According to an email found in our customer helpdesk today, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve wants to give you some money. A lot of money. In fact, they have received instructions to credit my (and your) accounts to the tune of $10.5 Million! Heck, they even apologized for the delay.
Unfortunately for me (and you) this is nonsense of course. Not only is the message immediately identifiable as spam (addressed to “undisclosed recipients”, etc.) but whoever thinks that the Federal Reserve is going to contact you out of the blue to give you a few million dollars is out of their mind.
What amazes me most, whenever I receive spam like this, is the fact that as ridiculous as the message is; there is a percentage of recipients who will believe it’s true, contact the sender and send money to them to release the money.
Every dollar the Fed prints is issued with debt. So every dollar they loan is paid for many times over. They don’t give anything away for free.
I like to contact them back and explain that my accounts are all froze because the IRS has seized all my assets and if they could lend me $200,000 to settle I will pay them back $500,000 once we get everything settled. So far no takers but I just need one.
Thank goodness indeed Gregg. I’d be very nervous about my retirement were it not for my Nigerian business partners assurances that I will be very wealthy
Thanks for catching this one. Good thing there are plenty of Nigerians whose wealthy fathers and bosses keep passing away unexpectedly to keep our bank accounts full
Hey Tom.
There’s a very good scam baiter website that list’s the Email dialog’s between the scammer and the baiter here: http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
Some brilliant Email and replies in there and gives a real insight for anyone who want’s to know how it all works. People just need to be aware for the best defense.
wow thanks a lot and great explanation by the way..:)
Every dollar the Fed prints is issued with debt. So every dollar they loan is paid for many times over. They don’t give anything away for free.
whoever thinks that the Federal Reserve is going to contact you out of the blue to give you a few million dollars is out of their mind.
Unless, of course, you happen to work for a bank. Or an insurance company. Or the automobile industry. or….