Originally Posted by HarveyJ

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"


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.