419 Scam
With the popularity of blog spamming, can Nigerian scammers (and spammers) be left far behind? Here is an interesting attempt to scam, posted as a comment on blog against this article:
Name: frank taylor | Email: frank****@yahoo.com | URL: https://KindAttention | IP: 41.210.17.190 | Feb 8, 9:06 AM | Type: normal [[A (sub)human being actually took the trouble to spam me!]]
Bujumbura Refugees Camp
Room 32 Liberia Camp 3 Accra Ghana
West Africa
Kind Attention,
Greetings , my name is Frank Taylor .I am making this contact to you in good faith and hope that it will transpire into mutual relationship for now and in future to come .I am the eldest son of late Sir Beuford Taylor a formal gold merchant and also a know politician in my country Liberia.
You can safely delete any messages contains with:
"correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met"
This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).
Imagine that you have received a notification from a Bank that you are the lucky recipient of a beneficiary fund.