New scam?

[doug]

Just about to log off when this e-mail arrived from an african gentleman looking for help to move $30 million. Obvious but I thought I'd post the return address. [email protected] Any mod or admin feel free to delete if this causes any problem. Full text below.

TOP-SECRET

RE: REMITTANCE OF US$30,000,000:00

CONFIDENCIAL E-MAIL [email protected]

Dear Friend.

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department African Developpement Bank .I am writing, following your address which i got through international network information when i was searching for a sure email contact because of the urgency of this transaction.And i hope of your relaibility to champion this business opportunity with me.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$30m US dollars (THIRTY MILLION USD) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 1999 in a plane crash.Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreign as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60% would be for me. There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter for more explanations.

Yours faithfully

Dr.IBRAHIM KAF

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[Rebel=UK=]

419 ...for abit of fun you could tag them along

The so-called scam 419 is a fraud invented in Nigeria and performed by thousands of scam artists.

It's called “Advance fee fraud” or “4-1-9” scams, after an old Nigerian criminal code for theft under false pretenses.

Millions of people all over the world have received emails from pseudo-Nigerian authorities saying that they had large sums of money and that they needed a bank account off-shore to launder said large sum of money, generally many millions of dollars. Many people have believed their story and lost lots of their own money. Some even lost their lives trying to recover their money. This is tragic for the victims. On another plain, it's surreal.

[Scarecrow Man]

......you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted.......

This is called Phishing. http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.ph...topic=11273&hl=

It's nothing new, just very annoying. If you can mark the message as spam, or block the sender.

[-pops-]

Surprised you haven't had one of these before, doug - they are extremely common. There is reputed to be university in Nigeria devoted to this activity.

You can report your email to the police who have a department devoted to this http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm other than that, delete the post. There is no point in blocking the sender as the next one you get will be from a different address.

What you should not do is string these people along. It is all part of a highly organised criminal network - with results you could expect if you cross them.

I know someone who was caught by this scam when it was done by FAX and snail mail (shows how long it's been going). This guy was a qualified accountant and the finance director of a smallish company. Anyway, he lifted close to £500,000 from his company in payments made to these scammers. His jail sentence was not a short one.

[andsome]

And still people are thick enough to fall for this.

[expertec]

I keep getting these in the spam folder in Gmail, I just delete them.

[andsome]

I don't get spam since changing my e-mail address to something which auto diallers are less likely to hit upon.

[bvw]

I get no spam at all, zilch, on any of my accounts. I used to get one or two a week on Hotmail a few months ago but even they have stopped now.

Just lucky I guess.

[Gandalph]

Well, the top line does it for me Doug. :lol: