I Am Insulted!!

[andy-hughes]

To find out that a scammer thought i would fall for this -


Mr. Terry Bello
4:20 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

Dear Andy Hughes ,

Based on my short message to you through Bark.com, I am Mr. Terry Bello
Esq from Togo, a legal practitioner and financial adviser. I have an
important legitimate fund transaction worth of US$6.8 million to
discuss with you about my late client with your same surname and
nationality who died together with his wife and only child in 2014
Ebola Virus outbreak in Liberia on his business trip to the Country
because he was a contractor and businessman. I wish to present you to
the bank as his next of kin and put claim to the fund as
inheritance. This transaction is 100% risky free.

Kindly get back to me immediately for more details.

Best regards
Mr. Terry Bello Esq
Principal attorney.

It came to me because my DJ agency kindly passed on the initial mail, advising a 'business opportunity' and I replied asking for details.

As I told Mr Bello in my response, I was born at night, but it wasn't last night!!

[MallyJ]

I get lots of these...I think I could lay claim to a very large proportion of Africa if I claimed all that is apparently owing to me...The USA also owes me a few million dollars. I love them. They are really hilarious. I have often wondered if anyone is ever taken in by them....and hoe sad if they are.

[MallyJ]

'how sad'...can't type at all!

[agchristie]

Haaaaa! Thats a beaut!

[andy-hughes]

I like the 'risky free' bit - yeah, right!!

[MWG14]

I get loads of these, they are hilarious and brighten up a dull day!

[smurfchops]

Similar type of thing ... when people ring up because they have heard I have had an accident, I go along with it, for a long while, saying how bad the accident was etc. When they ask what happened to me I say I was decapitated. That usually gets rid of them. Love winding them up.

[iluvmargie]

I've never received anything like this.

[AZardoz]

Is that all ? Look who wishes to bless me.

//
Listen To Me My Dear Your Going to be Blessed From I and My Husband!

I am Mrs Melania Trump and I am writing to inform you about your Bank Draft
cashier Check brought by United Embassy from the government of Benin Republic
to the white house Washington DC and has been mandated to be delivered to your
address as soon as you get back to me with your below information.

Home address,....
City,.....
Phone number,.....

Your check contains the sum of $60 million USD.

Here is my number.([phone]) you can call me or send me an sms, but i
prefer sms because I'm always busy in the white house and i cant be able to
pick calls all the time.I will be waiting to hear from you immediately, thanks
and God bless you.

Remain Blessed,
Yours faithfully
Mrs Melania Trump

[CrapAtCryptics]

Its makes you wonder how the clowns who do fall for it think.

[Togo]

I am Togo and that is a terrybello scam attempt.
This is a terrible slur on my good name.

[Palustris]

The bad spelling and bad grammar are deliberate to weed out the intelligent from the less so. The more gullible will not notice the mistakes and respond.
So far this year I have a.lost a leg. b.a double amputation from below the waist and c, lost most of my face.
Must stop having these accidents.

[david small]

There’s a guy on the internet that specialised in stringing these merry fellows along for ages. Always just out of reach for one reason or another. Eventually the mighty intelligence of the con artist would catch on and rant and rave. He thought that the biter getting bit was fun.

[Prudie]

He's cocky too, nobody adds Esq to the end of their own name!

[Togo]

You sound as if you need a pick me up Palustris.

Pleased leaf your bank details in the box belowed and the secrecy of succeeds will became your help yourself.

[retrocop]

Well that's the problem when you advertise yourself complete with photograph on the world wide web plus phone numbers and e-mail addresses for freelance work innit?

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // Well that's the problem when you advertise yourself complete with photograph on the world wide web plus phone numbers and e-mail addresses for freelance work innit? //

I regard it less as a 'problem', and more of an acceptable occupational hazard.

If you have seen a picture of me advertising my two strains of employment, then you have seen the wrong adverts - none of them contain my picture.

[retrocop]

You can understand my mistake. A music journalist living in Stoke.What a coincidence!

[gness]

What a cheap and nasty thing to try to do Retrocop. God knows what pleasure that gave you but you really don't deserve to have been let back onto this site after many bannings.