Where the fuck do they get my email addy from? I quote:::::: ATTN: Dear, Claire Due to my careful search for an honest, reliable and incere business partner, I got your contact from the internet and I ask if you can be trusted not to break an agreement? Still, it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and to offer you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on. Dear, my name is PAUL E .CAMARA the son of one business man from Sierra Leone, late MR. TIMOTHY CAMARA, I am 22 years old and presently residing in DAKAR-SENEGAL in West Africa under political asylum. My mother happens to be a nurse whom the late CAMARA had an affair with during his life style as a play boy, and the affair resulted to my birth, but it was unfortunate that the late CAMARA did not marry my mother legally and as a kind of settlement, for my mother and I, my mother ANTOINETTE deposited the sum of seven million five Hundred thousand USD cash ($ 7.5 million us dollars cash) for my life inheritance. My mother stashed these sum of money and deposited it in a Bank and my name appears as the next of kin. After my father was killed by his body guard earlier last two year 2002, and my mother died also earlier last year just two months after my father's death, and at the age of 22 years old, I am left with this huge sum of money, and I need a partner who will help me transfer this money to his account for immediate investment as I have made up my mind to invest in your country. Your compensation for your immediate assistance is 5% of the total money as soon as it arrives your country while 2% will be for any local and international expences that will occure during the transfer. I will like truth and honesty to be our watchword in this business. Yours sincerely, Paul Etienne Camara. Please you can contact me with this email address, paul630@myway.com. Or you can call me with this telephone number 00221 57 333 87.
well...if you're signing up for anything online...leaving your email address in plain sight anywhere...or using any microsoft products...it's probably one of those three...
well it has to be mcfee anti virus / spywear stuff cos i didnt have any stuff till i signed up with them last month They have sorted out my spyware / addware / virus problems but i dont sppreciate them giving out my addy to weirdos, especially since i paid a monthly fee to have their protection
Damn! i wonder where its come from then? The only thing i can think of is ebay? but they're ok yeh? *confuddled*
more than likely...it's just people that go onto forums and find addresses they can send to... some people just hit every single email address they can think of...more often than not it doesn't work...but sometimes it does
I got one of those emails a while back only it was from a doctor in africa who's patient had all this money and blah blah so i sent back an email with loads of grief.....It made me feel better.....briefly. These emails where actually on the news because the cunts have managed to scam thousands from stupid ppl already lol.
It wouldn't be from McAfee or Ebay. Just as a tip, create a bogus email account that you use for signing up for things whenever you sign up for any kind of website or service. You need to protect your address if you don't want to get spam. As Josie says, there are spiders which crawl across the whole internet hoovering up every email address they can find ... like from our MSN directory for instance. Most websites (though probably not the bigger ones like McAfee or Ebay) will sell their databases and you will end up on a spammer's list. May I just remind you ... much fun can be had with these scammers. Create a Yahoo email account and reply to them from it. I say again: www.419eater.com
I had one of these a couple of months back, and my name didn't even appear on the the mail so I was totally confused as to how it had turned up in my mailbox. I complained to NTL, our broadband supplier that their mail server was sending me other peoples mail. The reply I got back was that there was a hidden cc list, (this was Outlook Express) with literally thousands of names - the sender just seemed to have picked common name combinations and had multiple entries for the same name, ie Claire 1, Claire 2, etc, on basically a hit or miss basis. Presumably this was computer generated. Ths gist of this is that they may never have got your e-mail address directly - once they know the mail address format, there can only be a finite number of combinations. This response may be NTL bullshit - they certainly weren't going to do anything about stopping the mails, but it did seem plausible. Flower's, dear heart
