{"id":5768,"date":"2004-07-20T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/20\/all-your-scams-are-belong-to-us.html"},"modified":"2004-07-20T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T22:12:17","slug":"all_your_scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/all_your_scams.html","title":{"rendered":"All your scams are belong to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all received &#8220;Nigeria 419&#8221; spam &#8212; the ones that tell of some deposed dictator&#8217;s wife\/son\/daughter, or the friend or banker of some rich engineer who died intestate, etc., who only wants some nice person in another country to send them a bank account number so that they can transfer gazillions of dollars in, and so smuggle it out of the nasty banana republic it&#8217;s trapped in &#8212; in exchange for a percentage of the take, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Well, some 419ers have taken the next step:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/07\/19\/419ers_murder_incorporated\/\" target=\"_blank\">out-and-out shake-downs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">From: Secretary Towogbola [secretary_in_chargeeeee@hotmail.com]<br \/>\nSubject: TREAT AS URGENT {THIS IS NO JUNK MAIL}<br \/>\n&#8220;EXECUTION&#8221;EXECUTION&#8221;EXECUTION&#8221;&#8216;<br \/>\nNATIONAL CORPORATION HEADQUATERS LAGOS.<br \/>\nPRIVACY. we wish to introduce our company\/ourselves as a subsidiary of INTERNATIONAL ASSASINATORS AND WORLD SECURITY ORGANISATIONS,with branches in one hundred and two {102}countires.<br \/>\nwe have received a fax message from our headquaters,new york,this morning to inform you to produce a mandatory sum of US$40,000.00 {FOURTHY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS} only,into our account given below in nigeria within ninety six hours{96},alternatively you will be SNIPPED and GUNNED down during the period of our oncoming anniversary of fifty years.<br \/>\nSTANDARD TRUST BANK VICTORIA ISLAND BRANCH LAGOS A\/C NO. 03681173101152 {OLAJIDE .O. 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