Gary
Mason's Blogspot - A certain “Sehwan Jung” in South Korea
has been sending a number of desperate requests for funds over
Twitter: “I am in urgent need of money.Can you lend me 500,000
dollars?I will make it up to you later.” A diabolical plot, indeed,
though Mr. Jung’s scam is unlikely to work. For one, people can see
everything someone sends on Twitter and quickly realize he’s sent
the exact same message over and over. For another, he is tweeting
almost exclusively to celebrities, including Channing Tatum, Rosario
Dawson, Carly Simon, journalist Nicholas Kristof (who today
sarcastically answered, “Sure!”), and the foreign minister of
Bahrain, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.
Group
of Springhill South Korea -“Now this one is a real winner,”
says Dan Ring, a spokesperson for Boston-based data protection
company Sophos. “Sehwan Jung’s list of celebrities is almost as
entertaining and as random as his actual request, and it’s one of
the more optimistic requests out there. I hope there’s no way
someone will fall for this.”
The “Sehwan gambit” joins the
following examples as one of the laziest scams in Internet history.
• “JOHN” fails to mention what he
even wants to con you out of:
Subject: what are you sale
Greetings,My name is JOHN, i am highly
interested in buying your{ what you want to sale } from you ,I will
like you to give me the FINAL ASKING price and the lastes
condition,also i will like you to scan the pics for me for proper
verifycation.
• This scammer doesn’t even attempt
to establish a personal connection before offering $18 million:
Beloved,
I am Elizabeth Etters, a Christian.I
picked your email randomly for an inheritance of $18M. Please contact
me for more details via [redacted].
• One malware attack came in the form
of a bogus Christmas card—sent on March 19:
Date: 2010-03-19 09:27:15
“You have just received a Christmas
greeting card! To see your custom card and who sent it, please check
the attachment.”
• In this excerpt, one “Professor
Farnsworth” selects you to survive a man-made black hole:
“… The truth is that this
experiment that CERN are conducting is extremely dangerous, and could
cause global disaster. This experiment has a 95% of causing a black
hole, thus swallowing a large area of the planet. The scientists do
not want you to know this as they know it will cause panic. However,
I can help you.
I am arranging for a number of selected
people to be evacuated to a safe location on an island in the South
Pacific via aeroplane. You have been selected from random to take
part in this evacuation, thus continuing the survival of the human
race …”
• African prince scams are so tired.
This reward is allegedly offered by England’s royal family:
250,000.00 Pounds has been awarded to
you From the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation ,send us your:-
Names___
Address___
Tel____
Country__
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