hope of getting a hit then it would start to cost them. Nice idea.

We get massive junk filtering checks at work (about 2000 people work with our company all connected to the same email system) and apparently in one month they filter out somewhere in the region of 25 million email a month. Just goes to show how much of a problem it is these days.

Cheers