Spanish scamming

Si me pidiesen que le buscase el lado bueno al pésimo sistema antispam del sistema de correo de la Universidad de Zaragoza, seguramente diría que gracias a él obtengo una cantidad de material (spam, scam, pishing, virus...) para clase que con cualquier otro sistema de correo (como Yahoo! Mail) nunca llegaría a mi buzón...

Por supuesto nunca leo este tipo de correos: el filtro manual, que sigue funcionando perfectamente, se encarga de mandarlos directamente a la basura. Pero hace un par de días, accidentalmente, leí uno:


Os dejo también el cuerpo del mensaje:

Dear Friend,

The purpose of my writing to you is because I am searching for a foreign business partner who is in a position to assist me with my urgent business proposal, as time is not on my side. A partner, who understands what confidentiality, means and who has the necessary facilities I require in embarking on this important venture. I decided to contact you through email as it has remained the only possible means I consider safe to contact you. I apologize if this is not suitaible to you.

We want to transfer to abroad $US16.5m (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from A Security Company, Incubadoras Trust Inc., Spain Branch, situated in the above location in Spain. I am contacting you in a non-official capacity. To provide either an existing bank Account Or to set up a new bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to the transaction.

We will Start the first Transfer with Six Million U.S.Dollars [$6,000.000.00] upon successful Transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the Transfer of the remaining Ten Million United States Dollars [$10,500.000.00] I am , an Accountant, with Incubadoras Trust Inc., Spain. During the Course of Our Auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened with the Security Company in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died without an [Heir], Hence the money has been floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing to the Spanish Government. From my investigations I found out that the owner of this account was Mr. Garcia Ryszard a foreigner, and an Industrialist,he died since 1993 and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it except and most probably you as you read this letter. The account has no beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Mr. Garcia Ryszard until his death was the Managing Director, Autohaus Fuchs, GMBH.

I am contacting you as a foreigner because this money can only be approved to a foreigner with a valid International Passport, Drivers License and foreign account because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the account Mr. Garcia Ryszard is a foreigner. I am revealing all this to you with the belief that you will never let me down in this business.For your active participation, I have two options of compensating you. Firstly you can choose to have 25% of the total money for your assistance or you can go into partnership with me for the proper and profitable investment of the entire money in your country in any lucrative business you will advise me of. Of course, the investment must be under your direct management and supervision. As soon as the money has been transferred into your account, I shall come to your country and meet you face to face to work out the modalities of the investments.

Please notify me of your choice in your reply. I have also set aside 5% of the total sum $16.5M for all kinds of expenses that may come our way in the process of this transaction. Please note that this 5% for expenses is not with me at the moment but shall be deducted from the money as soon as you have received it in your account. Be informed that this transaction is risk free as all modalities have been put in place for a hitch free transaction.

To commence this transaction, I require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail to the above email address and enclose the following: your full name and address, your private telephone and fax number and your occupation.I will discuss with you in details when I receive your response

Please reply to my private email dome001@myway.com

Thanks.

Richard Udome.

Pero bueno, no quería a hablar de scamming ahora, ya lo he hecho en alguna otra ocasión. Sólo quería lanzar unas preguntitas al aire, a ver si alguien consigue ayudarme... ¿El 50280 no era el código postal de Calatorao? ¿Qué es un avencil? ¿Desde cuándo pasa la autovía de Huesca por Madrid? ¿A qué huelen las nubes?


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