Home Grown Spam
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We’ve all had them -emails stating you’ve won the lottery, or there’s a prize waiting for you so long as you send all your personal information to youthinkimanidiot@tryifyoucan.com and let’s not forget the woman/man who’s dying or died and left oodles of money and you.. yes you, you lucky person.. have been chosen completely at random to receive billions of dollars (it’s never pounds, is it?) into your bank account so long as you jump through hoops. Well, I received one today that is homegrown.
From no less than the Prime Minister, Mr Gordon Brown. Yes, you read that right, the PM himself has sent me an email and he’s told me that he’s sent out a visa card with 2 million pounds on it for my spending pleasure. I’m allowed to spend £5,000 a day with this card – how cool is that? And of course it’s come from the PM’s personal email address… it’s a bit odd the email, mind you… being info@mail..webster.ac.th. All I need to do to ensure I receive this money is to send my Full Name, Address, Nationality, Telephone Number, Occupation, Country, Age and Postcode to directgov@8.am and not to converse with any other person or office to avoid any hitches in my receiving this payment…. and it’s signed… yes… SIGNED .. by Rt Hon. Gordon Brown.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a copy of the full email below.
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
TREASURY AND MINISTER FOR CIVIL SERVICE, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
Our ref: ATM/13470/IDR
Your ref:…Date: 30/09/2009
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
I am The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP,Prime Minister British Government. This letter is to officially inform you that (ATM Card Number 048000101775550) has been accredited with your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 477.The VISA Card Value is £2,000,000.00(Two Million, Great British Pounds Sterling).
This office will send to you an Visa/ATM CARD that you will use to withdraw your funds in any ATM MACHINE CENTER or Visa card outlet in the world with a maximum of £5000 GBP daily.Further more,You will be required to re-confirm the following information to enable;The Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. begin in processing of your VISA CARD.
(1)Full names: (2)Address: (3)Country: (4)Nationality: (5)Phone #: (6)Age:
(7)Occupation: (8) Post Codes
Forward Reply To: directgov@8.am
TAKE NOTICE: That you are warned to stop further communications with any other person(s) or office(s) different from the staff of the State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to avoid hitches in receiving your payment.
Regards,
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Prime Minister
Of course, only a fool would fall for the above email. Or I’d like to think that to be the case. But I do have to wonder how many people do actually fall for these things and end up out of pocket themselves.
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