Venditoris: Beware of Scams

Here’s a tear-jerker letter, begging for our help. But she doesn’t know our name(s).

Could that be a clue that this is not what it purports to be and is instead one of those spam scam email letters like the nefarious Nigerian Letters (YANL)?

You bet it is.

Solution: Disbelieve everything from anyone you do not know in the World of Email. It has this kind of scam running wild just searching for a dumb bunny to fleece!

Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008
From: “Mrs Asiyah Ahmed”
Subject: From Mrs Asiyah Ahmed Hassanal Bolkiah

From Mrs Asiyah Ahmed Hassanal Bolkiah
Royal Family of King Haji Omar Ali Sadul Khairi
of Brunei Darussalam.

GOOD DAY,My Dear,

Please read very carefully, It is with tears that I am writing this message to you from a hospital bed far away from my home where I have no mother,father, sister , brother or any relative, in the mist of strangers with a diffrent language that I don’t understand, imaging how painful it is being a cancer patient, Firstly let me introduce myself to you.

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So you have inherited a zillion GBP from an unnamed person and your new “friend” Stephen Scott is sending you an email telling you that you can half of it. You are “entitle to 50%”.
Oh, Yes! The email is not addressed to you, it just says “THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION”

How dumb do you have to be to answer?

It should have been more aptly addressed: “DEAR DUMB EMAIL RECIPIENT”.

Regardless of where it is from it is a YANL spam email. Delete it asap!

Date: Fri, 27 June 2008
From: “Stephen Scott”
Subject: THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION

THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
We wish to notify you again that you were listed as a beneficiary to the total sum of £15,600,000.00GBP (Fifteen million Six hundred thousand britishpounds) in the codicil and last testament of the deceased. (Name now withheld since this is our second letter to you).

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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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