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pa_broon74
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 07 Dec 2009    Post subject: Scammers? Seriously... Reply with quote

...make a fucking effort...

Some scammers wrote:


Joseph Owor
Head of Faculty of Business Admi nistration
Uganda Christian University
Mukono Town , Uganda.

Confidential Message:

I hope this message will meet you in good faith, please pardon me for reaching you in this manner because you do not know me,and I am hoping that by this means we can establish a mutual relationship in regards to the reason why I cantacted you.
I have an obscure proposal of mutual interest to share wit h you. I got your email address from the Internet data base directories through my search for a relatively unknown person who will assist me in securing a large sum of amount as I will explain to you later.

I am Joseph Owor , The Head of Faculty of Business Administration of the Uganda Christian University.
I will need you to assist us in executing a confidential charity project. It involves the securing of a large sum of fund. Everything concerning this proposal shall be legally done without hitch if you are willing to consider this proposal.

Please I will kindly request that you endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this message if my proposal is accepted by you due to the confidentil nature of this proposal and if this proposal is not acceptable by you, kindly delete this email and do not pass it to a third party as I vehemently risk my job to send you this email.


I am presently on a foreign committee appointment in Europe through the United Nations Christian charity project fund of Uganda as head of a world wide fund raising program for charity projects in Uganda.

Once the transaction I am proposing to you have been successfully completed if accepted by you and the fund in question is in your possession, we shall be offering to you a ratio to be agreed upon as remuneration for your services.

kindly reach me back at this juncture to get your opinion first regarding this proposal, after that I will furnish you with more information about this procedures.

You are to contact me on my secure email address below for further details if this proposal is accepted by you:

[email protected]

Thanks and waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Sincerely,
Prof. Joseph Owor.


I know these email scammers are just trying to make ends meet, but this is incredibly poor quality control. I might complain to the ombudsman. Such shoddy workmanship in my inbox, I'm almost approaching being disgusted.

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Wafer_Thin_Ham
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PostPosted: 21:28 - 07 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess they just can't be arsed to put the effort in.

That said they only need to get lucky once.
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PostPosted: 21:39 - 07 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe they got tired of trying to come up with some crap cover story, although I have had 1 or 2 from some british mp's wishing to use my bank account to donate to charities anonymously, their command of the english language is totally atrocious for saying they supposed to be mp's though, maybe they should have used the scammed expenses on english lessons.
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PostPosted: 23:29 - 07 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

He is a christian, I think that you should trust him otherwise Jesus will send you to hell.
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PostPosted: 23:38 - 07 Dec 2009    Post subject: Re: Scammers? Seriously... Reply with quote

pa_broon74 wrote:
I know these email scammers are just trying to make ends meet, but this is incredibly poor quality control. I might complain to the ombudsman. Such shoddy workmanship in my inbox, I'm almost approaching being disgusted.

Presumably people must still fall for their scams despite how badly put together the emails are.

The people who fall for the scams must be incredibly stupid, and incredibly broke. Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:18 - 08 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've never really got that....

Understandable on those crappy mugu emails like above, but even on the bank phishing emails, the English is shocking.

Why would they go to all the effort of designing the email to look like it's come from a bank, set up the catch site, all that other shit they probably have to do, but then leave the email looking like it was written by an 8 year old?
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pa_broon74
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PostPosted: 12:48 - 08 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

1930 Ariel wrote:
He is a christian, I think that you should trust him otherwise Jesus will send you to hell.


If it's up to Jesus, I'm already going to hell so I can rest easy on that score.

Perhaps I'll see Joseph Owor there too.

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Itchy
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PostPosted: 16:39 - 08 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

The register had an article about this that they have a 1 in either 200 or 2000 hit rate, and thus it is still worthy for them to keep on scamming.

One born everyday comes to mind, have a read of these

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/taiwanese_hunk/

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A Taiwanese man has been cuffed for allegedly posing online as a "youthful male model" and persuading up to 20 females to have sex with his father, the China Daily reports.

Hsu Shian-ming's internet pitch got a lively response from women "interested in romantic liaisons". The 55-year-old scammer convinced his victims that his old man was suffering from prostate cancer - a condition which meant he needed constant sex to stay alive.

The angels of mercy obliged, administering life-saving treatment to dad in various Taipei hotels. Pop's cancer was evidently serious, because the women were "persuaded into unconventional sex acts varying from putting foreign objects in their private parts, anal sex, or threesomes", the China Daily indelicately puts it.




https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/taoist_truck_driver/

Quote:
The Hong Kong truck driver who persuaded an aspiring model he was a Taoist Mao Shan master, with the power to grant her career success in return for sex, really was able to boost his clients' careers, according to a satisfied customer.

Au Yeung Kwok-fu, 55, is in court on nine counts of "procuring unlawful sexual acts by false pretences" after he had his evil way with the 19-year-old wannabe clotheshorse between April and December 2007. The only reported result of the guru's attentions was an unwanted pregnancy, which the aspiring mannequin subsequently aborted.


https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/11/113_56211.html

Which is some good news, in that in Korea is is now legal to get women to have sex with you on the false promise of marriage (in 2002 there was a law which set a precedent which made this illegal!).


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PostPosted: 16:44 - 08 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Disgraceful!

Not only are they not even bothering to tell you what percentage they will give you, they're not even bothering to tell you how much the massive amount is.

I would complain to the Mugu Ombudsman if I were you.

Outraged of E16.
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PostPosted: 16:54 - 08 Dec 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would it be wrong of me to say, when I worked at Fujitsu, there was an African chap on the help desk and he spoke in exactly the same way as this message is worded.

I'm absolutely not implying he is the author, but it seems very coincidental that the two Africans I met in real life (I'm joking, some of my best freinds are black Wink no, really, I have them round to dinner parties all the time, one at a time mind...) speak in exactly the same verbose, pleonastic and prolix way?

I rather suspect it is not tribalism that has kept the dark continent back in terms of modernisation. It's just that they like to discuss things (as most thinking citizens do) so it takes them 10 times longer to come to similar conclusions as us in the developed world.

So much for having a vast and capacious vocabulary...

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