Weird BrickLink mail (scam)

[shimon]

Hello everyone.. today i received a rather weird email from blservice@bricklink.com..

and the content of the letter is as following :

MY DONATION,

Greeting to you and your family. I am Mrs.Kim Hyun sook. A widow to late Kim Song Ho-Bong of blessed memory. I am 48 years old, my late Husband was a Director with the Construction Company here before his Sudden Death during this Country’s political Crisis in 2011, but before his death, he Deposited the Sum of $2.5million US dollars and some quantities of Gold dust worth some millions of dollars which is he hid under the safe custody of a security company here in my name as next of kin and, presently, I have been diagonized of Pancreatic Cancer, and My condition is really bad and it is quite obvious that I won’t live more than three months according to my doctors. I have no Child who is going to take care of this Huge amount of Money and the Gold dust. I am willing to donate this sum of $2.5 million US dollars and the gold dust in your name for you to help widows and the less privileged ones in the rural and urban areas and to carry out charity works in your Country and around the World on my Behalf. My Nurse help me to write this email.

If you are interested contact me for more details through my private email: kimhun@zipmail.com.br

Hoping to hearing from you

Remain blessedYours

Sister in Christ

Mrs. Kim Hyun sook

the message was sent from the user (mrskimhy1956@yahoo.com)

And all i have to say that i cant describe how rotten a person has to be to make money out of such situation... and giving fake diagnoses to people.. i think this person should be punished and heavily

since its obviously a scam that wants your credit card and the words of the exact same letter are found on Google , widely spammed

I am still in shock about this.. just wanted to share with you guys

[Heppeng]

You could always send it to one of those 419 baiter websites, they know how to play along to the scammers, their main purpose being to waste the 419er's time so that they are not scamming someone else n the meantime, often with entertaining results!!!

[Off the wall]

I wonder if she's related to the Nigerian price who needs $4 million US transferred to this country. He will split it with me if I send him $2500 for certain fees that must be paid before the transfer can be made.

Edited December 15, 2013 by Off the wall

[Lego Otaku]

Bricklink forum has a few of those posts already. Just post em at 419 site and delete it. If you want to try and bait them, be sure to reward them with a few http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3069bpx7 and mark them in custom form accordingly. If (for example) you send 10 of the "$100 bill" tiles, mark it as $1,000 worth of LEGO. Let them eat customs taxes.

Personally I'd let the 419 regulars do the baiting and trolling.

[Faefrost]

Bwahahaha! Oh boy, it is always entertaining to see a new variant of such a classic scam. First up, no it probably is not coming from Bricklink. It's just some mail sniffer bot somehow identified it as a Korean Construction Company, and so that is what the scammer is masking himself as. It's not where the mail is coming from. Just who the scammer claims to be. This new variant is probably because Bricklink just transferred ownership and became a Korean owned "Construction Toy" related company.

Print it out and frame it. It's a classic in the style of Nigerian Prince's. You just don't see scam humor of that quality anymore. These days its all incomprehensible badly autotranslated gibberish.

[AFOLguy1970]

I wonder if she's related to the Nigerian price who needs $4 million US transferred to this country. He will split it with me if I send him $2500 for certain fees that must be paid before the transfer can be made.

I too seem to have some connections with the Nigerian Royal family. They even are not asking me for any fees to make the transfer. All they want is my bank account number so that I share in the wealth. Imagine how many MOCs could be made with that kind of money!

[DrJB]

She's Korean, with connections in Nigeria, and an email account in Brazil ... Hummm ...