How do these people find me?

captmello

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Here is an entire email I received a few days ago.

There was no letter head, nothing, just the text as it is pasted here.

Attention:Esteemed Contractor

Dear Sir,

AVAILABLE CONTRACTS PROJECTS
Attention: The Managing Director/ Project Manager,

My name is Senator Hope Uzodinma, the Senate Committee Chairman Local & Foreign Debts Reconciliation. We came in contact with your profile through Embassy while looking for a Viable Construction Company that can handle our construct Projects.

In view of this development, after the meeting with the President (Dr. Good luck Jonathan) the Ministry of Finance (Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala) and also the Works Minister, they agreed that i should contact you for a mutual contract relationship.

However, We want to be assured that your company will give us quality service and also accept to employ some Skilled worker and Unskilled Laborers in our City when the Project is Awarded to you

Congratulations in advance
Regards
Senator Hope Uzodinma


No Phone number or anything. I didn't reply to the email address, which is:
Contract Committee [asnovoa@cruzycia.cl]

A quick google of the "senator" shows some fraud implications in his home country of Nigeria, but is an actual person, senator in fact. I've certainly never looked for any work that would involve him, or any "contracting" work he may or may not have. I checked the Dept of labor and Industry's website. They are in charge of my contractors license, but they don't appear to post my email address. Same with The sec of state where my business name is recorded.

Anyone see anything like this in their line of work?? Kind of creepy.
 

82rude

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Re: How do these people find me?

thousands of people get that letter trust me your not being singled out.
 

foodfisher

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Re: How do these people find me?

Bwahaha, that's a good one. Stick to known referals.
 

GA_Boater

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Re: How do these people find me?

I bet he wants a "Good Faith" deposit too. :facepalm:
 

Summer Fun

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Re: How do these people find me?

Why would anybody open a email from someone they don't know in the first place ??. :eek:

And... Why hasn't this useless thread been deleted ??.

We've seen these scammer emails posted about 1000 times so far. :facepalm:
 

nwcove

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Re: How do these people find me?

how could you go wrong with the president having a name like that? (Dr. Good Luck) ;)
 

GA_Boater

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Re: How do these people find me?

Goodluck Johnson is the Nigerian presidents name.
 

86 century

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Re: How do these people find me?

Boy geting back and forth from MN to nigeria.


Summer fun just because its not summer anymore doesn't mean we can't still have a little fun.
If you don't find it funny then don't bother reading it.
 

captmello

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Re: How do these people find me?

The only reason I posted this was to see if anyone had seen or received this type of email. I just found it weird that they had my email and apparently know I'm a contractor. My email address does not identify me as a contractor, and my business name is a bit vague as wall. I get very little spam or scam type emails so this caught my attention.

Sorry, but I have not seen a thread regarding this specific type of scam before. There have been plenty of the craigslist scams posted but this seemed different. I realize I am not being singled out by these folks, I just thought I'd see if anyone else has seen this type of email scam.
 

JB

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Re: How do these people find me?

I get 8 to 12 notifications of newfound wealth a day, even ones from someone claiming to be FBI, UN representatives, and various other important sounding officials. It has reached the point that most of them are repeats.

Of course I never open them.

Among the several flaws in these schemes is the fact that I am a BCC addressee. I expect that hundreds of people get the same notification at the same time.
 

MTboatguy

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Re: How do these people find me?

I get them quite often, most of the time they are addressed to "undisclosed recipient"

Heck if someone would give me a dime for each one I get, I would already be rich and not need their assistance!

:facepalm:
 

greenbush future

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Re: How do these people find me?

If you understand target marketing and data minning then it will help see how easy this kind of data really is. They are buying your data and some peopel actually open this crap up and read it. Nuff said!
 

kenmyfam

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Re: How do these people find me?

Yep, a dime for every one of those and I would have retired by now !!!!
 
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