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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 09:46 PM
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Name the scam. Email I received.
Hello,
I am an Account Officer with FIDELITY BANK PLC,My name is James Maboh,a Banker. I am the personal Account Manager to Engineer Jonathan ,National of your country, who used to work with an Oil servicing Firm in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my client On April 21, 2002 my client, was involved in a car accident .
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended Relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they Get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged, particularly the with FIDELITY BANK PLC. Where the deceased had an account Valued at about ($7 million u s dollars) has Issued me a notice to provide the next of kin.
Or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that this account valued at ($ 7 million u s dollars) can be paid to you .
The sharing modality is till open and negociatable. An attorney will be contracted to help revalidate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you. from
any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my email.

Regards
James Maboh
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 09:46 PM
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1. Nothing like a nice
Nigerian 419 scam.
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Maraya1969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 09:49 PM
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2. I've gotten a lot of those
send it back and tell him to call 1 (800) DROP - DEAD




:rofl:
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:50 AM
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12. Here are a couple of letters I send back to them.
Edited on Thu Apr-14-05 08:55 AM by RebelOne
Would you believe that some of them are so dumb that they have replied to the Conchita letter.

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for writing to me. I am Conchita and I am so poor that I have no last name, as my father could not afford one for me. We live on a small island in the South Pacific and are the only family that has lived here for the past one hundred years.

Unfortunately, we have eaten almost everything on the island except for the dirt and two skinny dogs that are too old to scratch fleas. Fortunately, we ate all the fleas so there are none left for the dogs to worry about.

I am so pleased that you have offered to send us all that money. We have not seen money for the last three generations as we have no place to spend it and no means of getting to a place where we could spend it if we wanted to. I can assure you that we will take excellent care of your funds and invest them wisely. Our plan for the money is as follows:

1. We want to build a deep-water port in Williwilli, our little lagoon here on the island.

2. We then want to bring in a barge with an electrical generator so that we can have electricity on the island once again. We haven't had electricity in over two hundred years because the last generator broke down and we have no parts to repair it.

3. We want to build a school here so the children can learn to read and write. It is really hard to create email messages with no electricity and no knowledge of reading or writing skills.

4. We then want to install a phone company so we can communicate with the outside world and meet more wonderful people like you and your blessed family.

5. We then want to build a satellite cable system so we can watch television and see all the latest fights in the world. We don't have those here and miss them very much. We think that we could probably hook up a computer to the cable or telephone lines so we could send email messages to our newfound friends when we get them.

6. We want to build a grocery store so we have a place to buy things like bubble gum and candy, something we have never had here.

7. We will then need to build a road from our cave to the grocery store so we can get there. Of course, we will need a car to drive on the road or there will be no point in having a road, will there?

8. If we get a car we will need gas and oil but maybe we could just take some from the electrical generator and save that money for a beauty salon, something we really need here. Have you seen the women around here? They are just awful looking.

9. Of course, we will have to build a church so we have a place to go and be thankful for the gifts you have offered us.

Once all these things have been completed, if there is any money left we would like to use it to build a house to live in. The hole we use for an outhouse is rapidly filling up since we began receiving your letters of appeal and we will need to move soon as the cave will be unbearable to live in during hot weather. Air conditioning in our new house would be nice too.

It is too bad that I am only eight years old. If I were older I could come and visit you if you sent me an airplane ticket and an airplane with pontoons on it so it could land in the lagoon. One of my grandchildren would like to come and visit you also, if you don't mind.

I shall patiently await the arrival of the next bottle with your message telling us when the money will be here. Thank you again, for your kind generosity; it is sincerely appreciated.

Conchita

Another one
Dear Sir,

I send salutations from my country, the sovereign nation of Antarctica.

Now that I have carefully read your email, I cannot express to you the sheer scale of my incredulity.

I instantly considered your intentions to be criminal.

This is indeed a miracle. You actually chose little old me out of all the hundreds of millions of the world's other suckers.

However, I must respectfully decline your very kind offer, as I am already deliriously rich, due to my being an Internet tycoon.

I visited your beautiful country recently. I'm probably mistaken, but I am sure I saw your name on a wanted poster.

Anyway, I was so excited, I went out and purchased four oil refineries.

So you see, kind lady, I have very little use for the millions that you are asking me to look after. There is simply no more room left in my already overstuffed Swiss bank accounts.

Now, I have just had a wonderful thought. Perhaps I could be of more assistance to YOUR fellow scammers and crooks.

Listen: Why not simply provide me with all YOUR details (including bank account numbers, PIN numbers, etc.) and I will deposit heaps of lovely money into your account? There is no need for references, as I trust you implicitly. After all, you obviously have faith and trust in me.

Yours ever sincerely
Dr B.S. Hit


I also send them these links.

http://www.geocities.com/killemgoodpi/

http://www.personaldetails.freeserve.co.uk







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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 09:56 PM
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3. Nigerian scam
Edited on Wed Apr-13-05 09:57 PM by benddem
forward those letters to Nigerian Scam Letters
E-mail Address(es):
wafl@phonebusters.com and delete

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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 10:26 PM
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6. That's for Canadians only. Here's a list of email addy's to report spam.
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 10:13 PM
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4. Lucky you ! You're going to be rich.
:silly:
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BigTentDemocrat Donating Member (54 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 10:18 PM
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5. Link to "Scam the Nigerian Scammers"
I swear, this is one of the most hilarious things I have ever read.

http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:25 AM
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8. Hi BigTentDemocrat!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:26 AM
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9. That was great, thanks for posting.
I LMAO last night.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:45 AM
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11. That's a great site.
I love how they make those scammers jump through all kinds of hoops for money.
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:58 AM
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15. More Good Stuff
Email Spam: "Something Awful vs. Nigeria And / Or Asia"

Anyway back onto business: I am interested in sending you all of my bank information as soon as possible, but I don't know what information you need. I went up to my bank Friday and said "Give me all the information for Nigeria" but they weren't able to help me out so I had to come home and somehow my socks caught fire on the way back (but that's a different story). What I need you to tell me is exactly what information I need to ask for so I can get this process started and find myself on the vaginal trail to money and success. Also I noticed you were in Asia. Will this affect our transaction to Nigeria?

Please write back at your earliest convenience. My bank does not open until 8:30 am on Monday, so I would appreciate it if you could contact me before then. I will be able to get to the bank around 1:30 PM because my two kids are coming into town and I have to turn off all the lights and act like I'm not here so they don't start demanding child support or whatever insane things their harpy mother is hammering into their heads. Also I think the postman is spying on me.


Brad Christensen

Your business proposal sounds like it holds great promise, and I agree it would be immoral for us to allow some other cretin to loot money that should be ours. I happen to feel entitled to that money because I am of Irish ancestry and have the birth certificate, freckles and alcoholism to prove it.

Please provide more details of the transaction immediately. I have become quite wealthy on my own by dealing face to face in business matters. If the details of your proposal sound workable, I would like to meet you personally at a location of your choosing. Our meeting must be held soon because I am facing a very tight schedule here in California, where I am running for Governor in the state's first recall election.

I am considered one of the favorites in the upcoming recall election because I have built quite a reputation as a successful professional wrestler and movie actor. Yes, that was me who was in "Finding Nemo." Currently I am dredging the lagoon at Disneyland while I await my next major role.
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formernaderite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 09:09 AM
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16. Oh...I laughed my ass off.....
granted it is kind of mean, and not something I'd do...but kudos to those who followed through. I get one of those letters at least once a month...not sure where they're phishing my email from.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-13-05 11:08 PM
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7. are there really people who actually fall for this shit? . . .
I mean, there must be, given that they keep sending it out . . . I just have a hard time picturing what particular kind of idiot would actually believe this stuff . . . mostly people who voted for Bush, I would suspect . . .

but one never knows, do one? . . .
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:56 AM
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14. Yes, and greed is one thing that makes them fall for it. n/t
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:43 AM
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10. That's known as the next of kin scam.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 08:51 AM
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13. Mrs. Arafat sent me one JUST LIKE THIS last week
Isn't that coincidental??? Huh...
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