Beneficiaries Ref/Payments Code: 06654

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From: COMPENSATION OF SCAM VICTIM - info@unifran.br
Reply-to: mrsamsteven10@paysandu.com (A completely different address, neither of which looks official in any way, shape or form!)
Subject: BENEFICIARIES REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654

SCAMMED VICTIM/521 BENEFICIARIES REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 $400,000.00 USD
ONLY

This is to bring to your notice that I am a delegate from the United Nations to The IMF (International Monetary Fund) West Africa (Red flag - a large percentage of scams are out of West Africa - specifically Nigeria) Regional Payment Office to pay 521 scam victims $400,000.00 USD (Four Hundred Thousand Dollars only) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount,get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $400,000 USD compensations (...compensations?) funds.On this faithful recommendations (...on this faithful recommendations? Seriously?), I want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lost of funds by various individual to scam artist operating in syndicates all over the world today (...wait...what? I'm not even sure what they're trying to convey here, it's written so poorly.).

In other to compensate these victims, the U.N Body is now paying 521 victims of this operators $400,000.00 USD each in accordance with the U.N .recommendations. Due to the corrupt and in-efficient Banking Systems in Federal Republic of Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by UN officials sitting at IMF(International Monetary Fund) West Africa Regional Payment Office as corresponding payment center under funding assistance by United Nation body (United Nation body? Odd, I thought it was the United Nations...). According to the number of applicants at hand, 284 Beneficiaries has been paid, (Why is beneficiaries capitalized, and why does the sentence end with a comma?)

half of the victims are from the United States, and we still have more 237 left to be paid the compensations of $400,000.00 USD each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message (Translation - don't tell anyone we're trying to scam you by posing as the UN trying to help scam victims...) to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. Secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been Contacted (...more random capitalization...) can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

Send Your Full Name/telephone number/your correct mailing address/country/sex/occupation. (...so you know who I am and that I'm a scam victim...but you don't have any of this info? And, you need to know my gender? What the hell for?!)

To HSBC BANK Representative: Mr Sam Steven (Seriously? Do they think this sounds like a real name???)
Email: mrsamsteven10@paysandu.com
Tel: +2348130448078

Please you are advice (oooh...I'm advice to, huh?) to stop any communication with any person or Body (...got it - don't communicate with any bodies. How does one communicate with a body by email?) that you are currently paying money to due to transaction which you have online with the person.Please let us know right now via email or telephone your present dealing online,so we can help you verify the authenticity of the transaction which you are presently involved in,so you don't get scammed.

Please also send me prof of payment (...prof of payment? Oh, I get it. Send you my financial info so you can protect me...surely you're honest and won't try to help yourself to funds...) in any previous scam.If you still have any,(optional).

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you. (...feed me with modalities? I wonder of those come with fries...)

Do feel free to call me any time on my telephone number.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Sam Steven
United Nation Representative
http://www.un.org/sg

Predictably idiotic Nigerian scam. Horrid use of the English language, various emails that don't even come close to looking official, and the promise of piles of money. You would think that they'd at least try to write effectively if they're going to try this. I say, keep 'em coming, boys...I have way too much fun with these.

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Evaluation Officer/Staff Support

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From: Peter werner Agency - recruitment@werneragency.com (Hmm...most people capitalize their own name...)
Reply-to: peter.werner586@gmail.com (A completely different address...odd...)
Subject: Evaluation Officer/Staff Support
NOTE: Please if you are receiving this email for the second time, reply again

Position Title: Evaluation officer /Staff Support
Hours per week: up to 20- 32
Pay Category: Paid

Company Information:

Peter werner Agency,is a full service production and management firm committed to the implementation of technicaland creative improvement in various companies. The services we provide include: evaluation and continuous improvement exercises about our client ( corporate organization) (First clue this isn't legit? The horrendous grammar used by the scammer.)

Job Responsibilities:

There have been reports about lapses in the services of the Management and some of their staffs,the complaints were based on reports which their customers forwarded anonymous Phone calls which were also made to the head office.The Western union locations were reported for evaluation because of Negligence and other reasons. (Staffs? Phone is capitalized? Negligence is capitalized? Loads of improper grammar? Red flags a-plenty here.)

PAYMENT TERMS:
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Your payment would be $250.00 per duty. Also the company is in charge of providing you with all expense money for the shopping and other expenses involved during the course of your assignment.

All the tools you will need would be provided to you with details every week you have an assignment. (Fake mystery shopping scams like this are quite prevalent. You're sent a check, told to deposit it, keep your $250 in this case, and send the balance back via Western Union. Anything - I repeat, anything that asks for money to be returned or money to be sent via Western Union is a scam!)

JOB DESCRIPTION:
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1} When an assignment is given to you, you would be provided details to execute the assignment and in a timely fashion.

2} You would be asked to visit a company or store in your area and they are mostly our competitors as a secret shopper and shop with them to know more about their sales and stock , cost sales and more details as provided by the company then report back to us with report. But anything you buy at the shop belongs to you. All we want is an effective/quick job and reports. (Report back with a report? Still more grammar fails?)

ASSIGNMENT PACKET:
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Before any assignment we would provide you with the resources needed {cash} Mostly our company would send you a check which you can cash and use for the assignment.Then we would be providing you details on here. But you follow all information given to you as a secret shopper. (And here's the scammy part. We'll send you money, you keep your part and send us the rest...the checks sent out are actually fake - you end up sending them money, then being held responsible by the bank for a fraudulent check! Please beware this type of scam!)

You can earn more which involves nothing more than shopping at a number of selected retailers and assessing their customer service and reporting back. The company will like to have your direct contact phone number to enable fast contact/communication.

You are requested to confirm the following Information. (Ok, so I need to confirm it...which means you already have it...but you're asking for it...um...what the....? I'm thinking that if you want to hire me, you should already know who I am, and you wouldn't need this...)

REQUESTED INFORMATION
******************************

**
First Name:
Middle Name:
Last Name:
Address (P.O Box not accepted):
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Telephone:
Fax:
Age: (Side note here - it is illegal for ANY employer to ask your age. Period. This line alone is a dead give-away.)
Current Occupation:
********************************

I will keep you POSTED and i will want you to ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT of any message(s) received by you. (Why is this person screaming the words POSTED and ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT at me? Geez.)

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation in order to start work soon . (Since when is cooperation hyphenated, and why is there a space between soon and the period? Grammar fail after fail after fail!)

Peter werner Agency (Again...a company that doesn't capitalize its name?)

(Never ever accept payment with the condition of returning part of the monies to the employer! I may have a little fun with this one, and respond...I'd love to know why they're asking for my age, when it's illegal to do so. Updates to come, if anything amusing occurs. *evil grin*)

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Business Enquiry

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From: Shunji Takeshi - yuh5256221@gmail.com
Reply-to: shunjitakeshi@aol.com
Subject: Business Enquiry
Hello,
This is to invite you to an investment opportunity involving a lucrative business proposal for a common interest to share with you. (Seriously? The sentence structure here tells me this person *might* not be well-versed in the English language.)

I am Mr. Shunji Takeshi from Hong Kong. This concerns the transfer of a large amount of money (Here we go...a large sum of money for absolutely no reason...). Everything about this transaction shall be legally done without any problem (If this is a "legal" transaction he's proposing, I'm the Queen of England...). Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.

If you are interested, mail back, through my private Email address, written above, (Ending a sentence with a comma? Sure, that makes it seem even more legit...)

I shall give you more informations (Informations? Funny, I thought the word was information...)about this proposal, as soon as I receive your positive response.

Kind Regards,

Mr.Shunji Takeshi.

(Yet another scammer trying to sound like there's a legitimate large sum of money somewhere with my name on it. The poor writing as well as the different from and reply-to email addresses give it away, too. Remember that old saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is? Always sound advice when these emails show up.)

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Greetings please help me.

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Subject: Greetings please help me.
From: Barbara Cole bcole@o2.co.uk
Reply-to: bcole013@yahoo.co.jp (Hmm...completely different from the sender's email address...)
I'm Barbara Cole, I'm 15 years old girl (Seriously?) I live in Bolton UK (With a reply-to address at a .jp (Japan) domain?) before my Dad passed away in a car accident 3 years ago, I now live with my step mum in Warrington, My mum died immediately she gave birth to me. My late Dad Mr.Norman Cole was a big business man in UK before he died in a car accident 2007 I am the only child of my Dad, he died 3 days after the accident so he Will all his life savings to me, I have been trying to collect the funds from the bank but the bank MD CEO refused, he said I should present someone old enough so he can transfer the funds to the person that I can’t be in control of the huge amount of funds because I am still a teenage (You're a teenage, huh? Funny, I thought the word was teenager...) and it is against the UK law. (Love the lack of punctuation in this intro.)
I would have told my step mum to assist me in collecting the funds from the bank but she is not a good woman, my Dad warned me about her before he died, now that I live with her I now understand that what my Dad said about her was true, because she don’t give me attention she don’t care if I am alright or not, all she do is to take hard drugs and bring different men to the house (I have never heard a Brit speak like this...I'm pretty sure the English use proper English grammar for the most part...). I don’t want to have anything to do with her. If I get her involved in this she will use all the funds to take hard drugs. All I wish for right now is someone old enough and honest to help me collect my funds from the bank as I am still a teenage (there it is again...she's a teenage...love it!) and it is against the UK law. Why I can't wait until i am 18 years is because what my step mum is doing to me is not fair and i don't want her to Influence (...and the word influence is capitalized why?) me with her bad life style i just wan't to live so i can live a better life.

I know we don’t know each other but please I need your help if you can assist me to collect the funds from the bank I will give you 50% out of the funds, Then you will help me invest my 50% until I am 18 and I will be staying with you or you will get somewhere for me to stay until I am 18 years old. (Money and she's going to live with me? Wow...funny...I don't recall extending that invitation...)

If you agree to help me, I will send you a copy of the Will and my picture so you will know me, and I will send you the contact of the Bank and tell you how much is the funds so you can contact them, and I will inform the bank that you will contact them that you are the person that want to help me. (And I'm positive that the photo will be real...lol)

I will be waiting for your urgent reply so I can send you the contact of the bank and my father’s Will and death certificate.

Please this letter has to be confidential,and I need your 100% trust and loyalty because the lawyer I got involved wanted to made away with the money (...he wanted to made away with it, huh? Not make away with it?), so I told the bank not to transfer the funds to him, I already promised to give you half of the funds so please be honest with me. (Ooh...be honest with you because you're so honest with me?)

If you are interested please reply me (...reply you? Really? Simple grammar, here...or lack thereof...) on my email: bcole013@yahoo.co.jp.
Best Regards
Barbara Cole

This one is downright brimming with cute little red scam flags. If this email was actually written by a 15-year old English girl, then why the hell can't she speak English?!

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United Nations Foundation Programmed

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from: Stockberger Gretchen G: StockbergerG@uhv.edu
reply to: mrsshannonmaris@undpgrants.org
subject: UNDP Grant Programmed
YOUR EMAIL HAS WON $1,000,000.00USD IN THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION PROGRAMMED (...in the programmed, huh?). TO RECEIVE YOUR AWARD SEND YOUR NAME, NUMBER AND COUNTRY (...if I won something, shouldn't you already have that?) TO Mrs. Shannon Maris ON EMAIL: mrsshannonmaris@undpgrants.org

All response mail should go to: mrsshannonmaris@undpgrants.org

Regards,
Chairman UNDP PROGRAMMED
Yet another scam, if it's not obvious. You want my info, but you say I've won some sort of amazing prize. Riiiiight. And I believe the word they were looking for here was "program," not "programmed." Remember - poor grammar is a red flag.

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Netherlands Finance Monetary Control Unit

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from: mr kenny Maxwell: gerardmaxwell12011@live.com
reply-to: gerard.maxwell1@aol.com
subject: YOUR URGENT ATTENTION!!!
Good Day Friend,

My name is Gerard Kenny Maxwell, I work with the Finance
Monetary Control Unit here in The Netherlands, we are responsible for checking
foreign account holders in all the different banks here in Netherlands. I
found your e-mail contact through my Country’s international Web directory.
During our last annual inspections of all the various accounts bank (various accounts bank? Wouldn't that be various bank accounts?) here in The Netherlands, my department found a score to settle with a huge sum of U.S. $10,500,000.00 (Ten million five hundred U.S. Dollar(there's supposed to be an "s" on Dollars, you morons.)) which was deposited by the now deceased Mr. Jerry R. Williams, an Australian citizen.

From My investigations I discovered that the late Jerry R. Williams has no
beneficiary or next of kin to claim his funds (U.S.$10.500.000,00) and the law
of my country here in Netherlands is that when an account is inactive for more
than eight 8 years the Authority has the right to confiscate the funds. This
funds are about to be confiscated if I do not take advantage of it. This is
why I am contacting you to partner me in this once in a life-time business
opportunity. All you need to do is to stand as the next of kin to the decease;
my lawyer will process and provide all the relevant documents to that effect
and the money will be transferred to your account in your country so that we
can share it and invest it in profitable businesses.
All I need from you is for us to work together – just follow my instructions
and strategy, and l will provide all the relevant information and
documentations that will allow the said funds get transferred into your bank
account legally without an hitch (without AN hitch, huh?) or a problem. I will give you the full
explanation of this Business after you reply this email.(gerard.maxwell1@aol.

com)
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Kindly reply this e-mail by writing directly to my private email:gerard.maxwell1@aol.com

Best regards,
Kenny Maxwell

Any time someone claims to work for some important financial office overseas, BEWARE! It's clearly a scam! They will promise you millions, for just a small fee to release the funds to you...then they'll need a little more...and a little more...but trust me; your millions are never forthcoming.

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$24.5 Million Business Proposal

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from Mr. David: david@hangsengbank.com.hk via lh.pl
reply-to: davidc0511@live.com
subject: HIGreetings,
I have a business proposal of US$24.5milliion for you to handle with me from my bank. (suuuuure you do...) Please email me for more details. (I'll get right on that...) David

So some person I don't know from some bank I've never heard of wants to include me in a major business deal worth millions. Um...really? Not.

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Crude Oil License Agent Needed

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from Engr. Frank Thabi v.gwa@btconnect.com
reply-to: frankthabi1@mynet.com
subject: Crude Oil License Agent NeededHello,

I choose to reach you through e-mail, as it is the fastest medium of communication irrespective (irrespective? nice word choice here.) of the fact that it has been greatly abused. I deem it necessary to introduce you to a lucrative business opportunity. I'm talking of crude oil trading! This is considered as the most legitimate and fastest money making machinery anyone can setup.

A crude oil "lifting license" gives the owner the mandate of the National Oil Company (Suppliers of the crude oil), to locate crude oil buyers and arrange a buy/sale crude oil transaction between the oil company and the crude oil buyers. The "lifting license" syndrome came into place because the national oil company does not deal directly with the buyers of the crude oil rather; they prefer to issue oil "lifting license allocations" to individuals/companies to assist them to market the crude oil which they produce. Anyone that owns an ?lifting license" from the local National Oil Company is entitle d to a $2.00 commission from the oil company on each barrel of crude sold to the buyer and another $1. 00 commission from the buyer. In total, oil lifting license owners receives a $3.00 commission on each barrel of crude sold by the oil company. Please note that the commission rates of $2.00 and $1.00 normally increases in times of crude oil scarcity.

The smallest license allocation/quantity one can procure from the National Oil Company is for the sale of 500,000 barrels of crude monthly/per transaction. This implies that 500,000 barrels of crude oil will be assigned to the license owner for sale per month. This allocation size will earn the license owner about ($3.00 multiply by 500,000 barrels) which is $1.5 million gross commissions monthly. If one is lucky to secure a bigger allocation that means you will be earning more commissions monthly. These commissions will be calculated and paid to the license at the end of the sales transaction.

In case you decide to invest in this money spinning project (what the heck is a money spinning project, exactly?); I will personally reveal to you a well packaged procedure to acquire an oil lifting license. I will personally assist you to locate the buyers of the crude oil and facilitate the sales transactions for you while the resulting commissions will be wired into your overseas nominated banking co-ordinates as the license owner. You need a "seller agent" to assist you to sale the crude since you are alien to this business and do not know the buyers for the crude oil and also because you are not locally resident here.

Feel free to ask for clarifications.

Engr. Frank Thabi

Seriously, folks - if something sounds too good to be true, it is. The terrible grammar alone should be a tip-off. ~BlueDragonfly

Update - I received this one again today. Sorry, "Frank;" I didn't fall for it the first time, I'm not going to fall for it the second time!

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Confirm Bank Transfer...

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Reply-to: efax50500@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: Confirm Bank Transfer
Hello,

I am Mr.Harold Matthews,an American citizen presently working as a special
agent to Nigerian (Huge red flag if the mismatching email addresses weren't. If it's out of Nigeria, it's most likely a scam!) Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), a team setup by the
president of Nigeria to monitor all pending internationl (misspellings are a sign, too) funds transfer files and Suspicious (random capitalization is just as bad) transaction reports.

I have an urgent information ("an urgent information?" Pretty good sign that this person isn't well versed in English) which you might find very useful. Following an investigation that was carried out by my office,I have discovered that there are some long overdue payment presently here in Nigeria yet to be claimed. These funds have been processed in your name and should be
released to you as soon as possible in line with our financial instrument. But we are realizing that the earlier documents validating this sum in your name has been re written or altered.

Furthermore, there is a supporting document here from one Mr.Edward Doan who told us that he is your legal representative and that you have given him the right to file for the funds on your behalf.

To enable me confirm the status of the information i have for you, I need you to re confirm the account details below, this is what we have for the funds processed in your name in c/o Edward Doan and the transfer will be effected by Monday 1st August 2011 13:00 Hrs.

Bank Details:
Huntington National Bank
340 S. Main St. Franklin,Ohio 45005
USA
Account Name: Edward A. Doan
Account Number: 02148447293
Routing: 042215060

We want to hear from you before we can append our signature on the transfer and to also know if you authorize the transfer of your funds to the account mentioned above.

When I hear from you, then I can put my investigations together and make conclusions. But from what I have here, it seems as though your financial entitlements in Nigeria is being redirected for personal interest by illegal means and you will aid us by giving me a brief on your dealings when previously trying to process release of your funds. (What? Oh, my...the genius just shines through on this paragraph...)

Kindly get back to me on my e-mail address: efax50500@yahoo.com.hk

And please keep this confidential to enable me work effectively in your favour (translation: don't tell anyone I'm trying to scam you). When I hear from you, I will prove my personality to you so as to satisfy your worries and to be at liberty to furnish me with the required information.

Regards,
Mr.Harold Matthews

(Typical Nigerian scammer trying to make a buck. Don't fall for these things, please! The fact that they emailed an "account number" is another red flag. Who, in their right mind, would email something as sensitive as that?)

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Lucky Internet User...

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Subject: Congratulations Your winning Reference is: Ref:MSN1/10yI/05 Won £500,000.00
From: Microsoft Award Team - info@award.com (So it's from Microsoft, but without a Microsoft email address?)Reply-to: perryjohn1@xnmsn.com

You have won £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling ) MICROSOFT Internet User Promo held on the 1ST of April,2011 in Manchester.United Kingdom.Your winning Reference # is:Ref:MSN1/10yI/05. Your Email address was picked as the Lucky Internet User for the promo among (6)other Internet User Worldwide. To redeem your Cash Prize/Transfer process,Kindly Call the Phone Number (+44-701-114-8219) (Typical of Nigerian scammers to use fake numbers with the 44 country code) of the Promo Manager (Dr. Perry John) and contact him via e-mail below:

Dr.Perry John
TEL:+44-701-114-8219
Email;perryjohn1@xnmsn.com

You are therefore advice (I am therefore advice, huh? Sure...)to complete the below information to him for verification:1.Full Name:2.Full Address: 3.Status:4.Occupation:5.Age
6.Sex:7.Country:8.Mobile Number.9.Winning Ref:MSN1/10yI/05
Congratulations,
Mrs.Tracy Barbara

One final thought on this one. Take a close look at the names. Scammers often make up names using two first names, hoping that the names pass for English ones. Guess what...they don't. Perry John? Tracy Barbara? Really? These idiots make this almost too easy to spot. More to come soon!

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Electronic Award Notification

Blue's Comment: Love the punctuation on this one - classic!

Subject: Reward Program Beneficiary (Vital Information Included)
From: Global E-Services Promotions reachsean-nolan02@att.netReply-to: enquirydept.kenwaters@live.nl

RE: NOTIFICATION OF ELECTRONIC AWARD

Felicitation,,, You have been selected as the Grand recipient of the Global E-Services Reward Program. This entitles you to receive 2.5, million. Particulars of your award information is stated below:

Felicitation?  Yup - that's a common colloquial greeting...

Reference Number: DLA-1E4
E-ticket Number: 0902180037/A6
Amount: 2,500,000.00 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars)

You are to establish contact with the Enquiry Officer via the e-mail address below with the information's necessary such as your - Name:, Address:, Phone/Fax:, Cell Phone:, Email:, Alternative Email:, Occupation:, and E-ticket number:

Enquiry officer's contact details: Kenneth Waters, Tel: +31-616-481-569, E-Mail: [enquirydept.kenwaters@live.nl]

NOTE: You are expected to contact the Enquiry Officer for details of claims.

Yours faithfully,

Molly Murray
Promotions Co-ordinator

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Everyone loves Spam...

...right? Wait...the email kind, or the canned meat-food product kind? Actually, I'm referring to the email kind. Over the past several months, I've noticed an increase in the desperate emails from some banker in some foreign country who just has to talk to me right away about some delivery....of millions of dollars.

First of all, I find them hilarious. Seriously, if you're going to try to scam someone, at least do a spell-check on your email! Not only are these emails filled with bad grammar, but the story lines of these things are always entertaining.

I had the thought that perhaps, by posting these works of literary genius in a blog, I could prevent a victim - just one - from falling for these. So here you have it...the Daily Spam.

Now, granted, I may not post daily, but at the very least, weekly. And I'm sure there will be no shortage of material. So check back often when you need a laugh, or have nothing better to do.

And please...if you find this site while looking for info on a questionable email you've received, please leave a comment and let me know that my efforts are worthwhile!

Enjoy!