Venditoris: Beware of Scams

Perhaps this crackpot thinks the seal of the USA Embassy Service will make it look official, as will the name and photo (withheld since it was hot linked from Google images) of someone, supposedly a US Embassy Officer.

It is a Nigerian type scam mail piece. Look and learn. You would have to be a bigger crackpot than the author to answer such a blatant and obvious scam.

Sad fact is some do. Too bad… Hope it is not you!

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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 first look to be almost real.

IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE REAL, IT AIN”T!!

They hope you will reply, of course.

Let the sheer volume of letters we have collected here as samples of this long standing scam provide the evidence for you to label all these and similar sounding emails as SPAM. That’s what they are.

If you reply, you are then getting into the second stage where it becomes a pure SCAM!

Date: Sat, 3 June 2008 20:00:00
To:
From: “Mr Jim Peter” mrjimpeter_1@myway.com
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

From Desk Of Mr Jim Peter.
Bill And Exchange Manager
Bank Of Africa. (B.O.A).
Email Address; mrjimpeter_12@yahoo.fr

Dear Sir/Madam,

Compliment of the season,

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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, that’s where this copy goes.

We hope yours goes into the Spam Bucket, where it rightfully belongs.

Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:00:00 (KST)
Subject: FOU YOUR KIND ATTENTION
From: mrslarisa2002@yahoo.com.hk
To:
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Mrs. Larisa Sosnitskaya
Personal treasurer to former C.E.O of Yukos Oil Company and Bank Menatep,
41AB Dubininskaya St. Moscow, Russia

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