ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Received the following friendly offer of £30,000,000From Mr Larry Bodricks/Business RelationshipHead of Department bank of scotland united kingdomCall me with my private tell number(+44-7040112855)ContactDear partner,In order to transfer out(Thirty-million pounds sterlings)from our bank here in london the owner of this account in mr john hughes foreigner and the manager of petrol chemical service here in london,A chemical engineer by proffession and he died since 1995.The amount involved is(30,000,000.00)pounds sterlings.I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but i don't know any foreignert,I know that this massage will come to you as a surprise as we don't know our self befor,But be sure that it is real and a genuine business.I believe in God that you will never let me down in this investment.Your full contact information phone and fax number,Name will be necessary for this effect.Hope to hear from you immediately.ThanksMR Larry BodricksYes, it's certainly nothing new - I have received similar offers by snail mail, fax, and email back to the early '80s. What's new to me is that they brashly include a telephone number in the UK as prime contact. (The email address in the scam I have already reported to uk-mail-abuse -at- cc.yahoo-inc.com).I was just wondering if there is a way to forward this to the authorities in the UK for a quick arrest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 This is the UK contact http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/419.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 You would think by now that they could get their English spelling and grammar correct, wouldn't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Thanks for the contact website; I have forwarded the message.Spelling: we never know if it is a genuine disability to spell correctly, or if it's simply an attempt to get around spam filters. But you would think that for a "business" message one could at least use a spell checker... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 What will you spend it on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 What will you spend it on?What, the £30,000,000 or the reward if they arrest the crook(s)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 I hope your information will help the authorities catch him.No businessman would send a message with that spelling and grammar. And another give-away is the reference to God. For some reaon scammers always refer to the Almighty at some stage.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 I hope your information will help the authorities catch him.No businessman would send a message with that spelling and grammar. And another give-away is the reference to God. For some reaon scammers always refer to the Almighty at some stage.Thos.I agree Thos, it stinks from the first word to the last. There will be someone somewhere though that thinks it is genuine and probably fall for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 What will you spend it on?What, the £30,000,000 or the reward if they arrest the crook(s)?The thirty mill of course, surely you won't pass up a chance like :D :D :D :D :D :D this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 You can get English phone numbers in Spain :lol: Only a few weeks ago they arrested a nigerian gang here, who had taken millions out of accounts all over the world, so quite a few take the bait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 The -704xxxx range are generally portable numbers, despite the yahoo.com.hk (hong kong) addy this snivelling little scammer is probably located in Nigeria or Ghana (of course) in an internet cafe, if you check the headers the originating IP could well belong to an israeli satellite provider. Thus other than closing down the scammers account he's probably untraceable. :censored: Unfortunately these scammers don't only try to play on a victims greed, but also via charity scams on peoples desire to help the less fortunate, ie:- the tsunami scam, New Orleans Hurricane scam.There's aparticularly nasty scam regarding Dr Larry Sheingorn In which images stolen from the site are used to try and make the scam more believable.Sadly Dr Sheingorn died last year and I saw some correspondence from his widow in which scammers had tried to scam his family using those same images. The lowest of the low. :censored: :censored: the 419 scam is probably second only to oil in bringing foreign currency to Nigeria.The only government that really seems to be interested in doing something about these scammers is the South African govt who regularly set up stings and arrest the scammers, who then have some holidays at the SA govt's expense. :flowers: see http://www.419legal.org/portal.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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