[ILUG] [very OT] snail-mail lottery/Nigerian fraud

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight]

Brian Foster wrote:
>  profuse apologies, this has nothing whatsoever to do with
>  Linux or FLOSS, other than I poked around a bit on the
>  'net from a Linux system to see if this was a new trick
>  or not .....
> 
>  some fraudsters snail-mailed me what is almost verbatim
>  the typical e-mail lottery fraud ... you have won ... our
>  system broke down ... please immediately fax us your bank
>  details and don't tell anyone ... blah blah blah ...  yeah,
>  sure, right away!
> 
>  for examples of similar letters, some of which apparently
>  were also snail-mailed, see:
> 
>     http://www.joewein.de/sw/419lottery-by-mail.htm
>  and/or:
>     http://blog.supersurge.com/latest-email-scams/2006/2/6/euromillones-spanish-sweepstakes-lotteryinternational.html
> 
>  who on Earth would fall for a mis-spelt English letter sent
>  from Spain to an address in France “promising” money for
>  nothing?
>  are the fraudsters really rolling in lots'o'money? — it cost
>  0.57 € to snail-mail this obvious bit of phishing, plus paper,
>  envelopes, &tc, so the sums would (seem to) quickly add up.
> 
>  apologies again, this essentially nothing to do with Linux
>  or FLOSS.
> 
> cheers!
> 	-blf-
I remember having to translate one which was sent to a company near my 
place of work in Spain.. .. Email wasn't used as widely back then, but 
scamming Spanish speakers in English is just mad :)

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