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BabyClanger said:
You would have thought that after all this time, these people would have cottoned on to the fact that people KNOW
these emails are scams, and would have given it up as a bad job.

Unfortunately there is one born every minute that will consider the merit of such a proposal, and that is all the scammers need to exist.

_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/13/south-african-police-419-scam
 

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Channel Hopper said:
Unfortunately there is one born every minute that will consider the merit of such a proposal, and that is all the scammers need to exist.

_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/13/south-african-police-419-scam
You're not wrong there!!
 

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rolfw said:
And this guy couldn't be bothered to invent a story.:)

Arrived this morning, and there's not even a name on this one.

There is a fund i want you to pick up for me.Its a fixed deposit which belongs to my diseased client(19 000 000 dollars)
 

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Channel Hopper said:
..There is a fund i want you to pick up for me.Its a fixed deposit which belongs to my diseased client(19 000 000 dollars)

Obviously the Spam they consumed was a tad past it's sell by date.....
 

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Channel Hopper said:
Arrived this morning, and there's not even a name on this one.

There is a fund i want you to pick up for me.Its a fixed deposit which belongs to my diseased client(19 000 000 dollars)
Strewth. They might at least try to get the spelling right.
 

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Very thoughtful this one, they've done a deal with the courier for sending the card more cheaply.:)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday Office Hours Monday to Saturday:

Dear Beneficiary,

Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is to the tune of $3.5Million due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Good luck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes. Now how would you like to receive your payment? Because we have two method of payment which is by Check or by ATM card?

ATM Card: We will be issuing you a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to $5,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it and the card have to be renewed in 4 years time which is 2016. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. Even if you do not have a bank account.

For Check: It will be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days. Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via UPS. Because we have signed a contract with UPS which should expire in next three weeks you will only need to pay $180 instead of $420 saving you $240 So if you pay before the one weeks you save $240 Take note that anyone asking you for some kind of money above the usual fee is definitely a fraudsters and you will have to stop communication with every other person if you have been in contact with any.

Also remember that all you will ever have to spend is $180.00 nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully delivered to you within the next 24hrs after the receipt of payment has been confirmed.

Note: Everything has been taken care of by the Federal Government of Nigeria, The United Nation and also the FBI and including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $180.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $420 but because UPS have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual fee of $420 to $180 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!

To effect the release of your fund valued at $3.5Million us dollars you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer Dr Lord Ruben with the information below,

Email: lordruuben@yahoo.com.cn
Telephone: +234-7056-674-177 or 011-234-7056-674-177 You are advised to contact him with the information's as stated below:

Your full Name..
Your Address:.....
Home/Cell Phone:........
Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check)

Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Yours sincerely,
Miss Donna Story
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Dr. Lord Ruben of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.
 

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Pulling at the heartstrings here:

Dear Friend,

Greetings in the name of God, Pls let this not sound strange to you for my
only surviving lawyer who would have done this died early this year. I
prayed and got your email id from your country's guest book which i have
been with my late husband and liked to visit once more if God will in his
infinite mercies.

I am Ms, Grace Scott. From London 58 years old, am suffering from a long
time cancer of the lungs which also affected my brain, from all indication
my conditions is really deteriorating and it is quite obvious that,
according to my doctors they have advised me that I may not live for the
next two months, this is because the cancer stage has gotten to a very bad
stage.

I was brought up from a motherless babies home was married to my late
husband for twenty years without a child ,my husband died in a fatal motor
accident Before his death we were true Christians. Since his death I
decided not to re-marry, I sold all my inherited belongings and deposited
all the sum of (10 million dollars) with a First Inland Bank.

Presently, this money is still with them and the management just wrote me
as the true owner to come forward to receive the money for keeping it so
long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it
on my behalf since I can not come over because of my illness or they get
it confiscated.

Presently, I'm with my laptop in a hospital in Switzerland where I have
been undergoing treatment for cancer of the lungs. My doctors have told me
that I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see that this
money is invested to any organization of your choice and distributed each
year among the charity organization, the poor and the motherless babies
home.

I want you as God fearing person, to also use this money to fund churches,
orphanages and widows, I took this decision, before I rest in peace
because my time will so on be up.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the First
Inland Bank. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove
you as the new beneficiary of my fund. Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as I stated herein. You are requested to send to me the
following information to enable me use it to write a Letter of
Authorization on your behalf to the bank so that they will release the
money to you as my new next of kin.
 

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Must be my lucky day - another one, and by my reckoning Im 13 million quid up in 5 minutes :D!

Dearest one,

I hope my mail find you in good health condition? If so thanks to almighty God. My name is Betty 20 years old orphan. I am new with internet and feel very reluctant to finding my rightful partner for this help I needed especially through the internet but the lord has revealed to me that you will be a God sent to help me in this favor, so I decided to give it a try to contact you. Let me tell you a little about myself and why I contacted you.
I am an orphan, meaning I don't have both parents any more their death has really caused me lot of sorrow because the death circumstances was trace back to the government of my country because of his support for the opposition party with his wealth. It is such a long story which I will explain further to you later. When my father was at the hospital, he gave me a document of some money he deposited with a security company for investment purpose in Europe which he was unable to accomplish before his death. He gave me this document because he made my name as the next of kin to the deposit and he instructed me to hide away from his family members because they are looking for the document of that deposit and that is why they formed together to kill him with his business associates and the government. And now they have taken over my entire father's estate and share it all so my life is now in danger because they know about the document I have with me so now I run away from them t o a secret location to find hel
I want you to help me in this way:
1. I will introduce you to the financial security company as my partner and i want my inherited deposit money to be transfer to your care.
2. I will send you all the deposit details and contact of the security company and you will call them on my behalf for the transfer to you.
3. Once it is transferred to you, you will send me little amount from the money to arrange my travel to meet you.
4. You will be my partner and guidance to find a good investment with the money.
5. I will offer you 20% of the total money as compensation for your effort and assistance and 5% for your expenses once the money is transferred to you.
Once I get your reply I will write you more steps to take and I can transfer my inheritance to you and travel to meet you for joint work and partnership. I will give you some compensation from this money but I want us to have more truthful relationship than this money alone.
Note: I count on your honesty for this transfer and please whatever you spend to finish this transfer for me will be rewarded apart before your 20% compensation.

Please reply to my private mail: bettyngesan@gmail.com

Hope to read from you pretty soon God bless you,

Note: the total amount of the deposit is 3,500,000 dollars (Three million five hundred thousand dollars)
 

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Make that 23 million quid!

ATTENTION,

I am Barrister Fong Chong, an attorney at law. I discovered your email and
information through comprehensive web email search on directory so I
decided to contact you. I know this sounds like a scam because of lot of
activities going on the internet. But I assure you that this is real.

A deceased client of mine, who hereinafter shall be referred to as my
client, died as the result of a heart-related condition on the 11 November
2001. His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his
family in the Gulf Air Flight Crashes in Persian Gulf near Bahrain Aired
August 23, 2000 - 2:50 p.m. ET as reported on:
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Gulf Air Flight Crashes in Persian Gulf Near Bahrain - August 23, 2000

I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my
client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank
where this deposit valued at Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars. ($10,600,000.00 USD). Is lodged. This bank has issued a notice to
contact the next of kin, or the account will be confiscated.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present you as the
next-of-kin and beneficiary of my named client, so that the proceeds of
this account can be paid to you. Then we can share the amount on a
mutually agreed-upon percentage. All legal documents to back up your claim
as my client's next-of-kin will be provided. All I require is your honest
cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. This will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from many
breach of the law.

This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from many breach of the law. If this business proposition offends your
moral values, do accept my apology. I must use this opportunity to implore
you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter extraordinary
confidential, whatever your decision, while I await your prompt response.
Please contact me at once to indicate your interest. I will like you to
acknowledge the receipt of this e-mail as soon as possible via my private
EMAIL: (barristerfongchongconsultant@yahoo.co.jp) and treat with absolute
confidentiality and sincerity. I look forward to your quick reply.

Also include your direct telephone number when contacting me to enable me
call and speak with you.

Best regards,

Barrister Fong Chong


Fong Chong? Really???
 

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And with a throwaway Yahoo address?

The sad thing is that there are people who are taken in by these morons.
 

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Analoguesat said:
I know this sounds like a scam.....

No....really???
 

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Analoguesat said:
Make that 23 million quid!

These are all from a single heavily spammed email address that I check once every couple of months or so

I gave up counting at that point, but there were at least 30 or 40 others in a similar vein.
 

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X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: notice@leighday.co.uk via gwbsp.binasanprima.com
X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.125407 secs)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 04:05:19 +0700
From: "Admin Staff." <notice@leighday.co.uk>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Notice
Reply-To: jooc@rediffmail.com
X-Sender: notice@leighday.co.uk
User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 2012.0.1913 [2411/4971]
X-AVG-ID: ID3B8E4FAF-27363A91




Attn: Please,
We wish to notify you again that you were listed as an heir to the total sum of Five Million British Pounds.

A regular mail was dispatched to you but no response from you. We request you to kindly acknowledge this email to enable us process your inheritance.

Yours truly,
Admin Staff
 

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That's an interesting one, as Leigh Day are a legit firm of "have you tripped over a manhole cover?" solicitors in London. Redriff however is an Indian email/contact site. Quite sneaky really.
 

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Hey here's a twist on the 419, this is the 2nd such offer I have had of employment...... would you take it.....no no nanette!!!!!


Employment with high salaryincome


FROM:
flavien.coste @ laposte.net

TO:
xxxxxxxxxxxxx @ btinternet.com
Message flagged Thursday, 31 May 2012, 18:40
Greetings ,


We have found your CV at one of the vacancies portals and we are offering a job in the UK.
We invite you to a position with a guaranteed promotion inside the company.
Consequently to the recent earthquakes in Japan several beneficence foundations have been opened and we are one of these.
We know that numerous people all over the world are eager to participate in the assistance programs for the victims. If you are interested in combining a good business with a high earning| then please study our offer.
We have opened the new Department of charity of a big japanese bank and we invite you to work there.
Demands:


fundamental computer knowledge (Word| Excel| Internet)
Mobile and fixed telephone with permanent availability
Permanent Internet access
Accuracy
Attention
Responsibility


To receive detailed descriptionplease respond to this letter.
Best regards,

yes that is how it was concluded no salutation no name
 

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am representing a small group of investors from South Africa, who are interested in overseas investment in your country, involving large volume of funds, for which they seek your participation as their overseas representative.

The civil service regulations here, prohibit them from getting involved in private business, while under government employment, hence this proposal to you, in view of your impressive profile.

However, we are aware that several propositions like this over the internet, end up to be fraudulent initiatives, whereupon the unsuspecting victim has his or her hopes built extraordinarily high, after which they eventually loose morale and confidence as a result of failed expectations. In light of this therefore, we shall carry you along with all the processes, from inception to actual transfer of the investment funds in your country. I represent very honorable people, and our words and promises must be backed by action, to make you feel confident that you are dealing with decent people.

I am willing to give you a proper knowledge of my person, as is appropriate for a transaction like this.

If you feel disposed towards the solicited role, please indicate by prompt response, so that I may provide you further details of the transaction, and also let you know what will be coming to you as remuneration for your solicited role. After that we shall then come to an understanding concerning the prospective areas of investment in your domain, that will be conducive for investors of foreign descent.

Given the fact that my associates have relatively only academic knowledge of your country, you should therefore have a basic expectation of the kind of role that will also be required of you, after the funds transfer has been done. Bear in mind however, that this is a legitimate transaction, and the only reason why strict privacy is advised, is that the result of restrictions of the civil service laws in South Africa.

I look forward to your prompt response.

Yours Truly,

Kenneth Makalele.
 

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MUHAMAD & CO.
LOT 3.15, 2ND FLOOR,
MEDAN MARA
JALAN RAJA LAUT
Tel:+60111624309
Fax:+603-269703234




Dear xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,




I am Muhamad Bin Burok, barrister at law. I saw your contact and profile and decided that you could cooperate with me in this proposition. I have a client who died as a result of heart-related condition in November, 2009, in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.


I am contacting you because you have the same surname as my deceased client and I felt you could assist me in the distribution of money left behind by my client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this deposit valued at US$10.5million is lodged.


This bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin,or the account will be confiscated. My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present you as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my late client,since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60% to me and 40% to your kind self.


All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next of kin will be secured gradually and forwarded to you. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.


If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic values,do accept my apology.Please contact me at once if you are interested through my Personal email (muhamadbin@blumail.org)


Regards,


Barr.Muhamad Bin Burok.
Senior Advocate/Solicitor.
 

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If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic values,do accept my apology.

Business proposition no....unsolicited email.....YES.......but at least he was decent enough to apologise :D:D
 

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DearBeneficiary,


Iwrite to confess what you are presently going through with my Boss. Iwas a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Localand Foreign Debt attached to the World Bank office in Washington, DC,USA. I resigned my official duty when I discovered the activities ofmy colleagues during a private investigation I carried out. Isuspected some kind of foul play in their act which they would neverinform me because they know I would never be a party to such as aChristian.


Idiscovered that my Boss was conniving with some top officials of theWorld Bank to divert funds approved to settle Lottery winners,International contractors and Inheritance. The World Bank has alreadygiven approval for the payment of your fund while they aredeliberately delaying your payment. They continue to issue one fee orthe other from different quarters. I wonder why you haven't noticedall this while. I can assure you this will keep happening if you donot do away with those officers.


WellI just hope you believe me, because if you don't, your fund is gone.Your fund is currently authorized to be paid to you from a financialconsultant in the UK US or AFRICA, approved by the World Bank with aKey Tested Reference/CLAIMS CODE Number, which was supposed to havebeen issued to you, but they have decided to divert your attention bytelling you that they have something to do with one committee or theother especially here in UK or Africa and making you believe that thefund will be transferred into your account - FALSE!


Thereason why I am giving you this information is because of the factthat I was aware of it and my doctrine does not permit me to withholdsuch information. The only help you can get from me now, is theactual link to your payment, please do not give this information tomy boss as it may lead to them influencing a total blockage to yourpayment, so you have to be very careful with this information.


Uponyour response to this message, I shall give you all you need tocontact the affiliate Payment Office in UK or US.


Yourstruly,
Mr.JobeFred
 
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