I got this unusual email from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen:
Janet Louise Yellen
Dear: Beneficiary,
Reply-To: mrsjanetlouiseyellen11@gmail.com
Attention: Fund Owner,
This office now understands the reason why you did not want to
complete the process in regard to this transaction of yours. We are
surprise to receive a message from unknown Woman Mrs. Donna Marie Guss
this Morning who claims to be your representative and she explain to
this office that you have an Auto Accident on the 10th of last Month
on your way back from office and after taking you to so many
Hospital’s you did not make it,
She also went ahead and explain to this office that before you pass
away that you instructed her to contact this office so that she will
pay the needed balance fee sum of $250 usd required regarding to your
transaction to able us change the ownership Name in your Document to
her Name so that the paying Bank will transfer the total fund sum of
$20,6 Million United States Dallas Twenty Million Six Hundred Thousand
Usd successfully into her local Bank Account as you can see below:
Bank Name: Wells Fargo
Bank Account 6464449591.
Routing No 121000248.
Swift BIC.WFBIUS65
Please for your information this office is waiting to hear back from
you as soon as you receive this message if you are alive. But if we
did not hear from you in regard to this message we will have to
confirm that Mrs. Donna Marie Guss is saying the truth and this office
will instruct the paying Bank to release the total fund into her Bank
Account,
From the Office of Janet Louise Yellen,
United States Secretary of the U.S.
Department of the Treasury Suite 4820
U.S. Department of State Washington, DC 20520-5820
I'd hate to leave her in suspense about my survival, after someone took me to so many Hospital's, and I could really use the $20.6 million Dallas.
5 comments:
I still have the email from several years ago. If you're interested, I can maybe broker a deal among you, Ersatz Yellen, and Muammar Gaddaffi's widow, Mariam (the fourth of his wives?), the latter whom shortly after his death emailed me in quiet desperation for help in moving billions of pounds and dollars of her inheritance out of Libya before his assassins got it, and her. All I needed to do was pass along my bank details, and I would be able to retain a substantial taste for my troubles.
The Nigerian Army Lieutenant seems to have passed into...obscurity.
Eric Hines
I recall reading that they want to make it obviously fake, so that only people with no judgement whatsoever and extreme gullibility follow up. They don't want to waste their time fooling people who will follow up and then bail after they figure out down the road it's a scam. They want that one in a thousand who is impossibly stupid, because that is where the money is.
Doesn't make much difference how much followup occurs, if that starts after the banking details have been sent. And smart folks will likely have much more in the way of assets, and they can be fooled by a quality fake. Vastly most of them won't, but it's virtually costless to put together a decent fake and mass blast it. One hit in 10,000 emails makes a tidy profit.
Eric Hines
I think the point usually is that few send anything, much less banking details, at first. You want them to send something. Your theory is sound. The fact that such appeals are never seen in practice suggests that as a practical matter they don't work better than the ridiculous ones.
As Harry Anderson used to say, "A fool and his money never should have gotten together in the first place."
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