Scam Letter

[BigGuy]

Got another interesting email letter....thought i'd pass it along.

Just a new 'phishing' scam letter on a old theme.

This is the email I just got:



"Dear Friend,

I am Barrister Peter Van Smith, a solicitor at law. I was the personal
attorney to Eng, John McPherson, a national of your country who used to work
with an oil servicing company
here in Amsterdam-Netherlands after which be referred to as my client.

Eng, John McPherson 62 years of age made a fixed deposit of fund valued at
USD$18,500,000 (Eighteen Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
Only)
with a Security Company/Finance Firm here in Europe and unfortunately lost
his life in an Egyptian charter plane Boeing 737 which crashed into the Red
Sea early on
January 3 shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh,
killing all the 135 passengers and 13 crew members aboard, Ref:
(View: http://english.people.com.cn/200401/..._131791.shtml). He
left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin except some vital documents
related to the deposit still in my possession.

Recently, the governing body of the Security Company/Finance Firm contacted
me on this matter, requesting that I should notify the next of kin of my
late client
to claim the funds and I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay claims to
the Fund. I know that my client had no living next of kin but I went ahead
and made
several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my late clients extended
relatives but this has proved unsuccessful.Under a clear and legitimate
agreement with you,
I seek your consent to present you as the next so that my late client's
fund will not be confiscated by the Security Company.

You and I can share the money, you will be entitled to 50% of the total
fund for your role as the relative and next of kin of my late client, 40%
for me while 10% is to be marked
out for any expenses that will be incurred during the clearance or process
of transfer of the fund to your bank account. Be informed that there is no
risk involved as all necessary
legal documents that will be used to back you up as the legal beneficiary
and next of kin of my late client will be procured.

All I require is your sincerity, honesty,co-operation and utmost good
faiths 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. Kindly, get in touch with
me by my e-mail (petvansmith@aim.com) or telephone to enable us discuss
further.You may also send
your telephone number so that I can call you.Do not forget that a
transaction of this magnitude require utmost confidentiality and sincerity.
I look forward to your urgent response.

Thank you,
Peter Van Smith
Tel:+31-616 729 060"


Not very original ..........but if we do this we could buy some great cars!!!

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[Ron61]

Jon,

Just send me the money and I will handle everything for you.

My priest made the mistake one actually answering one of these and he gets them by the dozens now. I traced one of his and it went to an actual law firm site in London and they had a big warning on the front page with that exact letter on it. Someone had used their logos and names and was sending them out all over the world.

Ron

[TampaFla]

How about writing back saying your accountant advised against inheriting any more than $1 million this tax year (due to your tax bracket) and even then only if it's in small denominations $20s 50s 100s mailed to Post Office Boxes in increments of $100k. If the attorney is interested, you'd provide further details and sell him your share of the $18 million for that amount. But, of course, you'd be out the postage on your letter.

[imagine2frolic]

TampaFla, I love the way your mind thinks. It would surely be worth the money to send. Especially if you could be a fly on the wall when, and if it is opened.

[BigGuy]

I just got this today.......


Email: From: Mrs. Cecilia Mark Aku


From: Mrs. Cecilia Mark Aku
C/o: Barrister William Sithole
Lagos, Nigeria

Dear Sir,

I am Mrs. Cecilia Mark Aku, widow of the Late Engineer Mark Aku, former Minister of Sports and Social Development in the Federal Executive Cabinet Nigeria. My late husband died in the ill-fated EAS airline (http://www.greatdreams.com/PassEAS185htm). that crashed in Kano Kano State, April 2nd 2002 on his way to Lagos for national assignment, killing all on board. After his death, there were petitions that lead to his accounts being probed and found to have acquired enormous wealth and most of his belongings were confiscated by the government. I have just been informed by our family attorney Barrister William Sithole of Sithole and Associates P.A. that my late husband operated secret accounts with fictitious name in one of the local commercial banks here and all has been credited in his favour and I (the widow) was stated as the next of kin. Our family attorney Barrister William Sithole of Sithole and Associates P.A. have now instructed me to seek in confidence a foreign partner who will assist me in transferring the fund overseas for the up keep of our children as stated in my late husband’s WILL and LAST TESTAMENT. It is only our trusted family attorney that is aware of this fund.
After due deliberations and consultations between our family attorney Barrister William Sithole, the Local Bank Manager and myself, we have resolved and agreed that after the fund has been transferred to your account, it will be disbursed in the following ratio; (1) 20% of the total amount will be your compensation for providing account into which the total amount will be transferred to pending the sharing proper at the agreed percentages and any other incidental assistance (MORALLY OR OTHERWISE) you may be required to offer in the course of the transfer. (2) 5% will be allocated to the local Bank Manager for his effort in facilitating the transfer process. (3) 5% will be set aside to take care of all the expenses that may be incurred on both sides during the transfer process and to take care of our family attorneys fee (4) The balance 70% will be for me and my family and also for philanthropic work in the house of God.. This is predicated on the fact that I became born again in the Lord after my late husband death following the attacks from the government, some individual and my late husbands siblings but only God almighty in his infinite mercy came to our rescue and showed me the way out which is total submission to the Lord, If this proposal interest you, please do email to our family attorney Barrister William Sithole, on his email address sithole_assocs@myway.com indicating your willingness to assist in this transaction or call him on his Tel/Fax: 234 1 759 543 to enable him furnish you with all the necessary details you need to know and the requirements, if on the contrary please do not hesitate to inform us so that we can make an alternative arrangement.
I believe this will marks the beginning of a life time interpersonal relationship with you. I am enjoining you to extend to us your maximum cooperation and to follow very strictly the instructions we shall give to you from time to time in order to conclude this transaction quickly according to the modalities that we have worked out. Let me here emphasize that as partners in this transaction, you and us must have and maintain MUTUAL TRUST, HONESTY AND CONFIDENTIALITY to mark the foundation of our relationship. These are the minimal basis that will enable us work well together. Finally, I will implore you in the name of God to keep this transaction confidential because my late husband was a civil servant (a government worker). We do not want people to begin to raise eye-brow about how he acquired such wealth, so we want our secret kept secret hence I am confiding in you.
I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you and God bless.
Yours faithfully,
MRS. CECILIA MARK AKU



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[Ron61]

Jon,

I love that barristers name. Fits right in with the rest. And sending an e-mail and wanting it kept secret. By the way, just what are you going to do with all of this lately acquired wealth you have been offered?

Ron

[casaleenie]

and the pisser is that someone right now is corresponding with Van Smith to set up the transfer... They post these scams because they work... maybe they work only once but that's all it takes...

as soon as I'm done here I've got to start arrangements to pick up the money... My ship has finally come in.....

[Ron61]

I wonder why I never receive any of these. Why does everyone else have a chance to get wealthy easy but me?

Ron

[eschaider]

Hey guys check with your local FBI. These guys are real bad guys. They have been operating out of Nigeria for more than ten years doing these scams.

When you contact them they attempt to get adequate information to vacuum your bank account. They are also implicated in more than one murder where someone thought they could go over there to strong arm them to get their money back.

Good thing to ignore or report to your local FBI office.

Ed

[TampaFla]

Speaking of artists, anyone ever hear of Benny Hinn Ministries. NBC recently asked him to provide the medical records for several people he healed on his TV show. He refused to even provide their names (patient/prophet confidentiality). But, for a fee, he will place your name on the tail end ( ) of his new Lear Jet and according to Benny, you can ride along with the prophet on his journey (but you can't stay in the suite at night because some of those are $10,000 per day).

[TampaFla]

Just saw someone even better than Benny Hinn. During a telethon for the local ministries, a guest speaker was brought in because, according to him, he's the best fund raiser in the "network." His offer....well for a limited time, if you donate at least $1000 to the telethon, he is guaranteeing a solid gold driveway to your mansion in heaven. He did not offer any testimonials on how good a driveway contractor he is however.

[BigGuy]

And yet another fine invitation......

I'm just so lucky, I'm going to Barret/Jackson with my new found money!!!


Here's the latest scam...........

Good day,


I am Alfred Fernandez a solicitor at law, On the 11th of march 2004 my client,
his wife and their only child were killed by bomb blast through terrorist
attack here in madrid train station all the occupant of the coach were killed.


My client deposited the sum of $25.7million dollars in BANCO LA CAIXA, SPAIN.
for himself, with the hope of transferring it to his country as soon as he is
on leave,with standing statement/ agreement with the bank that all
correspondences in respect to the fixed deposit contract must be sent to him
through my humble chambers. Upon maturity, the routine notification
was sent to
me which I dispatched to his forwarding address as usual without no reply.

On further investigations, I found out that he died without making any WILL
and! all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I also discovered
that he did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents,
including his fixed deposit contract with the Bank in Spain.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you
have the same last name with my late client so that the proceeds of this fund
valued at US$25.7 million dollars will be claimed by you and then you
and I can
share the money, 60% comes to me and 40% goes to you. I have all 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 send your private telephone
number and details, you should please contact me through my private email:
alfredfernandez3@yahoo.com to enable us start the processing of the claim.
!
Best regards.
Barrister Alfred Fernandez.

[BigGuy]

Ron - I'll split this one with you this time!

[trularin]

You guys are scam magnets!!!

I sure am glad I am poor.

[Ron61]

Tru,

I never receive any of these letters. And if you should receive one just don't answer it in any way or you can expect a rash of them. Look closely at the wording and the countries they mostly give. As if some shoe maker or low level politician is going to have $25 to $150 million stashed away in a country that doesn't even have that much in their treasury. I traced on that one of my priests got which was much like Jon's last one except it was from London Law Firm. It went to Nigeria and then to the Law Firms actual site in London where they had a copy of the e-mail posted right on the front page and said they scammers had used their logo to send out those letters and they had no knowledge of it. Just never answer one in way or youwill get them from now on. Mark them as Spam so your filters will reject them and after a few they will cross you off the list.

Ron

[Ron61]

Jon,

Just a quick tally. You have $ 19,530,000 coming from the two accounts that actually listed a number plus 40% of whatever the one who was careful to not list any numbers in it has. Now guessing that account has at least $25 million as that seems to be a common figure for these people, you can be a very wealthy man soon. Will you still post to us or are you going to buy an island and start your own country?

Ron

[BigGuy]

Ron - just got this one and it must be true because she's blessing me?!



From/ Rosemary Momoko

Dear in christ,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact from the Ivoirian chamber of commerce and industry. I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation , I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business .

I am Miss Rosemary Momoko the only daughter of late Mr.and Mrs.E. Momoko My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip . My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special.
Before the death of my father on June 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of ($16.500,000) which he deposited in a suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan cote d' Ivoire That he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing the money in the account.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his busines associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer the fund into for investment. Sir, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways .

(1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 20 years old.

(2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country. Moreover, sir i am willing to offer you commisions of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account in your country.

Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded witing a shortest period so that I will come over to your coutry. upon your interest and Anticipating to assist me, look forward to your further word with interest.

please, do not hesitate to contact me with my email address for further details.

Thanks and God bless.
sincerely.

Miss Rosemary Momoko.

[Tommy]

This scam of a scammer has been around for quite a while, so some of you may have already seen it. It's a long but fun read if you enjoy seeing a scammer get what he deserves. Powerbook Scam

[Ron61]

Jon,

You are truly blessed to be on all those scammers lists. When are you having her come over?

Ron

[BigGuy]

got this one from a friend...thought I'd share

FROM THE DESK OF DR.AZIZ YACOUBA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
BANK WEBSITE:www.bkofafrica.net

Dear Friend,
TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
I am the manager of auditing and accounting department of BANK OF AFRICA
(B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$10m dollars (Ten million us dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from Florida,
U.S.A) who died along with his entire family on November 1999 in a plane
crash.For more informations about the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that
all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you,so that
the money can be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody will come for
it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
dormant fund.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after eight years the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed dormant fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin
in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe like me can not stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.

I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 60% would be for me.Thereafter, I will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to
enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply
first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased customer with a
text of application that i will send to you,but before i send to you the
text of application form,I will like you to send me the following
informations

1.NAME IN FULL:................................
2.ADDRESS:.......................................
3.NATIONALITY:...................................
4.AGE:............................................ .
5.Sex............................................. .
6.OCCUPATION:..................................... .
7.MARITAL STATUS:..................................
8.PRIAVTE PHONE NO............................................
9.PRIVATE FAX NO:.............................................

so i will like you to send to me those informations for easy and effective
communication.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application form.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter,if only you are
interested and ready to help me after the money have be transfered into your
bank account i will come over to your country for the final share of the
money.
Note: For security purpose reply me through my private email adress ok.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,

DR.AZIZ YACOUBA
MANAGER AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA.