22th April
2012 – VALUEINVESTINGNEWS – GROUP OF SPRINGHILL SOUHT KOREA - 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.
“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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