New take on E-mail scheme?

[Pringles]

Get home from work today and find a letter postmarked from overseas and open it up to find this letter (sorry pics are bad, took on my cell phone so spoiler for size. Had to cut letter in half column wise to get all text so a bit difficult to read I tried to piece it together as best as I could):

Spoiler: show

http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/z.../oddletter.jpg

Normally I'd disregard such a letter because hey, I'm not an idiot and I've been through plenty of emails from Nigerian kings and business men to know a scam, but I looked up the lawfirm and found a seemingly legitimate site, with matching phone numbers and names on the letter. Marco. It's a .php, which seems like a questionable extension for a website so I'm not exactly sure if it's a phony site or not.

The only reason I'm even looking at this is because of the name of the person. My grandfather's name is Thomas and he's told me before that it was a common name for people in his family to be named, as he's like the 5th or 6th Thomas that he knows of. Normally I'd just call him and ask him about it, but it's late and don't wanna bother them, especially over something like this.

My question, has anyone heard of this type of letter scam? FBI website doesn't list this particular style, being as it's not asking me for any form of money in return, as most letter scams do: Federal Bureau of Investigation - Common Fraud Schemes. Should I attempt to e-mail or correspond with the person in some way or just forward this to the FBI and be done with it?

[Plow]

First off, do you really want your name on BG?

Secondly, "My names are"?

[MisterBob]

Are you retarded? Just throw the stupid letter away and forget about it.

[_chuchu]

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[Ziphor]

first two comments.

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[Pringles]

Alright, got the answer I probably figured it would be then. Like I said, only reason I had posted was to see if anyone had heard of something similar to this going around, as I've not heard of any letter scams from Spain, especially ones that take the effort to research my name and matching my address as well as making up a website that corresponds with the letter. Seemed not completely far fetched as it didn't ask me for anything in return on the letter so I thought why not at least give it a shot in the dark, inquiring about it never hurts. Guess just lock this thread since I got the answer I'm probably going to get the rest of the way.

[Senoska]

First off, PHP can render any file as HTML.. Not that it really matters. It's not any indication of a scam. Further more, the tsunami listed there happened in Thailand, not Spain.

A true tell all sign of a scam is when they spell out the amount like that (ONE HUNDRED AND ----). It's always bullshit. Always.

And for the record, no one ever makes you pay before you get inheritances money.

I don't think I needed to through all of these, but you seem pretty guilliable. If you paypal me $100(ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS) though I'll make all these emails stop. You'll never get another one. PM me for paypal info if you're serious.

[Pringles]

If you're going to insult me, go right ahead, but please don't insult me with false statements. In the letter he never said the Tsunami was in Spain, he said "he died along with his family during the Tsunami catastrophic, which occured"

And I know you never have to pay for inheritance and once again I want to reiterate no where in the letter does it ask for money as it had said "be assured that this transaction is 100% risk free, as all modalities to actualize the operation are in place.."

Put if you can really, you know, put a stop to the emails could you please? That would be really kind of you. I don't have paypal so why don't I just pay you the one hundred dollars by a money order, or I can just trust you with my credit card number.

[Mayareira]

Wow, grats man.

[Dareus]

If you're going to insult me, go right ahead, but please don't insult me with false statements. In the letter he never said the Tsunami was in Spain, he said "he died along with his family during the Tsunami catastrophic, which occured"

Go for it dude! It's gotta be true! I mean look at that grammar!

[Gulkeeva]

Looks like the usual spam message I get that I can trace back to somewhere in nigera about "please send us every detail about how we can get into your account/steal your identity so we can clean out your bank account" scam as usual to me.


I've gotten so many variants of the same thing... I think they are getting low on country names, people names that died etc etc and starting to make them up now.

[Kaisha]

If you really were to inherit something to that amount, I'm sure they'd contact you by means other than snail mail.

Kudos to them for trying something other than e-mail, what's next, telemarke-oh wait, they do that too.

[Overburn]

A true tell all sign of a scam is when they spell out the amount like that (ONE HUNDRED AND ----). It's always bullshit. Always.

Things like coupons also do that Limit five(5) thing in the fine print. I'm sure they're just trying to make it look more real by doing it both ways.

[Casty]

Go for it man, bitches love confidence.

[rezn0r]

come on dude

[antihero]

Go for it man, bitches love confidence.

doing it wrong

[Khamsin]

"...during the Tsunami catastrophic"?

Quite a formal/poetic/eccentric way of saying it.

Or, of course, English is their fifth language.

[scrockstar]

Are there even that many Polish people in Spain?

[Gregorio]

Ahahaha really?

C'mon man...really?

[Stumblingdrunk]

New take on E-mail scheme?

You do realize fraud existed before the internet right?