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Hmm… we’re getting more and more stupid e-mails! We didn’t expect to get a lot, simply because we thought they were totally random… but we did so here’s the second batch!

Stupid E-mail #1: Free Recipes

From: Alyanna Kim < @yahoo.com.ph>

Hello,

I added you on my YM a while ago and believe me I actually had some fun talking with you. Since I am a cook, I would like to offer you some free recipes (my own book), and you can claim my book at my store next week.

All you have to do is buy this recipe e-book at http://.hop.clickbank.net and once you’re done tell me! I will tell you when exactly to claim it, and where my store is.

Thanks,
Alyanna

Well this person added us on Yahoo! Messenger (we don’t know her personally though), chatted with us for quite some time, and sent us this e-mail. And we’ve got to say… Wow. Free recipes IF we buy an e-book? No thanks. We’d get the recipe book if it were free. Please, Ms. Alyanna Kim, don’t call it “free” when it’s not, you’re making yourself look stupid!

Stupid E-mail #2:

From: TH3 KILL3R < @msn.com>

Attention!

This message was sentto inform you taht your GMail account would be CLOSED PErmanently if you do not send your GMail account details to @msn.com. Sending your account details will tell us that you are still using your GMail account. If you do not send your account details within 24hours your account will be DELETED.

GMail Team

Okay, this is just stupid. The Gmail team using an MSN.com e-mail account? Using a pseudonym “TH3 KILL3R”? Asking for other people’s passwords?! Oh puh-leeze. This was a really lame attempt to hack other people’s accounts!

Stupid E-mail #3:

From: Aditya Gupta < @yahoo.com>

Hi my friend,

How are you? I would like to ask if you have paid for your web hosting fees already. If not, please, let me pay for them for you. Just tell me your PayPal account ID and password and I will be glad to pay for you.

Thanks,
Aditya Gupta

Erm… we paid for our web hosting fees already. Thanks for your “kind” offer. Again, this was a stupid and lame attempt to hack an account. Pay for our hosting fees, in exchange of our PayPal account? No way.

Grand Finale: Ultimate Spam/Scam E-mail

It’s our first time to receive a spam/scam e-mail on our new e-mail address! We know you’ve probably seen a lot of similar mails, but we were so excited to share this with you…
From: @mailbox.hu

FROM THE OFFICE OF MR ABDULDAO
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
WEST AFRICA. (TEL: - +22675145555.)

Dear Partner
I presumed that all is well with you and your family. Please let this do not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our future survival in life. Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

I, MR ABDUL DAO THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT of our bank and i have had the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINETEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($19,300,000.00 ) for our success. This is an abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years ago. Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 5 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund. As an honor and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules guiding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a Burkina Faso citizen, you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% }being ( US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the coordinator of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organizations Centers such as Charity Organization, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World.

If you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability and confidentiality on his transaction, contact me and agree that you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because i am sure of the success as an insider in the bank ok. Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction. As soon as you reply, so that i will let you know the next step to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately. I expect your urgent communication.

Yours sincerely
MR ABDUL DAO

Okay, Mr. Abdul Dao. First, you have to learn to separate your first name from your last name AT ALL TIMES. Check your from the office of… text. See what we mean? Second, you have to brush up your writing skills (and grammar too). We’ve found a lot of errors, that’s just a shame considering you’re the “chief auditor” of a bank. Or are you? You’ve forgotten to capitalize all your “I’s” and you’ve missed to place some important punctuation marks.

Last, but not the least, if you were to try to scam someone, at least make it more realistic! Come on… geesh!

We’re really sorry if we’ve been too much of a critic (actually, we didn’t “attack” you with our full force), but we just couldn’t help it. We hate spammers and scammers!

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