E-mail Spam

Ponster

I don't normally bother with this type of spam but this one I thought was pretty funny :

About Your E-mail Address


Your e-mail address won the amount of US$200,000.00 from the US$365 Million shared among 2,257 people in the World out of the 827 million Internet Users selected via ISP-internet by Microsoft Inc aimed for the 2008 promotion of internet admirers. You did not ask for this internet privilege before you won, but your e-mail address from your login server generated this lucky number -X930X100000XXXXXXX0000X0XXX011040XXXMI9 ,that won you a prize in our Globe Ballot Internet Microsoft-serve (GBIMserve) during our promotion at the Microsoft service centre.

Internet subscribers never knew their e-mail address is maintained by Microsoft which is the world richest internet firm. Your payment location is Zone 3A "Microsoft Innovation Afri-Subsidiary Centre" where you will receive your payment by contacting them through E-mail with your Claim Application as shown below through those e-mail Addresses

SEND APPLICATION TO:-

Zone 3A Microsoft Innovation Afrisubsidiary Centre RBP.

mc-soft.online@webpim.cc

ispinternet@centrum.cz

Cotonou, Republic of Benin . WA.



Complete these form for payment.

Who first introduce you to the internet:

Your Wining Number: X930X100000XXXXXXX0000X0XXX011040XXXMI9

Your Full name: Age: / / 19 Your Address: Phone/Fax: Country:

How much did you won: Amount in word:

Your e-mail addresses: Occupation:

The sender of this message doesn't entertain mails from people unless you follow the above instruction you may not get your prize anymore! Warning!! HOLD YOUR WINING NUMBERS IN HIGH STRICTEST CONFIDENTIALITY AND MAKE NO DISCLOSURE ABOUT THE PRIZE until due payment is made to avoid internet spywares from diverting it.

I love that their email address is microsoft@yahoo.com and Microsoft which is the world richest internet firm and also the warning in BOLD at the bottom.

I read yesterday that the average spammed needs to send out 15 million e-mails before someone clicks on one and they receive a payment of sorts. I can't imagine anyone ever falling fo this one though.

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Ponster wrote: »

I read yesterday that the average spammed needs to send out 15 million e-mails before someone clicks on one and they receive a payment of sorts. I can't imagine anyone ever falling fo this one though.

Well you clicked on it so they they got a payment of sorts from you, right?

BigEejit

I think it was on Slashdot or maybe Digg that there was a 0.0006% rate of numpties who actually parted with cash as a result of a spam email.

/edit
This was found out by researchers who took over a botnet and sent out a bunch of their own spam emails *with a fake server set up to pretend to sell the product* and there were quite a few muppets who clicked on the link to go to the website, but as mentioned only 0.0006% of email respondents actually clicked the buy button.

Sean Quagmire

I have a scammer on the hook at the moment - I'm actualy getting her to send me a photo of her holding a sign saying 'I Love the Biffster' and with this photo stuck to the sign for excahnge of $300 :rolleyes:

Hope to have it in the coming days, i will post it here when it arrives.