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S-r-ex
Nov 16 2007, 11:22 PM
Yup, got a nigeria letter telling me of some guy that died in a plane accident back in 1997, telling me to share his fortune 40/60. Well fuck yeah I thought and replied with a message saying I'm not interested and a link that might be of his interest that actually redirects to, eh...hehe...gayporn...seriously...and most likely one that will crap your computer with shit too :lol:

And here's the letter, a 419 scam: http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-barrister-lome-togo.htm

ROM THE DESK OF GARUBA USMAN
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT,
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

With Due Respect,


I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we have never met before, but need not to worry as I am using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for your foreign assistance in a business.

I am contacting you independently of my investigation and no one is informed of this communication.

My name is Dr.Garuba Usman I am of the bill and exchange of Bank of Africa Plc .

I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust
and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.

I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our Bank who perished along with his next of kin with Korean Air Line, flight number 801 with the whole passengers on 6th of augustus 1997 and for your perusal you can view this site http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list (http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list)

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$10.5M (Ten Million five Hundred Thoudsand
United States Dollars) which has been with our branch for a very long time.

On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next- of -Kin since nobody is coming for the fund again.

The Banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than 12 years, because the money will be recalled to the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.

In view of this I got your contact through the internet when I was making a research for a foreigner that I will use in this great opportunity because I dont want the money to be recalled to our Bank treasury as uncliamed fund.

I am offering you 40% of the total sum if you agree to execute this transaction with me and the rest 60% will be for me.

The reason for a foreigner in the business is for the fact that the deceased man was a foreigner and it is not authorized by the law guiding our Bank for a citizen of this country to make such claim.

This is the reason while the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the release and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable Bank account.

If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and
confidentiality, and accept not to cheat or disappoint me after this business, reply with your telephone and fax numbers and Banking account details where you wish to
receive the fund.

Upon receipt of the above mentioned informations,indicating your interest in the business,I will draft and send to you by fax or e-mail a letter of application which you will re-copy and send back to our Foreign Remittance Department in our Bank, for easy execution of the transaction.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and dont have any negative implication .Please you should not entertain any fear as I have made all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of this fund
to your account. This transaction will be completed within 14 Bank working days immediately we start the business.

Please observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country immediately after the transaction.

Waiting for your urgent response and please kindly delete if you are not interested.

Yours faithfully,
GARUBA USMAN
Bill and exchange,
Bank Of Africa

Naunen
Nov 16 2007, 11:45 PM
I got that email too. 'cause of my surname. I don't trust any "official" emails with misspellings.

Whiplash
Nov 17 2007, 12:01 AM
Ironically 'Burkina' means 'men of integrity', I'm told.

Blu Ray Disc
Nov 17 2007, 03:12 AM
Weird. You can't ever trust letters like that. It's just like those little ads that say, "Congratulations, you have won our hourly prize, Click here to claim prize"
You know they'll fuck with you the moment you click.

Naunen
Nov 17 2007, 03:33 AM
I can't trust them 'cause of their typos too. I keep getting emails from them saying something like, "I will die in three months so please complete this transaction." o_O Same people regarding this matter. About five different "dying" people emailed the same thing.

Whiplash
Nov 17 2007, 05:21 AM
Anyone sends me one of those and they soon will be dying.

Neal
Nov 17 2007, 10:53 AM
I got that email too. 'cause of my surname. I don't trust any "official" emails with misspellings.
Whats your surname got to do with anything?

Lucrecia
Nov 17 2007, 11:40 AM
Haha. I've heard about those Nigeria letters. I've gotten a few scamming emails before as well. Always poor spelling, grammer, and just a poorly put together email altogether.

Naunen
Nov 17 2007, 08:29 PM
Whats your surname got to do with anything?

----They say "because you share the same family name as this family..." but the letters soon after say "THE AMOUNT INVOLVED IS (USD 25.2 M) TWENTY-FIVE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY , I AM CONTACTING YOU AS A
FOREIGNER
BECAUSE THIS MONEY CAN NOT BE APPROVED TO A LOCAL PERSON HERE, BUT CAN
ONLY
BE APPROVED TO ANY FOREIGNER WITH VALID INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR
DRIVERS
LICENSE AND FOREIGN ACCOUNT BECAUSE THE MONEY IS IN US DOLLARS AND THE
FORMER OWNER OF THE ACCOUNT MR JOHN KOROVO IS A FOREIGNER TOO, AND THE
MONEY
CAN ONLY BE APPROVED INTO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT" that it doesn't matter who gets it.

One of many letters I got. Do not click on any links mentioned.

Dear Friend,


URGENTLY AND EXTREMELY CONFIDENTIAL.

I am an Accountant and the chairman of the tender committee which
awards contract in the department of the petroleum Resources of Nigeria . I
sent you a mail through an internet sometime ago informing you of our
plan to transfer the sum of USD$23.6million (Twenty Three million, Six
hundred thousand US Dollars only) to your account. I have been waiting
to hear from you,but up till now, nothing has been heard from you hence
this particular message.

I want you to know that this funds originated from an Over-invoiced
contract sum which was awarded to a foreign firm in 1999. I and my three
(3)other colleagues in the tender Board purposely inflated the actual
cost of the contract to the tune of USD$23.6 Million.

However, the original contractor has fully executed the contract, the
project commissioned and the contractor paid his actual contract worth,
leaving behind the over-invoiced sum. So, it is based on this that we
now want you / your company to come forward to claim this sum on our
behalf. We are Civil Servants, and we are not allowed to operate foreign
account while still in office, so you are therefore to act as one who
had executed a contract worth the sum of USD$23.6 million for my
Department and you now want your payment.

This deal is 100% risk free. We are perfectly in charge and had worked
out modalities that would guarantee a hitch free transfer of this fund
to your account. We have also mapped out 35% of the total sum for you
for your help and assistance while the remaining is for me and my
colleagues.

If you are interested in the proposal, kindly indicate by contacting
me through my private telephone or via my E-mail.You can as well send
your bank account details for this transfer.

This deal must be kept absolutely confidential till we succeed. Thank
you as we look forward to your anticipated co-operation.

NOTE : After a successful transfer, 35% for you, 65% for us. We will
also visit you immediately we conclude this transaction to collect and
invest our shares of the total sum into any viable business you may
advise us in your country.

Nevertheless,i got your email contact information through an internet.

Contact me urgently through this my particular email(
drcubah44@myway.com ).


Best regards,
Dr Chris Ubah.

I got more too. >< Asswipes.

BlueOni
Nov 17 2007, 10:53 PM
I got an email like this and dismissed it as soon as I saw it was written in all caps and has spelling errors in it, never mind the highly implausible offer. Check out the site 419eater.com, it's dedicated to messing with these Niggerian scammers.

And here's a little something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=372Ah0Z_L1w