:: 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!

Mrs. Jose Luis Zapata

This is an internet scam! DO NOT send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Jose Luis Zapata <jlzapata@rocketmail.com> Reply-To:     joseluiszapata@rocketmail.com Subject:     Note from Jose Date:     Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:27:28 -0500 (16:27 EDT) I am Mrs. Jose Luis Zapata, suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married to Engineer Charlie Luis Zapata a Spainish who is dead. My husband was into private business all his life before his death. Our life together as man and wife lasted for three decades without child. He deposited the sum of £33.4 Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling which I inherited, Recently, the bank management just wrote me as the beneficiary that our account has been DORMANT and if I can not ACTIVATE the ACCOUNT, the funds will be CONFISCATED. My doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancer problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate this fund to you, Stand as beneficiary for the Funds so that you can help me to carryout my last wish.   [ 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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