Email Scams

Well here we go again.

There seems to be a recent waive of email scammers trying to get my money. Since Sunday, I have been bombarded with about 10 email scams. Just for grins, I am going to list them all.

1. From Mr. Ikenna Pierre from Congo regarding an urgent business proposal in the amount of 18 million(Chump change Ike).

2. From SHELLEY THOMAS regarding the Nelson Mandela foundation Mandela Day lottery Promo Held this week (I completely forgot that Nellie called me last week and told me he had given me a complementary entry into the lotto!)

3. From Ms. John Eze regarding an ATM card being held by DHL for me. It has a balance of $1.5 million dollars on it. (I better hurry up and collect it since they are charging me a keeping fee if GASP! - $45 a day!)

4. From Mr.Marvin Cheung the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the Hang Seng Bank regarding a secured business proposal. (I'll have my people call your people ok?)

5. From MR. WILLIAM MORIS regarding a secret account that the late Michael Jackson had for his son Michael Jackson Junior to the tune of $150 million. If I help him, I get 40%, he gets 50%, & Jr gets 10%. (Let's hope Junior can live on a measly $15 million!)

6. From Dr Mohamed Oralo regarding contacting his secretary Rev Christian Williams to have $800k transferred to my account since the "Transaction" has been completed. (Orale! What transaction? It's tax free right?)

7. From Ms. Roseline Thomas regarding my ATM card from oceanic bank of benin republic of benin that has a balance of $950k. It got cancelled because my payment for $95 for insurance bounced! (So that's what the charge was that I didn't recognize! Did you know that about half the population of Benin live below the international poverty level of $1.25 per day? I think I will donate that $950k to their social services program. Hey what can I say? I am a REALLY nice guy!)

8. From Mona Valbrun saying I was selected from countless resumes to work for her company (an online retailer and product shipper) as an independent guarantee-manager (HUH?) at $4000 per month plus bonuses. (I wonder if I can telecommute? Wait a minute!! The web says the company is an industrial electrical cable supplier. What is going on here?)

I guess I deleted the other ones.

One was from the son of a finance minister (that had died is some war) from a small African country that needed help getting about $10 million (that his dad had embezzled) out of the country.

The other one I remember was from some older lady dying of cancer that also needed help in getting her money out of Iraq. Her hubby was some General that died last week in a car wreck. Supposedly she got my email address after rifling through her hubby's secret journals. (Shame on her! They were secret for a reason! Don't personally know the actual reason they were secret, but they were a secret nevertheless. She told me so in her email!)

Wow, I don't know which mailing list I'm on, but I want to opt-out! I guess I entered one too many surveys or something. Uughh!

Anyways, let this be a lesson to you. Just say no to email scammers!

Have multiple email accounts. You can get free ones just about anywhere (Yahoo, Hotmail, Live, Gmail, etc...) not to mention the ones you get from your internet provider. Use each email for different purposes such as online shopping, business use, or personal use. This makes it easier to keep track of who gave your email away when they shouldn't have. That way you can stop doing business with the guilty party.

Remember. If it sounds to good to be true.... IT IS! Be careful out there!

Does anybody who knows their way around the dockyards in New York City and want to go half & half on a smoking deal? Johann from South Africa just finished emailing me. He needs a partner go go to New York to claim some shipping containers containing diamonds. I don't want to get lost so I'm looking for a partner. I could even use my frequent flyer miles to pay for the tickets, the hotel stay, and the rental car. (I know, them's alot of frequent flyer miles. Anyways, I got a letter stating all I had to do was pay the taxes on 1 million frequent flyer miles and they would be transferred into my name. He siad it'd only be $569. 42. Cheaper than the airfare, hotel, & car rental for sure! So you want to go half on the $570? We'll use my miles for this trip so you'd still have 500,000 frequent flyer miles to use.) He said my - excuse me our cut would be $6.8 million. We split it fifty-fifty, so let's see that's $3.4 million each before taxes... So that should be about..... uh carry the 4..... and then.....