Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

There seems to be no end to these spam YANL emails.
Here’s yet another one from my Befactorial, MIKEBEAN or Mr Frank Bello in Poland, Mexico or Benin. Read it and laugh, but learn…it ain’t real - he just wants your $125 up front and then a means to engage you and me and bleed [...]

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FREE — FREE — FREE!!!
Too good to be true, too good to be kept secret and too bad to ever be believed!
If we were to write back to him I’d say something like this:
Dear behekesibanda:
Get real. Your scam is 50 years old and people are finally getting so wise to it. The email was a [...]

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Now here’s a really optimistic email pitch to nobody but arriving in my InBox today.
It is clearly a variant on YANL, but is, I believe, a really sad commentary on the state to which some amateur scammers will sink to scrabble for money. I am almost willing to send him some money just so he [...]

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Here’ a recent YANL type of pitch, but supposedly from a “Bank”.
The email address in the “FROM” area is a German Internet domain, while the contact Email address is an Internet Domain with a Russian registration. Yet the return telephone number has a Benin dialing code prefix. Mmmmmm?
Do you get the idea that [...]

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