The Daily Spam

Does anyone else ever get spam e-mails like this at work, or is it just me?
(Click on the pictures to read the e-mail in its full, amusing glory)


All the e-mails contain pretty much the same story:
"Hi, I'm So-and-So from a foreign country with a name like Burundi or Bulgaria" that most people couldn't find on a map if their pathetic lives depended on it...

Then they usually claim to be either the assistant of some politico of that country or a dying individual. In either case, they have millions of dollars they "need" you to help launder by holding onto the money for them and usually depositing it somewhere else (sometimes a "charity"), for which they so graciously offer to give you some commission.

And naturally, it’s always “top secret” and “highly confidential”.

Oh, PLEASE may I assist you? Come on, does this type of thing actually work? Besides the e-mails making NO logical sense whatsoever, what they are requesting is MONEY LAUNDERING. I know because I work for a bank and everyone has to take a mandatory "anti-money laundering" course.

You’d have to be a real assclown to fall for something like this, but I guess people wouldn’t still be attempting scams like these if they weren’t working on at least a few people. For more info, I urge you to read what Snopes has to say about the whole thing, too.