Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

Below is an actual email letter. It’s short & sweet and aimed to trap an unwitting person into responding to a website other than a bank’s actual website.
We haven’t gone there, but are willing to believe that the phisher or scammer (probably both) has set up a web page to look very much like the [...]

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Yet Another example of an Nigerian Letter from Benin, or Czechoslovakia or France or wherever these scam dodos hang their computers and their supposed bank contacts and, most importantly, their impressive diplomatic turnel (whatever that my be).
Don’t fall for this my MY DEAR GOOD & TRUSTED FRIENDS!

Date: Sat, 10 July 2008
From: “joesphkarl3 joesphkarl3″
Subject: YOUR UGRENT [...]

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Here’s a genuine Nigerian Letter, not a Russian, Beninin or Asian imitation, This is a real scam email letter having the words relating to a genuine Nigerian Letter in it.
(YANL=Yet Another Nigerian Letter. There are many more here with seeming infinite variation in sales pitch or appeal that it is phenomenon of the Web!)
Note the [...]

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This is more like it. We are back into the traditional YANL Spam Scam type of letter.
Funny how it seems refreshing to know that merely old spam hands are at the keyboard sending these out to unwitting email readers instead of slick, Internet-savvy Europeans who are more obvious in their pitches and seem at [...]

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At Last! The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming into the YANL spam scam game.
Maybe we should already rename it the YARL, for Yet Another Russian Letter!
Same Pitch. Same dumb appeal to greed. Similar misunderstanding of the English language
If I were a Nigerian, I’d be insulted.
But we only have the YANL category, so, [...]

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