Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

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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Here’s a variation on the Nigerian Letter Scheme. This is about the tenth one I have received over that past few months.
We are categorizing it as YANL (Yet Another Nigerian Letter), except it comes from the UK and has a slightly different twist to it. But it appears to be a similar type of scam. [...]

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Here’s YANL from Feb 21, 2008.
Oh what fun I would have with all that money, if it weren’t such an obvious fraud & scam.
When will these people ever stop?
I guess that as long as there is at least one sucker who falls for this stuff, they’ll continue to burn up the Web and email servers [...]

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How’s this for timeliness. Fast on the heels of the letter of Feb 19, comes the following missive apparently from a “World Class” Banker in Nigeria with lots of money to “give” away!
(Give me a break-it was not even addressed to me, but rather to the person sending it, how unique..er.. quaint..er..dumb!).
There are so [...]

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