Hello.
We have for you special offer.
If you have CREDIT CARD - this offer for you.
We need people who are possibly receive wires into their credit cards.
As balanse transfer operation.
Work scheme is simple:
1) you provide us YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER and EXP date + ZIP CODE.
2) we make balanse transfer from our merchant account (amount up to 5000$ per day)
3) you go to bank to POS or ATM. and withdraw funds.
4) send to us 90% using westernunion system or moneygram transfers.
You take 5% clear for this work from amount.
All is LEGAL and have all documents.
If you intested please fill this form:
URLDELETED
(before filling install ICQ or YAHOO messenger)
We do not answer on emails reply.
This offer only for USA citizens.
Aleksandr Denisov.
Manager of Worldexchangeltd (Lider of online money exchange
in the world)
Moscow, Russia.
Thank you.
Hmm…looks awfully fishy to me. The World Exchange Ltd. checks out, but as for this Aleksandr Denisov, I couldn’t find him. Just looks like a scam to me. I wouldn’t give it a second thought.
P.S. I periodically get scams like that from various places in Africa, wanting big money transfers to the United States, but you have to send them money as well. You think they would get the hint after a television program told of the scam. I think it was on the National Geographic Channel.
Jerry, the dood is Lider of online money exchange! He do not answer on emails reply!
How can you not trust him with all your credit card details?
But seriously, it never ceases to astonish me that there are people in the world who a) actually believe other folks are stupid enough to fall for scummy scammy spam like that, and b) are actually stupid enough to fall for scummy scammy spam like that.
I typically get one or two a day of the Nigerian 411 or “please update your account” phish scam emails. I posted this because it was the most ridiculously obvious one I’ve gotten so far. “Have I got deal for you! Just give me all your credit card information and maybe I give you some money! (Don’t worry about the misspelling and bad English. We do that on purpose so you know we just regular peoples like you.)”
They are called 419 scams. The name is derived from section 419 of the Nigerian law code and it deals with advance fee fraud. it is possible that your email is from a Russian scamster, Jerry, but it is actually much more likely that the perpetrator is located in Nigeria or is a Nigerian working in another location. You would have to check the email tags - but even then - the lad might be using a sattelite internet service or a proxy based in another country. One way to stay off of the lads’ lists is to never sign internet guestbooks. The lads scour the net for guestbooks and spam the email addys they get from them with solicitations.
Even though this example seems like it is ridiculous, and it is, innocent people routinely fall for these modalities every day. They are bilked out of millions of dollars collectively every year. People have been tricked out of their life savings and even been killed by these scammers.
I seriously doubt there are that many people that would be stupid enough to believe anything about these lame attempts at a scam. And if they do, just consider it natural selection at work. Isn’t Nature wonderful?
Somewhere I heard or read that these scams are now statistically one of the leading sources of incoming money to Nigeria. It IS hard to believe, but sadly, a lot of people do fall for them.
I know, djm, but it’s true. Most lads operate out of internet cafes and work from proven scripts to dupe their victims. Some work alone and others are part of networks. A frontline scammer is called a Guyman and their bosses are called 0gas. When the guyman or “guy” gets a promising lead (they call them mugus or magas which means dumbass in Igbo) he forwards it up to the Oga who works the program. The scams are called advance fee because the guymen and ogas work their marks for administrative fees that are supposed to move the deal along.
Almost every time a fake Barrister gets involved. Usually it’s the same Guyman working from a different address. The scams use many different modalities but always end up kind of going the same way. They go for Western Union / Moneygram transfers, or they even set up fake internet banks. If you want to see how pervasive these scams are just type “Sagbama Express” into google. One of the modalities involves somebody getting killed in a terrible wreck on the Sagbama Express Road. There are tons of results for wrecks on that road because of all the scams that have been done using that one.
419ers always justify their actions because they say they’re poor due to European colonialism in the past. But you konow what? A lot of them are a lot better off than you and me due to scamming innocent victims. And even if they are poor, etc. that doesn’t give them the right to rip off somebody’s grandmother in Topeka or god forbid to kill somebody who comes over to Nigeria.
