Here's a new email scam

[struggle4progress]

From: XXXXXX XXXXX <[e-mail]>
Subject: My predicament!!!
Date: June 10, 2010 10:13:01 AM EDT
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Reply-To: [e-mail]

Hello,
I'm sorry for this urgent email, I'm writing this with tears on my eyes due to the situation of things right now,I'm stuck in London United Kingdom with my family,we came down here on vacation and we got Mugged at GUNPOINT.worse of it was that cash cell phone and credit cards were stolen it's such a crazy and terrifying experience for us, we need help flying back home, the authorities are not being 100% helping, but the good thing is that we still have our passports,Our return flight Leave back home Today,But i still have problem in sorting out the hotel bills,Please reply me back and let me know if you can help us with the bills i promise to pay back as soon as i get back home.

I'm freaked out right now.

Thanks

Xxxxxx

I never heard of Xxxxxx Xxxxx

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I continue to be torn about being angry at scammers, or joyous at how they screw the utterly stupid.

I mean, seriously - what kind of fucking moron falls for this shit?

Let 'em suffer.

On the other hand, I know that shit like this also suckers in the old people who don't think well or know what they're doing any more, and I feel bad for them getting scammed.

[struggle4progress]

2. Extracts from the reports on the deaths of American Citizens in Ireland 1910-1929

Source - US State Department records at the US National Archives, record group 59, source file # 341d.113 for 1910 to 1929

... Dennis GRADY - date of death: 1921-01-01 at Crosshaven, Co Cork; born ca 1842 US Navy pensioner ...

http://sites.google.com/site/irishgleanings/home/extracts-from-1910-1929

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. How to grow a ficus tree

http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-a-Ficus-Benjamina

[struggle4progress]

4. Maybe I should email that in reply!

Subject: Why not grow a ficus?
Date: June 10, 2010 12:00:01 AM EDT
To: XXXXXX XXXXX <[e-mail] >

Dear Xxxxxx:

More and more people are growing ficus trees. It's fun, and it's not hard. All you need is time. While you're sitting around, waiting for folk to answer your email, you too could be growing a ficus

Very sincerely yours,

&c&c

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. LOL! great idea!

:rofl:

[petronius]

6. I have read that some of those scams manage to fake the from address

to look like it's from someone you know - perhaps by accessing your address book somehow? Don't know if it's true or not...

[struggle4progress]

7. I would expect something has been done from someone's address book

with a hope a recipient would say, "Xxxxxx Xxxxx! I know Xxxxxx!" without realizing the email account was wrong

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

8. never answer or click on the email ..

even in jest. Sometimes all the hacker needs is for you to click on the link.
Then a small program is inserted into your computer, you never know it!
It is then used as a "mirror" machine to infect others.
Welcome to the world of networking.

GET A MAC !!!!!!! altho because of a great marketing campaign, we also must take care.
Wish you guys never bought a Mac! Sorry!

[hobbit709]

9. Don't need an overpriced Jobs POS.

Any proper security setup will block this in the first place.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

10. Sorry for the evangelism.

but do you really think that most people have "a proper security setup" system?

I contend that if they did this OP would be moot.

[EOTE]

11. Well, you can get yourself "a proper security setup" for free.

Or you can spend twice as much on your computer and have that security built in. Ignorance has a price. Many people don't properly secure their PCs, I'm not going to throw away money just because of them. And you should know that without aftermarket utilities, Macs are just as susceptible to spamming/spoofing as PCs are.

[quakerboy]

14. Linux can be had for free free

and you don't have to buy a stupid no button space mouse to match.

[Demoiselle]

12. I got an email like this a couple months ago...

Allegedly from an acquaintance. The scammers used her entire email list to beg for money in her name, that she was stuck in London without funds and could we send her some money. Thing is, I'd seen her in my home neighborhood the day before.

[BlueJazz]

13. I think if I receive one of those Emails, I'll send them a money order for 29 cents.

...just for fun. :)

[struggle4progress]

15. But there's no reason to let them know they hit a live email address