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Saturday, October 26, 2013

I'll be jumping right on that

This is an email I received the other day --
NOTIFICATION OF YOUR FUNDS‏

FROM THE DESK OF LORD ADAIR TURNER
CHAIRMAN, FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (FSA).

It has come to our notice via our central monitoring computer that your huge fund has been credited in your name for transfer with a London Bank.

Under the stipulated enabling Law of the Government of Great Britain and Wales and other Commonwealth States, any huge fund that has been found in our computer system waiting to be transferred without claims for a period of 6 months or less, shall be confiscated and forfeited to the Government of Great Britain and Wales.

We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately with your personal data such
Your full name and address
Your Company's name and position if any
Your present occupation
You mobile phone number

For ratification, processing and re-validation of your payment file within the 5 working days of this notice or consider your fund confiscated.

We appreciate your urgent co-operation.

LORD ADAIR TURNER,
CHAIRMAN, FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (FSA).
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
I certainly don't want "the Government of Great Britain and Wales" to confiscate my "huge fund"!

Damnit! I waited more than five days!

5 comments:

B. Prokop said...

He who hesitates...

By the way, love the imaginary country "Great Britain and Wales" - ain't no such animal. Now there is a Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If only the scammer had actually read the Wikipedia article he was cribbing from...

Ilíon said...

"... ain't no such animal."

That's one of the things I found humorous about it.

Are there *really* people who fall for these things?

B. Prokop said...

"Are there *really* people who fall for these things?"

That's a good question. I can't say that I've ever heard of anyone doing so, but there must be some dopes who do. Otherwise, the scammers would have moved on to some other con a long time ago.

I remember reading once that no scam of this sort succeeds without the active and willing participation of the victim. He has to be greedy enough to want a "huge fund" to accidentally fall into his lap, or he wouldn't respond. He may even understand that taking advantage of some imagined computer glitch in order to gain undeserved wealth would be essentially stealing from someone else, but thinks he can get away with it, and therefore suppresses his better nature, essentially becoming part of the con (i.e., he thinks he's conning the other guy).

Drew said...

I thought the part about great Britain and Wales was the most believable part about it. And it has no typos. This email is way better than most of these scams.

Ilíon said...

It may not have typos, but the grammar needs polishing.

Interestingly, (according to the Wicked-pedia) there is a "Lord Adair Turner", and he was chairman of the UK's "Financial Services Authority" -- which was abolished in March of this year.