Ettu, Ambassador?
Pretty much all of my email scammers fit this bill.Here of late, I seem to be getting an awful lot of current and past ambassadors to African countries, writing to tell me that they're working hard on...
View ArticleThe Abacha Chronicles
And it all began with her, about 20 years ago. Mariam/Maryam Abacha. Widow of General Sani Abacha, former dictator of Nigeria.She was my first scam letter. And shortly after, my first online scam...
View ArticleThe Twelve Days of Christmas Shenanigans
Yup...shore lookin' like shenanigans from here.And so's this email from Benin about a "Christmas Bonanza":CHRISTMAS BONANZA! TO YOU, HAPPY NEW MONTH OF CHRISTMASREPUBLIC OF BENIN. FOREGN CONTRACTOR...
View ArticleWait 'Til Your Mother Reads This
Let's face it: we've all got and had Moms.And we've all be scolded by 'em.Well, I reckon that this scammer might just need a reminder of that as you read his effort to give me the business, which...
View ArticleSeymour Edits Again
As 2019 approaches, nothing's changed.And the lamestream servile mediocres that kiss the Left's ass, continue to seek any excuse they can to explain how Hellary lost.All while they avoid the obvious...
View ArticleAOC Thinks She Can Do WHAT?
Scammers just can't seem to kick their resemblance to the Democrap Party.Witness this email effort to give my character the business:Federal Reserve Bank (UNDP) (World Bank Assisted Programmed)...
View ArticleConsumed With Scams
Welcome to 2019.In Scamland, nothing changes with the times.This is...or was..the US ambassador to Nigeria, W. Stuart Symington.Looks intact here.Seemed intact when 'he' sent my character this...
View ArticleA Little Research Heps
Online scammers have online access. Makes sense, right?So when they're given a template to use in trying to scam someone, you might think that they'd do at least a tad bit of online research to make...
View Article"Inaugurating" The AOC Error
If anything was proven in 2018, it was that leftist dumbed down education has flourished in one congressional district in NYC.They elected the Scarecrow's moron sister.Yes, I speak of none other than...
View ArticleNot The Duke of Earl
This is, I think, the 27th Duke of Earl.The email I got was NOT from this duke. Or any bona fide duke.No, mine came from Duke Asi.And this is how it started:FROM DUKE ASI ATTN: CEO/PRESIDENT I want...
View ArticleA Pet Rock's Take On Super Bowl Half-Time Nonsense
My pet rock, Seymour, didn't really give a lusty geode fart about NFL football until getting invited to become more than just a door stop in my abode.Then he became a fan.That was until Colin...
View ArticleStripes -- Scam Style
If Harold Ramis weren't dead and Bill Murray didn't look it, I'd say that this latest email scam came from one of their Stripes segments that didn't survive the cutting room floor.Witness the following...
View ArticleBela Pelosi Trumped Again
Nancy Bela Pelosi has a knack for stepping in it.And her feet get bigger with each "step in it" she utters. Though her feet will never get bigger than her mouth.She decided to suggest to the President...
View ArticleSum Ting Wong Alwight
Of late, I seem to be receiving a lot of emails that start out by asking me if I've received their previous email?They seem incredulous if I have, and didn't reply. Or didn't, and should have.I can...
View ArticleNever Look A Gift Card In The Scratch
It's not just what you ask for...it's how you ask for it.This scammer shoulda thunk of that:Re: Approval Slip Confirmation / Payment Information With respect to the foregoing business matter regarding...
View ArticleIt Escaped One Night
Even after 20 years of this nonsense, I never know just which direction the editing of a scammer email is going to go.The scammers...they know less. Many never even notice what I dun to their song,...
View ArticleEmails From The Furniture
This duet puts out public statements almost as bad as email scammer desks do.I always love when a scammer starts an email out "From the desk of".Like this one:jamesefe112@gmail.comOfficial Notification...
View ArticlePost 1500 -- When Ginsburg Is No Defense
Yes, this is post #1500. The blog's come a long way from June 2005, baby.Not that it helps poor ol' Al Franken to live down his antics earlier in the decade.Neither will it help the scammer that tried...
View ArticleShouldn't Allow This Wine Before Any Time
Wine. We all know it's claimed to have healthful benefits. When imbibed in prescription-abusing amounts, it can result in viral results, especially in this day and age on YouTube.So when wine is used...
View ArticleA Bad Scam A Worse Reply II
History repeats.My pet rock, Seymour, saw the following scam email from a Lt. Colonel Robinson and had what he considered to be a creative *TOING* totally unique to him:Confidential / Lt. Col James...
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