Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

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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Can you imagine receiving an email like the one below? Some person whom I do not know sends an unaddressed email to tell me his friend will send me a “Cashier Bank Draft” in the amount of
“TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS”, just out of the blue!
Maybe he’s Santa Claus.
Maybe he is [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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