Scam humour

13 03 2016

scam letterI don’t often get snail mail letters from South Africa and thinking it may be for my landlord who’s company is also called Emerald Seedlings I opened it to find out whom it was for (very unlikely to be personal). It wasn’t.

scam letter_0001Now I’m sure that most of you have received this sort of scam letter before, by email. I should think I get about one a month.  They are deleted, often without being read (NEVER reply to these by the way). I’m told they are of Nigerian origin, usually. That this one came from South Africa, where there are lots of Nigerians, was a first as was the method of sending. It follows a fairly standard formula; a deceased estate that the sender has authority over which in a fit of huge generosity he wants to get rid of for what seems like very minor personal gain and somehow evade a bank audit in the process. Quaint English too. But what really is a give away in this letter is the sentence that states “…60% shall be for me for personal investment purposes in your country…”. I mean seriously, someone wants to invest in Zimbabwe?

 

 


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13 03 2016
Lin Goncalves

This is a classic!!!!! OMG do any of these towel-heads think that any of us will fall for these scams????? These guys are USUALLY sitting in a dingy disgusting room where this is ALL they do, all day long! If the energy spent thinking up this cr* was put to use in doing something positive, helpful, HONEST, constructive….Africa would be a super-power!!!!

13 03 2016
gonexc

Somebody must be taken in otherwise they wouldn’t do it.

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