one of those Nigeria Emails again

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HongKongChick
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hey y'all, i have just received an email that saying i am a relative of a family with the same last name and they unfortunetly died in a car accident, and that they have 13 billion us dollars in their account to be paid to the closest relative or whatever, so they are asking for me to reply to them so i can collect the money.

yea what? do they think we are stupid??? LOL :D

CHIEF ACCOUNTANTECO BANK OF NIGERIA PLCEMAIL: [email protected]

Dear Tsang,

I am Dr.Nwosu Agwu, the personal accounting officerto Mr Pitt Tsang,a national of your country, who usedto work with shell development company in Nigeria. Herein after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21stof April 2001, my client, his wife And their onlydaughter were involved in a car accident along sagbamaexpress road. All occupants of the vehicleunfortunately lost there lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to yourembassy to locate any of my clients extended relativesthis has also proved unsuccessful. After these severalunsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his surnameover the Internet, to locate any member of his familyhence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assistin repartrating the money and property left behind bymy client before they get confisicated or declaredunserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits werelodged.

Particularly,the Eco Bank Plc where the deceased had anaccount valued at about 13million united states dollarshas issued me a notice as his accounting officer toprovide the next of kin or have the accountconfisicated within the next ten official working days.since i have been unsuccesfull in locating therelatives for over 2 years now i seek your consent topresent you as the next of kin of the deceased sinceyou have the same surname so that the proceeds of thisaccount valued at 13million dollars can be paid to youand then you and me can share the money.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be usedto back up any claim we may make. All I require is yourhonest cooperation to enable us see this dealt through.I guarantee that this will be executed under alegitimate arrangement that will protect you from anybreach of the law. I will procure all necessary Legaldocuments furnish me with the below information toenable the bank transfer the fund to your bank account.

(1) Your phone and fax number for easy coverstaion(2) Your occupation and your age.

Once I hear from you I will tell you the next line ofaction. Please reply if you are interested through onlyin my ALTERNATIVE CONFIDENTIAL email address:[email protected]

Regards,

DR. NWOSU AGWU


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It's GOTTA be true, he's the personal accountant!

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Oh god, that's retarded. I'm sure the thousands of other people with your last name were also emailed? How are they going to split the money? hehehe

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play the game, see how far it goes

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^^I agree. Its really dumb, but I know some1 will buy into it.

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but WHY would they buy into it? how could it possibly be true...i mean seriously, who's dumb enough?

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MainEvent212 wrote:who's dumb enough?


Apparently enough people to make it worth the scammers while. New people are getting onto the Internet (and they are more naive inthe early stages, I guess!) and getting taken ...

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well what do they scam them for? their names and phone numbers?

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Yup. There's a lot of idiots in this country. Im sure one of them will respond to get their money.

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yeah definetly play along... lol it could be fun!

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i cant believe it, i got another one at my yahoo account, the one i got this morning was at my hotmail account.. since i have my last name in both accounts, so that's why... man....

yea i found that someone did replied and used Dr. Fraiser Crane and address of the seattle tower or something..so mine would be Rachel Green and address be the apartment building in NYC!! LOL :D

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MainEvent212 wrote:well what do they scam them for? their names and phone numbers?


Depending on the naivete of the person being scammed ("scammee"), they get them to send a bank account number :eek: for the "transfer to be sent to". Then instead of putting money in, they clean the account out - the funds end up overseas and impossible to get back.

Other times, the scammee has to send some "earnest" money to show that they are worthwhile and capable of following through on the deal. Yeah, right.

Sometimes, they send a small check "to test the system" with a bit extra money and ask for the scammee to send the difference to another person. By the time the "registered" check clears and is proven fradulent, the "difference" has already been sent and gone into someone's pocket!!

Etc., etc., etc.

Basically, they prey on the old, the unaware and the idiots looking for easy money.

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HAHA, one of my freinds got that EXACT email, only with his last name.

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i say go with it. give them a false number and let the feds know when theyre going to be looking there.

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Megaseth wrote:i say go with it. give them a false number and let the feds know when theyre going to be looking there.


The attempts come from overseas. The US State Dept and US Secret Service have given up trying to find the perpetrators overseas and will tell you to just delete or ignore them.

Simpler to use an e-mail filter to get rid of all these ... I get about 600+ junk e-mails a day, and about 4 to 5 of them are variations of the "Nigerian" funds scheme. Both the Netscape 7.1 and Eudora spam filters are pretty decent at getting rid of the majority of the junk, and I manually delete the rest.

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I say we all respond and go to Nigeria and kick some *** and take somebody's damn gold, don't care who's it is...

why can't life be more like Kelly's Heroes damnit!

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So I think we should all e-mail the guy...you know, just to be ***holes :)O

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I wouldn't play along. But I might do some investigating to see if this guy was legit/real. No I would waste my time doing that either.

Never mind.


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