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Thanks for your email. I'm John Adams, the owner of the Apartment you are renting. Actually I resided in the apartment with my family for some months and we moved away due to my transfer from my work place, my apartment is still available for rent for $700 per month including the utilities like washer and security, it's furnished. Right now I'm in West Africa for a crusade and would like you to get in touch with my wife in the United States for more discussion as she is with the keys and the documents to the apartment. Please I want you to treat fast, I am a kind and honest man and also I sent a lot on my property, so I will select for your absolute trustworthiness of this apartment and I want you to treat it as your own, I want you to keep it tidy all the time so that it will be good to sell to me when I come for a check up, I do that once in a while. I want to have trust in you as I always stand by my words. Let us know how soon you are willing to move in. Email my wife Sandra ______ and she will attend to you better.

ADDRESS TO THE APARTMENT: [redacted], CA [redacted]

Thank you for the reply. It's funny you mentioned you are on a crusade, I too am a fellow crusader who has spent a lifetime defending peasants from evil lords and witches. During my last crusade at the Battle of Sijougen Manbrehat in Tunisia, I unfortunately took an arrow to my knee and have been unable to crusade since. Hence why I am looking for an apartment in California and your place looks perfect! I am a very clean person although the arrow that is still lodged in my knee has the rather annoying tendency to squirt blood from time to time. I have a good blood cleaning toolkit that I purchased at a crusade in Bulgaria but I just thought I would let you know.

As a fellow crusader you can trust that I will stand by your word. If you would like a reference, I can reach out to my liege lord, Moon Bob, who has no eyes or legs but is a faithful bug and owes me for saving his remaining limbs from certain chopfley when the castle was attacked by witches.

I can move in as early as September 30th once my night shift at the castle ends and I can resume my training for the next crusade. I would also like to hear more about your crusade, are you saving peasants and slaying witches to your heart's content?

Please let me know when you or your wife would be available to show me the apartment this week.

IMPORTANT NOTICE – DEBIT CARD SAFETY RECALL

Many of our bank costumers have reported that their debit cards have caught fire while they are in wallets and purses, and so as a precaution we are issuing an URGENT safety recall. This is a matter of the uppermost emergency as your card could create a pocket fire at any given moment, burning your legs and stomach terribly. This is because of a fault in the factory process at our debit card factory in Milton Keynes.

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Mr SmithBarclays Debit Card Factory157 Bangalore LaneBangaloreIndiaBNG466271

Eric SmithBarclays Debit Card Safety Manager

If you can't read the above, it says (with typos preserved so you can see how bad it is):

We would like to introduce you the information below.International Support of Packing incorporated is searching for people who could fill the position of a courier employee. We cooperate with the online department that looks for employees on the internet, so this letter means that you have posted your resume online before.

ISP inc is a European company based in Poland (city of Krakow that provides retail sales and forwarding of many products mostly modern electronics devices). ISP inc is located at Polish city Krakow. We provide the service of purchasing goods/electronics in general from US to the customers from Europe (mostly Eastern part and later all European customers). We are growing and continue to develop since 2005.

To fulfill your duties you will need to be able to receive the items and to send them off via United States Postal Service and many other structures.

There are totally no investments from your side. Salary is $1500 monthly minimal amount and it is built from each task rate with unlimited peak.

This letter is an official job invitation and it has nothing to do with any suspicious activities.

From: "Michaela Mack" dial@pancaglobal.co.idDate: [redacted]To: [redacted]Subject: No subject

I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse. If reputation means anything to you.I am a programmer who likes to dig into other people's dirty laundry and I hack into cell phones, laptops, computers, tablets of users like you in order to extract from them "interesting" photos, videos, recordings of conversations or correspondence.

I infected your device with a virus and have been watching you for over 2 months now.During these months, I have accumulated a lot of interesting information about you.Not only do I have access to your phone book, correspondence, audio, but I also have information about the sites you visit. Can you guess what I'm talking about?

I collect a selection of photos and videos, audio recordings, correspondence from the devices of users like you with the help of viruses and copy them to my own server.

I've got some bad news for you. I can leak all of this online for general access, send it to your friends, relatives, acquaintances, send it to social networks and messengers.Trust me. This is something that can destroy your reputation once and for all!The effect will be fantastic! They will see what you do in all its glory. It only takes one click for me to leak the information.You have the power to stop it.What do you have to do to stop it? I'll tell you about that next.

You need to make a $1100 (US dollars) transfer to my bitcoin wallet. If you do not know how such transfers are made, just type in Google query: "Buy Bitcoin".My bitcoin wallet (BTC wallet): bc1qvdth2qfn0twv74 mvjgasyc3cy2n3dujk3cdgj8 (without space in wallet)

Nothing complicated, right?After receiving the specified amount, I will immediately delete all the information and leave you alone forever!But you need to hurry up. I don't like to wait long!I'll give you 48 hours.Don't think you can ignore me. After you read this message, I automatically get a notification about it.From then on, you have two days to pay!Yes. You don't need to try to apply for help to resolve this situation. Bitcoin wallet is untraceable, and the sender address is automatically created.But if I happen to know that you share this email with someone else (and I will), I'll do a newsletter right away!I hope you make the right choice!

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SEEKING TO WIRE TAP THE INTERNET

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity OAU United Nations UN, European Union EU and FBI. We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes Nigeria Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal with cote d'ivoire and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court ICC soon for Justice. During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the funds recovered to be shared among the 10 Lucky people listed around the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of $10.5M valid into Check Draft Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through Bank Check Draft and deliver to your postal address to enable you cash it out from any Local Bank of your choice. The Cashier Check Darft w shall be delivered to you using Express Mail Service DHL. The package is coming from International Monetary Fund IMF USA . don't forget to reconfirm your following information.

Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card

We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding your payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge you to comply and receive your

Cashier Check Darft . Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear from you today. You can contact me through this my alternative email address

I'm looking for someone with a physical address in the city of [redacted] to just receive a couple pieces of mail for me. Literally zero work apart from receiving a few postcards and texting me the code inside. For each one I'll pay $20.

Then when they call, I do explain to them that nobody will actually ever show up at their place, but their address will be in various places online. Different directories.

It's best if you can find someone who is renting a home, not owning it.

• do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

Well, i actually placed a malware on the adult videos (pornography) web-site and there's more, you visited this web site to have fun (you know what i mean). When you were watching video clips, your web browser started out working as a Remote Desktop with a key logger which provided me accessibility to your screen and also webcam. after that, my software collected every one of your contacts from your Messenger, Facebook, as well as e-mail. after that i created a video. 1st part displays the video you were viewing (you have a fine taste rofl), and second part shows the recording of your web cam, and it is u.

You get two different options. Why dont we take a look at the options in details:

1st alternative is to ignore this e-mail. in such a case, i will send out your very own video clip to all your contacts and then consider concerning the humiliation you will see. and definitely if you are in a romantic relationship, just how it will certainly affect?

Second option would be to compensate me $1241. Lets refer to it as a donation. Then, i most certainly will straightaway erase your video. You could keep daily life like this never happened and you would never hear back again from me.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $600 but because DHL have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduced from the actual fee of $600 to $310 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!

To effect the release of your fund valued at $2,500,000.00 you are advised to contact our correspondent, the delivery officer Bar Williams Davis with the information below,

Name: Bar Williams DavisEmail: bigbendjarvis@aol.comTELEPHONE: (+1)573-490-8827

You are advised to contact him with the information's as stated below:

Your full Name :.............Your Address :.............Home/Cell Phone:.............Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check)

Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 48 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next 48Hours after you have made the payment for shipping.

CHRISTOPHER A. WRAYFEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONUNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEWASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Bar Williams Davis (fibagendarvis@aol.com) of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

Urgent Message From Mrs. Patricia Robredo.

Mrs. Patricia Robredo.Tue 2020-02-18 10:11 AM

My name is Mrs. Patricia Robredo the wife of Mr. Angelo Robredo from Philippines. My late husband was a successful businessman during his days in Abidjan, Republic of Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa where we lives for 20 years before he died last year. We were married for 27 years without any child. My Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. When my late husband was alive he kept one trunk box that contained the total sum of (US$4.5M (Four Million Five Hundred United States Dollars) in a Private Security Company in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire for Establishment and Development of Charity Organization but unfortunately his death did not allow him to actualize this project.

This said trunk box was kept in the security company custody in Abidjan for safe keeping and the value of the trunk box was registered and declared as family valuable and personal effects for security purpose. The security company management wrote me recently to nominate that I should come forward to sign for the release of this trunk box only know to me and my late husband or rather I authorize a foreign partner or agent who can claim the trunk box on my behalf if I cannot come over.

But unfortunately, Presently I am in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have few months to live. It is my last wish to see this funds distributed to charitable organizations anywhere in the World. I need your honest and sincere cooperation to claim this trunk box and donate the funds therein to any non-profit charity organizations and Motherless babies homes of your choice. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this funds, relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Know that you can keep 30% of the funds for yourself and the rest will be used to create a charitable foundation in my memory and a federation in the fight against cancer, the poor people that in needs and also build orphanages. I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my soundless voice and you can contact me only through my personal email address (ablegirl2011@gmail.com).

I will appreciate very much reading your urgent response.

If you can't read the above image, it says:

I received an email from a man in Ukraine that read....

I found your e-mail address on medical site of transplant and liver problems. My name is Alex, I am from Ukraine, I am 31 years old man, I do not drink alcohol and do not smoke cigarettes, my blood is O+ and I have a good health. If you need liver transplant I am ready to give part of my liver, but I want to receive a big compensation for that...

If you do not need liver transplant, but you know somebody who need it, please send my message to this person or keep it just in case."

Here is the email correspondance that followed...

I received an email from you but it was my work email address and I don't want to correspond through my work email. Anyhow, I am very interested in taking you up on your offer. Liver failure has run in my family for years and unfortunately I am not very high on the transplant list here in America.

I am prepared to provide generous compensation... Please write back ASAP.

I need to find the rich recipient (some recipients ready to pay but not enough for me), so I want a lot of money for a part of my liver - 850 000 Euro

P.S. I am not from mafia of organs trade, I am not a cheater or scammer.

Thank you for writing back so quickly... I think your search for a recipient might be over. I am in dire need and I have the resources to meet your demands.

But before I go any further. How much of your liver will I receive? 850,000 Euro is a lot of money and I want to make sure I am getting a fair deal.

I studied this theme and I know that I can donate till 60% of my liver, and after several months it will be restored. I know that liver transplantation is a very dangerous operation, I need the big money so I ready on such risk. Also I want to be assured that you will organize all in hospital and operation will pass at high professional level.

If we agree, where do you want to do this?

I am ready to make tests for compatibility and to meet you where you want.

P.S. It is absolutely confidential between us....

My uncle is a renowned surgeon at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has performed hundreds of transplants, both medical and cosmetic, on numerous prestigious patients including some well-known political figures. He is the best of the best. If you are interested, and would be willing to lower your asking price by about 2,000 Euro, he could give you the best calf implants money can buy.

Anyhow, I would feel more comfortable if you provided some more background on yourself before I commit to such a big decision. I don't need you to send your official medical records, but please provide me with your basic vitals (height, weight, ethnicity, eye color, hair color, penis size etc.)

USA is a very good, but it is not easy to receive the visa to USA.

Here is my picture in attachments.My weight - 62 kgsMy growth - 174 centimeters

If you have more questions, you can ask.

He inserted this picture, which I blurred for Alex sake.

In USA penis size is a show of strength and overall health, but it's okay if you don't want to reveal that information.

So it sounds like you would prefer to have the transplant take place in Ukraine... I'm okay with that. But you have to understand that the cost of travel and the medical procedure is going to cost me a lot of money. I am hoping there is some way I can lower the total cost of this whole ordeal.

My uncle that I mentioned earlier performed a few procedures on "The King of Pop", Michael Jackson about 15 years ago. To show his thanks Michael invited our family to his house and actually autographed a Playstation for me. It's one of my most prized possessions. The fact that Sony doesn't ever make the original Playstation anymore really ups the value of this item. Add that the late Michael Jackson autographed this item and it's truly a priceless piece of memorabilia. As much as it pains me to do so, I am willing to part with this item in the transaction at the very reasonable price of 200,000 Euro. I don't want to do it, but my health comes first.

I have attached a picture of the Playstation.

(The attached image is a photo of an original PlayStation console with a signature purported to be Michael Jackson's.)

ok my penis is 10 centimeters and I have a very good health.

I do not want to have the transplant in Ukraine, our medicine not at high level. I have learned that in India are professional hospitals for liver transplantation. For example - http://www.globalliverdiseases.com/links/glt.html

Mohammed Rela is professional liver transplant doctor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Rela

Costs for liver transplantation in India is 60,000-80,000$ (Sixty to eighty thousand dollars), sometime americans travel there for transplantation, you can google it.

If you will find better way to do this it will be good.

It sounds like you do not have enough money to pay me. That is a problem, a lot of recipients interests my offer, but they do not have enough money. My financial problem is very big and I need 850,000 Euro (Eight hundred and fifty thousand euro) to stop my problems...

I did some research and reviewed studies that were presented at the International Liver Congress in Berlin a couple of months ago (http://www.easl.eu/_events/the-international-liver-congress/the-international-liver-congress-2011-by-easl-46th-annual-meeting).

The congress concluded that a liver of a man with a 10 centimeter penis is not valued at 850,000 Euro, rather much closer to 400,000 Euro. I have attached the chart to this email so you can see the findings for yourself. Since you have been so helpful and patient I am willing to pay slightly above market value.

While going through some of my other possessions I came across a BBQ potato chip that is an exact replica (to scale) of the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars. This chip is without a doubt the most valuable piece of Star Wars memorabilia in the world. It's nearly impossible to put a price on it, but I had it appraised at $250,000 American, or about 175,000 Euro. I have attached a picture of the chip so you can see just how authentic it is.

So after the autographed Playstation and the 1-of-a-kind Millenium Falcon potato chip, I think we're down to about 50,000 Euro for your liver. All I need is a shipping address for these two items. And don't worry, I'll pay for shipping.

I'll give you the 50,000 Euro for your liver when we meet up in India. Are you free in October? I heard India is beautiful in October.

(Two photos are inserted: a chart of penis size to liver value correlation and a chip shaped like the Millennium Falcon.)

I am sorry, but I do not understand you.

There is no market value for liver. Sale or buy organs in USA or Europe is illegally. That why I said it is absolutely confidential.

If you do not have opportunity to pay 850,000 Euros we can not have a deal. Even 500,000 Euros will not help me...

If you aren't going to take my offer seriously I don't know how we're ever going to reach an agreement. Most people would give their first born son for that Playstation (Did I mention it also plays CDs?).

I'm beginning to think this might not work out after all.

I will throw in my 1955 Gibson Les Paul Air Guitar and that's my final offer.

I do not need expensive things, I need the money.

Sorry Alex this just isn't working out. Good luck.

Let me know if you decide to part with one of your nuts. I know a guy...