Fighting Scam with Spam

We keep hearing about vulnerable people who get suckered into sending tonnes of money to distant con-artists. And recently my partner and I have had these scammers nibbling at our fingers. In every case, we were fortunate enough to spot the fib and get away with our savings intact.

How Do We Deal With the War on Scams?

Here’s how. We responded to a scammer with a mind-bending email which turned the tables on this particular ‘yahoo‘.

Feel free to use this email as a template in your own assault on the sneaky cyber-criminals who want to steal your happiness. If you get an email asking you to make any sort of bank transfer, don’t. But send this email instead.

Dear Jeff Fred,

Lovely to hear from you! My brother, Prince Inepped Shwim Shwam has just told me that you have won a BILLOIN Euro Dollars €€€€!!! You have won this on the MegaBank SuperEuro ILLottery. Well done! You have great luck. The Money is waiting for you in Nigerio. Unfortunately I have lost my purse and need some money from you to free up this funds IMMEDIATELY. Please you send me €5000 right now, but before you do this can you email me your:

1) Home address
2) Mother’s maiden name
3) Shoe size
4) Favourite colour
5) Favourtie sandwish filling
6) How many teeth you have
7) A retina scan
Your passport number
9) DNA sample taken from inner cheeck using a toothpick please spread the cells on some a pound coin thanks
10) A chip fat
11) Your knees
12) Latest holiday snaps
13) A large skinny soya mocha latte frappe
14) And two sugars

I look forward to sending you lots of money.

Dave x

p.s. Cock off you knob monkey!