#1 Excuse for Programmers slacking off
This is one is via XKCD.
Too bad this is no longer applicable to scripted/interpreted languages like PHP, Python and Ruby ...
- Family
- Friends
- Nokat نكت
- Writings
- Technology
- Places
- Interests
- Miscellany
Email Scam: BMW 5 Series car and lottery winning
Another scam claiming that I won a BMW 5 series car and a cash prize of 1 millon pound!
From: BMW Automobile <lottery10@mchsi.com>
To undisclosed-recipients <>
Date Aug 14, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject Reference Number BMW:2551256003/23BMW
Automobiles
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs, PE9 2YP, London
United Kingdom
Dear Winner,
Email scam: Advance fee fraud: Nigerian official
Contents:
Another classic scam claiming a corrupt Nigerian official has amassed a fortune and entrusted the scammer with a portion of it.
This one includes links to real people and events to lend legitimacy to the claim.
Email scam: Winning the Japan Email lottery
Another variant, claiming to be the Japan email lottery, although the address provided is in Beijing, China.
Also note that recent scam has a note for keeping the winning confidential. This is used as an escape route for the scammers when someone gets suspicious or contacts the police, they say that you have breeched the confidentiality clause, and hence are not eligible anymore for the award amount.
Email scam: Winning the Australian lottery jack pot
Contents:
Yet another variant of the scam, winning a lottery, this time claimed to be from Australia.
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 01:16:14 +0200 (MEST)
From: "australialoto08@terra.es" <australialoto08@terra.es>
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! YOUR E-MAIL WON AUSTRALIA JACK POTVisions of Australia logo
Email scam: Platinum Lottery International, South African Lottery, FIFA
Contents:
This is yet another variant of the winning a lottery scam.
From: "henry don" <inter_24q@hotmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
Subject: YOU HAVE WON $2,950,000.00
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:10:14 +0200
henry don inter_24q@hotmail.comPLATINUM LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
Religious freedom: Tajikistan forbids hijab, Azerbaijan burns beards
Contents:
While Tajikistan universities ban hijab for women, Azerbaijan police burns the beards of men growing them.
Sometimes, the focus on religious freedom issues of Muslims is on Western countries, where there are indeed issues, but let us not forget that despotic regimes in Muslim countries do the same too.
Email scam: Rich person dying wants help collecting assets from abroad
Contents:
Another scam, about an alleged rich person dying, and wants to give money to charity. He has large sums of money abroad, and wants you to collect the money on his behalf.
In this case, it is a Bahrian citzen, dying from cancer.
From : tscabo <tscabo@netcabo.pt>
Date: Aug 7, 2007 2:38 PM
Subject: Hello,I am khalid mahmoud, A Bahrain national I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer.
It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live.
Email Scam: Advance Fee Fraud in French
Another advance fee fraud, this time in French.
From: Hon. Barrister Ahmed Saleh <drhossan1@hotmail.com>
Reply-to: chiibock1@yahoo.fr
Date: Aug 6, 2007 1:27 PM
Subject: RE : message très confidentiel svp
NowPublic raises $10.6 million in venture capital
Contents:
NowPublic, a citizen journalism web site, raised US $10.6 million in venture capital financing. NowPublic is also expanding its partneship with Associated Press.
Time magazine has put NowPublic on the top 50 websites for 2007.
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