Dilbert Spam

Well, this is new. I received a spam email from "Rick" sent through the Dilbert.com domain, replete with a cute Dilbert cartoon at the bottom of the page.

The text is the usual 419 phishing crap:

Your friend Rich wanted us to send you this from Dilbert.com.

Message from Rich:

From Richard
Dear one,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you, I got your contact from your country directory, please i need a trust-worthy person that will help me to transfer this money.

I am richard sanko, the only Son of late Mr and Mrs johnson Sanko My father was a very wealthy Gold Merchant in sierra leon the Capital of republic of sierra leon.

my father was poisoned by his business associates while my mother died when i am little and my father took me so special because I am his only son.

Before the death of my father on 14th Setember 2007 in a hospital in Cote D'ivoire, he secretly called me and told me that he has the sum of(USD $8 MILLION U.S DOLLARS )which he deposited in a bank Abroad.

He also made me understand that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business associates while on a business trip with them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of Cote Divoire and invest it for me, my purpose of contacting you is for you to help transfer this money to your country before this people who kill my father will kill me too.

I'm now hiding in a local place and I will compensate you with 20% of this money if you help me to transfer the money to your account l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is my only hope in this life and you will also help me to come over to your country to continue my education while you will invest my own share of the money for me.

I can assure you there is No Risk involve the money is an inheritance from my late father.


If you are interested please furnish me with your.
1) Real Names
2) Phone/Fax numbers
3) Occupation
4) Residence address

I am waiting to hear from you,
thank you.
Richard Sanko

There is no doubt this was actually routed via the Dilbert.com domain, which means either someone is cutting and pasting this spiel and sending it to random or bought email addresses, or Dilbert has been hacked. I don't quite know enough about it to render a judgment. I did send the Dilbert.com administrator an email through their web site, and got an automated response. We'll see what happens.