This was in comic sans. Comic sans!

Customers service,

Dear Sir.

( Investment inquiry on behalf of my first party client )

 

In view of the urgent and private nature of our intentions to go into a joint investment programme with your establishment, We wish and request that you forward to us the direct contact to the CEO of your Establishment.

 

I am soliciting your humble attentions to this matter as we will like to discuss the terms and conditions of his investment policies before we can commence with the perfection of documentations that will assume this venture the beneficiary of the investment funds.

 

My clients (Savimbi family) has in their the disposal the sum of twenty five million united states dollars that they wish for your venture`s co operation in securing and investing these funds into the financial system of your state without any complication, We have confidence in your investment opportunities to withstand the value of those funds for the required period of time we agree on.

 

I will also like you to treat this my humble request with integrity and confidentiality as the political system in my nation demands that we secure and invest those funds now without delay.

Please be fast to forward his e-mail addressee, mobile phone number, and direct fax line so that we can communicate with him without further delay.

We also expect you to inform and alert him of our mail.

 

Thanks and always remain blessed.

Johnson Douglas (Esq)

lugard solicitors & notary public

(On behalf of the Savimbi family)

+4470111…

Dear Laurette

I received a lovely (spam) email from ‘Laurette’ this morning. Although I’m tempted by the tequila I’m consigning this to the bin.

Laurette Khan ? [email protected]
01:57 (8 hours ago)

How’s it going pretty! 🙂
It’s Laurette.
If you are interested in spending great time in a company of funny, sex appeal woman then I am right before u!
I felt in love with ur pics and that’s why decided to send this mail! Think that u wouldn’t stay calm after checking up mine too.
So, I’m waiting for you to answer this mail and who knows we will go somewhere, drink some tequila, discuss different things and maybe I’ll invite u to visit my home! 😉

Apple Mail grrr

According to Apple – Use only this server
Indicate whether to use only the specified outgoing mail server to send messages, or use any available server. When the checkbox is not selected, Mail tries to find another available server to send messages if your specified, trusted server is unavailable.

Sadly this is not the case…

I have this box checked and still Apple Mail sends my mail from my gmail account instead of my work Exchange account – what gives?

Paramount Importance:- About Late Engr. Anthony Douglas

Dear Friend,

Before I start, I must first apologize for this unsolicited mail to you. I am
aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach in starting a
relationship, but as time goes you will realize the need for my action. I cannot
imagine the surprise this will bring to you, but please be rest assured is with
good faith and intentions from a friend in dare need of your assistance to
assist me transfer the inheritance sum of US$8.5M (Eight Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) into your account or company’s account, in
which God will bless you for rendering a helping Hand to others.

My name is Barr. Richard Bilton, An Attorney at Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria
(SAN).I am the personal Attorney to Late Engr. Anthony Douglas, A National of
your country, who used to work with Chevron Development Company in Nigeria.
Herein after shall be referred to as my Client. On the 21st of April 2006, my
client, his wife and their three children were involved in a fatal car Accident
along Sagamum Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost
their lives. Since then I have made several inquires to the Embassy to locate
any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his name over the
Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property Left behind by my
client before they get confiscated or declared Unserviceable by the bank where
these huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the Bank manager where the deceased had an account valued at
about (US$8.5M) Eight Million Five Hundred United States Dollars has issued me a
notice to provide the Next of Kin or Have the Account confiscated within the
next 21 working days.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
for over some months now,I then seek your consent to present you as the next of
kin to the deceased since you are a foreigner so that the proceeds of this
account valued at (US$8.5M) Eight Million Five Hundred United States Dollars can
be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.

I’m amazed anyone reads these emails and believes them but anyway here is a a great 419 scam for details of this and other scams and the guys that scam the scammers checkout 419eater.com

From: Barrister Richard Bilton (ESQ)
Email: [email protected]

Subject: About Late Engr. Anthony Douglas

Dear Friend,
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the Law. For more details, once I have your
consent and trust then we can proceed immediately. Your anticipated response is
urgently needed. Please do get in touch with me on my private mail box above

Yours Faithfully,

Barr. Richard Bilton (ESQ) LLB (HONS) BL. Richard Bilton & Co.
Principal Partner

Top ten searches of 2008 on google

It’s that time of year again when Google release their zeitgeist listing the most searched for terms of 2008 split out by country – it’s like having your very own research director except you don’t get to ask specific questions.
Top tens though work well I find – it’s a proven editorial technique alongside top trumps and image galleries.

I’m always amazed though how much information the search giant is prepared to share with us the general public. Obviously it’s an edited set of data – I know for instance despite appearances some terms searched for will never appear on this top ten list.

Unlike the AOL search data nothing personally identifiable is available – although this is more to do with it being aggregated and not the raw data.

Google is in a unique position to show trends but importantly as a yearly round up this also gives us a great insight into the hopes and fears of the online population.

In the UK for instance there has been a lot of press about the banking crisis and this has meant that banks and banking in general have been popular search terms – icesave for instance was in the media for weeks so it’s no surprise that it appears top of the financial institutions list. I’m surprised though that Northern Rock hasn’t made it into the top ten considering it’s plight earlier in the year.

Fastest rising finance-related searches in the UK
icesave
hot uk deals
natwest
hmrc
hbos
money saving expert
halifax
barclays
rbs
lloyds tsb

The most searched terms in the UK for 2008 though are
Facebook
BBC
YouTube
eBay
Games
News
Hotmail
Bebo
Yahoo
Jobs

Although if you are interested the fastest rising search terms in the UK which might indicate trends for 2008 are
iPlayer
Facebook
iPhone
Youtube
Yahoo Mail
Large Hadron Collider
Obama
Friv
Cam4
Jogos

If you are interested in the most searched for politicians or recipes then you can find the rest of the top ten search terms over at Google zeitgeist

AOL EFF FTC

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to force AOL to help the people whose search records it recently released.

In a complaint filed Monday, the EFF requests that the FTC investigate the incident and have AOL notify, via electronic and postal mail, all affected persons that their search results were released.

AOL should also pay for at least one year of credit monitoring service for each person, because the release of the records puts these people at risk for identity theft, the EFF charges. The EFF is a nonprofit organization focused on protecting civil liberties in technology contexts, such as computing and the Internet.

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