The best scam I've seen this week

This is dumb. And yet wickedly awesome at the same time!
The spam messages warn the recipient that they have been targeted for death - but will be spared if they pay up.

A typical message reads: “Someone paid me to kill you. If you want me to spare
you, I’ll give you two days to pay $5000. If you inform the police or anybody,
you will die, I am monitoring you.”

The amount is small enough that, if, for example, I wanted to have a certain crackhead pimp relative of mine killed, I could cough up, say $4,000 – after all, we have to assume that our fake hitman is coming back to the mark and getting them to pay him more not to off them, hence the $5,000 no-kill fee – even in these times of high interest rates and petrol prices. If an average person wants someone dead badly enough, they could totally pay that.

Nice! I totally went “pfffft – dumbasses” at first, but the more I think about it? If you’re a paranoid enough person, that kind of ruse would totally work.

Kudos!*


*This blog does not support assassination or mobile phone scams.