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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster
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Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-30-2004 02:59 PM
Today when I got home I checked my e-mail and found this one. So I could pose as this dead guys relative and be worth 6 million dollars overnight...... yea, right!
ATTN Mark Gulbrandsen , I am BARRISTER P.T.GEORGE at law. I am the personal Attorney to MR Robert Gulbrandsen a national of your country, who used to work with shell development company in Nigeria and as well a one time secret agent in transfering of money overseas for the Late head of state of Nigeria {Late Gen.SANI ABACHA}.Before his death On the 21st of April 1999 my client,his wife And their three childrenwere involved in a car accident along sagbama express road in which alloccupants of the motor died}. My client{ROBERT} deposited as family belongings in a CONSIGNMENT {ie jewelries} the sum of $10m in a Global Security and finance company here in Nigeria for himself, with the hope of transferring it to his country as soon as he is on leave.
Since his death I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Company where this huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, the Global Security company where the deceased had an account valued at about 10million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confisicated within the next ten official working days.since then I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 2years now I therefore seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at 10million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money. 40% to me and 60% to you I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protectyou from anybreach of the law.
Please get in touch with me through my confidential email[ barrgeorge0010@yahoo.co.uk ]or you can call me on my phone number +234-80- 330-48048 .
Best regards, BARRISTER P.T.GEORGE,
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-30-2004 10:09 PM
I realize most people get a laugh out of those Nigerian "419" e-mail scam notes, just a mass mailing international version of the "pigeon drop" con. But some of this stuff really pisses me off. A Nigerian diplomat was murdered in Europe by a victim of the scam. Lots of lonely, elderly people get taken by the scheme. Some lose their life savings over it. Yeah, call them idiots for being so gullible. But the criminals who took the money are the ones who deserve a sledgehammer blow to the face. Overall they conduct a pretty cruel piece of criminal work and deserve no mercy for it.
Once in awhile, I'll get a different variation on the note eluding my spam filters. I think the notes all come from Nigeria, even though many claim to come from representatives in other nations.
Here's the thing that pisses me off the most on this issue: why in the f**k aren't the Internet Service Providers filtering and deleting this garbage!? How about some Goddamned customer service!? John Dvorak wrote a pretty good article about this issue, and how it may possibly take advantage of those with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). We are getting absolutely nowhere in the war against computer malware as long as the policing is stuck on the end user level. If it were fought at the server level, much of the problem would be eradicated immediately.
This is actually one area where small "mom and pop shop" ISPs can be a LOT BETTER than the big conglomerates like SBC. When I had my dial up account with Sirius Systems, a local ISP based here in Lawton, I rarely ever had any malware at all make it to my e-mail box. The only thing I would ever see was a notice from the ISP that the malware note was deleted.
SBC does not do dick to police its e-mail. Nothing. Nada. Oh, once in awhile they'll throw a gimmie in there saying they tried to clean an infected message. Purely all for show. Total bullshit. All the other big ISPs are exactly the same. Lazy, and probably getting paid off by companies like Symantec, McAfee and others.
When SBC's mail servers are flooded with hundreds of thousands of copies of a 419 scam note, it should be deleted. Same goes for all the viruses that keep showing up. For Christ's sake, I'm still seeing that damned Microsoft Security Patch 155k thing showing up in the junk mail folder. Congratulations, SBC, you saw that the f**king note looked like spam and filtered it as such. Can you throw in some actual virus deletion too?
What excuse do large ISP companies like SBC have to conduct such a lax standard on e-mail security? Dvorak makes the point if you try to send something harmful through snail mail (such as dynamite for example) the U.S. Postal Service is not going to deliver it. Further they may arrest your ass. Why can't the big ISPs do the same? Is there a law preventing them from running massive anti-viral filtering/deletion on their servers? Is the multi-billion dollar anti virus software industry lobbying them to keep the problem going?
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