Thursday, June 4, 2026

A Scheme Too Ridiculous To Believe

 

They are the damned. They are a pestilence walking the earth in human form. They contribute nothing to society. They never take a hint and go find honest work, or at least to just go away. Their entire standard operating procedure is to infest our blogs with off topic comments, or send thousands of random emails to people with a get rich quick scam. I speak of course, of that vile scum we call homo sapiens spammeritis irritatingus, otherwise known as the internet scammer and spammer. The following came through to my email recently.


INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
( I.M.F ) HEAD OFFICE
CODE:(2244).
RESPOND TO OUR OFFICIAL EMAIL

ATTN: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR,

DID YOU AUTHORISED ANYBODY WHO PRESENTED DOCUMENT OF CLAIM, REPORTED
TO HAVE SIGNED BY YOU FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR PART-PAYMENT OF
$10.7MILLION USD ONLY.
RECONFIRM BACK TO ME TO AVOID ANY IRREGULARITIES AS YOUR PAYMENT IS
NOW READY TO BE DELIVERED TO YOU BY DRAFT (Based on the instructions
received this morning from the attorney general of the federation).

BASED ON THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED NOT TO RESPOND TO ANY MAIL OR FAX
CONCERNING YOUR FUND FROM ANY BODY WHO CLAIM TO BE OR YOUR AGENT AS
YOUR DRAFT IS NOW READY TO BE DELIVERED IMMEDIATELY BY THE AUTHORITY
OF THIS OFFICE.

KINDLY RE-CONFIRM TO ME THE FOLLOWINGS:

1) YOUR FULL NAME.
2) YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3) WHATSAPP NO.
4) COUNTRY/STATE:
5) SCANNED COPY OF INT'L PASSPORT.

YOU ARE WARNED AND ADVISED TO FOLLOW-UP INSTRUCTIONS AS REGARDS TO YOUR FUND.
THE ABOVE IS YOUR PAYMENT, ANY MAIL OR FAXES WITHOUT YOUR TRANSACTION
CODE (2244) ,YOU SHOULD DISREGARDS IT.

Ms.Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund. (I.M.F)(2244)
RESPOND TO OUR OFFICIAL EMAIL


Oh, boy. The IMF scam is an old one. Usually about giving some poor sucker money. This one is dangling money as part of the email scam, but is written in such a way that leaves one doubting that English is their first language (it's not) and thinking that they're angry. All capitalization of multiple words will do that.

If someone were really with the IMF, their grasp of the English language would be much better. While this tries to read as formal, the amount of mistakes turns it into a word salad, perhaps written by someone having a stroke.


It never ends. Because out of the half million random emails they send this crap to, someone out there is dumb enough to look past all the nonsense and the word salad and think themselves, "hey, that could be my big payday." The rest of us know better, and will never respond to this garbage.

Nice try, scumbag. I'd like to run into you sometime.

While driving a tank.