:: Stringing-along 419 scammers for my amusement ::

This is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

Barry Tootell

This is an internet scam! DO NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Barry Tootell <whisperik@yahoo.com> Reply-to:     barrytootell97@hotmail.com Subject:     Your Reply... Date:     Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (05:14 EDT) Attention:Proposed partner, My name is Barry Tootell. I am the chief Financial Officer at the Co-operative Bank United Kingdom. My contacting you is based on a secret discovery of the sum of £28.250.390.00 (Twenty Eight Million, Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand,Three Hundred and Ninety Pounds Sterling) only, in a secret foreign account. It will be in my interest to work and finish this transaction with you. If you can be a collaborator to this transaction, please indicate your positive interest immediately for us to proceed if not please ignore. Remember this is absolutely confidential because my Bank does not know about it.   Warmest regards, Barry Tootell, Chief Financial Officer, Cooperative Bank. United Kingdom   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

It's important to note that any real people and / or legitimate organizations whose actual names or other details appear in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! Scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, bargain gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

If you receive one of these scam mails, simply delete it as you would any other spam mails.

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