Shit! I just thought of the BEST scam ever!!!
Seriously, all you need is an anonymous mail client, a little mail-merge programming knowledge (I lack this part), an offshore account that's got anonymity or something like egold, and a sucker's list which I'm sure someone on BlackhatSEO will happily sell to you.
Anyways, What you do is you make a template email, and set the anonymous mail client to read off your mail merged DB their names, and their email addresses.
Here's the clever part: Use the anonymous mail program to use THEIR OWN EMAIL ADDRESS!!
Something like this:
Subject header: "You're note going to believe this"
Quote:
How weird is this?
Hi <name>, It's <name> from the future!
We've had some amazing advances in 14 years. We can send energy back in time now, but there's still trouble with matter. What hasn't advanced is that I'm (you? man, this is confusing!) still crap with money. I'm bankrupt.... which means you'll be bankrupt...
But I had a great idea, so you, when you're finally me, can be really rich!
Banks compound interest over time, right? Well, if you deposit some money into our account now, you'll be rich off the interest in the future when you're finally me.
If you send $100 now, and wait till you're me in <year>, it'll be worth just over $16,890!
So what's $100 to you know when it'll be almost $17k when you REALLY need it?
Send it to <bank account details>
Thanks <name>,
<name> from the future
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Yes, I'm aware that's mathematically incorrect, but I figure anyone who's dumb enough to fall for this didn't pass highschool maths, and the number is large enough to be enticing, whilst small enough not to arouse suspicion over just needing to get out of a bad financial predicament.
Maybe dumb down the English a little ala
Idiocracy, make it seem like language has evolved in the intervening years.