A Treasury Department Blunder

 

They will never get the point, as obvious as it might be. They will never cease doing what they do. They will write comments into our blogs that have nothing to do with the subject at hand. They will send us spam emails, and scam emails, expecting attention, expecting a response, and hoping beyond hope for the latter that someone is dumb enough to believe their line of nonsense. I speak, of course, of homo sapiens spammeritis irritatingus, otherwise known as that vile horde of scum we call the internet scammer and spammer. The following line of nonsense was sent to my email recently.

UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Main Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington D.C 20220.USA


Attention,

                         I am Mr Scott K.H Bessent the new Executive
Secretary (United States Treasury Department), while going through all
files I noticed that you have a pending Transaction with the (United
States Treasury Department) which you supposed to have received long
time ago and was not completed due to some reasons and this is why I
have decided to contact you to inform you in person that we are
sincerely sorry for the delay of your payment valued at (Ten Million
Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). We apologize for any
inconvenience or frustration this might have caused you. The delay was
caused by minor problems with our payment system. While we take full
responsibility for our mistake, I would like to assure you that this was
a one-time error by the previous U.S Department of the Treasury
Executive Secretary, I have already made some reshuffles in the cabinet
to ensure that this does not happen again as the new Executive
Secretary.


We just had a meeting this morning with our Board of Trustee and from
the records of outstanding Beneficiary due for payment with the U.S
Department of the Treasury, your name was discovered as next on the list
of the outstanding Beneficiary who have yet to receive their payments.
We wish to congratulate you that your payment is being processed and
will be issued and signed by me personally as soon as you respond to
this email and abide by the rules and regulations governing this
reputable office. Also note that from the record in our file is
outstanding payment valued (Ten Million Seven Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars). We apologize once again and thank you for your time and
patience.


Your response to this email will be highly appreciated .


Sincerely,
Mr Scott K.H Bessent
Executive Secretary
United States Treasury Department.

So Scott Bessent does exist. He's one of Trump's appointees, which speaks for itself. But he did not send this email. And why would he? A Trump appointee would be too busy enriching himself to be sending random emails to random email accounts. He claims that I have a pending transaction with the Treasury that was mistakenly overlooked. I'm apparently due 10 million 700 thousand (all words capitalized, of course, a standard procedure of the internet scammer. He passes the buck off for this error on the previous administration (oh, sure, right, whatever- the previous administration was not anywhere near as dumb as this administration is, and actually tried doing the bloody job). But then this isn't about the former adminstration. 

No, this is about an internet scammer trying to weave this impossible story and pass himself off as someone who he's not. Because he's not Scott Bessent. That goes without saying. Because the real Scott Bessent is too busy following the orders of his dementia ridden orange boss to have the downtime to be spending random emails. No, this guy is just using this as his latest idiot scheme, hoping someone will be foolish enough to believe it.

Sigh. I really wish these guys would wise up, stop doing this, and find an honest line of work. Because the longer this goes on, the more I feel that there's only one solution to dealing with them.

All Hail The Dying Cancer Scammer

They are the horde of the utterly damned. They never give up, never give in, never take a hint, and never go away. They will send us random emails and post things in our blogs that have nothing to do with the subject, but are meant to draw attention their way. They tell us sob stories and get rich quick scenarios that sound too good to be true- because they are nothing more than lies. They are homo sapiens spammeritis annoyingus, otherwise known as the internet scammer and spammers. The following came through my email recently, from someone claiming to be dying of cancer.

Dear Beloved,

I am Fabio Antonio, A Portuguese national, I was browsing and I saw your email, So i decided to write to you if your email is real, I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment , and right now I have only about a few months to live. I am very rich, but was never generous; I have given most of my assets to my immediate family members.

I have decided to give alms to charity organizations. I cannot do this myself anymore because of my health. I once asked members of my family to give some money to charity organizations, they refused and kept the money. I have a huge cash deposit of Eighteen Million dollars with a security firm in America. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to charity organizations. You will take out 30% of these funds for your assistance.

I would like you to acknowledge the receipt of this e-mail as soon as possible and treat it with absolute confidentiality and sincerity.

Nice fake name, by the way, Fabio. Because when I think of that name, I think of a Eurotrash male model with little brains and long hair who ended up in many adds and on many romance novel covers back in the way, before he took a seagull to the face during a roller coaster ride, and was never heard from again. 

You know. This guy.

In the spirit of the Cancer Widow, who is still alive and sending the same email about having a handful of months to live after a decade or so, Fabio here claims he has cancer. Not just cancer, but cancer that has "defiled all forms of medical treatment." Okay then. Defiled. Yeah, that tracks with the bad English of your usual internet scammer.

He spins the story of wanting to give his remaining fortune to charity, promising thirty percent of it to me for helping him. Right. Because that's believable. Because a guy who was actually this wealthy wouldn't have an accountant or lawyer who could do it for him.

But of course he's not this wealthy. Nor is he dying. Nor is he Portuguese. He's an internet scammer somewhere out in the dark corners of the web, sending this email out to random people. Hell, he could be the same one sending out the classic Cancer Widow storyline, and just took it in a different direction. And for the one person out of half a million who might fall for it, they'll learn better when they pay a few thousand dollars in an 'administration charge' and never hear from him again. But by then it'll be too late, because he'll be onto his next scam.

Nice try, ace. Really. But I know better.

What we need to do is take you out to this place.... and push you off the side.

The Strange Case Of The Scottish National Dish

Robbie Burns Day is coming up. I have an image blog for the occasion. Enjoy!

And don't eat the haggis. 

The Crypto Hacker Guaranteed Scam

They never give up. They never take a hint and go away. The very idea of going and finding a productive and legal way to make a living would never occur to them. Instead they spend their time sending spam and scam emails to random people, and infesting our blogs with comments that have nothing to do with the subject at hand, and only serve to draw the gullible into their trap. I speak, of course, of homo sapiens spammeritis annoyingus, otherwise known as the internet scammers and spammers. Behold what came through recently and got caught by the spam filters here.

My sincere gratitude to Morphohack Cyber Service for helping me recover my crypto assets from the FTX exchange where my deposits of $687,000 worth of coins have been held for more than two months without release.
I thought my assets were gone forever as all means to withdraw from the FTX trading exchange were unsuccessful, but I was told about the services of Morphohack Cyber Services who was able to help me recover my crypto assets after I provided my wallet address and evidence of the transactions. FTX exchange has locked my account for months with no response but thanks to the services of Morphohack Cyber Service, I was able to recover my crypto assets. It’s important to do your due diligence before investing in any platform.

I was swapping in between my stablecoins when I lost $389,000. I was confused and didn’t know how that could happen, I just lost all my crypto and I’m traumatized.
A few days later, a tech guy from my firm contacted a crypto recovery expert Morphohack Cyber Service, who was able to detect that a malicious bot called MEV(Maximum Extractable Value) detected my transaction and front ran it before my transaction was processed. The bot's actions made me lose almost 99% of my funds and stole $389,000. Fortunately for me, Morphohack Cyber Service was able to trace this transaction and retrieve it successfully without any delay while applying its sophisticated software and malware techniques. It seems we have to be up to date with market news and stay alert always.

Sigh. Two variations on the same thing- morphohack. Yeah, that fills me with confidence, because if I actually return these emails, it will end with me getting hacked. We're supposed to believe that these nitwits have invested hundreds of thousands into crypto, that it disappeared, and that this miracle hacker came along and saved the day by getting their money back.

Yeah, right.

First, I have absolutely no confidence in bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. Never have, never will. But when one posts about spammers and scammers, one is bound to draw comments from them in the very posts we follow up on. So I'm sure that this will draw spam comments. 

Second, I'm not going to trust these random spam comments. They're form letters, both of which have a lot in common with each other. And scammers tend to use the same form letter format- which we see in everything from this to the spell caster to the Cancer Widow to the Beloved Former Tyrant.

Again: No. I don't believe anything these nitwits have to say. All they're good for is as a subject of ridicule. And so to "Curtis Denton" and "Jason Gilreath", the two fake names of whoever the hell sent these, I say this. If you can't find some honest way to make a living, if you can't help yourself but to be a useless scammer, there's only one end for you.

This guy on the other end of the phone.

Fear The Wrath Of The Cranky Rodent

It is Groundhog Day. We ourselves will no doubt get six more weeks of winter. This is a good thing. 

I have an image blog for you to enjoy, or weep over, if for some reason you don't like this best of all seasons.