Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Scambaiter takes on the "United Nation Money Laundering Association"

Cory Doctorow at 5:17 am Sat, Apr 11, 2009

— FEATURED —

THE LATEST

Guatemala: Archive of documents from Rios Montt genocide trial, overturned 10 days after guilty verdict

Feature

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

Book Review

The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

Book Review

Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle
Rufus sez, "I got a 419 Scam email that was so funny I had to respond. It was from the UN Money Laundering Association of London, NY. I've posted the first of many absurd back and forth emails about Laundering Request Requisition Forms. My address is 123 Sillypants Way, I blamed my delays on being attacked by natives and they don't miss a beat."
I am Mr. Rod Smith, a secretary from United Nation Money laundering Association here in London. We discovered that you needed a financial help and support to achieve your goals for establishing goods Business opoortunities like building of Factories, Estates, Hospitals or more other business opportunities that can yield much money here in europe.

Here is the door open for you for laundering to any amount of money that you needed or desire to achieve your goals and expectations, because our main motives and aim is to make less priviledge and the rich once becomes more successful in life.

Best Spam Ever - part 1 (Thanks, Rufus)
Previously:
  • Scamorama: book explains how to get into scambaiting as a hobby ...
  • NPR "Xeni Tech": Scambaiters and Monty Python, 419-style - Boing Boing

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE:  Funny

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

  • AirPillo

    I received a pretty funny one, myself.

    The sender claimed to be a representative of the United Nations, and stated that the UN had elected to distribute money to people who had been victimized by online fraud, instructing them to contact a banker in Nigeria to receive their compensation.

    Basically they were a Nigerian 419 scammer claiming to be reimbursing the victims of Nigerian 419 scammers, in order to scam some of them again.

    If anyone falls for two of these ploys in a row, of course, then a third party needs to be placed in charge of that person’s finances.

  • Anonymous

    So here’s a follow up to that post.

    These “UN Money Launderers” went so far as to make a fancy application form with UN logo and everything. All of a sudden it’s for a loan not laundering, but hey, why should that change anything.

    We posted a scan of it at Absurd Delight if you wanna see the scammer’s handiwork.

    - Rufus