Scam contract killer email blackmails recipients with death threat
A spammed-out email that pretends to come from a professional hitman, hired to kill the recipient, but are really interested in stealing money.The emails claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired assassin for 10 days, but that the hitman is prepared to drop the contract if he is paid a total of $80,000. Upon receiving an initial advance payment of $20,000 the hitman claims that he will produce taped evidence of the contract to kill the reader of the email.
Guess it seems they have given up telling you you’ve won millions on some lottery you’ve never played.. or pretending to be some lawyer representing some dead dude with a lot of money that he just needs to get into a British Bank account. Now they just don’t want to kill you.. but only if you hand over large amounts of cash.
Luckily I don’t know anyone who could afford to take out a hit on me.. so I think I should be safe from this one…
January 24th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
You’ve got to hand it to them really, that’s pretty creative!