A Million Pounds Anyone?

[wolf63]

This is the first time that I have received this email anybody interesting in a million pounds?


Congratulations!

This email correspondence is from Mr & Mrs Weir, Britain's richest ever lottery winners of £161million Euromillions jackpot. Your email is among the three(3) emails that have just been randomly selected by a Google-powered newsletter software operated by legally registered British freelance tech experts upon our request to receive a financial support donation of £1million, payable by our affiliate bank as we intend to continue sharing our luck as part of our 4th anniversary celebrations to mark our massive £161million jackpot win.

Since winning Britain's biggest ever EuroMillions lottery jackpot four years ago, my wife and I have always used our fortune to fund a number of good causes and it has been a privilege to be in a position to provide support where we could. I understand that you might feel deeply skeptical about the genuineness of this email, considering the fact that this seems quite unbelievable, or as many will say "too good to be true", however, you can find more information in regards to all our charitable donations here; http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18801698

Kindly submit Name, Address, Tel/Phone for immediate release of your donation cheque.

©2015 The Weirs Email Donation Project.

[Captain2]

Good try but no thanks

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/weir-advance-fee-scam.shtml

[wolf63]

I didn't even bother looking up to see if it was a hoax. Compared to most of the other scam letters it is actually well written.

Euro-millions tonight though - I just might be lucky.

[Dizmo]

wolf63: If you win the Euro Millions tonight you can email the person back and say that you knew it was a scam but guess what, you've actually won. Make sure you send some photographs of the cheque as well. I bet that would seriously annoy them.

[Captain2]

I agree wolfie, it is well written and looks quite authentic, but 'if it sounds too good to be true...' etc

Good luck for tonight (I'll save my £££££ though)

[gingejbee]

"skeptical"....with a "k"....makes me more sceptical...

[wolf63]

ginge - still, compared to some of the carppy letters this one is a work of pure genius.

You would think that they would take some pride in their work and make an attempt to produce a letter that looks real.

Maybe, like me, they have just got a new laptop and haven't managed to find a decent spell check for it.

[Dizmo]

wolf63: Spelling mistakes are put in there on purpose. If you fall for the spelling mistakes (as in you don't notice them) then the chances are you might fall for the scam. It's designed to cut down on how many emails the perpetrators have to sieve through.

I can assure you that it was done on purpose.

[Dizmo]

Some also use homonyms, homophones and homographs to test your gullibility.

[Dizmo]

To (a preposition) and Too (an adverb) and Two (a number) are classic examples of homonyms.

[berniecuddles]

awwwwwww you mean its not real!

[Barmaid]

Spelling errors may also indicate that the scammer has been baited. Scam baiters never ever correct poor spelling, punctuation or grammar and indeed have a policy of "de-educating" scammers.

That one isn't too bad - very often the opening few emails arent because they have been copied between scammers to share the most successful ones. You get to see the real quality of the person you are corresponding with when you get him "off script". That's when the chaos really starts.

[Dizmo]

Barmaid: At my previous previous address I put an item on Gumtree and had a reply from someone in the UK asking me to send verification of postage. He had sent a fake PayPal payment confirmation email which was identical and was sent from PayPals email address (he'd spoofed the email, something I used to do myself but not to scam people).

I managed to string him along for 3 days then said that I was in the area and that I would drop the item off at his house. I called the local police station to report the address and they refused to do anything. Apparently unless I send the item and then do not receive payment they are not able to do anything.

[Dizmo]

Coventry address if I recall correctly. I've got the emails somewhere.

[Dizmo]

I got someone else wanting the same item but wanted it sending abroad. They kept asking for the tracking number and I said that it was the least of their worries and that I'd accidentally got the packages mixed up.

I told them that they were going to receive a bio-hazardous item and that I'd dispatched a team of officials from HAZMAT to the P0 Box.

He replied saying that I was crazy, god knows if he ever went to pick anything up or just decided to use a different P0 Box for his scams. I must admit that after I told him that I was panicking a little because in all intensive purposes I told someone that I'd sent a substance to them which was a chemical weapon. I don't do anything like that anymore, I just delete them.

[Barmaid]

Dizmo - if you are going to do that sort of thing, you should never ever use your proper details tho.

When I was single and bored, I scambaited regularly. I used to play with the romance scammers. I would have about 6 different men on msn chat whilst I was doing something more interesting. I used to play the part of a very very ditsy rich widow (and also the parts of a very dodgy solicitor and a very odd accountant). Some of the conversations I had were hilarious.

[Dizmo]

Barmaid: I didn't use anything details that could be linked to me. The email address was a generic one and I was also connected through 2 proxy's. It would of been more or less impossible for even my ISP to trace me, let alone some scammer in Dubai or where ever it was.