October 22nd, 2007 at 3:57 am
You can smell a scam with this one. It just cracks me up how badly written and unprofessional most of the email scams are. The stupidity of these scammers are just unbelievable. Not condoning it in anyway but if you want to scam, do it cleverly. I guess you are so busy wanting to scam and sending those 1000s of emails out that you forget the whole reason why you want to scam in the first place. It’s bad enough with spammers and scammers existing in this world but brainless ones are worse yet.
Lets breakdown the areas that jumped out at me when I was reading it:
1) If you say you are from Oxford (United Kingdom), why is your email from a gmu.edu address? That domain points to George Mason University here in Washington, DC. I know it’s a mask and a fake, but why choose a .edu address? How dumb can you be?
2) If you are Tina Howard, how come the email sender says Katie A. Walnetski?
3) Why don’t you have a website for TN fabrics and Textiles?
4) Your email reply is tnfabrics07@yahoo.de which points to Yahoo Germany. Wait a minute, didn’t you say you were from Oxford, United Kingdom?
So let me get this straight, you are Tina Howard but actually Katie A. Walnetski, you live in Oxford, have a German email address but somehow you are emailing me from a student or staff member’s account at George Mason University here in the United States.
Wow! TN fabrics and Textiles must send you all of the world. Another thing Ms. Tina Howard, Manager of TN fabrics and Textiles — have you heard of something called the spell checker? I would love to deal with your sopplies in the United Kindgom and am sure that your payments will be recieved promptly.
Hope you like my Delete Items box as that’s where you are now.
—–Original Message—–
From: Katie A Walnetski [mailto:kwalnets@gmu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:50 PM
Subject: ***EMPLOYMENT OFFER***
TN Fabrics
89 Newport ave, Scoffford Area,
Oxford, L349HA
Phone #:+(44) 704-011-3837
Fax:+442075043690
I am Tina Howard the Manager of TN fabrics and Textiles and i live and work here in United Kindgom, Would you like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job?
Actually i need a representative who can be working for our company as online book-keeper.
We make lots of sopplies to some of our clients in the USA/CANADA for which i do come down to recieve payment and have it cashed after i supply them raw materials. Its always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and recieve such payment twice in a month, so i therefore decided to contact you. I am willing to pay you 10% for every payment recieved by you from our clients who makes payment through you.
Reply by filling the form below if interested,
NAME………………….
FULL ADDRESS(not p.o. box)……………
ZIP CODE…..
PHONE NUMBER (S)………………..
AGE…..
OCCUPATION………………
REPLY ASAP : tnfabrics07@yahoo.de
Tina Howard
TN FABRICS AND TEXTILES
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ChrissyJo said: @ 5:38 pm
October 23rd, 2007
Wow you are having good luck today just like me. Did you know there is unclaimed money waiting for me in California? All I have to do is mail them $124.95 and they will send me a bigger check :)
Raphy said: @ 11:27 am
October 24th, 2007
Haha, my email address seems to attract a lot of checks from foreign places. I may have around $300 waiting for me somewhere.
One of the stupidest emails I’ve received though is one that says I have a check waiting for me at Mexico, England. At least they’re only off by a few thousand miles.
brian said: @ 12:49 pm
October 24th, 2007
yep
definitley scam
+ why is it always textile companies looking for representatives?????
i always check my dodgy emails at www.scamemail.co.uk
they’ve got some wierd + wonderful ones on there!
brian
WAT said: @ 2:02 pm
October 24th, 2007
I always get these stupid ass emails from NIGERIA. Sadly, I think certain people do fall for them, which is why they have become so popular.
Cindy (The 15 Minute Dating Blog) said: @ 4:29 am
October 28th, 2007
I get these kind of spam all the time. For some reason yahoo filter still don’t work too well. I still can’t believe people still fall for these though, it’s just sad.
Travis said: @ 10:50 pm
October 29th, 2007
It is a virus that sends tons of e-mails out using the infected person’s e-mail account. Kate in this case is the girl with the virus. You should probably e-mail her and notify her. I got rid of mine but I’m still receiving failed delivery notifications that say the same exact thing as your e-mail did.
Yeah I got real money orders said: @ 2:58 pm
January 30th, 2008
Yeah,
I got over $4,500 dollars from these scam artists. I got a dozen or so Walmart Money Grams…I went to Walmart to cash them….Walmart call Money Gram. (THEY ARE COUNTERFIET!
BEWARE
cindy said: @ 11:47 am
January 31st, 2008
I just got the same exact spam/scam email today from darling Tina Howard. She must be oriental ‘cos if u read the email out loud it sounds like an oriental trying to speak english. Even though it’s signed Tina Howard from Oxford, it is sent from an mbhoward from Hawaii. I wish they(the FBI) could catch these a–holes. I’ve seen this sort of thing on shows like Dateline and 60 Minutes. You’d think with all of the modern technology, they would be able to trace and track down these creeps. Boy, I hope I don’t get a virus on my computer now from opening it.
Fred said: @ 2:56 am
February 18th, 2008
i received a email that was wanting me to take there dogs and care for them from someone in africa
Mary Ebron said: @ 9:57 am
April 23rd, 2008
ONLY $4500????? I have gotten over $575,000 all in counterfeit money orders, checks, traveler checks, and postal money orders. Postal money orders with no watermarks~~no holograms etc. I have gotten checks from banks closed for 15 years, checks from banks that have merged 7-10 years ago. Some even have misspelled words “Navel Credit Uninon” instead of Navy Credit Union Even money orders that say rub cirlce to verify NOW Tina (now sending from Anchorage ALASKA) wants me to send out the fakes……
one red flag that always means SCAM!!!!! “send to undisclosed recipients” if was real why send to so many ????
Robyn said: @ 8:51 am
September 24th, 2008
I got this one today…. 09/24/08
Good Day,
How is the family, I hope it`s fine. I have a Golden Opportunity for you , My Mother Mrs Tina Howard was the C.E.O of TN FABRICS AND TEXTILES, on her way coming from an International Assignment and meeting with the Branches of TN FABRICS AND TEXTILES IN ASIA, her plane got crashed and she died. I am from a Polygamous family and also i am the first child of my family.
After the burial of my mother Mrs Tina Howard, Our barrister made us to know that our mother had some money (6.5 Million United State Dollars) in a security company in Belgium (Brussels), we dont want to mismanage the money, Before she died she stated that the beneficiary of the funds must be the last person that works with the Company. we need you to stand as a beneficiary to the sum of ($6.5millions united state dollars) lying down unclaimed in the bank due to the percentage you wants .
Now i need your cooperation to claim this money because only someone who work with TN FABRICS AND TEXTILES can stand as the beneficiary.And the Banking law stipulates that any money lying unclaimed for six years will be transferred to federal government suspent account. Please i need your assistance to achieve this great chance because i do not wish this money transferred to Federal Government because it will be shared among the top directors.who are unbelievers, this people want to cheat my mother also, i don’t want it to happen , i want us to get this money out for her and help the Poor with it and also help ourselves. I need your response urgently
Paul Howard.
Here’s the address it came from…
dompalmieri@optonline.net
Robyn said: @ 8:53 am
September 24th, 2008
Also, I got another message(same one) from this address….
hmm942f6@email.cpcc.edu
Ericka said: @ 11:30 pm
September 25th, 2008
Yeah, my husband got an email just like the first one, he was curious, so he gave them the info. we recived a casheirs check and we took it down to see if its a fraud… I’ll keep you updated on what happens!
Schmoozin said: @ 8:01 pm
September 26th, 2008
I’ve been having a great time the last couple of months forwarding these types of “Nigerian-Scam” emails to a special bogus email account I set up. Then I lead them to believe that I am falling for their nonsense and send a fake name, address, etc. It wastes their time … and eventually really ticks them off! I find the right time to tell them I have been scamming THEM and I cc ALL the scammer email addresses and continue to clog their email accounts with my insulting emails! Everytime I get a “Mailer Daemon” I forward that as well to notify them that “another one bites the dust!”
I think that everyone should do that until they finally get the message … really … just keep wasting their time by leading them on!!!!
rebecca said: @ 8:15 pm
October 2nd, 2008
yeah so i recieved my email and then today i recieved my cashiers check for 2950.00 went to the bank and cashed it but few min later i called consumer reports and they told me it was a scam so luckily my band worked wit me on it its a SCAM DONT FALL FOR IT LIKE I DID