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.
