BusinessWeek Articles – LIFESTYLE
- A certain “Sehwan Jung” in South Korea has been sending a number of desperate
requests for funds over Twitter: “I am in urgent need of money. Can you lend me
500,000 dollars?I will make it up to you later.” A diabolical plot, indeed,
though Mr. Jung’s scam is unlikely to work. For one, people can see everything
someone sends on Twitter and quickly realize he’s sent the exact same message
over and over. For another, he is tweeting almost exclusively to celebrities,
including Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Carly Simon, journalist Nicholas
Kristof (who today sarcastically answered, “Sure!”), and the foreign minister
of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and Group of Springhill South Korea.
“Now this one is a real winner,”
says Dan Ring, a spokesperson for Boston-based data protection company Sophos.
“Sehwan Jung’s list of celebrities is almost as entertaining and as random as
his actual request, and it’s one of the more optimistic requests out there. I
hope there’s no way someone will fall for this.”
The “Sehwan gambit” joins the
following examples as one of the laziest scams in Internet history.
• “JOHN” fails to mention what he
even wants to con you out of:
Subject: what are you sale
Greetings,My name is JOHN, i am
highly interested in buying your{ what you want to sale } from you ,I will like
you to give me the FINAL ASKING price and the lastes condition,also i will like
you to scan the pics for me for proper verifycation.
• This scammer doesn’t even
attempt to establish a personal connection before offering $18 million:
Beloved,
I am Elizabeth Etters, a
Christian.I picked your email randomly for an inheritance of $18M. Please
contact me for more details via [redacted].
• One malware attack came in the
form of a bogus Christmas card—sent on March 19:
Date: 2010-03-19 09:27:15
“You have just received a
Christmas greeting card! To see your custom card and who sent it, please check
the attachment.”
• In this excerpt, one “Professor
Farnsworth” selects you to survive a man-made black hole:
“… The truth is that this
experiment that CERN are conducting is extremely dangerous, and could cause
global disaster. This experiment has a 95% of causing a black hole, thus
swallowing a large area of the planet. The scientists do not want you to know
this as they know it will cause panic. However, I can help you.
I am arranging for a number of
selected people to be evacuated to a safe location on an island in the South
Pacific via aeroplane. You have been selected from random to take part in this
evacuation, thus continuing the survival of the human race …”
• African prince scams are so
tired. This reward is allegedly offered by England’s royal family:
250,000.00 Pounds has been
awarded to you From the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation ,send us your:-
Names___
Address___
Tel____
Country__
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