Top Secret Email

[Talies R]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a Private Investigator based in Europe. A group
of Government Officials from an African Country
contacted me with a Proposal. I am to Make contact
with you and state their offer, if your Interest is
Genuine, you will be contacted for your account details to
which will be transferred the sum of $33,600,000.00 USD.
(20% of which is yours) at the necessary time.

You are then required to forward the remaining balance
(Minus the Interest, handling and tax clearance
charges, which Will be offset by Us & Deducted from
the transferred sum) to a nominated Bank account in
the Cayman Islands. I don't think I need to spell out
the importance of Secrecy in this Matter considering
the amount involved.

Let me state clearly here that the account that you
would be providing does not need to have funds in it,
it is only needed to be active and be able to receive
funds.

So, if I don't hear from you within three days I will
assume you are not interested and will solicit for a
new partner, but if you know you are interested let me
know. List your phone & fax numbers so we may
communicate with you. This is important as we would
Have to talk about the modalities of the transaction.

Waiting to hear from you.

Regards,
Donald Kayode

:rolleyes:

[Akagi Redsuns]

I get a variation of this scam email like once or twice a month. Sad.

[guysmiley]

This was on the news two days ago....can you believe that over 100 people throughout Canada actually fell for it......

[B17a]

I get e-mails like this daily, its ridiculous to think people are gulable enough to fall for it. oh well, guess it just shows theres a sucker born every minute.

[mwmhong]

Nigerian cheque scam. :thumbsdow

[accordboi_02]

My g/f got this one time, but she let me screw with the guy instead... I kept asking him for HIS info and whatnot, it was hilarious... the guy couldn't spell, and I used the name U.R. Gaye... the guy never got it!

:thumbsup:

[Shaolin]

there's a website this one guy has, and his whole website is about him messing with the scam artists.

David Lee Roth Scam Jokes Page (http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/)

[girlRACER]

Originally posted by Shaolin
there's a website this one guy has, and his whole website is about him messing with the scam artists.

David Lee Roth Scam Jokes Page (http://www.geocities.com/scamjokepage/)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Some of the e-mails on that site are hilarious!! I can't believe one of the scam artists even threatened the other person with voodoo and black magic!

[Zephyr]

yea this is a serious scam that has taken tons of money from americans and even some being kidnapped...

[GTS Jeff]

whats with the capitalization of random words?

[B17a]

Originally posted by GTS Jeff
whats with the capitalization of random words?

These guys are a bunch of hammer heads, they can barely spell so I am willing to overlook the capitalization.

[Alpine Autowerks]

people have been killed in this setup (one from Calgary if I remember right).. guy went to Nigeria to get his money and they killed him.

[gongSHOW]

are you serious, count me in, jk jk! what a joke who would actually fall for that? :dunno: :bullshit:


Originally posted by Talies R
Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a Private Investigator based in Europe. A group
of Government Officials from an African Country
contacted me with a Proposal. I am to Make contact
with you and state their offer, if your Interest is
Genuine, you will be contacted for your account details to
which will be transferred the sum of $33,600,000.00 USD.
(20% of which is yours) at the necessary time.

You are then required to forward the remaining balance
(Minus the Interest, handling and tax clearance
charges, which Will be offset by Us & Deducted from
the transferred sum) to a nominated Bank account in
the Cayman Islands. I don't think I need to spell out
the importance of Secrecy in this Matter considering
the amount involved.

Let me state clearly here that the account that you
would be providing does not need to have funds in it,
it is only needed to be active and be able to receive
funds.

So, if I don't hear from you within three days I will
assume you are not interested and will solicit for a
new partner, but if you know you are interested let me
know. List your phone & fax numbers so we may
communicate with you. This is important as we would
Have to talk about the modalities of the transaction.

Waiting to hear from you.

Regards,
Donald Kayode

:rolleyes:

[googe]

how do they end up getting money or anything out of people that fall for it?

[Shaolin]

i took this from a website.

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The Scam operates as follows: the target receives an unsolicited fax, email, or letter often concerning Nigeria or another African nation containing either a money laundering or other illegal proposal OR you may receive a Legal and Legitimate business proposal by normal means. Common variations on the Scam include "overinvoiced" or "double invoiced" oil or other supply and service contracts where your Bad Guys want to get the overage out of Nigeria; crude oil and other commodity deals; a "bequest" left you in a will; "money cleaning" where your Bad Guy has a lot of currency that needs to be "chemically cleaned" before it can be used and he needs the cost of the chemicals; "spoof banks" where there is supposedly money in your name already on deposit; "paying" for a purchase with a check larger than the amount required and asking for change to be advanced; and ordering items and commodities off "trading" sites on the web and then cheating the seller. The variations of Advance Fee Fraud (419) are very creative and virtually endless.

At some point, the victim is asked to pay up front an Advance Fee of some sort, be it an "Advance Fee", "Transfer Tax", "Performance Bond", or to extend credit, grant COD privileges, send back "change" on an overage cashier's check or money order, whatever. If the victim pays the Fee, there are often many "Complications" which require still more advance payments until the victim either quits, runs out of money, or both. If the victim extends credit on a given transaction etc. he may also pay such fees ("nerfund" etc.), and also stiffed for the Goods or Service with NO Effective Recourse.

[Zephyr]

they actually send documents that look legit...

[Redlyne_mr2]

The fucker who owns rent-a-benz in Vancouver was involved in a pile of huge scams like these..so much trash in society