It's so awful it's almost charming in its naivety

[major_clanger]

I can't quite convey the full visual horror of this message as it contained animated GIFs the like of which we haven't seen since the late 1990s. You'll just have to use your imagination.

[4 COPIES OF ANIMATED GIF OF ROTATING WORD 'E-MAIL']
[2 COPIES OF FBI LOGO]

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001, USA

FUNDS RELEASE ORDER.
This is to officially bring to your notice that your ATM CARD placed on hold by United Bank for Africa Plc UBA has been approved for the relaese today after a long time investigations by the house of the Lords committee on terrorism and fraud.Your Fund is now free to be released to you with out any further delay.

Kindly forward your information to Mr Daniel Yovo where you want the ATM to be deliverd.

contact person; Mr Daniel Yovo.
email; danyovo@blumail.org
Tel +229 68026134


MOST IMPORTANT: you will be required to have the sum of $185 u.s dollars send to them for the insurance and delivery of Your ATM CARD.

Yours in service
ROBER S. MUELLER III
[FBI LOGO]
[2 COPIES OF 'E-MAIL' ANIMATED GIF]

Yes, because the 'house of the Lords' and the FBI often cooperate to approve cashpoint cards that I somehow have to pay for the delivery of. That sounds so reasonable and reassuring!

Comments

[awarrington.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's definitely one of the better ones! :-)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Nice to see that even post 1776 the House of Lords still has oversight of the FBI.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

I did see it argued somewhere that blatant idiocies in a spam means that the only people who are caught are the really gullible. Which is what the perpetrators want.

I just keep getting spam recently telling me that my incontinence can be cured by a vaginal mesh, which I doubt would be the case for me even if I had incontinence.

[ben-jeapes.livejournal.com]

If it convinced your spam filter to let it through, maybe they think that's the job done.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

And I've just got a spam from:


Kevin Carterson
Grouption Offers Team

"Grouption" was a word unfamiliar to me, but googling it, there does seem to be a grouption.com.

And who is this Lynne Mcready to whom many spam seem to be addressed?