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A scam, that is funny | Worst English on scams

José Henrique Lamensdorf — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:32:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Worst English on scams

If there were a contest on worst English used on a Nigerian scam, I'd submit this one I got today. Please note that it's not automatic translation, this individual's English is really that bad.

[quote]THE UNITED NATION ORGANISATION
LONDON UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED NATION PAYMENT APPROVAL
OFFICE Special Duties/Logistics Department
FOREIGN CONTRACT/WINNING PAYMENT BUREAU
Our Ref: GBT /USA/STB Your Ref 25321/imf/us/09/10

UNITED NATION AND EUROPEAN UNION OFFICIAL WINNING PAYMENT VALUED $8,300,000M
UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION AND EUROPEAN UNION ORGANIZATION do hereby give this irrevocable approval order with Release Code: GNC/3480/02/00 in your favor for your contract entitlement/award winning payment with the UNITED NATION to your nominated bank account. Now youre new Payment,United nation Approval No;UN5685P,White House Approved No:WH44CV, Reference o.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331 , Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No : 103 , Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Citibank Telex confirmation No: -1114433 ; Secret Code No:XXTN013, Having received these vital payment number , therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the United Nation immediately within the next 72hrs.
As a matter of fact, you are required to Deal and Communicate only with MRS JUDITH RODIN, NEW DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE CITIBANK OF UNITED KINGDOM, with the help and monitory team from the CITIBANK OF FEDERAL RESERVE ACCOUNT OFFICE IN US which is our official remitting bank, Committee On Foreign Payment Matters in United Nation, has look up to make sure you receive your fund valued $8.3m. So contact: MRS JUDITH RODIN. on Tel: [phone removed] 6/ FUND ORIGIN : [phone removed]
Email: [email removed] for immediate release of your contract/inheritance/Award Winning claim Be informed that you are not allowed to correspond with any person or office anymore, You are required to send her the bellow information for your transfer.
1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE:
3) PHONE:
4) COMPANY NAME(IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS
5) BANK DETAILS:
BANK NAMES:
ACCOUNT NO:
ROUTING NO:
SWIFT CODE :
BANK ADDRESS:
6) PROFESSION AND MARITAL STATUS,
7) COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE

NOTE: YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT/COMMUNICATIONCODE WITH CITIBANK IS(022),YOU ARE ARE ADVICE TO SEND YOU FULL BANKING INFORMATION TO THE NEW CITIBANK OF LONDON INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DIRECTOR HEADED BY MRS JUDITH RODIN AND MAKE SURE YOU ADHIRE TO HER INSTRUCTIONS,
WITH YOUR NEW PAYMENT CODE FOR RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT AND SEND HIM ALL YOUR BANKING INFORMATION NOW. CONTACT CODE(002)
OFFICER: MRS JUDITH RODIN
POSITION: NEW DIRECTOR,INTL,REMMITTANCE CITIBANK LONDON.
EMAIL: [email removed]
TEL: [phone removed] 6/ FUND ORIGIN : [phone removed]
MRS MARY PORTLAND
(CHAIRMAN COMMITTE ON FOREIGN CONTRACT/AWARD WINING PAYMENT UNITED
NATION AND USA GOVERNMENT).[/quote]

A scam, that is funny | A guy I know

Alison Schwitzgebel — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:04:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Alison Schwitzgebel
Post title: A guy I know

A guy I know got really annoyed by all these Nigerian scam mails so he sent back a sarcastic response - anonymous of course. But the spammers were smart and used his IP address to get his telephone number and address - so he got hassled by foreigners phoning him up at all hours of the day (and night!) asking him for money.

True story.

Alison

A scam, that is funny | I gave no personal details...

Ivana de Sousa Santos — Mon, 09 May 2005 09:54:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Ivana de Sousa Santos
Post title: I gave no personal details...

And I would never do that. I replied to it just for the fun. It was also the first ans last time I bothered answering to it because I know these scams are a waist of time... and money. Nobody gives anything to anyone just like that!

A scam, that is funny | do not answer these emails!

davidgreen — Mon, 09 May 2005 08:47:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: davidgreen
Post title: do not answer these emails!

I response to the person who answered this lottery scam/Nigerian 419 scam please see 419eater.com for more details (and lots of funny stuff), but the guys running these things should not know your real email address (and certainly no personal information). They are potentially dangerous criminals. They also sell your valid email address to others in the "network".

A scam, that is funny | I replied to this e-mail a year ago or so

Ivana de Sousa Santos — Sun, 08 May 2005 23:55:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Ivana de Sousa Santos
Post title: I replied to this e-mail a year ago or so

My husband received it in his e-mail address (he receives many others of the kind often) about a year ago.

We answered the e-mail just for the fun of it. I wrote as if I was him and said that I was very happy to have been chosen amongst many others. Well, the e-mail was quite ironic. We never had a reply. LOL!

Regards.
Ivana

A scam, that is funny | Carlos Checa

Parrot — Sun, 08 May 2005 23:37:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Parrot
Post title: Carlos Checa

[quote]Timothy Barton wrote:

It is an automatic translation from Spanish of the third person singular of the verb "to read".[/quote]

Like "Carlos the Czech woman"?

A scam, that is funny | Another translated name

Timothy Barton — Sun, 08 May 2005 08:21:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Timothy Barton
Post title: Another translated name

[quote]Edda Emery wrote:

I had one of those not long ago, and while I would have loved to have taken it seriously, I looked up the organisation on Google to find the same reference numbers in several postings. The scary thing is that once you send banking details, you've had it!

Funny with the direct translation of "Walker Smith" :)[/quote]

Have a look at this one that I found in the Barcelona edition of the free newspaper "20 minutes": [url removed]

It is an automatic translation from Spanish of the third person singular of the verb "to read".

A scam, that is funny | Scam

Edda Emery (X) — Sun, 08 May 2005 07:26:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Edda Emery (X)
Post title: Scam

I had one of those not long ago, and while I would have loved to have taken it seriously, I looked up the organisation on Google to find the same reference numbers in several postings. The scary thing is that once you send banking details, you've had it!

Funny with the direct translation of "Walker Smith" :)

A scam, that is funny | LOL

sarahl (X) — Sun, 08 May 2005 07:20:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: sarahl (X)
Post title: LOL

[quote]Nina Khmielnitzky wrote:

des fonds seront inclus dans le prochain pieu. [/quote]

Are they hiding gold coins under their mattress? :lol:

A scam, that is funny | Marcheur Smith

Özden Arıkan — Sun, 08 May 2005 06:33:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Özden Arıkan
Post title: Marcheur Smith

Hilarious :D

A scam, that is funny

Nina Khmielnitzky — Sun, 08 May 2005 02:38:00 +0000

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Topic: A scam, that is funny
Poster: Nina Khmielnitzky

Hi everyone,
I just received one of many scams that all land in my undesireable mail folder by default. Once in a while, I go through to send the "Nigerian" type letters to a Canadian agency.

Anyways, this one is an automatic translation (or some part is), and the punch is at the end. Have a look at the name of the author.

Enjoy!

NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT

BATCH NO: PTP/ [phone removed] /190888/2202
REF. NO: PTP/ [phone removed] /255100//2202

WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY
BALLOT
INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 28th of April
2005.
Your name attached to ticket number [phone removed] with
serial number
[phone removed] drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99, which
consequently won
the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of
1,000,000.00euros only, which is deposited with Finance &
Security Company in your favor as beneficiary and covered
with HIGH
INSURANCE POLICY. Due to mix up of some numbers and names,
we ask that you
keep your winning information confidential until your claim
has been
processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of
our security
protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program
by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn
from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and
3,000,000.00
individual email addresses and names from all over the
world. To begin
your lottery claim, please contact our agent below that
have been
appointed for the processing of your claim with your
contact telephone and
fax number to begin the processing of your payment.

CONTACT NAME: ANDREW GORDON
CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.
TELEPHONE: + [phone removed] 7428
FAX: [phone removed]
EMAIL: [email removed]

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 30th
of May 2005.
After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in
the next
stake. Please note in order to avoid preventable delays and
Complications
please remember to quote your reference number and batch
numbers in all
correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of
address do
inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and
thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Walker Smith

NOTIFICATION...FLICITATIONS ! ! ! !
DU BUREAU DU VICE-PRSIDENT
LOTERIE D'EMAIL DE LUCKYDAY INTERNATIONALE
PROMOTIONSDPARTEMENT PROFESSIONNEL DE RCOMPENSE
NO. EN LOTS : PTP/ [phone removed] /190888/2202
Rfrence. NON : PTP/ [phone removed] /255100//2202
AVIS DE GAIN/ FINAL
NOTIFICATION...FLICITATIONS ! ! ! !
Ce doit vous informer du dgagement du VOTE de LOTERIE
d'email INTERNATIONAL Le CONSEIL de JEU du MONDE s'est tenu
sur le 28me avril 2005.
Votre nom attach au billet le numro [phone removed] avec le
numro de srie [phone removed] a dessin les nombres chanceux de
21-70-81-82-99, ce qui a par consquent gagn la loterie
dans la 1re catgorie.
Vous avez t donc approuv pour un dboursement de somme
forfaitaire de 1,000,000.00euros seulement, ce qui est
dpos avec les finances et la socit de valeurs
mobilires en votre faveur comme bnficiaire et couvert de
POLICE D'ASSURANCES d'ASSURANCE LEVE. Il est important
que subsistance votre gain confidentiel d'viter des
personnes recueillant votre information et faisant plus
tard la rclamation avec votre attirail de gain,paiement
international de dclin de volont de loterie chanceuse de
jour si une telle irrgularit se produit.
Tous les participants ont t choisis par un systme de
vote
d'ordinateur tir seulement des utilisateurs de Microsoft
de plus de 20.000.00 compagnies et [IP removed] adresses et
noms d'email d'individu de partout dans le monde. Pour
commencer votre rclamation de loterie, veuillez entrer en
contact avec notre agent au-dessous de celui ont
t nomms pour le traitement de votre rclamation avec
votre numro de fax de tlphone et de contact pour
commencer le traitement de votre paiement.

NOM DE CONTACT : ANDREW GORDON
VILLE PAYS : LONDRES, L'ANGLETERRE.
TLPHONE : + [phone removed] 7428
FAX : [phone removed]
Email : [email removed]

Notez que tout le gain doit tre rclam plus tard que le
30me mai 2005. Aprs cette date tout non-rclame, des
fonds seront inclus dans le prochain pieu. Svp la note afin
d'viter vitable retarde et les complications satisfont se
rappellent de citer votre numro de rfrence et numros de
lot dans toute la correspondance. En outre, si il y a
n'importe quel changement d'adresse informez notre agent
aussitt que possible.
Les flicitations une fois de plus de nos membres de
personnel et vous remercient de faire partie de notre
programme promotionnel.
Note : Quiconque sous l'ge de 18 est automatiquement
limin.
Bien vous,
M.. Marcheur Smith