Monday, October 20, 2008

This will not save you any 专业提供

Okay, this might not save you any money at all - but some days you open your email and you just can't explain what you find.

This is what I found in my email:

您好!

我是厦门百惠通科技有限公司邹,不好意思打搅您了。

我司专业提供(外贸英文网站、美国服务器、美国企业型空间)等全程服务。2008公司迎来八周年庆推出一款产品:美国企业型空间888m=888 2008m=2008 平均1m/1元,除此之外其他不同容量的空间一律买多大送多大,相当于甚至低于国内空间价格,优惠前所未有,限量销售(直接与美国加州机房合作并非代理)。为您呈现过硬的质量、优质的服务。

八年来我们公司主要业务为:美国企业型空间 美国服务器 贸英文网站建设。以下是我们公司近年制作的部分网站案例

Now admittedly, my (insert name of foreign language above here) language skills are not so great, but I'm pretty sure it's the same text as the next email in my in-box this morning from Miss Rita Abed from the Ivory Coast:


"I wait for your urgent response

Dearest Beloved,

I am Mrs. Edith.R. Abed from Ivory Coast.I was married to Late Chief Mohammed Abed who was acontractor with the Government of Cote D'Ivoire before he died after few days in the hospital. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $4.500 Million Dollars with a Bank in Cote D'lvoire. Presently this money is still in the custody of the Bank here in Cote DIvoire. My Doctor told me that it is very likely I will die within the next 3 months due to A Blood cancer {LUCAMIA}. I have decided to donate the money for charity to you since I do not have a child to inherit it and it's better I do not die leaving the money here without it reaching to the poor and the lessprivileged ones in the society. As soon as I receive your reply I shall tell my bank to transfer the money to you.Informations Required from you are: Your Full Name(.......................... )Your Direct Tel & Fax N°:(......................, )Your Home & Office addresses(..............................)Your Bank Account(..................)With these informations, I will forward them to the Bank for immediately transferring of the Funds to your Position. Please always pray for me and let God give me more Good health to stay in this World.Mrs.Edith.R. Abed"

Ms. Abed's email address is ritaabed21@gmail.com for anyone who would like to contact her -

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That cracks me up! I receive e-mails all the time from Ms. Rebecca Williams in Abidgan and from Ms. Naomi something or other in Kuwait!

Anonymous said...

The best thing to do is to send them this e-mail back with all the informations, but of course with the wrong bank account number.

This will just spam their system and when they get 1000000 spam e mails with the wrong bank account numbers that they will stop this BS sooner or later.

Anonymous said...

You are not seriously still getting all those strange emails?!?!?!

Do you have them posted on the board at work?

Ahhh, the good ol' days!

Sara