Spammers Just Won’t Give Up!

May 22, 2012 by  

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These spammers are serious about life neh? I wanted to ask if people actually reply and believe the nonsense we get sent on emails but then I remembered that I know someone who lost money through these fake bank emails that ask you to verify and click stuff when you don’t even bank with them.

I understand how those trick you but the ones I don’t understand are like this one I got last night…

Hello my love, My name is jane ferguson,i come across and read through your profile today and i became interested in you,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send an e-mail to my e-mail address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am and for the both of us to know each other very well and better in life,and we can achieve it in future because ture love and feeling means alot in future.Here is my private e-mail address you can contact me with it.(jane.ferguson.uk@gala.net )I am waiting for your mail to my e-mail address above and aslo, Remember the distance or colour does not matter but love,feeling,e-motions and sympathetic love matters alot in life. Thanks,and i promise to be honest and to keep a very good relationship with you. jane. jane.ferguson.uk@gala.net

(LOL at the race bit)

What happens when you email them?  Do they really think people are silly enough to fall for this? Like if you wanna send me your picture then why don’t you send it coz you’ve got my email address?

You’d think the fact that they automatically get marked as SPAM (thanks to spam filter) would stop them but nah, every day one has to clear that folder.

So I read a bit about it and this is what I came across

Statistics and Facts About Spam

Spam accounts for 14.5 billion messages globally per day. In other words, spam makes up 45% of all emails. Some research companies estimate that spam email makes up an even greater portion of global emails, some 73% in fact. The United States is the number one generator of spam email, with Korea clocking in as the second largest contributor of unwanted email.

The most prevalent type of spam is advertising-related email; this type of spam accounts for approximately 36% of all spam messages. The second most common category of spam is adult-related in subject and makes up roughly 31.7% of all spam. Unwanted emails related to financial matters is the third most popular form of spam, at 26.5%.

Surprisingly, scams and fraud comprise only 2.5% of all spam email; however, identity theft (which is known as phishing) makes up 73% of this figure

I am surprised at this, I would’ve guessed that the financial spam is the most popular but now that I think of it… I do get more of the advertising spam than financial. And the “advertising spam ” sometimes comes from Marketers who think they are promoting ekubeni they are spamming us.

Twitter seems to be managing spam lately. I remember a time when you couldn’t tweet about Justin Bieber without getting spammed from left to right, and I’m not even talking about Beliebers attacking you for saying negative stuff about him. *sigh*. You’d just get spammed nje for mentioning Biebs!

Facebook say that they BLOCK 600,000 unauthorized log-in attempts per day, from spammers. That’s a lot and I wonder just how many are actually successful.

Anyway, the point of this article was to ask if you’ve even fallen victim to spam  or phishing? Or perhaps you know someone who has?

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38 Comments on "Spammers Just Won’t Give Up!"

  1. RexonaABC on Tue, 22nd May 2012 2:34 am 

    OH BS, i was a victim in the past weekend, though nobody I know deposited any cash, cos they phoned me when they receive the email. So mine came like it’s yahoo asking me to update my details in 48 hours or else my account will be cancelled. So famous 419 letter saying am stuck in Europe blah blah

  2. coolcaz on Tue, 22nd May 2012 5:04 am 

    I got the same email as urs BS and the lady said I can rescue her and she has fallen inlove with Me and I should send her ma account no as she wants to deposit her inheritance etc. I just blocked(spammedher) her and I never got her email again. Previous years I used to receive emails about me winning lottorey and isho they talked about a lumpsum that will make 1 greedy jong!! The minute they want my account no I b locked them like now. I also though about going to the post office to open an account and give it to them then I remembered I still need an I’d to open that account and then I decided against it. The one that bores me are these sms u get about u winning in the nokia competition(SA) when u didn’t even enter a competition and when u call them they r dogdy and drop your call and u get a voice mail when u start asking questions. Eish wish all our people realize this as they still fall for these scams even today. Money is our own enemy ndiyak qxelela

  3. snapshot on Tue, 22nd May 2012 6:05 am 

    This a tough one, my mom always falls for this ish shem- everyday I have to explain to her that u can never win without entering a competition but she always insist to call them just to be sure. I’m glad she’s not using internet banking or she’ll be left with nothing

    As for me, whenever I get such- I just smile and spam, I remember from my old BB I had an App that spam all these Ads pity I forgot what its called it worked wonders shem

    @sexylin I left a msg with @lolo

  4. lolington kwaaa on Tue, 22nd May 2012 6:30 am 

    hahahahaha Haibo, wait…there are people who fall for these things? Like seriously fall for this stupidity? These emails are usually so stupid I cannot for the life of me understand how one cannot see that it’s not real! Their gramma and spelling is usually bad…the internet banking ones are even worse because they are usually from the banks you don’t even bank with.
    Wow, things people will do because of money.

  5. Miss T on Tue, 22nd May 2012 6:48 am 

    Yo mina I get the Viagra ad mails. Like everyday! There’s female viagra & the family pack (I wonder if those are 4mom, dad & the kids)

    I also get the penis enlargement ones, those ke I just forward 2my ex who has such a big ego (well that’s the only big thing I can classify with him)

  6. Babyluv on Tue, 22nd May 2012 7:21 am 

    Spam is sooo annoying. i gt 1 from Henry wu works in a bank in Dubai. Apparently a wealthy man wu passd away in March banked with thm n no 1 hs cum 4ward to claim hs money. He hs abt 8.5 mil ($) in tht bank acc. He wnts me to help hm take tht mula. He wl transfer it in2 my account as soon as i gve hm my bank details. Kwaaa

  7. dejane on Tue, 22nd May 2012 7:36 am 

    I was silly enough to click on a link i got on facebook via inbox, little did i know it was a spam. Had people cursing at me :( . Had to change my password.

  8. muntuza on Tue, 22nd May 2012 7:55 am 

    YHU @Snapshots, my mom is also like that! She will believe anything, and with the Nokia or Rica competition one she even wanted to ask them for a physical address so she can fetch a cheque she supposedly won -____- LIKE?! And she says to me, one day I will pass up a ‘blessing’ by ignoring these things cos one of them may be real LOL! Haai shem poverty has made us desperate for cash bazalwane, it’s so very sad!

  9. sweetie on Tue, 22nd May 2012 8:17 am 

    i just blog them everytime i get them. so annoying..

  10. makasoso on Tue, 22nd May 2012 8:36 am 

    hehehe, i also got the exact same message yesterday. i wont even mention the viagra email miss t is talking about

  11. cherries on Tue, 22nd May 2012 8:45 am 

    Yazi mina I get all these spam thingies via email & sms as well, angazi ke where these that sms me get my number from.. The latest email I got ibithi:

    Hello,
    My name is Mrs. Lipi Begum
    Ting.C.E.O,OceanLipiSeaFood LTD.
    I am a dying woman who has decided to
    donate what I have to you.
    For charitable goals.
    I am 59 years old and was diagnosed for
    cancer about 2 years ago,
    kindly Contact my lawyer through this email
    address or you can call
    his private Lin :( +855973449186)
    (barr.jr_phuong@ibibo.com) if you are
    interested in carrying out this task, so that
    he can arrange the release
    of the funds ($10,500,000.00) to you.
    My lawyer’s name is Barrister Nguyen Yu
    Phuong. I know I have never
    met you but my mind instincts me to do
    this, and i hope you act
    sincerely.
    Thank you and God bless you.
    Mrs. Lipi Begum Ting.

    Cabanga nje, who in their right mind would do such? Mxim these people must really think we are fools!!

  12. promisez on Tue, 22nd May 2012 8:55 am 

    just had one from Capitec yesterday nd I dont bank with them.

    I had another one from ABSA I asked Absa about it, they said they had nothing to do I mustnt reply!

  13. LadyMillion on Tue, 22nd May 2012 9:19 am 

    Tjo…those nigerians dont spend hours at the internet cafes blogging or chatting on facebook! Its clear that these scams are actually working

  14. manny on Tue, 22nd May 2012 9:38 am 

    nna i delete it as fast as it came in….

  15. kimmo on Tue, 22nd May 2012 9:54 am 

    hai nigers, i used to get one that say ive won a cash for a nokia competition, so one day i just gave myself time(guess i was bored) i phoned the number asking how do i win money for a competition that i never entered, from a network that i dont use, and worse i dont even use a nokia, the guy got so pissed off and hanged up!

  16. purple_diva on Tue, 22nd May 2012 9:55 am 

    I have received such email from a Nancy, and replied out of curiousity asking her where she got my email addy from and if she knew anything about me.

    she replied…all i can say is I need the name of her dealer, clearly he has some good ish!

    ——————————————————————————–
    From: nancy_kipkalya@sify.com

    Hello’ My Dearest,

    I am more than happy in your reply to my mail. How was your day?, Mine is a little bit hot over here in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso and I have just received your email with lot’s of excitement when i sent the letter to you my heart has been over occupied with thoughts and fear if my situation will touch your heart to come for my rescue i am glad now that i saw your email.The most important reason why i choose to contact you is for you to stand as my trsutee and provide account where the bank will transfer my inheritance fund.
    About the Rev.Fr.Uzuzua/Camp Authority
    Firstly i am emailing you from the office of the Reverend Uzuzua/ in EVANGELICAL LURTHRAN CHURCH OF GOD, I told the Reverend Uzuzua about my communication with you and he permitted me to access my email in his office computer twice a day, Pls you can call me with the office number of the rev father +226 74 13 79 13 here in the Mission camp and ask of Miss Nancy Kipkalya that stays in the female hostel room 12, block C when you will call me. As a refugee here i don’t have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country.I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place. where i am leaving now, In this camp we are only allowed to go out only on Mondays and Fridays of the weeks. Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by God’s grace i will come out here soon
    About Myself/ Late Father/Mother
    My name is Miss Nancy Kipkalya and a single daughter of my mother, 23 years of age, from Nairobi Kenya in East Africa, i am 5.6ft tall, (never married before ) and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Burkina Faso as a result of the plane crach and my wicked step mother who wants to kill me and sit on my inheritance, But God did not allow her to achieve her plans, My father was the former Kenyan Road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong’a, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on Tuesday 10th, June,2008. My mother died during a child birth in 1992, I have been alone with my father and my evil step mother, with the help of United Nation I managed to make my way to a near by country Burkina Faso where my father deposited these money with my name as the next of kin. It was only me that is alive now in my family i don’t have any relatives now whom i can go to, my step Mother wants me dead and the only person i have now is Reverend Uzuzua who is the pastor of the ( EVANGELICAL LURTHRAN CHURCH OF GOD) here in the camp he has been very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him rather i am leaving in the women’s hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.
    About My Wicked StepMother/Uncle
    I am constrained because of the abuse/threaten I am receiving from my wicked stepmother and uncle. they took away all my late father’s treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father. Meanwhile i wanted to escape to the USA but they hidesaway my international passport and other valuable travelling documents. Luckly they did not discover where i kept my fathers File which contains important documents. So I decided to run to the refugee camp where i am presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugee here in Ouagadougou , Republic of Burkina Faso.
    My feelings:
    Despites the money I really want someone who will care and love me, I need someone who will always tell me the truth from his heart, I need someone who will be my brother, my best friend, even though you take me like your blood sister or part of your family I will not mind but as long we got along together with real love I will definitely be satisfied. I want you to think very well and understand in your heart if you really want to help me, If yes’ I will live the rest of my live to appreciate it, But if no I suggest you make it open to me before you will break my heart, Because I don’t want to under go torture any more. I need a God fearing person that will not cheat on me when the money has been transferred to him/her, i keep on praying to God that he should give me a person that is honest and faithful so that he will be nice and faithful to me when the money is transferred to him/her. i need a person that will faithful so that when the money is transferred he will send some money to me so that i will start preparing to meet with you, i have no money with me here in the camp, and i do not have any choice rather than to pray to God for a person that will love me like himself/herslf so that that love will stand for us. After transfer of this money to your account : You will help me withdraw some money from the account where the money was transferred, and from it you can send some money for me to get my travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you in order to further my studies .You will send a letter of invitation to me so that they will give me a VISA urgently to travel and join you over, to enable me continue my education. It is my intention to compensate you with 30% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my capital in your establishment, please understand my condition and do not abandon me without help. Therefore my condition here is very bad, to eat is very hard for me but with God all things will be good just a day.

    I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU AND YOUR EXPERINCE IN BUSINESS SINCE YOU WILL BE THE ONE TO INVEST THE MONEY. WE NEED TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER FOR MORE TRUST AND UNDERSTAND BETWEEN BOTH OF US. SECONDLY, I WILL APPRECIATE IT BETTER ONCE I RECIEVE THE BELOW INFORMATION OF YOURS
    . 1.Your Full Name…………………?,
    2. Your Address …………………. ?,
    3. Your Country of Origin………….?,
    4. What do you do for living………………..?,
    5. Your Age………………………?,
    6. Sex…………………….?,
    7. Your personal picture ……………..
    8. Your phone no……………………………………..?

    So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don’t tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it.Remember i am giving you all this information due to the trust i deposed on you.I like honest and understanding people,truthful and someone of vision,truth and hardworking. My favourite language is English and i speak English very fluently. Please i will like you to answer me these questions:

    1. Can you handle this transfer?
    2. Can i trust you as a genuine friend ?

    Meanwhile i will like you to call me like i said, i have alot to tell you.
    Have a nice day and think about me.
    Awaiting to hear from you soonest:

    Yours in love,

    Nancy Kipkalya

  17. mbulela on Tue, 22nd May 2012 9:55 am 

    Aanyone who falls for the kind of mails described by BS and Cherries above deserves what is coming to them. there is no excuse for such stupidity unless you are mentally unstable.

  18. sxylin on Tue, 22nd May 2012 10:18 am 

    @snappy the email is bouncing back

  19. Smatsatsa on Tue, 22nd May 2012 10:34 am 

    Whatever you do or no matter how desperate you might be, NEVER go to an Internet Cafe to do your online banking!!

  20. kamzababy on Tue, 22nd May 2012 10:36 am 

    i dont even open them anymore. i just DELETE

  21. Thandwayo on Tue, 22nd May 2012 10:36 am 

    Ppl must watch out for a an Indian lady or guy that calls and tell u, you have won a holiday becuase you are a loyal Vodacom any network u use, they want to confirm your new adress etc….beware ppl, we all love frebies bt in this day age, watch out.

    Tht Nancy something has been on my spam for years now, she has guts if she is a ‘she’, with so much errors and grammar mistakes and have a decency to send tht to strangers,,,bloody scammers and spammers!!

  22. LadyMillion on Tue, 22nd May 2012 11:01 am 

    kwaaaaaaaaaaaaa at this subtitle : My feelings
    *goes back to read*

  23. NOLO on Tue, 22nd May 2012 11:17 am 

    poor Nancy wants someone to love n cherish her and then take al their money!

  24. LadyMillion on Tue, 22nd May 2012 11:28 am 

    KWAAAAA @PURPLE_DIVA!!! THANK U FOR THAT POST! I HAVE NEVER!!!

  25. shortT on Tue, 22nd May 2012 12:11 pm 

    yhoo! the one from Nancy is hectic… so she wasnts to tranfer money so that it can be tranfered back to her?????? she is confusing me. Good thing i never get these spams, only the sms on my phone that i have won money. Something i will never fall for.

    But this things exist and sometimes even the clever of the cleverest falls for this things. Then you get those magicians(for a lack of a better word) who meet you on the street and just by responding to them, you will end up loosing everything you have on you, the once stole my friends belongings at Mr Price after they promised her background passes and prices, i forgot the story. And some girl once lost her laptop because she was with this people in their car and they send her to get something and she did only to come back to an empty street, I am talking about intelligent girls who just got brainwashed at that moment and did stupid things, and sometimes when you think back you just ask urself how did you believe those people. So i think they brainwash you.

    Good thing none of this has ever happened to me, and I pray to never fall for these scams.

  26. RexonaABC on Tue, 22nd May 2012 12:43 pm 

    @ Short T, sometimes, I think there is something that happens to our intelligence, and all of the sudden lights off, you give them your own stuff LOL

  27. Lela on Tue, 22nd May 2012 1:34 pm 

    Aanyone who falls for the kind of mails described by BS and Cherries above deserves what is coming to them. there is no excuse for such stupidity unless you are mentally unstable……LOL

  28. Lwamkela on Tue, 22nd May 2012 4:19 pm 

    I get the emails a lot bt I just ignore them.bt I fell for a scam @ the beggining of the year nd PS I’m not stupid. I had just withdrew money from absa to pay depost @ skul so I pass bt clicks to get atym,when I was by the door ths guy rubs smthing on my arm bt I just ignored him,so inside clicks ths women comes in to show me what the guy had painted on my arm,so I checked nd there was ths dark thingy nje nd the women told me the guy knew I had money nd it was either gona disapear or its going to be fake,@ tht point I just went blank nje so ths lady told me I shuld get milk nd drink it to prevent ths guy from “taking” my money.it all ddnt make sense bt @ the same tym I was shit nervous cz I knew I had money with me.to cut the long story short the lady who was giving me advise was actually part of the scam nd they took my 8k nje just like that.twas like I was in some nightmare nje. It will neva happen to me again though neva

  29. shortT on Tue, 22nd May 2012 5:24 pm 

    Lwankela, do not cut the story short, what eventualy went down.

    There’s this 2 guys friends of mine whom where told to buy a certain brand of water at checkers… kakakakakaka! and they also believed this person.

  30. Eyh2Jee on Tue, 22nd May 2012 6:09 pm 

    lmao guys ha.a.When I get these e-mails,I get so desperate and calm myself down and think: why me??? Why would they choose to help me and not their makhelwane’s?
    I just inbox celebs and they always shout at me,and say I should ignore such e-mails!lol…then I get disappointed.Imagine winning money and someone telling you to just ignore it??hehehe.I don’t think people are stupid bethuna.Money can make people loose their ability to think.
    My sister got an sms scam,yho!shame she lost her last R700 ,they told her to purchase airtime and send it to a certain number (airtime worth R700) …then they will help her claim the money.Yho! She called back,the numbers were on voice-mail.I tried to understand “why one would believe such,but Hayi I decided to grieve for the loss with her and not to judge my sis,tltltl.hayi kubi.

  31. Gomolemo on Wed, 23rd May 2012 12:52 pm 

    My previsous employer got scammed. This guy called and claimed he was from Telkom, he said Telkom had been overcharging us on our accounts and they wanted to refund our company, about R14 000. And sure enough, the next day a cheques was deposited into our account, BUT it was for R41 000 instead. He called again and said he made a mistake and asked my boss if he could refund the money as soon as possible, other wise he would be fired. He faxed a letter bearing Telkom name with bank details, my boss refunded the extra money. Seven days later the cheque bounced, called Telkom, but obviously no one knew anything about it. Be careful people.

  32. Tee.tee on Wed, 23rd May 2012 1:32 pm 

    yoh m’na i got an sms congratulating me that ive won nokia yearly promo.450.000.yoh the exitment bt then ka ja marapo a hlogo why wud they want me to open a new bank acc for them to deposit the money and not deposit it straight in 2 my acc.hehe!gogled the nokia website only to find that ke di scam.i called the number told them shit.yoh hai we must just be careful guys

  33. Gomolemo on Wed, 23rd May 2012 2:49 pm 

    Guys do we have a sangoma here in the blog, pls help. My friend’s boyfriend is a sangoma (nna i think he is a con artist). Anyway everytime he buys her something, he tells her gore she should hlaola, she must pay up and sometimes its more than what the gift is worth, for instance if the bag is 400 he will tell her that his madlozis wants 600. If they fight, he will tell her that his madlozi is angry with her and she must hlaola again. She is hlaoling for everything that he does and i worry about her all the time. So does this thing happen when u date a sangoma? has anyone here dated a sangoma? please shed light, im so worried about her.

  34. LadyMillion on Wed, 23rd May 2012 3:21 pm 

    @gomolemo.. tjo i dont know anything about sangomaz but that definitely sounds like a scam!!!!
    So she must pay everytime they fight???? usezobhadala shame.

  35. sweetie on Wed, 23rd May 2012 3:31 pm 

    @gomolemo, ur friend need to run as far away from the con as fast as she can,thers no such thing

  36. Gomolemo on Wed, 23rd May 2012 3:41 pm 

    Ladymillion & Sweetie, I have been telling her gore this guy is scamming her, she wont hear none of it. Suddenly she also beleives in this madlozi thing. That guy stays at home doing fokol and she must work her butt off to pay for his madlozi, she even paid for his mother’s tombstone because he dreamt about. And one time he was involved in a car accident while driving her car and he still had the never to tell her that whilst he was lying in a hospital bed, his madlozi told him that my friend was supposed to be in that car that time, so she had to hlaola him for “saving her life” can u beleive it? He is a con artist finish en klaar!!

  37. Fab Tee on Wed, 23rd May 2012 7:14 pm 

    kwaaaaaa @gomolemo..hayi andihleki its sad into akuyo uchomi wakho!

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