Death Spam
Sula Arafat's fortune? Getting a piece of that is old hat. The latest in spam is the threat of assassination. Rather congenial, too. ("How are you?") And I love the use of caps "Someone you call a friend wants you Dead by all means." Oh, and "by all means"...does that mean the killer plans to use a gun, an ax, poison, pills, and throw me off a tall building just before he uses all those items? The e-mail follows. Let's see, if the guy has a time machine, he just might be able to get to Los Angeles from Australia by 7:30pm:
How are you.Am very sorry for you my friend, is a pity that this is how your life is going
to end as soon as you don't comply.As you can see there is no need of
introducing myself to you because I don't have any business with you,
my duty as
I am mailing you now is just to KILL/ASSASINATE you and I have to do it as I
have already been paid for that.Someone you call a friend wants you Dead by all means, and the person
have spent
a lot of money on this, the person also came to us and told me that he
want you
dead and he provided us with your name ,picture and other necessary
information's we needed about you. So I sent my boys to track you down
and they
have carried out the necessary investigation needed for the operation on you,
and they have done that but I told them not to kill you that I will like to
contact you and see if your life is Important to you or not since
their findings
shows that you are innocent.I called my client back and ask him of you email address which I
didn't tell him
what I wanted to do with it and he gave it to me and I am using it to contact
you now. As I am writing to you now my men are monitoring you and they are
telling me everything about you.Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? As someone has paid us to kill you.
Get back to
me now if you are ready to pay some fees to spare your life, If you are not
ready for my help, then I will carry on with my job straight-up.WARNING: DO NOT THINK OF CONTACTING THE POLICE OR EVEN TELL ANYONE BECAUSE I
WILL KNOW. REMEMBER, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS YOU VERY WELL WANT YOU DEAD! I WILL
EXTEND IT TO YOUR FAMILY, INCASE I NOTICE SOMETHING FUNNY.DO NOT COME OUT ONCE IT IS 7:30PM UNTIL I MAKE OUT TIME TO SEE YOU AND
GIVE YOU
THE TAPE OF MY DISCUSSION WITH THE PERSON WHO WANT YOU DEAD AFTER YOU HAVE
COMPLIED WITH MY DEMANDS, THEN YOU CAN USE IT TO TAKE ANY LEGAL ACTION.GOOD LUCK AS I AWAIT YOUR REPLY
Regards
Don bush.
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Oh yeah, and you've got to love an alleged contract killer who gets the person's e-mail address from the person who's hired them -- without explanation. Sorry, but if a person gets taken by this, they're probably one of those evolution would have taken out like a restaurant water glass just a few years back.
Beautiful. At least most spammers know that extortion is a crime and thus don't make it so easy for us to imprison them.
Paul Hrissikopoulos at January 26, 2008 7:12 AM
I'd be willing to bet this came out of Nigeria, the internet fruad captitol of the world. This is almost as bad as, "I have millions of dollars I need to get out of the country and I need your help."
Bikerken at January 26, 2008 1:40 PM
A TV news show (Dateline, I think) got some complaints from Nigeria, saying they have been wrongly accused of originating those e-mails. The TV show researchers found that London was the city that sent the most spam.
doombuggy at January 26, 2008 5:49 PM
Still, this is different in one important way from the "help me get millions out of the country" kind of e-mail. This e-mail is up-front extortion.
Whereas the money-email isn't a crime until money has changed hands, I do believe the person sending this one could be directly prosecuted.
bradley13 at January 27, 2008 3:09 AM
Oh, my God! They told you! I can't believe it. Those jerks I hired double-crossed me! I'll have to leave the country!
Patrick at January 27, 2008 11:27 AM
You gotta love the extortion attempts from the barely literate.
Patrick at January 27, 2008 11:28 AM
The part I love about it is that, in order to get the extortion money, the hit man has to supply a valid email return address.
Bruce Girrell at February 7, 2008 9:40 AM
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