Obviously a scam

[Allen]

I know you guys are all gonna say it's a scam, but I can't think how clever these guys are getting now... In a way it kind of gets you going and wants to make you wanna send the messages, but I thought I share it with you for a laugh.

Email 1:

Barrister Tonos Ngele
A Solicitor At Law,
A Legal Practitioner.
No 58 Rue Street,
Lome Togo,West Africa.
Telephone No +228 9494538.




Dear Friend,


I am Barrister Tonos Ngele,a solicitor at law,
personal attorney to Mr J.P Parish,a national Of your
country,who used to work with Shell development
Company in Lome Togo. Here in after shall be referred
to as my client. On the 21st of April 2002, my
client,his wife and their only daughter were
involved in a car accident along Nouvissi express
Road.
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there
lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to
your embassy here to locate any of my clients extended
relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to
track his last name over the Internet,to locate any
member of his family hence I contacted you.I have
contacted you to assist in repartrating the fund
valued at US$20.5 million left behind by my client
before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable
by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount
were deposited. The said Security Finance Company has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have
his account confisicated within the next twenty one
official working days.

Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the
relatives for over 2years now, I seek the consent to
present you as the next of kin to the deceased since
you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of
this account can be paid to you.Therefore, on receipt
of your positive response, we shall then discuss the
sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.

I have all necessary information and legal documents
needed to back you up for claim. All I require from
you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any
breach of the law. Please get in touch with me
through this new email address for more details.

Best regards.
Tonos Ngele Esq

I replied for a laugh asking if it was a scam (stupid question I know, but I just wanted to hear what he said).

Dear Allen Parish,


Thanks for your telephone calls and your response,I
will intimate you on the details to this claim and a
brief history your relation told me before his death.

It was not by mistake that i contacted you because i
was left with no other option than this ,due to the
fact that i have exhausted all possible means to
locate any of my late clients relative or next of kin
as no will was drawn before his untimely death and the
final deadline given by the bank is just few weeks
away,i contacted our chamber of commerce, they make it
possible for me to locate you. From the previous mail
i sent to you,i stated that the late Mr.Johnson
Pafford Parish died in the ill fated accident .My
late client once told me about how his family that
migrated and settled in Europe were scattered during
the second world war during which he travelled to
south Africa then as a young boy with his father from
where they later came to Kenya before he finally came
down to settle here in Lome-Togo.

Bear in mind as i earlier stated in my previous mail
that if nobody is presented to the bank as next of kin
to my late client who will be entitled to the fund,
it will be frozen at the expiration of the deadline
given by the bank and the board of directors will
share it amongst themselves. I have worked very hard
all these years and will not just sit by and watch
the money disappear like a thin wind.
Due to my cordial relationship with my late client i
am opportuned to be in possession of the deposit
certificate of the account,the account secret access
code. I am also in possession of his death certificate
which the hospital authority issued to me when he was
confirmed dead. These information’s / documents makes
it easy for us to claim this fund without any hitch.

Other remaining information’s/ documents will be
forwarded to you in due course. The first and
most important step to take at this point is to send
an application to the bank as the next of kin/
beneficiary to the Mr.Johnson Pafford Parish to
demand for the release/ transfer of this fund to your
bank account because we are only few days away from
the final deadline given by the bank for the legal
next of kin to forward an application.



YOU SHOULD SEND THIS PREPARED APPLICATION TEXT TO THE
BANK AND NOTIFY ME AS WELL.


APPLICATION TEXT


ATTN: MICHEAL PAM
THE DIRECTOR FOREIGN OPERATIONS
DEPARTEMENT OCEANIC BANK
LOME- TOGO.
EMAIL foreignoperations@voila.fr OR
oceanicbank_foreignopera@financier.com
FAX +228-221-78-21



DEAR SIR,

RE:APPLICATION FOR CLAIMS ON A/CNO:14-255 2004/Oceanic
Bank AS NEXT OF KIN TO A/C OWNER NOW LATE Mr.Johnson
Pafford Parish.REFERENCE TO THE ABOVE SUBJECT
MATTER AND THE RIGHT CONFERRED ON ME BY THE DISEASED
IN QUESTION (Mr.Johnson Pafford Parish) AS NEXT OF
KIN,I HUMBLY APPLY FOR A CHANGE OF BENEFICIARY
SIGNATORIES TO A/C14-255-2004/Oceanic Bank,

THE REASON BEING THAT THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THE A/C
(Mr.Johnson Pafford Parish IS NOW LATE AND BY HIS
WILL IN HIS A/C PARTICULARS WITH THE BANK, I AM
PERSONALLY WILLED AND NAMED THE NEXT OF KIN TO THIS
A/C ON THE EVENT OF ANY SUCH UNEXPECTED SITUATIONS AS
DEATH.THEREFORE,I BEG FOR YOUR CO OPERATION IN
FACILITATING THE PROCEES OF MY REQUEST IN THE
EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME.

I AWAITS YOUR CONFIRMATION.
YOUR FAITHFULLY





2 PLEASE RE-TYPE BELLOW TEXT AND SEND IMMEDIATELY TO
THE DIRECTOR OF THE BANK.
FAX NUMBER +228-221-78-21 OR
EMAIL foreignoperations@voila.fr OR
oceanicbank_foreignopera@financier.com

NOTE:THIS IS THE APPLICATION LETTER THAT YOU WILL SEND
TO THE BANK.

Dear Sir

Application for the release and transfer of $20,5M
UNITED states dollars only) from OCEANIC BANK dormant
vault A/CN0:14-255-2004/Oceanic Bank Please be
informed that I wish to come for the claim, release
and transfer of the sum of ($20,500.000.00) from
account member 14-255 2004/Oceanic Bank, Your bank to
a new account as stated bellow.


The above amount/ money was deposited in your bank by
My deceased cousin (Mr.Johnson Pafford Parish) who
died in a car accident on 21st of April 2002 along
Nouvissi express Road, I am his cousin and named next
of kin with all documents of proof.

I wish as the heir apparent to claim and instruct that
the above-mentioned amount be transferred into my
nominated account as shown above

Please accept this late application as it was due to
family logistics problems consequent upon his funeral
rights, I hope you will understand and expedite
action.

Thanks for your anticipated co- operation.
Yours faithfully,



GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS YOU SEND THE APPLICATIONS.


As soon as you finish going through this details,
kindly give me a short call so that we can proceed
immediately.+228-9494538 all further mail to me should
be send through this my yahoo.com account
Awaiting your call.

Regards
Tete Wilson Esq

[Stoo]

I really can't believe anyone still falls for those..

[Allen]

I knoiw, but my point is that they're now making them personal! I mean, this guy who died, the supposed multi-millionaire, has the same surname as me! The cheek of bloomin' scammers!

[Apex]

had a few like that the last few days

[daniel_owen_uk]

I got about 2 words into it before I knew it was scam.

I feel sorry for people that get tricked into these scams and even more sorry for the people that know those idiots

[Stoo]

They're not *that* clever, I had one addressed to "Mr Stoo"... *snigger*

[quackers]

I wonder how many people actually fall for them?

[kushtibari]

Lots and lots. Some people have lost their life savings and are still convinced its not a con. Canadian Lottery is probably the worst at the moment. They must have hacked into Saga or something, because they only target the elderly and they even have a 'nice young man' at the end of the phone. Old lass near me sent them £12,000 in order to release her cheque for the million dollars she'd just 'won'.

[Allen]

That's sick... robbing dear old ladies or there money!

That's what kind of a world we live in these days!

[Moonshade]

They're not *that* clever, I had one addressed to "Mr Stoo"... *snigger*

Hehe..that's so clever

[quackers]

12'000!! Ouch, thats a lot of cash to get scammed from you.

[dkmech]

To one of the scam emails like that i said that i cannot help them but maybe this will be of use and pasted a link to the scammertainment page

I suggest everyone reports those emails as spam though - every time you do it the filters learn to keep those emails out and some granny will keep her money and have enough to feed her cats and kittens.

Remember - every time you report a spam email you are saving a kitten!

[Apex]

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Do they think am that daft ?

Dear Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we don't know
our
selves before neither have we met, but be sure that it is real and a
genuine
business. I believe that you will never let me down in this
VENTURE.However,I
would like you to read it patiently before making the decision of
wether
to help me or not.

I am mr.Clifford Alexander, an auditor and head of computing department
of a bank here in Scotland, United Kingdom. There is an account opened
in
this bank in 1995 and since my inception into office in 2001, nobody
has
operated on this account again, after going through some old files, I
discovered
that if i do not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited
for
nothing.

The owner of this account was Mr. John Hughes, who was a foreigner and
the
manager of Petro chemical service company here in London, a chemical
engineer
by profession who died since 1995.And then, since 2001, nobody knows
about
this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary
and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not
know
anything about this account and the amount involved is (15,000,000.00)
pounds
sterling.

I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad with
the
assistance of a trustworthy foreigner. I am only contacting you as a
foreigner
because this money can not be approved to any local bank here in
Scotland
U.K,but can only be approved to any foreign account because the money
is
pounds sterling and the former owner of the account is John Hughes and
he
was a foreigner too.
When the transfer is approved and payment schedule is allocated
overseas,through
the offshore paying delegate for final clearance and signing of the
payment
release forms by the beneficiary, I want us to see at the oversea
payment
clearance office face to face for signing of the original binding
agreement
to bind us together so that, we can receive this money into a foreign
account
or any account of your choice where the fund will be remitted.

I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a
foreign
account as the real beneficiary. I need your co-operation to make this
work
fine, because the management is ready to approve this payment to any
foreigner
who has the correct information to this account, which I will give to
you
when I am sure of your capability to handle such amount in strict
confidence
and trust according to my instructions and my advice for our mutual
benefit
because I don't want to make any mistake, I need your strong assurance
and
trust.
I will use my position and influence on other staffs to effect the
legal
approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate
clearance from foreign payment department. With assurance that this
money
will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for the
sharing
and possible investments.

For your assistance,you will have a percentage of this money or,in the
alternative,we
have a joint investments in your country.
While anticipating a positive response from you,
I remain.
Clifford alexander.

[Silvana]

MRS.MARIAM ABACHA
ABACHA COURT,
11 GIDADO CRESCENT, KANO STATE-NIGERIA.
Private e-mail address: mariamabachaa1@ummah.org

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

Sir/Madam,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition
having gone
through business ensure Hitch-Free at all time. Though, this medium
(Internet) has not been greatly safe for privacy in doing this
beneficial
transaction. I choose to reach you through it because it still
remains the
fastest, surest and most secured medium of communication at my
disposal.
However, this correspondence is purely private, and it should be
treated as
such.

I am Mrs Mariam Abacha, a widow to late General Sanni Abacha,
Nigeria‘s
former Military Head of States who died on the 8th of June, 1998 of
Cardiac
arrest. Since the death of my husband both the immediate, past and
incumbent
Government of my Country, Nigeria, have been persecuting my family.
The
present Government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo have turned the light
of
investigations into the actvities of my family. See family web site
below:

http://people.africadatabase.org/en/profile/1992.html
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Sani_Abacha
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Ar...124328,00.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...01/ai_87210843

The Government has directed all the Banks in my Country to freeze the
accounts belonging to my family and our numerous Business concerns of
every
member of my family including those of my uncles to a stop. And my
most senior
son, Mohammed was arrested by the Nigerian Government,and later
released on
bail with strick conditions. While all our foreign Bank Accounts have
been
frozen. Though my husband was not the only past Official accused of
having
money in foreign Banks. I am therefore using this medium to solicit
for your
assistance. Your Business profile and name were given to me in
confidence by
the Nigerian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Foreign Trade
Division). Now,
since the present Government of my Country is hell-bent on
prosecuting,disgracing the good name and image of my entire family and
possibly doing more damages to our financial base. I am therefore
desirous of
handling over the remains of my late husband‘s Money,US$36 Million
(Thirty-six
Million United States Dollars Only) which is presently SAFELY and
SECRETLY
kept in CODED CASH in a Security Company outside my Country to evade
confiscation by the Nigerian Government or its Agents. Please, if you
are
interested in helping my family move this money int your private or
Company
Account, kindly inform me through my E-mail address above. After the
movement
of this huge sum of money out of its secret place into your Country,
I plan to
give you 30% of the total sum, while 30% will be plunged into your
Business
concern as shares or for high profile investment purposes in your
Country.
Then, the rest 40% shall be used to settle my entire family who have
reached
advanced stage to migrate abroad for political asylum.

Just for your information, my fear grief-stricken children have the
blessing
of this business transaction. It is pertinent to state here that this
transaction is entirely based on trust and I would also kindly appeal
that you
keep this proposed transaction MOST TOP SECRET. Your immediate
response should
be communicated to my private e-mail address: mariamabachaa1@ummah.org
so that
all machineries concerning this transaction will be swung into action.

Thank you very much for showing interest. I Iook forward to hearing
from you
soon. God‘s blessings.

MRS MARIAM ABACHA.
forThe Abacha family).
mariamabachaa1@ummah.org
___________________________________________________
http://www.stade.fr le mail gratuit à vie !

[Silvana]

From: Mr. Ida Hubert.

# 11 Cnr Hamilton House,
Ziervogel Streets,
Arcadia, Pretoria,
South Africa.


{THIRTY SIX MILLION USD)
(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 36,000,000.USD
{BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY/YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED}

Good Day Sir/Madam

My name is Mr. Ida Hubert, and I work in the International operation
department in a Local Bank
here in South Africa. On a routine inspection I discovered a dormant
domiciliary account with a BAL.
Of 36,000,000 (Thirty Six Million USD) on further discreet
investigation, I
also discovered that the
account holder has long since passed away (dead) leaving no
beneficiary to
the account.

The bank will approve this money to any foreigner because the former
operator of the a/c is a foreigner and from Iraq in particular and I
am
certainly sure that he is dead, and nobody will come again for the
claim of
this money A foreigner can only claim this money with legal claims to
the
account Holder therefore I need your cooperation in this transaction.


I will provide the necessary information needed in order to claim
this
money, But you will need to open an account where this can be
transferred.
If interested send your private Telephone No. And Fax number
including full
details of the account to be used for the Deposit I wish for utmost
confidentiality in handling this transaction as my job and the future
of my
family would be jeopardized if it were breached.


The informations will be as follows..

Bank Name.........
Bank Address........
A/C Name.............
A/C Number..............
Swift Code No..............
Routing Number................

I want to assure you that the transaction is without risk if due
process is
followed accordingly. Finally I will give you 25% for your
corporation. I
look forward to a favorable response from you.


Best Regards,

Mr. Ida Hubert.

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[Stoo]

Blimey, you're necro-ing a fair few threads, it's not halloween until the weekend you know