Posted on 03/13/2008 5:05:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Too Funny! I got the same one last week.
Its another scam, kind of like those “I am the legal Prince of some poor destitute African regime with $100,000.00 for you if you just open a bank account so I can deposit $150 million dollars.”
FREEPATHON coming soon! LOL!
Call the cops!
Sounds like Nigerian English.
I wouldn’t worry about it to much.Either the guy is an uneducated moron or he sure is attempting to present himself as one.
QQQQ’s account is currently active.
I’d write them back and demand to know who the hell thinks your life is only worth $15K. I would be super offended!
I think I would call the FBI. This sounds like some new third-world internet extorion scheme.
This is the same damn Nigerian that tried to give me $4 million last week that his sick uncle stole from the Nigerian Government—sorry Jim Rob, I didn’t know the money was coming from you—I won’t accept it now. //sarc//
Scam artist! Report this ASAP. Someone may fall for it.
The following text is a quote:
stepping back in time...
http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/pressrel/2007/emailhoax011007.htm
United States Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
January 10, 2007 FBI INDIANAPOLIS
Immediate Release
ALERT
For Immediate Release:
Keith L. Lourdeau, Special Agent in Charge of the Indianapolis Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is warning the public about a recent email scam. These spam emails are threatening to assassinate the recipient unless the recipient pays several thousand dollars to the sender of the email. The subject claims to have been following the victim for some time and was supposedly hired to kill the victim by a friend of the victim. The subject threatens to carry out the assassination if the victim goes to the police and requests the victim to respond quickly and provide their telephone number.
If you have received a similar e-mail, please notify the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) by filing a complaint at http://www.ic3.gov . Do not respond to these emails.
Contact: Special Agent Wendy A. Osborne, FBI Indianapolis, (317) 639-3301.
Can't even call Security? Geez. Can I at least tell the doorman?
He don’t know you very well, do he, JimRob?
Seriously, even though it’s a money scam, send it to the police as a terroristic threat. I’d hate to see anything happen to you!! (But if this is real, they better hope you don’t happen to *them* first...)
P?
Mass email. Probably Bob Guccione trying to pony up enough money to pay Kristen for the upcoming spread. /sarc
Got guns.
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