Apparently i have inherted some money

[alsenior]

OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
Your Ref

THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR INHERITANCE
FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE
NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS
GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR
CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE
OFFICIALS IN THE BANK YOUR ENTIRE ATTEMPT TO
SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO YOU. WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN
ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THESE HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISH TO
RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR
PROBLEM.
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT
CENTER ASIA PACIFIC THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION FROM
MR.PRESIDENT,UMARU YAR'ADUA (GCFR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND FBI.

THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW
YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD,
BUT THE MAXIMUM IS FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE
YOUR FUND THIS WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING

THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS DEPARTMENT CARD PAYMENT CENTER.

MRS. LINDA Hills ON HER EMAIL ADDRESS:
mrslinda.hill01@yahoo.com.hk

AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT USD6.8MILLION AS
PART PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2007. ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION,
YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR
OFFICE(S) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT.
FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT
MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND
ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED OFFICE. NOTE
THAT
BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS
(ATM-822)
SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING
IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

KINDEST REGARDS,
MR DAVID MARK.
SENATE PRESIDENT.

Who is up for some scam baiting?

[SiM]

hmm... English name... they use the word nigeria and the email address is from hong kong... these people are not getting any cleverer

Reply saying that you work for the FBI and that you are interested but you need their full name and address.

or email him and say that there is no "UMARU YAR'ADUA (GCFR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND FBI" that works for the FBI and that you think he is a terrorist and now the US army have traced his IP and are are coming to bomb his house.

[Fraz]

OR...

Better still, through some long and complicated means, try and get them to carve a wooden replica of a commodore 64 keyboard and send it to you!



A genius bit of scam-baiting, if ever there was one.

[MadduckUK]

! i want one

[staffsMike]

So you use this card to transfer the moneys..



Just email they back attempting to sell viagra

[Fraz]

Just email they back attempting to sell viagra

Funny... I always thought it was spelt \/i@gr@...

[MSIC]

Lucky Alsenior. What are you going to spend it on?
I always thought that you were supposed to say something like:

"Tell you what, why don't YOU pay the Taxes and we'll split the profits 50 / 50".

[Mossy]

Why do they always write in CAPS?

[MadduckUK]

i would also like to know that.

[alsenior]

ok i responded with

Dear Mrs Linda Hills

in response to the e-mail response below i would be very interested in this solution. but first i have some legal formalities to get out of the way. i need a copy of your Bank identification. this is due to new rules in the uk banking system in response to changes in the data protection laws of this country.

My reference is ATM-822

Please respond quickly

[Lee H]

The reference should of been NCC-1701 then we could of got them to make a model of the starship later

The reason they write in CAPS is because they use OLD IBM monitors back from early 1980's which have resolutions like 200x100 and are just about in colour.

Or he's got a PC like this chap below ;

[MadduckUK]

The reference should of been NCC-1701 then we could of got them to make a model of the starship later

The reason they write in CAPS is because they use OLD IBM monitors back from early 1980's which have resolutions like 200x100 and are just about in colour.

actually they look like this


oooh controversial

[steve threlfall]

Why do they always write in CAPS?

A lot of terminally stupid people think that caps make text easier or more likely to be read when in fact, the opposite is true. See ebay for examples "BUY MA GOOOD ITAMS!!!1"

[Fraz]

I heard that once upon a time the 419ers were Nigeria's second-largest source of foreign income. Makes you wonder what they could achieve if they had half a brain-cell and had someone who could write decent English without one elbow resting permanently on the shift key.

[MadduckUK]

it also makes you wonder what other foreign incomes Nigeria has.... tourism.... uh.... that's it?

[Fraz]

it also makes you wonder what other foreign incomes Nigeria has.... tourism.... uh.... that's it?

Oil and gas, I believe. And the 419ers used to do this stuff by post! Must have had much higher overheads than just sending out 1 trillion-billion-squillion emails per femto-second like they do now.