E-Dribble

Our latest contestant:

Subject: FDV.Grant Award Donations!!!
From: “Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY” <mark02@zajoulnet.com>
Reply-To: Sir Mario Domenico <fdvoffice77@aim.com>

Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it
GRANT PIN NO.: (N-222-6747,E-900-56)

We bring to your notice the
decision by the Board of Trustees of Fondazione di
Vittorio to choose you as one of the final
recipients of a cash grant for your own personal,
educational,and business development.

To celebrate the new year and in coincidence
with our 31st anniversary,we are giving out
a donation of 500,000.00 Euro(Five Hundred Thousand Euro).
Each to 40 lucky recipients who there e-mail have been
selected from over 125,000 websites all over the globe,
as charity donations/aid from the Fondazione
di Vittorio, ECOWAS, EU and the UNO
in accordance with enabling acts of Parliament.

To File for your grant award you are expected
to send us the following detail to
facilitate the release of your grant prize.”(1)Full-Name,
(2)Age,(3)Sex,(4)Full Mailing Address and (5)Phone Number”.

Regards.
Sir Mario Domenico
Fondazione Representative
Contact E-mail:fdvoffice77@aim.com
Tele:+00393291419908

And his deserved response:

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This is a perfect example of why I rarely reward 419 scammers with a response that they can print out, frame and share with their friends at the internet cafe:

Subject: ATM CARD PAYMENT(822).
From: SENATOR DAVID MARK <info@atm.com>
Reply-To: linda.hill302@yahoo.com.hk

Good Day,
ATM CARD worth $6.8 Million Dollars has been accredited in your favor,
Please Contact Mrs. Linda Hill (linda.hill302@yahoo.com.hk) With the following,
Full Name: Delivery Address: Age: Occupation: Phone Number:
Regards,Mr David Mark SENATE PRESIDENT.

What in the hell am I supposed to do with this, Mr. Linda Mark? There is absolutely no aspect of this email that is even remotely believable. Instead of responding to your email(which you don’t deserve), I will give you three tips to help you improve your tactics to actually make money at this, since at this time, you’re doing it wrong and only people too stupid to make any money will bother to respond to you.

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I don’t respond to them much anymore because they’re just regurgitations of scams I received for years, but this guy spent so much time on this one that I couldn’t help myself. In fact, I could say that I felt led to respond.

The email in question:

Subject: Dear Beloved
From: shelia johnson <gramey@charter.net>
Reply-To: beloved_shelia08@live.com

Dear Beloved in Christ,

It is by the grace of God that I received Christ,having known the
truth,I had no choice than to do what is lawful and right
in the sight of God for eternal life and in the sight of man for
witness of God & his mercies and glory upon my life.
I am Mrs.Sheila Johnson the wife of Mr Harold Johnson,my husband worked
with the Chevron/Texaco in Kenya for twenty
years before he died in the year2001.We were married for ten years
without a child. My Husband died after a brief illness that
lasted for only four days.

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