Email Scam going on amy1 else getting these (long)

[Sy]

Received this email last week......
From the Desk of;
Dr.Yusuf Ali
Manager, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc
Marina Branch, Lagos
Dear Sir,
I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal, though I do not know you neither have I
seen you before but my confidence was reposed On you when the Chief Executive of Lagos State chamber of Commerce and
Industry handed me your contact for a confidential business.I am Dr.Yusuf Ali,Manager of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Marina
Branch, Lagos Nigeria. The intended business is thus;
We had a customer, a Foreigner, Mr Omer (a Turkish) resident in Nigeria, he was a Contractor with one of the Government
Parastatals. He has in his Account in my branch the sum of US$21.5 Million (Twenty-One Million Five hundred thousand
U.S.Dollars). Unfortunately, the man died four years ago until today non-of his next of kin has come forward to claim the money.
Having noticed this, I in collaboration with two other top Officials of the bank covered up the account all this while.
Now we want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as the of next of kin of the deceased and forward all the necessary
information to be advised to you by us to attest to the Claim. We will use our positions to get all internal documentation to back
up the claims.
The whole procedures will last only ten working days to get the fund retrieved successfully without trace even in future.Your
response is only what we are waiting for as we have put all machineries that will be instrumental to the success of the
transaction in motion.
As soon as this message comes to you kindly get back to me indicating your interest,then I will furnish you with the whole
procedures to ensure that the deal is successfully Concluded.
For your assistance, we have agreed principle to offer you 20% of the total sum at the end of the transaction. It is risk free and a
big mega fortune. All correspondences towards this transaction will be through telephone and e-mail.Please you can e-mail
me with this address([email protected])
I await your earliest response.
Yours Sincer
Dr.Yusuf Ali.

LOLOL so for a joke i've emailed them a few times and now Guess what they want
My Account Number, Sort Code 2 digit security code of signature strip, roll number and expiry date!
Talk about ******s!!!
Then today i received this one..............
URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
I am Alhaji Mohammed Abacha, the son of the late
Nigerian Head of State who died on the 8th of June
1998 while in active services.
Following the sudden death of my father, General Sani
Abacha, the present Civilian Government has thrown my
family and I into a state of utter confusion,
frustration,and hopelessness. I have been subjected to
inhuman physical and physiological torture,
incarceration by the security Agents in my country. I
was only recently released from detention after been
arraigned before the Federal High Court of Nigeria for
an offence committed by my late father.
The incumbent civilian administration of Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo has intensified his probe into my
late father's activities while in the office and he
has frozen all our local and foreign accounts together
with other assets of my family as a retaliation for
what my late father did to him when
he was alive as the Head of the Military regime in
Nigeria. As a matter of fact, we have been declared
bankrupt and they are not relenting to make us poor
for life.
As a man that is so traumatized, I have lost
confidence with anybody within my country as all those
who benefited immensely during the regime of my late
father have openly abandoned all my family.
MY REASONS FOR CONTACTING YOU.
I got your contacts through my personal research and
out of desperation decided to reach you through this
medium.
You must have heard over the media reports and the
Internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money
deposited by my late father in different Banks
and security firms abroad. Some of these banks and
security firms willingly gave-up/divulge their banking
secrets and disclosed to the present civilian
administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, all my
family's cash lodgement and monetary transactions with
them.
Please my dear, I repose great confidence in you and I
hope you will not betray my confidence in you.
I have secretly deposited the sum of $20,000,000.00
with a security firm abroad whose name is withheld for
now until we open communications. The money is
contained in a metal box consignment with Security
Deposit Number.
I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund
into your Bank account for safekeeping. This
arrangement is known to you and my junior brother
(Abbas) only. So I will deal directly with you. I am
proposing a 20% share of the fund to you for your kind
assistance. I shall provide for you all the
documents of the fund deposit with the security firm,
and raise a power of attorney `to enable you claim and
receive this fund into your bank account.
Also this transaction demands absolute
confidentiality. On no condition must you disclose it
to anybody irrespective of your relation with the
person. Remember, Loose lips sinks ship
I am looking forward to your urgent and positive
response via my email above.
Best regards
Alhaji Mohammed Abacha.


hm wonder where this is going.........
PLEASE ANY1 WHO GETS THESE DON'T BE SO GULLIBLE AS TO GIVE THEM YOUR DETAILS!!

SyB

 

[nick_wheelho]

i had someone contact me about my bumpers that are for sale - he was from southern africa and went on about how he sells parts for rare?!?! cars and he offered me some bumpers then proceeded to offer to buy mine - it was all a bit strange then he said he would sell them for me if i sent them to him and paid the shipping costs! yeah right!
nick

 

[Dank_Army]

Re: Re: Email Scam going on amy1 else getting these (long)

Hi,

Go on google and search for the name, i also found this:

http://www.scam419.com/details.php?letter_id=22

john

 

[patrick]

How to scam the scammers

You might find this of some help if you want to get your own back on them


PC builder takes 419ers for £171
By Lester Haines
Posted: 18/06/2003 at 10:23 GMT


If you're as tired as we are of looking at the heavens with boggle-eyed disbelief that yet another half-wit has been taken to the cleaners by Nigerian advance fee fraudsters, then take heart at the following story.

It recounts how Clinton of Best Price Computers not only led the scamming ne'er-do-wells well and truly up the garden path, but also took them for £171. A modest amount, to be sure, but it's a start. Read on:


I had an email from Ajibola. I'd never heard of him but he learnt that I was a trustworthy person and he wanted my help to get some money out of Nigeria. Poor guy, his entire family was killed and the money was all he had. He very generously promised me 10% of fifteen million US$ for my help. You can't get fairer than that. We had several long discussions via email.

We also exchanged a lot of confidences. I told him about how I worked for a computer company and that I wasn't a rich man. He told me how God fearing he was and about how often he went to church. We were becoming good friends. To my bad luck the deal fell through. Ajibola needed $1500 to pay the bank a bribe, and I don't really have $1500 to spare. It's really a shame. And he was such a nice chap. We were even addressing each other as "brother", we had become that close.

I kept worrying about poor Ajibola's situation. He had all this money that he wanted to get out of Nigeria. Surely, I could find some way to help my brother. It kept bothering me. Till I had this brilliant idea. I worked for a PC company that sold expensive PCs. What if he bought PCs with those funds? OK, maybe it wasn't such a brilliant idea, but I put it to him anyway. He liked it. Apparently he's got all these sterling cheques & they would be ideal to pay for the goods. We could ship the goods to his UK contact.

So we agreed a first transaction for ten of our top PCs. He sent me a cheque for £25,427 which arrived exactly as promised. (This guy really does keep his word). Unfortunately, his UK contact does need the goods urgently and they can't wait for the cheque to clear. It is a lot of money but I know I can trust Ajibola. After all, he's a very God fearing man.

Accordingly we agreed to ship the PCs urgently for delivery last week. It's a sad fact of life that things never go smoothly when you really want them to. There was a mix-up with the courier! (Personally, I don't think the couriers tried hard enough. We even asked the police to accompany them to lead them to the address, but the police were too busy).

This is a nuisance because we've got to charge £145 + VAT to re-attempt delivery of this 400 Kg consignment. I know it's not fair to ask Ajibola for this. It's not his fault. It's just that my "boss" is away at the moment and I can arrange the re-delivery only if I get £170.38. It's company procedure. The best I can do is take it off his next order.

I think this upset him a bit and I had to smooth his ruffled feathers via email. He had this idea that we ship nine of the PCs and hold one back as "security" for the £170. That really offended me. How can he think that I don't trust him? I explained that it wasn't a matter of security. It's that dreaded company red tape and the only person who can waive that charge is the boss who's on holiday.

Of course we could wait for the boss to return next week to authorise the re-delivery. By that time the cheque would have cleared as well! And we'd all be happy. But Ajibola reminded me that this delivery was urgent. He therefore arranged a payment of £:171 to our account by TT. The bank confirmed that this was received today and I was about to ship the goods when the bank added that the original £:25,427 cheque bounced. Oh dear, oh dear, this does throw a spanner in the works. I know it's just some technicality. I mean, Ajibola is good for $15,000,000.00. That's a lot of 0s! £:25K is small change to him.

But £:25K is a lot to us. My only option now is to hold on to these goods till Ajibola pays the remaining £:25,256. It is a nuisance. This time I'll ask him to wait till the cheque has cleared. Not that I don't trust him or anything, it's just company procedure when a cheque has bounced. I'm sure Ajibola will understand. After all, we are family.


Marvellous. Don't feel too sorry for poor old Ajibola, though. By our reckoning, he still has around $14,999,750.00 in the coffers, if only he can find a trustworthy and God-fearing partner to help him liquidate it... ®

 

[Martin]

Re: How to scam the scammers

That's excellent, I love it when the scammers get scammed.
Also there are scam emails from Ebay and the like asking for personal information. They ask really wierd stuff, including pin number, social security number. The web page looks like an official Ebay one, so ignore those as well.
Not that the people on this forum would be stupid enough to fall for that sort of crap.