Like everyone else my google mail account receives Spam from time to time and I forget
about it (Google filters do a good enough job of it all being dumped into the Spam folder)
until it's time to do a bit of cleaning of the mail account.
Today I was looking for a holiday booking and thought it might have 'gone to Spam' by
mistake so checked the folder. No booking confirmation (next job is to phone the company!)
but I noticed a brilliant Subject Title on a spam mail.
It said (and in everything that follows I'll cut and paste in large red font,
leaving in all the sp. errors and mistakes as it makes for great reading);
FBI CONTACT THE PAYING BANK NOW REGARDING YOUR FUND
From the FBI no less! Cool. Polko is a friend of the FBI.
The email went on to explain how;
We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of America have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that you have a transaction n going on as either inheritance payment,Lottery or contract payment in a tone of Millions of United States Dollars which have been approved but have not been settled.
Even better - millions of dollars!
Then they suggested;
we have been having so many complains from people who have been scammed around the world hence, after concluding in a meeting with members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we came to a conclusion that every payment will be made through the SKYE BANK OF NIGERIA (SKYB).
The Skye Bank no less. And in Nigeria. How convenient for me. The keen reader of this blog will know how Polko always does his international banking with Nigerian companies?!
All I have to do apparently is give them my name and address, all my details,
my age, sex and occupation and - of course - my passport number...
Then they are going to sort out the mess about the millions of dollars and;
your funds will be loaded in TWO BATCHES into an ATM card,and sent to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of us$10,000 per day from any ATM machine worldwide, BUT from the financial houses there is no limit.
I can't wait for that golden card to drop through the letterbox.
Then I can start hitting my local cash machine for US$10K a day...
Wait a minute, the email seems to come from E-@hotmail.com
Surely hotmail is not the FBI's main email address domain? I never knew that?!
Must be part of their 'Intelligent Monitoring Network'?
ho hum.. on with the day job..
