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Spam mail from ex-president’s son

August 13, 2007 at 10:32 pm | In Good to know, IT Security, Internet Marketing, Technology | 1 Comment

The other day I received a spam mail that reads below:




Assistan me  thomas taylor [thomas_ta23@hotmail.com]Dear
  My name is Thomas Taylor the son of Charles Taylor, the ex-president of Liberia. l got your contact from business directory in Ghana chambers of comers I have decided to contact you over a desperate and pitiable situation in which I find myself. since the arrest of my father which was a plan by American George Bush after, he has deceived obasanjo and promise him of more 8years in power which was a failure. After my fathers arrest the family has divided and i am not happy.l can not invest here in Africa because people`s eyes are on me especially my family members because i am the closest person to my father.
  l also will not like to travel outside Africa now until I'm able to send the money outside Africa .As at this moment, I need your cordial assistance in transferring this fund to your a/c that worth $92.5 USDMillion to your country at your resident for safe keeping or to any part of the word where the money will be save for investment purposes .
  according to the manager he said I should not be afraid in contacting you so I have great hope that we can really work together.now you can contact me on my number +233-276-906-859
  This fund was deposited by my father in Trust bank Ghana limited
  NOTE;this mail is confidential and should not be disclose to any body please.
  Thanks
  Thomas Taylor
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thomastaylor_01@yahoo.co.uk
Return-Path: <thomas_ta23@hotmail.com>
  Received: from bay0-omc2-s17.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.153] by sgperak.mschosting.com with SMTP;
  Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:57:59 +0800
  Received: from BAY133-W43 ([65.55.138.78]) by bay0-omc2-s17.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668);
  Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:25:46 -0700
  Message-ID: <BAY133-W433C5A6C190BF0BD2CC7D488E50@phx.gbl>
  Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
  boundary="_75461e11-55b4-4c91-84e3-c04457eb75af_"
  X-Originating-IP: [41.210.22.194]
  Reply-To: <thomastaylor_01@yahoo.co.uk>
  From: thomas taylor <thomas_ta23@hotmail.com>
  Subject: Assistan me
  Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:25:46 +0000
  Importance: Normal
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Bcc:
  X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Aug 2007 23:25:46.0894 (UTC) FILETIME=[1DFE62E0:01C7D881]
  X-SmarterMail-Spam: SPF_Pass

 


The email header does not include my email address. No, I did not remove it intentionally. It was not there at all. It means this sender is not showing who he/she is sending this email to. Tricky.
My first instinct is the sender could be a US-based website which recently I have given my email to. I guess that they are targetting some US people who's greed on $92.5 USDMillion overcame their sense of logic.
I am totally surprised that there are still people sending spam mails in this format. A large sum of money that is somewhere that the sender cannot have access to, and need a third party civilian to help? How true can that be?!
If you have that much of money to get in the end, and you're the son of a president, by all means you can do it yourself, or with your butler. Or gardener. Why me? Or your chef. Or your postman.
Maybe you can try consider lowering the amount to like 9k or 90k, it might be more approachable. USD 92.5 million!! You think my bank will not notice if you suddenly bank in 1 million ringgit into my a/c issit? This is 92.5 million and in US dollars!
And I have got no idea where Liberia is, what obasanjo, what Ghana. I only read keywords, but what interest me is this IT age I'm still getting this sort of emails orginated since 10yrs ago?
Now we're talking SMS spam. You won xxxxxxx money from a lucky draw, and please call this number xxxxxxxxx.
If you're still employing people to send spam mails, they are old conmen way. Please stop sending me rubbish and wasting your money. You might be saving USD 92.5 instead? Save and the power of cumulative saving might eventually land yourself with the 92.5 million!
"NOTE;this mail is confidential and should not be disclose to any body please." I guess you could smell something fishy from this statement?
Please, in any way or another if you feel anything fishy, or you get any emails like the one above. Do not throw your mind or yourself into it.
If you think I'm trying to make you part with the 92.5 million USD, I have no credit in doing so.
Shall you choose to do it anyway, or reply those SMS claiming you win lucky draws, kindly go ahead. But remember, you have been WARNED!!

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