I can’t wait to see what this noose is made of, and how far it drops. Can I put my neck in it now? Please?
From: Col. John R. Oxford, Jr.
Hello, this is John R. Oxford, Jr. of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), USAF base Afghanistan.
It will interest you to know that I have putting your name as the beneficiary to receive my consignment (two military trunk boxes) containing ($20 Million USD) which has just arrived the JFK Airport New York, from our USAF base here in Afghanistan;
My desire and purpose is to have the U.S Military Air & Surface Transportation Company in New York to deliver the funds to you (or) to any overseas address under your supervision as long as I’m assured that it will be safe in your care until I return home mid-next year.
Please e-Mail me with your Cell Phone# and delivery address; the deal is 60/40 split (60% for me, and 40% for you); I am not a greedy person and I hope you will not double cross a working brother who has sacrificed his life in serving this nation.
God bless America!
Col. John R. Oxford, Jr.; Director,
AMRDEC
My e-Mail address is: joxford@adm-irs.com
I keep wanting to ask, “What is the percentage of idiots who actually respond to this sort of thing?” and I guess sense replies that “the percentage can be really small, but you’ll get bites if you put enough hooks out there, and you’ll make money if you can keep them on the hook.”
I’ve never understood how this scam works, though. In terms of actually making money for the scammer.
(BTW: Private to NSA: If there’s really something called an “Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center” it’s got a colonel who says he smuggled 20 mil out of Afghanistan. And he’s giving his name and announcing his crime to randomly-chosen total strangers so he really shouldn’t be in charge of anything. Might want to look into that.)
the key to it is they bait you in to paying customs fees, handling fees and other additional charges to get the “big money” …
I believe these things are so obvious because they want smart people to see the scam and ignore them, while stupid, greedy people take the bait. The dumber the person, the longer they can keep milking him/her before they figure out it’s a scam. So they really make it obvious so only the most pathetically stupid among us answer, so as they aren’t wasting their time emailing back and forth with someone who’ll never wire money.
I love it when you post stuff like this, I like to look up the people named just to see what I can fine. It gives me something to do, and yes before you ask, I have no life…
I took a look at “John R. Oxford, Jr. of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC)” and he actually exists. He was a Colonel and his last posting was as the Deputy Director of AMRDEC. But he was far from the middle east, he was located at the HQ in Huntsville Alabama. On September 7, 2011 he retired.
https://www.army.mil/article/65029/centers_retiring_deputy_director_led_by_example
That’s almost funny. I wonder how long it will take for him to learn someone’s taking his name in vain?
I do the same thing Mike, and bet other readers do too. Given that he’s ex military one can hope he pays a service to track mentions of his name on all social media and general Internet searches. Wonder what the key was that made them pick his name. And I wonder what his net worth is.
Gosh I hope someone does a takedown of whoever posted this. I used to do them for simple scams, don’t have the time now and it’s probably a lot more difficult.