I have taken a new job! It pays $150,000/year!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205633)
Walnut Creek, California
June 16, 2019 6:28pm CST
Working with disadvantaged children and teaching at a local community college has been rewarding for me. I admit that.
But the money is not that great, and I also admit that I want to retire comfortably. Therefore, I have taken a new job: "Email Scam Writer."
It pays $150,000/year (more than I have ever made, excluding investments), and I can work from home.
All I have to do is make scam emails like the attached seem credible. Because of my skill as a writer (I worked for my College newspaper, have published scholarly articles in reputed journals, and even reviewed a Frank Zappa concert for the Worcester H-T back in the '80s), securing this job was easy.
I will attach the text of one of my most recent scam emails. My job is simply to correct this, and other similar emails, such that people will fall for them.
I invite your help. What are the most obvious cues (to you) that this email is a scam? I will incorporate your comments into my efforts to make such scam emails more credible.
I will donate half of my earnings to MyLot Payout, such that we can all be rich upon retiring from MyLot. Here is the email I am currently working on:
Security Alert
For your protection we have placed restriction on your Bank of America
account due to irregular activities.
Please visit Bank of America Online to verify your information as requested.
Upon verification our security team will handle any discrepancies.
Please note: Incomplete and incorrect data will lead to suspension of service.
We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.
This is a service email from Bank of America. Please note tha t you may receive
service em ails in accordance with your Bank of america service agreements.
Ple ase don't reply directly to this automatically generated email mes sage
Bank of america, N.a. Member FDIC.equal Housing Lender
©2019 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Thank you for your help, and for the opportunity to share the wealth from my new job with fellow MyLot members.
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19 responses
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Jun 19
Why does this look like a scam?
I don`t use bank of America pretty much gives it away.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Jun 19
@vandana7 Nope! I am scamming, I don`t fall for all that charming bull crap but he does not know that I am not falling for his scam. 
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@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Jun 19
@yukimori I've never met a Mojave Green. With my aging eyes flagging, it's probably best that I not meet one. In all honesty, I was hiking with a buddy when I met this little guy. I stepped right over him, and he just froze with his mouth open. I had my sunglasses on and didn't even see him until my friend said, "I think you just stepped over a rattlesnake." By the time I took this picture, my "feeling" was that he knew we were friend, not foe. A few months later, I had a kid out hiking (I'm a kid psychologist) and I sat down on a log. The log jiggled an area where an older Northern Pacific was relaxing, and he rattled at me in a way that clearly said, "I'm old and don't want to deal with this, but I just want to let you know I'm here." I continued to sit and said something reassuring as he slowly slithered away.
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@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
15 Aug 19
@LadyDuck That is very nice
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@xander6464 (40871)
• Wapello, Iowa
17 Jun 19
It looks totally authentic to me. The only problem is that, as someone else pointed out, not everyone has a Bank of america account. So how about a paragraph about the Unified Banking Authority Of Official FDIC Records And Accounts and explaining how even if your bank is not Bank of america, you still have to verify all information and if you don't, the FBI will be notified and a warrant for your immediate arrest will be issued for Fraudulent Bank Practice?
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@xander6464 (40871)
• Wapello, Iowa
17 Jun 19
@TheHorse It was that train. I wonder what the odds of that is.
I don't know how you're going to be able to give $20 to orphans when you only have $10 million..you must have a very good accountant. I will get the orphanage address to you as soon as I double check everything. It seems to have a London address, which seems odd for a Nigerian orphanage. Also an odd name---The Outcall Tantric Asian Massage Nigerian Orphanage, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square. That's where they want me to send the $10 but I still think someone might be confused somewhere so I wouldn't send any money there just yet.
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@TheHorse (205633)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Jun 19
@xander6464 Wait. Was that the train that was hit by a falling airplane, occupied by the Uncle of Barrister Mbalo, who is sending me $10 million US? We do indeed live in a small world. Just to outdo you (I am male and still feel this need), I will send $20 to the orphanage of your choice. When the cash arrives.
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@RasmaSandra (73365)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Jun 19
Congratulations and good luck with that job. Soon you might be able to sell a wooden horse to a cowboy 
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
18 Jun 19
Is there even still a Bank of America around? But yes I get these all the time from different places. Makes you only feel Sorry for the souls who send them and many times unknowingly as well as many of the one\s who fall for them each day and get taken.
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@wittynet (4421)
• Philippines
24 Jun 19
This reminds me of one email I received from scammer. He said he'll give me his wealth because he's bedridden and dying and I was the lucky one he chose to inherit all his wealth.
I replied, "I'm rich. Give it to the needy." Of course there was no response, but after few months, I saw the email and sent another one, "Are you still alive?"
Regarding emails from banks, I always receive so many emails, but I always ignore them. I go to the bank instead.
Regarding emails from banks, I always receive so many emails, but I always ignore them. I go to the bank instead.1 person likes this
@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
16 Aug 19
From the picture of the rattlesnake one would assume the job is making rattlesnake stew and selling it to Southwest restaurants and casinos!
@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
15 Aug 19
LOL not quite enough to buy a home in San Jose,unless you save up.
@wolfgirl569 (95079)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Jun 19
My bank always addresses me by name first. Also if that is the exact way it is typed, there are many errors. Like America written as america in a few spots.
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