OMG I'm Rich.. Not...

[omitchell]

This fails so much, just got this email...

"Good day friend,
I, Mr. Joe Chan is getting in touch with you regarding inheritance fund transfer of 6.5M British Pounds of my late client who died intestate. I will like to present you as the Next of Kin since you have same SURNAME with him. Please get back for further details about this transaction through this email address joechan111@yandex.com Waiting to hear from you."

[Ian Warren]

Surely these people must cotton on to others who ..... whoops there is a brother off mine

[deeknow]

Heh, yeah I got a similar one this week. God loves a trier.

[dbcunnz]

I had one yesterday on my Mail Washer supposedly from the ANZ bank Auckland IP address
IP address [?]: 203.170.80.58 [Whois] [Reverse IP]
IP country code: AU
IP address country: ip address flag Australia
IP address state: n/a
IP address city: n/a
IP address latitude: -27.0000
IP address longitude: 133.0000
ISP of this IP [?]: CrazyDomains
Organization: CrazyDomains

Told me my account had been locked as someone had tried to access it from a PC that was not from my IP address gave me a link to go to and log in to unlock it.

Email was marked as spam, black listed and bounced back to the sender from the email server.