{"id":443,"date":"2007-06-25T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=443"},"modified":"2007-06-25T03:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T09:16:00","slug":"gone-phishing-anita-fripong-promises-me-my-share-of-a-measly-45-million-us-dollars-cheapskate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/gone-phishing-anita-fripong-promises-me-my-share-of-a-measly-45-million-us-dollars-cheapskate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Phishing &#8212; Anita Fripong promises me my share of a measly 4.5 million US dollars. Cheapskate."},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"><small><i>A note from Roy: This is a phishing attack. Do NOT reply to Ms Anita Fripong. If you do, you&#8217;ll be giving her a lead as to who you are, what your legitimate email address is, and some kind of a clue as to how to fleece you out of some substantial amount of dollars. I&#8217;m reproducing it here cos it&#8217;s basically just plain hilarious that some people actually get duped by this rubbish.<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"tt\"><span style=\"font-size:larger;\"><b>Compliments<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>from: <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 104, 28);\" id=\"_user_anitafripong79@hotmail.co.uk\">Ms Anita Fripong anitafripong79@hotmail.co.uk<\/span><br \/>reply-to: <span id=\"_user_anitafripong@latinmail.com\" class=\"ppt\">anitafripong@latinmail.com<\/span><br \/>date: 25-Jun-2007 14:42<br \/>subject: Compliments<br \/>mailed-by: hotmail.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>From: Ms Anita Fripong<br \/>Accra, Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Dearest,<\/p>\n<p>I got your contact during my search for a reliable, honest and a trust worth person to entrust this huge transfer project with. My name is Ms Anita Fripong, Branch manager of a financial institution here in Ghana. I am a singal mother with a kid. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $ 4,550.000.00 Million United States dollars only.<\/p>\n<p>This fund is the excess of what my branch in which am the manager made as profit during the 2005 financial year. I have already submitted annual report for that year to my head office here in Accra as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this excess.I have since, placed this amount of $ 4,550.000.00 Million United States dollars only to an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary (anonymous) to avoid trace.<\/p>\n<p>As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf. I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It&#8217;s going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response urgently.<\/p>\n<p>With Regards,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sg\">Ms Anita Fripong<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script><\/script><script><\/script><script><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Roy: This is a phishing attack. Do NOT reply to Ms Anita Fripong. If you do, you&#8217;ll be giving her a lead as to who you are, what your legitimate email address is, and some kind of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/gone-phishing-anita-fripong-promises-me-my-share-of-a-measly-45-million-us-dollars-cheapskate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gone Phishing &#8212; Anita Fripong promises me my share of a measly 4.5 million US dollars. 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