From the "These People Aren't Astronauts" file

[unixronin]

So I glance in my spam quarantine, and there, at the bottom of the current list of three trapped messages, is spam from '"Wheeler Severin" <MerrieEitaro@bncollege.com>', subject "Late Payment: $264230"

Now, let's ignore for the moment the minor problem that "Wheeler Severin" and "MerrieEitaro" sort of, like, don't plausibly match up.  Not remotely.  That's a minor detail.  I ask you, really now:  How many people are there in the WORLD who are likely to believe that they somehow missed making a payment of over a quarter of a million dollars this month to someone they've never heard of?

"Say, honey, did you charge another executive jet on the AmEx card this month?"

"Oh, yes, Lear had it on sale!  You're going to love the seat upholstery, it's just darling!"

[sigh]  "OK, but I'm going to get rid of the green Gulfstream III this time, OK?  Otherwise I'll have to call the contractor and have him come build another hangar, and it'll ruin the view from the back nine holes.  We never fly in the green one anyway, because you always say it clashes with your hair."

Comments

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Perhaps they forgot to throw in a decimal. I mean, if it was only "$2642.30" it might be a bit more plausible.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Kinda reminds me of this ditz that counter-sued Amex for letting her run up $950,000.00 (yes, the commas and decimals are in the right places) in a month... "They should've stopped me!" Apparently the chickie was posing as a Saudi princess... to which my reply would be, hey, bimbette, you gonna lie to the Big Green Money Card you deserve to work in an overseas call center for the rest of your natural working off the debt... *sigh*

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read about that. Jeez, talk about lame excuses.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're hoping some person will panic, thinking some REALLY BIG mistake was made in some account. And if they're panicking, they do irrational things.

Sort of like the scam I got recently that said that a new email address had been added to my Paypal account and a Paypal payment of $299 had been made to "phonebuyer." I think the idea was to get someone panicked enough to click the links in the email. (I immediately independantly logged into Paypal and found my account was fine, at which point I forwarded the email to spoof@paypal.com.)