The occasional flash of brilliance
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Thank you, Mr. Scammer, you are my last hope. The bridges here at the polar circle are very cold and drafty and I will probably not survive the coming winter. By your message I can see that you also have encountered hard times, so I'm more than willing to help. Unfortunately the banks here will not let homeless people open a bank account unless a minimum deposit of 500$ is made. If you can help me over this obstacle, we can then quickly see to bringing your money to safety. (I hope the monitor survived the next shower) :)
Makes no sense - you're not falling into their core demographics - extremely gullible people but which _do_ have some money. OTOH, giving out a real account number cannot harm you - no bank will make payments from your account without some sort of proof that you authorized the payment - such as a signed payment order or an electronically authenticated transfer, so your account should be safe as long as you don't pass confidential info on to the scammer.
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Thank you, Mr. Scammer, you are my last hope. The bridges here at the polar circle are very cold and drafty and I will probably not survive the coming winter. By your message I can see that you also have encountered hard times, so I'm more than willing to help. Unfortunately the banks here will not let homeless people open a bank account unless a minimum deposit of 500$ is made. If you can help me over this obstacle, we can then quickly see to bringing your money to safety. (I hope the monitor survived the next shower) :)
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This piece of spam is the most inspiring piece I have seen in a while. The sheer complexity, the audacity, the eloquence;
M.FISH *somefool*@midohio.twcbc.com
to undisclosed recipients
Congratulations you Email ID have won 700,000 GBP from Chevrolet motors.
fill the information and send back for processing1Name....
2Address....
3Telephone Number...
4Sex..:
5Age...
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Current City....:
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Occupation
Bank Name....:
Account Name....:
Account Number....:
Bank Address
Today, the spammers think I'm an idiot.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Why don't we turn the table on them? Send back a reply that you live under a bridge and are responding with a stolen phone. You could sure use the money they promise you and would gladly help. Unfortunately you can't open a bank account without a minimum deposit of (pick a suitable amount). Perhaps there are gullible scammers as well. :) Edit: What kind of person could be upset enough to downvote this? Anyway, a nice 'good morning' goes to Nigeria today! :)
It's worth a try. A friend of mine managed to talk a spammer into sending him a check years ago. It was a real Bank of Something or Other cashiers check. (A check that was part of a stolen shipment of blanks and was filled out by the spammer not the bank; but nonetheless it was a real check.) :laugh:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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This piece of spam is the most inspiring piece I have seen in a while. The sheer complexity, the audacity, the eloquence;
M.FISH *somefool*@midohio.twcbc.com
to undisclosed recipients
Congratulations you Email ID have won 700,000 GBP from Chevrolet motors.
fill the information and send back for processing1Name....
2Address....
3Telephone Number...
4Sex..:
5Age...
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Current City....:
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Occupation
Bank Name....:
Account Name....:
Account Number....:
Bank Address
Today, the spammers think I'm an idiot.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Just a note...when you write a check the recipient has all the bank account info including account name and number etc.
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Why don't we turn the table on them? Send back a reply that you live under a bridge and are responding with a stolen phone. You could sure use the money they promise you and would gladly help. Unfortunately you can't open a bank account without a minimum deposit of (pick a suitable amount). Perhaps there are gullible scammers as well. :) Edit: What kind of person could be upset enough to downvote this? Anyway, a nice 'good morning' goes to Nigeria today! :)
I think its a good idea. I will sometimes waste a little bit of time and ask them to forward the routing # and account # where I can pick up the money. I tell them that I don't disclose any information over email. I have yet to hear back, but I guess there is a certain amount of personal satisfaction anyway.
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Why don't we turn the table on them? Send back a reply that you live under a bridge and are responding with a stolen phone. You could sure use the money they promise you and would gladly help. Unfortunately you can't open a bank account without a minimum deposit of (pick a suitable amount). Perhaps there are gullible scammers as well. :) Edit: What kind of person could be upset enough to downvote this? Anyway, a nice 'good morning' goes to Nigeria today! :)
CDP1802 wrote:
Perhaps there are gullible scammers as well. :)
We just need a source of guaranteed-to-be-fake account and routing numbers we can use to reply with. Or.. [snicker] the account and routing numbers of other scammers (Ok, that last bit's a joke because it would be breaking the law, but it would be funny). Heck, maybe interpol could hook the false account numbers up to a trap that automatically freezes the assets of the money's destination.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Where do I send the bill for monitor cleaning? :-D There goes that mouthful of coffee. :-\ You know, I might just try that next time for a laugh. No actually, that's starting to seem funnier and funnier (no doubt they've seen responses something like that before) I will try that next time. I'll just give a fake name and try to get em to send a Western Union. Sure I can't have it, but they've lost it by then anyway.. I'll gladly accept the idea in lieu of the screen-cleaning $$. :laugh:
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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Why don't we turn the table on them? Send back a reply that you live under a bridge and are responding with a stolen phone. You could sure use the money they promise you and would gladly help. Unfortunately you can't open a bank account without a minimum deposit of (pick a suitable amount). Perhaps there are gullible scammers as well. :) Edit: What kind of person could be upset enough to downvote this? Anyway, a nice 'good morning' goes to Nigeria today! :)
Seems like some nigerian jerks are trying to downvote your post :laugh:
