[Adam]

Dear Sir
My name is LUISA D.ESTRADA,The wife of Mr. JOSEPH
ESTRADA,a friend of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos and former President of
Philippines locatedin the South East Asia
My husband was recently impeached from office by a
backed uprising of mass demonstrators and the Senate.
My husband is presently in jail and facing trial on
charges of corruption, embezzlement, and the
mysterious charge of plunder which might lead to death sentence.
The present government is forcing my husband out of
manila to avoid demonstration by his supporter.
During my husband's regime as president of Philippine,I realized some
reasonable amount of money from
various deals that I successfully executed. I have
plans to invest this money for my children's future on real
estate and industrial production. My husband is not
aware of this because I wish to do it secretly fornow.
Before my husband was impeached,I secretly siphoned
the sum of $18,000,000 mi llion USD (Eighteen million United states dollars)
out of Philippines and deposited the money with a security
firm that transports valuable goods and consignments
through diplomatic means. I also declared that the
consignment was solid gold and my foreign businesspartner owned it.
I am contacting you because I want you to go to the
security company and claim the money on my behalf
since I have declared that the consignment belong to
my foreign business partner. You shall also be
required to assist me in investment in your country.
I hope to trust you as a God fearing person who will
not sit on this money when you claim it, rather assist me
properly, I expect you to declare what percentage of
the total money you will take for your assistance.
When I receive your positive response I will let you
know where the security company is and the payment pin code to claim the
money which isvery important.For now, let all our communicati on be by e-mail
because my line are right now connected to the
Philippines Telecommunication Network services.
Please feel free to call my son martin estrada on his satelite phone
number + 8821646689531 for more details .
Thank you and God bless you and your family.Warmest Regards
MRS LUISA ESTRADADear Sir
My name is LUISA D.ESTRADA,The wife of Mr. JOSEPH
ESTRADA,a friend of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos and former President of
Philippines locatedin the South East Asia
My husband was recently impeached from office by a
backed uprising of mass demonstrators and the Senate.
My husband is presently in jail and facing trial on
charges of corruption, embezzlement, and the
mysterious charge of plunder which might lead to death sentence.
The present government is forcing my husband out of
manila to avoid demonstration by his supporter.
During my husband's regime as president of Philippine,I realized some
reasonable amount of money from
various deals that I successfully executed. I have
plans to invest this money for my children's future on real
estate and industrial production. My husband is not
aware of this because I wish to do it secretly fornow.
Before my husband was impeached,I secretly siphoned
the sum of $18,000,000 million USD (Eighteen million United states dollars)
out of Philippines and deposited the money with a security
firm that transports valuable goods and consignments
through diplomatic means. I also declared that the
consignment was solid gold and my foreign businesspartner owned it.
I am contacting you because I want you to go to the
security company and claim the money on my behalf
since I have declared that the consignment belong to
my foreign business partner. You shall also be
required to assist me in investment in your country.
I hope to trust you as a God fearing person who will
not sit on this money when you claim it, rathe r assist me
properly, I expect you to declare what percentage of
the total money you will take for your assistance.
When I receive your positive response I will let you
know where the security company is and the payment pin code to claim the
money which isvery important.For now, let all our communication be by e-mail
because my line are right now connected to the
Philippines Telecommunication Network services.
Please feel free to call my son daniel estrada on his satelite phone
number + 8821646689531 for more details .
Thank you and God bless you and your family.Warmest Regards

MRS LUISA ESTRADA

[Sidders]

I've got that a couple of times. Needless to say it isn't true.

I've still not found out who did it...

[Adam]

wonder if people actually send money!?

[Sidders]

I wonder.....

[Sam]

Christ, is that still going? I had that one a year or so ago.

[Sidders]

Me too.

Where you been?

[David]

yeah I get about 3 a day at the momment and they dont all come from the same address so I cant block them. I could block the domain, but when its coming from a hotmail address it means no one else on hotmail can email me.

[Uglybob]

yes i pasted said email about 9 months ago if your that bored to look somewhere.

[Adam]

yes i pasted said email about 9 months ago if your that bored to look somewhere.

really? oh well, never mind.

[Sidders]

yes i pasted said email about 9 months ago if your that bored to look somewhere.

I thought it was me that pasted it actually...

[Sidders]

No, you are right it was you. Mine was just a similar thing.

[MK Chris]

(Not email related but...)

One of the best scams was when this well-dressed woman knocks on your door and tells you her car has broken down and asks to use the phone to phone her husband. She dials the number and explains hes in a meeting and she'll have to hold for five minutes, then when she's finished leaves a quid for the phone call and goes.

Then the phone bill comes months later and you realise that the number she phoned was a premium rate line and you were being charged £50 a minute for it... Great idea.

[Nablo.]

Only a good idea if you work for that company.

[Sidders]

You can set up you're own premium rate line with BT.

[Adam]

Sidla Sex Line.

Come on all you horny housewifes. Get down and talk dirty with Sidla. Hot chat.

Only £3.00 a minute

[Sidders]

That's a genious idea!

[Adam]

sure is.

say goodbye to student debt for ever.

you could always sing to those housewifes. that would get them horny.

[Morals]

That Email is called a 419 scam, they've been around for ages and ther eason they're still around is because people do fall for it. Silicon.com did a big feature on them recently, where they Emailed back to find out what would happen, which was quite amusing.

[superwoman]

ive never had that though i have an inbox full of forwards....

[Ickle Angel]

i had a really scary email from my msn public profile this morning

[Sidders]

That Email is called a 419 scam, they've been around for ages and ther eason they're still around is because people do fall for it. Silicon.com did a big feature on them recently, where they Emailed back to find out what would happen, which was quite amusing.

I've emailed back before but nothing happened. I though there would be some hilarious reply like 'Ha ha ha you fell for it you total loser'.

[Chris]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29536.html

You'd like to think that after all the publicity generated around Nigerian 419 advance fee fraud, the boys from Lagos would be pretty well out of business. Sadly not.

According to figures from the UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) - quoted in Scotland on Sunday - no less than 150 Britons got burned last year alone for a total of £8.4m. That's a sobering average of £56,675 per victim. One of the latest is a man from Fife who, although losing (a comparatively modest) £7,000, luckily did not share the fate of the globetrotting chap who travelled to Africa to collect his booty, only to be beaten and tortured.

UK police are not, happily, standing idly by while this outrageous scam continues to sucker the stupid and greedy. A London-based unit is tracking emails and attempting to sucker the fraudsters into revealing themselves for the benefit of waiting officers. We wish them luck, but suggest that an alternative method might be to jail anyone idiotic enough to believe that someone from West Africa is going to give you millions of pounds in the first place. Or perhaps naming and shaming would be sufficient deterrent. ®

[superwoman]

which links back to nother topic about emails being read!

[MK Chris]

People are stupid, fact. Or, possibly a better way of putting it would be to say that not everyone is stupid, but those that are really show up the rest of us.

I speak to stupid people every day, sometimes mind bogglingly.

Those that fall for it deserve everything they get...

[Sidders]

I can't understand people who don't understand computers. To me it all comes naturally, but when people say to me 'how do you do this?' I'm almost tempted to go 'durrr'!