• From: Pittsburgh, Pa
  • Registered: 2005-07-27
  • Posts: 648

Topic: A twist on an old phishing technique....

I got this today, and thought it was quite funny. I still can bring myself to believe that anyone ever fell for any of these things.

Hello Rod Person. 

My name is Duc Lai and I work for a
company called Funders Online I found
your resume on monster.com because we are
searching for reliable professionals across the United
States who are interested in a potentially lucrative
partnership with an international firm. 

Funders Online is a leading investition company in Latvia
and we are currently expanding our operations in the
United States. But because of various banking and
legal restrictions, we are unable to open commercial
bank accounts in every state. As such, Funders Online is
recruiting partners to conduct simple banking
transactions on our behalf.

The process is simple. If you were interested in
becoming a US partner of Funders Online, you would sign
an agreement that would make you an official financial
representative of our company, able to accept invoice
payments on our behalf. Instead of asking our
American clients to conduct complicated international
payment transactions (which are especially complex for
Finland companies), we have them work with our
partners to submit payments. You would then forward
the payments to us, a simple transaction for an individual.
Funders Online pays its partners a 10% commission on
every transaction. In addition, we will take care of
any incremental tax liability you incur. Depending on
which state you are in, and of course on how good
business is, your monthly commissions could be as high
as $14,000 per month.

If you are interested in working with us, or if you
want more information, you can contact me directly at
my personal email address.
I'll need your full name and mailing address so I can send you the
contract and other paperwork necessary to get started.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Duc Lai
"An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear."
-Nietzsche

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  • From: Maryland, USA
  • Registered: 2005-06-12
  • Posts: 611

Re: A twist on an old phishing technique....

wtf isn't spam illegal yet?

smash the state in '08!

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  • From: NYC
  • Registered: 2005-04-04
  • Posts: 853

Re: A twist on an old phishing technique....

Hrrm, sounds great.  Send me his email address so I can sign up.   smile

Thanks Rod Person.  (BTW, is your last name person or was this simply an English error on the writer's part, meaning to write Mr. whatever.)

As for having success with his scheme--well, he hasn't asked for your bank info there, so some people will probably think, "Hrrm, must be safe, he's not asking for my bank info."

We also have to remember--we're all computer people, so the fact that this email fits the pattern of phishing emails is obvious to us--perhaps not so obvious to the typical AOL user.

<@andre> i would be so much more efficient if i wasn't so stupid

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  • From: Pittsburgh, Pa
  • Registered: 2005-07-27
  • Posts: 648

Re: A twist on an old phishing technique....

Yup, Person is my last name. You be surprised how mangled it gets by people. But show how the junk mailers get it right hmm

This email was funny because I get 3 in a row all from different people. Sometime I forget that I've been using computers for over 20 years now and been on the net before there was a WWW. It shocks me on some of the stupidity people use when it comes to computers.

I set up a PC for a friend last years - it was his first real PC (other than a C64 he had when we were kids) - he thought that just by plugging in a modem porn would just start poping up on his PC with out him every doing anything.

Common sense seems to fly out the window when PCs are involved, but then again I hear that common sense is rare in people.

"An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear."
-Nietzsche

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  • From: NYC
  • Registered: 2005-04-04
  • Posts: 853

Re: A twist on an old phishing technique....

I ran into a good quote the other day,

"So, from the point of view of social responsibility there's a certain
minimum level of knowledge required of users.  This is no different
from sex or driving."

<@andre> i would be so much more efficient if i wasn't so stupid

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