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Author Topic: Most Illiterate Fraud Email Ever ? Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-21-2003 04:38 PM                     [This email was sent to my wife, who doesn't even have a Citi-bank account. I xx'd her email address.--Gerard] Dear Citbiank Cleints, This e-mail was ssent by the Citicards serevrs to veerify your email addres. You must comlptee this process by clicking on the link below and enntering in the small window your Citi-bank ATM/Debit Card nummber and Card Pin that you use on local Atm. That is done for your pecotrtion -c- because some of our memebrs no lngeor have acsces to their email adrseesds and we must verify it. To veerify your e-mail address and access your Citbiank account, klick on the link below. If ntohing hapneps when you clic on the link -L copie and paste the link into the addres bar of your web broswer. http://www.citibank.com/?3pzcXECLctG84LqN458UvZ1vXjtP6Iua93m7HZTUtz2ylumpzv --------------------------------------------- Thank you for using Citibank! --------------------------------------------- This automatic email sent to: xxxxxxxxxx@zzz.com Do not reply to this email. k5ulArGTtMCLYLPkTykM  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-21-2003 05:06 PM                     This is getting to be a pretty common scam: a supposed 'account verification' where you are supposed to go to a realistic looking dummy site and fill out various forms. If you do any serious amount of stuff on eBay, as I do (100% positive feedback, thank you very much!) you get two or three of these things a week. When you click on the url link, you get directed to a dummy site that someone set up with eBay logos and similar boxes where you are supposed to enter your log-in and password, credit card number, checking and savings account numbers, ATM machine PIN codes, and basically surrender your whole financial identity. Usually, I just type EAT SHIT and FUCK YOU in all the boxes and hit 'submit'. I encourage others to do the same.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-21-2003 06:43 PM                        Seems legit to me! Then again, I am an idiot.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-21-2003 10:10 PM                    Did you ever get your share of those millions from Nigeria, Joe?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-21-2003 10:18 PM                     I would be tempted to reply, "come and speak to me at my office regarding my Citibank account; you can then talk it over with my Ithaca pump shotgun." Perhaps it might be a tad bit cruel to have the attitude, but honestly these kind of thieves deserve a good shotgun blast --at least on their ass cheeks as they're trying to escape.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-22-2003 08:20 AM                        They were saying on the radio a few days ago that the 419 scam is now Nigeria's second biggest foreign currency earner after oil. This implies that some folks somewhere are actually falling for it, still, after all the publicity the scam has now had. Scary...  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 12-22-2003 08:28 AM                     If you want to see more of these kind of e-mails. Check out www.snopes.com  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-22-2003 08:29 AM                        well, at least they're better written and more logically sound than gerard's example! "pecotrtion"??  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 12-22-2003 08:32 AM                     Don't these people believe in spellcheck?  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-22-2003 06:29 PM                     I knew a guy who fell for one of these scams. Until the day he died, he was still totally convinced that he would see his million dollars, plus 10 million profit, to the point that he was arranging a bank loan to send 50 grand to hurry up the payment.  |  IP: Logged

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