Spam- marks out of 10 for originality

[nigelH]

I think the cheekest I ever got was:

Originally Posted by spammer

Dear user of nigelhewitt.net,

Your email account was used to send a huge amount of junk email during the last week.
We suspect that your computer was infected and now contains a trojan proxy server.

We recommend that you follow the attached instructions in order to keep your computer safe.

Best wishes,
The nigelhewitt.net team.

It came with an attached executable but since nigelhewitt.net is registered to me by me and hosted on my servers in my office I was going to fall for that one?

[IanDennis]

Originally Posted by wilbo

courtesy of Welcome to the 419 Eater

I'm pretty sure that this is a good likeness

[Guffnuts]

Originally Posted by MonkeyPony

For those who have too much time on their hands have a look at this site:

Welcome to the 419 Eater

For handy tips on how to have some fun with these scammers

(Some of the scam baiting accounts are very funny)

Love that website. Some of the episodes had me crying with laughter!

[dublinbay]

Welcome to the 419 Eater

Welcome to the 419 Eater
Enjoy



DOHH!

[PeeBee]

What gets me is how do they all know that I'm bald, impotent and have a very small d*ck?

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by PeeBee

What gets me is how do they all know that I'm bald, impotent and have a very small d*ck?

they subscribe to sixies threads

[Sixsquid]

Originally Posted by dry suit diver

they subscribe to sixies threads

I am shocked that you .....

1. Did not use a capital S on my name
2. think I'm plural
and
3. think anyone subscribes to threads started by me



PS. They think I'm bald, impotent and have a very small dick too

[MRBLUESKY]

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Reference:

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This arrived in my inbox a few days ago pretty convincing huh

[David P]

Assuming that was the literal content of the email, I'm not sure posting the links here is necessarily a good idea...