Spelt as phishing but pronounced as fishing. When going fishing in the real world, you would take a bait and hope to catch some unsuspecting fish swimming by.

Bait On The Internet

In cyber world, it works pretty much the same way, the bait comes in many forms via email, illegal websites, etc. If it is email then, what the phisher would do is email you and promise you vast sums of money in exchange for your personal and sensitive information. The nigerian emails are really rife and never stop coming into our mail boxes even though we may have spam filters to protect us. They get by as most seem to send the major part of email in the form of an attachment.

The email looks something like the photo below and is typed out to make you believe that all they are luring you into is nothing but legit, beneficiary is mentioned to make one believe that you are getting some form of money, a consignment is mentioned but there is no mention of what this consignment is or consists of, hense the mystery. An unsuspecting individual would be then thinking consistantly about the mystery of this consignment.

Bottom And Brain

But lets analyse the legality of it and you will see many flaws. This is how the main body of the email reads:

ATTENTION;BENEFICIARY 
 
GO THROUGH THE NOTICE ATTACH EMAIL AND FEEDBACK WITHIN THE NEXT 
48HOURS.  THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING. 
 
REGARD. DR. CALAB CAIN

Ok so the guy does not even know my name if I was the beneficiary, and has given me 2 days to rack my brains (in reality 2 seconds is more then enough!) on deciding whether I may be missing an opportunity of a lifetime by turning him down. He ends with regards from a DR. CALAB CAIN when infact the email address of the sender is

jamie ken jamiekennn@gmail.com.

There is also another email address in the body of the attachment. If they were legit as they want us to believe why not just send us the mail from the African emabassy?

This person must have the best part of their brain embedded in their backside to actually think that anyone is going to fall for it. Dr Cain possesses the rear end whilst the jamie ken has access to the brain, visualising the £'s and $'s jumping from one useless cell to the next. LOL!

In the attachment you will also notice many spelling mistakes. Wonder which one of them did that? The bottom or the brain? Lol! Perhaps it was Dr Cain, in which case we can then assume that he is not a Dr at all of anything. I mean lets face it, if you were the head of any country's affairs in the world, surely you would hire someone who may have had a half decent education and could spell properly!

Perhaps jamie typed it up in which case we can clearly see that he/she should not be in charge as Dr Cain's personal assistant and maybe needs to go back to full time education!

Fun Time!

So as we read thru the attachment, we can clearly see that the demand is for $110 for them to obtain a certificate for them to release the funds. I wouldn't waste 1 cent on them but let me have a little fun back with the two of them before I delete their mail.

I have sent them an email to confirm that I will forward them $110 but I do not wish to be the beneficiary of the consignment. I have opted to donate and sign over all of my consignment money to the two of them (bottom and brain) in the hope that they will both use the benefits of the consignment in getting a better education!

Live a little, laugh alot!