INTERNATIONAL ASSASINATORS AND WORLD SECURITY ORGANISATIONS
July 19, 2004
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
The Nigerian 419 scammers have moved on to a much more aggressive form of email scam. Now they claim to be representatives of an organization that’s been hired to put a hit on you unless you send them $40,000 immediately.
I particularly liked this last bit:
CAUTION.
1.you are to attach and send with immediate effect,the payment slip,confirming the payment and to enable us to reconcile with our files and deploy our men already monitoring you.
2.we will as well waste no time to carry our operations,if we discover that this contact is disclosed to any second party including the following:-
police relation and friends
3.we guarantee your saftey locally and internationally,on the completion of this contract and will not hesitate to disclose our men in your country to you and as well render our service if needed or on request.
we seek your urgent co-operation,for it is not our wish to get you eliminated.
Note : – Your death has been paid for by someone you offended sometime ago and it will be adviceable that you co-operate with us a.s.a.p.
Hmm… that could be a lengthy list, given my rather abrasive personality before I mellowed into my current laid-back style. 
Link via Slashdot.
Categories: What the heck?
If I tell someone I don’t like, do they kill them instead? Or also?
What is the hook here that makes me want to pay them? Why do I believe they have some number of “hit men” out there somewhere tracking me down?
What’s the hook? They’re hoping to prey on people’s fears and gullibility. Most people would dismiss this as a scam, but I’ll bet there are a few people who take it seriously. It would only take a few people to rake in some serious money.
Yes, gullibility is always a major factor for a scam to work. The hook of some huge team of assassins entering the US, tracking you, waiting for some extended period to kill you for something you obviously don’t even remember just seems… too gullible. I mean, that costs money to start with. As a businessman, you would be losing money every one of these you sent out with teams as small as 3 guys, their organization is going to cost over $40k per hit. Now if you threatened to send the team out if they don’t pay, you might have a chance – you save all costs except the internet connection unless they pay. You only have to finance the team if the mark doesn’t pay. And besides, the hit is already paid for – you would be breaking the contract – bad for future business; so the original contract would have to be as cheap as $20k (you get double for NOT killing the guy, and still have to satisfy the original guy somehow – kill the original contractor?).
Bad business model. You kill off your client base, cost overruns, huge number of small teams out there spending money, the overhead is a killer.
oh, sorry about that pun…
our company received one of these threatening execution emails 25/7 i reported it to the local police who told me of this website.
we also received a scam email a couple of weeks ago about transferring money from johannesburg from a peters nanga dldl @epatra.com i wonder if these are connected seems likely
I got one of these today as well.
Whats funny is the address…
“ADDRESS:
108 Woodbridge Road Guildford
UNITED Kingdom GU1 4PY”
which is, if you search google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="108+Woodbridge+Road+Guildford
a clothing factory.