The absolute dumbest spam e-mail I've ever received

TechS

TechS

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Nov 29, 2011
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I am writing you to introduce a business proposal. we get this
transaction done by working out the best way we can get the needed
funds put together to finance this business. First, I also want to let
you know that this is legal and real transaction, So I give you 100%
guarantee that you will not PAY ANY FEE OR UPFRONT PAYMENT AT ALL FROM
YOUR SIDE. I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO YOU NOW THAT, THERE IS NO
UPFRONT PAYMENT, IF ANY FEES, EXPENSES OCCURRED, WITH MY PERSONALITY,
MY FINANCIER WILL HANDLE IT.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through. Reply with your full address and telephone number so that I
will prepare the paper work and issue you the terms and conditions.
Note that this is legal and you will not be required to pay any
upfront expenses.

Mr George Woods
 


It sounds incredibly dumb, but in reality it's not. You, I, and 90% of the people here would never fall for it, but a lot of people will.

Lots of people are jobless and are desperate for money. They hear about people making money online and want a part of it. It's the whole reason bizops are so successful. However, people are really leery of advanced fee fraud now days and that is the first thing that will pop in most peoples mind even if they don't know that's what it's called. The conman addresses that issue upfront and uses that to build confidence. For a lot of people that's the only type of fraud they know about so they let their guard down enough to at least contact them. This allows the conman to continue to build confidence by showing them they don't actually have to supply anything monetarily. By easing that fear it's a lot easier to continue the con.

There are a couple things that come to mind when thinking about what the conman is trying to get. The first thing that comes to mind is using them as a drop house. A drop house is a place you can send items you've stolen via credit card fraud, funds from another advanced fee fraud, etc. After working with them for a while they'll have built a lot of trust between themselves and the victim. If the victim doesn't get busted for their illegal activity then they will either move on to a new mark and just forget about them or they'll "cash out" the mark then move on. By "cashing out a mark" they'll hit them with advanced fee fraud and they'll more than likely fall for it even if they wouldn't have before. An example is "We switched accountants and they got some pay checks messed up. The names were right, but the amounts were wrong. You can either send the check back with void wrote on it or you can deposit it and send back the difference via western union.".

EDIT:

When recruiting people to use as drop houses at lot of conmen will actually pay them a salary. They do this to keep up the facade of running a legit business. The way they generally get people is by telling them they need them to handle US based shipping for their online business. They can give a myriad of excuses that sound reasonable to "normal" people as to why they need them to handle the packages. For example eBay users trust US based sellers more, it's easier to get the packages through customs if they're always going back and forth to the same addresses, etc.

I'm getting a salary from a real business. So it has to be legit, right?
 
Gambit said:
Methinks he doth protest too much.







...Or maybe it's some genius NLP anchoring.
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There is absolutely no anchoring going on here, unless there is some obscure experience we don't know about from the OPs perspective. To anchor you need a good story, it's got no story.
 
skohh said:
There is absolutely no anchoring going on here, unless there is some obscure experience we don't know about from the OPs perspective. To anchor you need a good story, it's got no story.
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Lol I was mostly being facetious...

But the part where he capitalized PAY ANY FEE OR UPFRONT PAYMENT sounded like when you say "don't" and then the behavior (i.e. don't HIT THAT TREE) it creates a strong image in your head of the action. Maybe that's different than anchoring. My NLP is very rusty.


And I'm likin' crackp0t's explanation much better than mine.
 
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