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OT: Oh This Is Rich

It really angers me that AT&T and other sites sell your email address to **** hole companies that in turn sell it to every crook in the world. Its like having your privicy violated each and every time one of these scum email a scam letter to you.

Case in point, I received this scam via email today. I can not believe that people are so incredibly stupid as to fall for something as transparently crooked as this. Geeze how dumb are these morons to even send this out, and how especially stupid are the dumb asses who fall for it.

Quote:

MR.Iyke
3/5 RIDER HAGGARD
CLOSE, JO, BORG
SOUTH AFRICA.
Tel:874 - 762864167
Fax:874 - 762864168

(URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL)

(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 126,000.000.00 USD}
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS

Dear sir,

We want to transfer to overseas
account($126,000.000.00 USD) One hundred and twenty
six million nited States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in
Africa, I want to ask you to quietly look for a
reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit
to provide either an existing bank account or to set
up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as
long as you will remain honest to me till the end for
this important business trusting in you and believing
in God that you will never let me down either now or
in future.

I am Iyke Meke Bond,the Auditor General of one of the
prime banks here South Africa, during the course of
our
auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account
opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has
operated on this account again, after going through
some old files in the records I discovered that the
owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money
out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The
owner of this account is Mr. Gordon G. Scott, a
foreigner, and an industrialist, and he died, since
1993. and no other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that Gordon G. Scott until his death was the manager
Diamond Safari [pty]. SA.

We will start the first transfer with twenty six
million [$26,000.000] upon successful transaction
without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining rest
amount to your account.

The amount involved is (USD 126 M) One hundred and
twenty six million United States Dollars only. I want
to first transfer $26,000.000 [Twenty six million
United States Dollar] from this money into a safe
foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I
don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you
as a foreigner because this money can not be approved
to a local person here, without valid international
foreign passport, but can only be approved to any
foreigner with valid international passport or
drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is
in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.
Gordon G. Scott is a foreigner too,and the money can
only be approved into a foreign a/c.

However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind
us together. I got your contact address from the
Girl who operates my computer, I am revealing this to
you with believe in God that you will never let me
down in this business,you are the first and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the
next step to take urgently. Send also your private
telephone and fax number including the full details of
the account to be used for the deposit.

I want us to meet face to face to build confidence
and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us
together before transferring the money to any
account of your choice where the fund will be safe.
Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing
and investments.

I need your full co-operation to make this work
fine, Because the management is ready to approve
this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you,
upon your positive response and once I am convinced
that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply
involved with me in this business. I need your strong
assurance that you will never, never let me down.

With my influence and the position of the bank
official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's
reliable account which you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending our physical
arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official
will destroy all documents of transaction immediately
we receive this money leaving no trace to any place
and to build confidence you can come immediately to
discuss with me face to face after which I will make
this remittance in your presence and three of us
will fly to your country at least two days ahead of
the money going into the account. I will apply for
annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you
that you are ready to act and receive this fund in
your
account. I will use my position and influence to
obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance
from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while
5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my
email address or tele/fax numbers.

Yours truly
Iyke Bond

I have already sent a copy to the WA State AG office. This is unbelievable that people can be so dumb to think that other people would fall for such a BS thing as this. Yet they do. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

I mean there are about 10 million clues that should readily tell a person that this is a scam. Yet people are so ****ing greedy that they fall for this.

I want to find the jackass who sent me this, and beat the living **** out of him. Sorry, but that is how these things make me feel. Its like they are saying to me that I am stupid or something and would fall for this crap. Its an insult, and I think it needs to be promptly and violently responded to. But hey thats me. I just hate theifs in general.

[ August 30, 2002, 20:15: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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My email server has 'collected' this 'scam-mail' over 100 times so far.....

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This is a VERY common scam these days. There must be 25 variants running through the net right now.

Cheers!
Trajan

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I know that one from about 1 year in at least 4 variants....... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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Yes, this type of scam is unfortunately fairly common. Most of them I have seen have originated in Nigeria. The writers purport to be connected to the government and ask for "help" in transferring money from petroleum sales. I even got a letter to that effect via snail mail back in 1995 or 1996.

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Hey! Is it proper to refer to someone as a "foreigner" when you know the country of the person you are referencing? I think if one were to ask me a favor, calling me a foreigner over and over would not be a way to get on my good side. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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That would be one of the million flaws. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Dear Sir,
I am writing to you to day to rob you of your life savings. Your name is on a list of people with no common sense.
SO if you are ready to lose all your money, quickly send me you name, address, phone number, bank account, and a credit card number.
Be assured that I will quickly clean you out upon recieving your reply.

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Honestly, we should be allowed to hack scam artists computers without penalty. I would like to destroy all of their machines with some particularly nasty code I could just dream up
But I cant because its wrong (kind of like my philosophy of open season on drug dealers, but oh well)

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You mean this is a scam?

So I'm not getting my $44.1 million US dollars??!

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I can not believe that people are so incredibly stupid as to fall for something as transparently crooked as this. Geeze how dumb are these morons to even send this out, and how especially stupid are the dumb asses who fall for it.

They recently showed a woman on CNN who fell for such a scam. Man, if you afterwards learn about it, you must really feel very stupid.

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Supposedly, the original Version of this scam has cost people 8 billion dollars world wide and funding various rebel and terrorist organization.

Personally, I would forward this email to all the banks in south africa and tell them someone is trying to commit fraud. I would also forward a copy to the FBI which has an ongoing manhunt for the parties involved

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Quote:

Originally posted by minipol:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Atrocities:
I can not believe that people are so incredibly stupid as to fall for something as transparently crooked as this. Geeze how dumb are these morons to even send this out, and how especially stupid are the dumb asses who fall for it.

They recently showed a woman on CNN who fell for such a scam. Man, if you afterwards learn about it, you must really feel very stupid.<hr /></blockquote>On the upside you get to be on CNN.

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I get these about once every 2 weeks at work. Franky I almost think these scams should not be illegal since the people that fall far them are so dumb they don't deserve to have any cash. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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Really, that would just encourage more of the same.

Your mailbox would fill up faster than you could blink an eye.

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Here is a website all about the Nigerian scam.

Nigeria The 419 Coalition

[ September 03, 2002, 00:25: Message edited by: Repo Man ]

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What was wrong with that E-mail? Seems perfectly resonable to me. Hey, send that guy me E-mail Address... I could use the money. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I used to use SWBell for my main E-Mail account but now I get more spam than good mail.

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Oh I got an email like that Last month. I replied to it and now I have over 45mill sitting in my bank account.

I'm also raking in around 200,000 a week from my pyramid cash distribution scheme, and I'm also getting incredible results from a miraculous new drug-free, non-surgical penis enlargement technique.

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[ September 03, 2002, 08:39: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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Dear DR.ONORIODE BOBOLO,

It is so good to hear from a fellow-countryman, having been raised and lived for many years in our most beautiful homeland, Nigeria. I want to send you my sincere thanks and gratitude for your kind offer of USD$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for taking part in this funds transfer transaction.

However, I am a businessman too, and I make my living transferring large sums of money from and to my friends, relatives, and business associates in Nigeria. Therefore, I know that you would agree, that in order to participate in this wonderful opportunity, I must have an advance monetary commitment from you -- a good faith gesture on your part -- in order to proceed.

Therefore, I ask that you deposit just 10% ($2,500,000) of the $25M into my PayPal account as an indication that you truly possess the funds and are actually authorized to release them. Using the Online PayPal service is a very convenient and secure way to transfer funds. All you need do is access the PayPal web site -- http://www.paypal.com -- open a PayPal account, deposit the funds into your new account, and then transfer the money into my existing account, which has already been set up to receive the $25M.

You only need my email address, which you already have, to transfer the funds into my account. Therefore, the complete safety of your account, as well as mine, is guaranteed and insured unconditionally. You have asked that this matter be handled with the strictest confidentiality, and I will agree to that condition, provided that the transfer takes place in a reasonable period of time, say by Friday, 5 October.

If the money has not been received by that time, I must assume that you are not making a legitimate offer, and that you might be someone other than who you say you are -- although I can tell by the exceptional language of your email, that is probably not the case. However, if that is the case, then I will be forced to embark upon a most unpleasant course of action that I would prefer not to undertake.

Because I have so many loyal friends in the Government of Nigeria and the Military, and many close ties within the Security Service where you work, it would be quite easy to locate your office and your home, as well as learn the identities of your friends and relatives.

I truly don't believe that you would want to jeopardize their health and well-being, and your own future. I will access my PayPal account on next Saturday to verify that your good-faith payment has been made. Once that takes place, we can move forward with the final transfer.

I trust that you will not disappoint me in this matter, since the consequences for non-compliance could be quite severe. I look forward with great anticipation to working with you.

Yours faithfully,

Issa Gidada, JD, MMB,

President & CEO

U.S./Nigeria Funds Transfer Organization

Beverly Hills, CA

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http://www.zimengine.com/eMoney_Press_Release.asp

Works really well.

It is a bank that is set up to do wire transfers for people from that country