What a scam

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From: NOSA
To: nseptoff@backpacker.com
Cc:
Date: Fri, Mar 14th 2003 17:29:45
Subject:

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REPLY TO: nosainvest1@rediffmail.com

FROM: MR NOSA
COUNTRY: (BENIN REPUBLIC)

Please, kindly call me MR NOSA for now, though this is
not my complete name. I will give you my full name later.
I am in a hide out now in BENIN REPUBLIC, a Country in
West African. I have Large sum of money for INVESTMENT.
The money is in Millions of U.S. dollars. I cannot move
about freely now for reasons i will explain to you later.
I need Your help urgently for both SAFE KEEPING and
INVESTING this money in your country. You are one of the
three email contacts given to me by a Cyber Cafe' operator
on my request for a foreign contact. She did not tell me
your name or country of origin. Though I did not tell
her why I needed the contact of any foreigner.

Because of the urgent and confidential nature of this
business, you are advised to keep everything secret for
now. if you are interested in doing this business with me,
kindly reply immediately on my email Address. After that,
i will send you all the verifiable details about the
business, my family, my name and telephone number.
You may if you so wish call on my satellite phone:
+88216-52002447

Thanks while waiting for your immediate reply.

MR NOSA(For the Family).”

“Maple, these have been coming in under the guises of several countries, usually in Africa) for quite sometime now. The wording has been a little different, but the message is the same. Ignore it report it as spam.”

“You better help him out mapleleaf..sounds like he needs you”

“Just sign Binks' name to the check, hun!”

“I knowa lil girl with cancer that wants you to mail 15,000 get well cards to monkeys in the congo..it's her dying wish..please help her...DUH!”

“whats a matter opie, daddy take away your little tonka trucks and you have nothing to play with?”

“your the one that works for someone else, with no drive to put forth the extra effort at work, therefore bombarding a backpacking site with e-mail scams and other trivial bullcrap that have been circulating since '94 and probably didn't even come from the source but one of your buddies that forwarded it, or a mass e-mailer from a list you've signed up for. You trying to talk down to me doesn't upset me or bother me. Your just bits of data wasted over the WWW.”

“I dont get you opie, iyou seem to be bothered by threads that I start. then why bother posting pon them. i mean really, grow up. go find your grown up anme and stop riding daddy coat tail.
or better yet got to a RAVE.
or what did you bang a ho last night and she dropped the ashtray while you were screwing her?
I feel so sorry for you. in all your photos there are none of you smiling. but then again if i was you I would have nothing to smile at.”

“opie, your one man bullie bashing is OLD very old, grow up please!”

“Well lovely for any of you thinking of purchasing Gift Cards...apparently there are human debris out there copying down the numbers then checking to see if they are activated...then they empty the cards with online purchases.

I am sorry but I place this in the same category as Identifty Theft. The Punishment?

1. Loss of any credit rating for a period of 20 years after conviction.
2. Repayment of 10 times the amount of money stolen.
3. The injured party will have the right to, at some undetermined and random time, enter the criminal's dwelling (or where they be staying) and relieve the person of any items, money or possessions as they see fit. If they damaged person sees a new car...they get it free and clear, they can take it ALL or what they want.”

“Sounds good to me.”

“wow, they come up with some stuff. I never even thought about that! [not that I would think about anything illegal]

I thought you have to scratch of the number, shame on you if you get a card that already has the number scratch off.”

“i thought they worked like a debit card and you needed the pin to use them.”

“You know Jimmy that amazes me too...I mean you would think that they would assign a random PIN when you get the bill (like car washes at gas stations).”

“poop”

“Got two gift cards for Sears. All the clerk at Sears had to do was slide the cards through the credit card groove, and the value was gone.”

“Thanks from a Sears Holdings Corp employee Chicagomark.

You're helping to make my bonus! More gear for me :-)”

“It's not identity theft, it's just theft.”

“So HPM...you are advocating giving the thieves a break?”

“Yes I am.

Broken knees and broken hands.”

“Ah sorry my bad...thought you were someone else...(LOL)”