BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 08:11 AM

it would be a very good lesson - there's nothing wrong with being a teacher ...

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 05:51 AM

Sandra, what a brilliant idea that would be for a Creative Writing exercise for, say, 14yr olds! They'd have to imagine they were a scammer in another country, and to phrase their spiel with a slightly 'off' turn of phrase now and then, to demonstrate their lack of good English. They could pitch the letter at a certain type of victim, say a businessman or a taxpayer, and use the relevant issues in their text. It would stretch their imaginations, get them to write in a different style and, most importantly, train them to identify and recognise scams and avoid them in adult life. One could show them several examples, such as those on this thread to get them going.
Sigh... I never stop being a teacher inside my head...

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 05:25 AM

what a wonderful piece of creative writing

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Senoufou
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 04:55 AM

EBarnacle, that's an absolute scream! Benin has French as its official language, so they've got a certain amount of linguistic ability (or it's a Nigerian living in Benin, which is extremely likely) I do love the Western Union test question "In God" and the response "we trust" Tee hee!

As always, one wonders if anybody on the entire planet is daft enough nowadays to believe any of these pathetic attempts to scam.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 12:31 AM

Got one today that is a blatant extortion attempt. By the way, I'v never heard of them before--but the FBI will:


THIS IS THE FINAL WARNING!!!

Attention:

THIS IS THE FINAL WARNING!!!

This is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get
me? I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to
you.
We have warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our
e-mails or because you believe we have not been instructed to get you
arrested and today if you fail to respond back to us with the payment
details below,then we would first send a letter to the MAYOR of the
city where you reside and direct them to close your bank account until
you have been jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by
the FBI,CIA and other enforcement agency. We would also send a letter
to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get
you fired until we are through with our investigations because a
suspect is not suppose to be working for the government or any private
organization.

Your ID which we have in our database have been sent to all the crimes
agencies in America for them to inset you in their website as an
internet fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you.
This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the
CERTIFICATE ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were instructed in the e-mail
below. This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) am writing in
response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to
inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have
been given a mandate. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed,
signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to this
directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have
arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties will be
seized and bank account will be confiscated too.

You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and that was the
reason why we didn't hear from you, as our director has already been
notified about you get the process completed yesterday and right now
the WARRANT OF ARREST has been signed against you and it will be
carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the FBI
director. We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any
idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your
information's/identity and right now your ID is placed on our website
as a wanted person, I believe you know that it will be a shame to you
and your entire family because after then it will be announce in all
the local channels that you are wanted by the Federal bureau.

I decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not be
happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated
all because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent
transactions, i called the EFCC and they directed me to a private
attorney who can help you get the process done and he ensured that he
will endorse and stamp the document with the sum of $45USD only
and i believe this process is cheaper for you.

You need to do every possible today and tomorrow to get this process
done because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of
arrest has been signed against you and once it has been approved, then
the arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learn
that you were the person that forwarded your identity to one
impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he had a deal with you about the
transfer of some illegal funds the sum of 1,500,000.00 only.

I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till
/31/2015 so that you could get this process done because i learn
that you were sent several e-mail without getting a response from you,
Bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be of able to
help you at this moment or you would have to face the law and its
consequences once it has befall on you.

You would make the payment through western union money transfer or
money gram with
the below details.

RECEIVER NAME:Emma Obi
COUNTRY, BENIN REPUBLIC
CITY, COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION:in god
ANSWER: we trust
AMOUNT:$45USD

Senders Full Name======
Sender Full Address:====
Direct Phone Number:==========
MTCN:=========

Send the payment details to me as stated above and make sure that you
didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that
they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped
immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been
carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the
transfer of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of
1.500,000.00 usd which was suppose to have been transferred to you
all this while.
Note: All the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and
we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You
are given a grace today to make the payment for the document after
which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and
finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism,money
laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try any
thing funny because you are been watched.

EXPECTING YOUR KIND ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.
John Edwin
FBI DIRECTOR

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 23 Mar 16 - 04:44 AM

back in the days when I was working for Lloyds Bank (in a university branch) we received warnings not to open bank accounts for Nigerian students (of which we had a lot)if they provided passports, or other ID documents with, or including the name "Nintende Revenje" (or any close variation.
Apparently these accounts were getting funded with cheques stolen from the postal systems, and subtly altered.
The usual intended recipient for these cheques was the "Inland Revenue"

My favourite was the student trying to open a student society account for the "Committee for Action on Smoking & Health". Presumably he was hoping to get membership cheques payable to C.A.S.H.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Mar 16 - 11:17 AM

"Right your own ticket with the degree you diserve!"

There Inglish degree will certenly be a joy to erne.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Mar 16 - 10:52 AM

today Ulysses Jeffries is offering me a degree, how exciting!

Right your own ticket with the degree you diserve! Don't like the job you work at and you think about changing it for something better ...

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Feb 16 - 09:05 PM

another gem from my spam folder

Canadian-Pills      What we do at our online pharmacy is promoting healthcare and enabling you to save money

fortunately for them I had a very wide screen & could see part of the message, so everyone can enjoy this piece of prose which appears to have been created on a bad poetry generator site.

Blind, living sacrifice and cumbersome. Molly was elected to tubes once. Regret it rains 158 days

sandra (wondering how it continued)

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Dec 15 - 07:55 AM

If I hadn't automatically hung up on the Indian voice I could have used my very clever plan of telling him that he would need to speak to the librarian.

sandra (Mac user who has only once used the library's computer)

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Dec 15 - 05:43 AM

One lie that I admit to* is telling those nuisances that call to say that they can fix the faults on my computer that I do not possess a computer so they had better check their database. Then I hang up with no further word spoken.

≈M≈

*I plead self-defence!

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
Date: 12 Dec 15 - 05:13 PM

When the PC menders from India phone I encourage them a little, then say can I ask a question. Does your mother know you are a criminal? Really annoys them.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 11 Dec 15 - 11:32 PM

Got a phone call today telling me that my application for a payday loan had been approved and all I had to do was give them some info so they could deposit the money in my account. When I told them I had not applied for the loan, they hung up.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Dec 15 - 09:34 AM

must be time to revive this thread -

I received an email from Eve, with the subject Foot Disease-Eve -
hello sir/madam Nice to meet you. This is Eve from (a Chinese company which makes aesthetics and medical equipment)

the other emails in my spam folder are not so interesting

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 08:23 PM

Thanks, I have shared it out with my union.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 03:10 PM

For long months, I've been getting the same robocall: "This is your final notice; there is nothing wrong with your current credit card account, but..." Until quite recently, I usually got the phone back down before it got past the first couple of words. The calls went on and on. Then I found an old coach's whistle kicking around the house. I put it by the phone. If I hit button one for a live rep, I would be told how many calls were ahead of me. If it was two or three, I waited with the whistle... I was hoping word would get around, but instead the calls escalated to two or three a day. I decided to try "signing up" with totally bogus id and information. If they caught on, I would ask why they would object to my lying to them once, after they lied to me a hundred or more times. So, I got a live rep: "Hello; do you have over $2,000 in credit card debt?" I blurted out "no". He had hung up before I could finish the "O", and it's been weeks with no more of the call. I obviously wasn't worthy of their helpful service.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Andrez
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 05:00 AM

Here's a potentially useful resource courtesy of the Aussie Government. Enjoy.

The Little Black Book Of Scams

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 09:41 PM

NOT!

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 09:39 PM

of course, you have urgently responded to Mr.Gerry's VERY CRUCIAL email

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 11:18 AM

They finally got around to using the Japanese Tsunami as an excuse:

VERY CRUCIAL

Actually, I know that this message would come to you as a surprise since we do
not know each other before. I am Mr.Gerry Mallon of the above
mentioned bank in United Kingdom,am an executive of the Bank.

There is an account opened in my bank many years ago,and the owner of
the said account was a Late foreign business man who died in the
unfortunate Earthquake Tsunami that occurred in Japan in 2011 without relatives
nor next of kin to stand as a claim or beneficiary to his
money, and the amount involve is THIRTY FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS($34,500.000.00) ONLY.
No other person/persons know about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary.
Nevertheless,I have been managing the account until his death to this moment.

I am only contacting you because you bear the same surname name with
the late owner of the funds, secondly, this money cannot be approved
to a local account here, but can only be approved to any foreign
beneficiary because the original owner of the account was a foreigner.

I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and
onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance forms of the ministries and foreign exchange departments.
With my position in the bank, this transaction will take us 5 banking
days to complete.
At the conclusion of this transaction, you will be given 40% of the
total amount,while 60% will be for me.
Note that with my position in the bank, this transaction can only take us 5
to 6 banking days to complete.
As soon as the money is transferred to your account, I will take a sabbatical leave to meet
you for sharing and investment.

I wait your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Gerry

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 11:11 PM

We got one the other morning. The caller was from India, clearly. Once I got him to understand that a, we were not buying anything and b, we would not give him access to any of our computers, he hung up.

The best I had recently was the package confiscated at customs from a diplomatic package but he made the mistake of giving a legit local phone number. After I called him and left a message he actually called me back to try to persuade he was legit. Guess who got reported to custom and the post office.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 09:08 PM

maybe he's a zombie? (see my post of 15 April)

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Jul 15 - 07:07 PM

Got a tasty new one today. Hey, isn't Mubarak still alive?

I, MRS SUZANNE MUBARAK(The wife of the late egyptian president),request
your assistance in the Reinvestment and Management of 25millionUSD for my
family in Abroad and your percentage will be 20%.All you need to do is to
send your details:Telephone No.,Full name and Fax No. to my lawyer
Barrister Alex Thomas on email: [e-mail] or telephone
No.:[phone]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13398644

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 02:39 PM

Both my wife and I are retired and we usually sleep until about eight o'clock in the morning.

One of those SOBs called at seven this morning!

Boy, did he get an earful!!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Andrez
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 08:47 AM

Naaaah, when I have the time and dont just hang up and feel like having some perverse fun I like getting them to tell me whats wrong with my PC and having to explain in their broken Ingrish. Then I ask 'em what version of Win OS I've got and I always have the 'other one' and never mind the fact I can call up XP or WIn 7 running in a virtual environment on my Mac.

Its a cheap thrill anyway and whiles away a few minutes while the kettles boilin :-)

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 12:14 AM

Tell them, "I'm NOT having problems with my PC..I'm using Apple....YOU guys are the ones having problems with YOUR PC's....and that's WHY I have Apple!"

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Andrez
Date: 22 Apr 15 - 08:47 AM

I often get Microsoft every now and again calling to tell me they can see I am having trouble with my PC. Too bad we only have Macs- dickheads :-)

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Rumncoke
Date: 21 Apr 15 - 03:15 PM

Those people who ring up and tell me they are a Windows technician and my pc is putting out all sorts of problems - I tell them that my pc is set to go on line at specific times during the day, so they can tell me when that is if they really are 'seeing' what my pc is sending out.

Some of them even try to guess.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Apr 15 - 10:38 PM

email title - A new life instead of buying ammunition - gave me a laugh as I deleted the contents of my spam folder

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 08:56 PM

brilliant idea, Eddie1 - re the lost cookie - contact [e-mail] to get it restored

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 03:41 PM

My newspaper had an article warning of callers who pretend to be from U.S. Internal Revenue Service and collect money by making threats. They especially prey on the uneducated and the elderly.

My beautician told me of an elderly customer who was taken in by the caller who pretends to be a grandchild in trouble. Fortunately her bank was on the qui vive, and when she went to withdraw her life savings, the bankers said, "Wait a moment. What is this all about?"

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Eddie1 (Cookie lost forever)
Date: 17 Apr 15 - 05:28 AM

Just seen a wonderful idea on Facebook! It suggests that if you get a cold call, put your toddler on the line and tell them it's Santa Claus!
I'm now crculating all my friends to ask if I can rent a toddler. Some of them are actually prepared to pay me!!!!
The toddler could also reply to these Scam e-mails if given the same information!

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 05:26 AM

Looking at the names of the folks who posted here a dozen years ago was heart warming. While many are still here but in a smaller orbit, some are gone in spirit and in body.


No one may recall my comments about a banking IRS scam I was subject to for decades. No worthwhile advice emerged from here but NPR saved me and my family from generations of victimization.

Now when we go to court over fraudulent claims against us regarding withholding tax refunds all we need do is say four specific words.
Like magic all is expunged.

Thank you NPR. Nothing can be done for the tens of thousands taken by legal criminals but at least false cash seizures and phony credit default swaps are stopped.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Apr 15 - 04:21 AM

alas, no-one contacted him - but I'm sure he would enjoy corresponding with Winston.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 12:49 PM

It's not often one gets letters from the deceased! Very amusing. Did you send him a reply? The follow-up might have been even funnier. I think I shall have Winston call him and set up a meeting and then not show up. It's the kind of thing that would appeal to his twisted sense of humour, and could no doubt be spun out into weeks or even months of pointless and hilarious communications. Winston enjoys annoying scammers.

*PR

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Apr 15 - 04:02 AM

A group of Playford dancers received spam addressed to 'Dear Playford'


My name is Barrister Joe Ken I am a Legal representative, an Attorney and private account manager to my late client. In the Year 2006, my client by name Mr. Arthur Urquhart, passed away,leaving behind a cash inheritance of Ten Million Four Hundrend Thousand United States Dollars ($10,400,000,00).My late client and bosom friend grew up in a "Motherless Babies Home". He had no family, no beneficiary nor next of kin to the inheritance consignment left behind at the finance security company batch no xx2604AF.


The Financial law of inheritance clearly allows for the deceased security company to use deceased consignment as deemed fit, should the inheritance consignment be left unclaimed after the death of the consignment owner? The reason that you have been contacted now is because you bear the same last name with the deceased, and I can present you as the beneficiary and next of kin to my late client consignment then you will stand as his next of kin and claim the consignment.


The Inheritance Law clearly leaves the proof of who is or is not the next of kin, to the deceased Lawyer to prove. As the deceased Lawyer,the Law says l have the final say of who is the beneficiary of the deceased consighnment. This is 100% percent legal. As a lawyer I know this.As this will be a testimony for you and me if you make up your mind,for the claim.


If you are interested in this proposal and you are ready to handle this proposal perfectly and with trust, then contact me at once,and we can work out the details, and the issue of your compensation. If you are not interested,and have found this email offensive or you think this is a scam,please do not reply.


Feel free to call me on my mobile: [phone]

CONTACT INFORMATION IS--------------------( [e-mail] )

Regards

Barrister Joe Ken (Esq)


===================


Barrister Joe Ken is a deceased lawyer??????

aahhhh, he's a zombie!

tho it does not mention his life status here Barrister Joe Ken (Esq)

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 11:36 AM

The variant here is that the hospital [sic] is in the US. That, however, made it easier to check. The hack here is that they took over my friend's e-mail so he is cut off from inquiries. I don't have a phone number for him.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,#
Date: 02 Apr 15 - 08:26 PM

That's been around for a few years.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/virus-spyware/f/3522/t/19528399

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Apr 15 - 07:17 PM

This one almost got me today but when I Googled the hospital it does not exist. The typing also made me suspicious. Also, when I offered a small contribution, the sender asked for a larger amount. The e-dress it came from is correct for my friend.




I really don't want to disturb you about this but I had no one else to turn to.i am in Jackson, Ohio to see my cousin who lives here. she's critically ill and needs family support. She is diagnosed with (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) - a type of Blood Cancer in 2005 and she had been undergoing treatment since. The chemotherapy treatment was going fine until last week when the doctor noticed that the disease has relapsed and the only way she can survive is by undergoing a BMT (Bone Marrow Transplantation).

My sister whose marrow matched she has agreed to be the donor and she will be undergoing the transplant soon at the Jackson medical Hospital here in Ohio. The estimate for the transplant is $8,000. I have already spent approx. $5,300 towards her treatment. Since the amount is huge, I request you to lend out a helping hand and support me with a loan of $2,800. Since I don't know your financial status at the moment, any kind of help whatsoever will be deeply appreciated.




Your help and support will give her a chance to live a normal life once again. There is nothing called a small help when the heart giving it is big. Any amount will be accepted with gratitude and paid back after the surgery. Please let me know how much you can loan me so that i can provide you with the details to get the money to me and, I will pay back as soon

as I return.




Thanks for your help.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Mar 15 - 05:17 PM


Back in the 1970s there was a case of someone putting an advert in the paper asking for £5 to be sent to an address in return for being told how to make your fortune.

In return they received a letter saying "put an advert in the paper like I did."

I am sure that that was in a Wizard of Id cartoon.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Ian
Date: 25 Mar 15 - 04:40 PM

Back in the 1970s there was a case of someone putting an advert in the paper asking for £5 to be sent to an address in return for being told how to make your fortune.

In return they received a letter saying "put an advert in the paper like I did."

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: LadyJean
Date: 24 Mar 15 - 07:58 PM

Last summer I was looking for a car. (I am nearly always looking for a car, but that's another story.) I found a good one on Ebay. I was the winning bidder. But I'm pretty sure the seller didn't actually own the thing. He didn't want to give me his name. He wanted to be paid by postal order. He doesn't seem to have lived at the address he gave. I called Ebay about him. I also emailed the FBI. I can respect an honest bank robber. But I do NOT like scammers!

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Mar 15 - 05:59 PM

I've had a telephone call twice recently that ticked me off just a little more than the perennial "congratulations, you have just won a free trip to the Bahamas"

"This is the phone call you requested regarding the back brace you saw on TV..."

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,#
Date: 24 Mar 15 - 05:26 PM

Hold out for 25% Joe. Twelve percent is a rip.

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Mar 15 - 05:13 PM

I thought this one was pretty good. It brings both Cambodia and Syria into the picture:

Greetings to you,

I know this email will surprise you. Please accept my offer for charity plans, my name is Aisha Nam, I'm a Syrian citizen. I'm married to MR.HUA NAM the CEO of (HUA NAM RESTAURANT) in China and Cambodia.

I'm writing from hospital in Damascus here in Syria. I have a contract for you. I and my husband left Cambodia in 2011 February to setup our company branch in Syria before the war started. I and my entire family were attacked by the Syrian soldiers. I lost my husband and my children. I am the only surviving person in the family.

I'm seriously wounded with the hope that I may not survive this severe injury, according to the doctors. I don't know what may happen to me from this time. I decided to use the hospital computer and search for somebody with good heart to help me organize a foundation that will be named HUA NAM FOUNDATION for the Syrian refugees, motherless, less privileged and the widows in your country. I pray that God will help us.

Presently I can't receive any calls or reply you. If you are interested to help me for this charity work in your country, I will offer you $18,500,000.00(Eighteen million five hundred thousand US dollars) 12% will be for you, while the other funds should be used for the charity organization. Please feel free to contact my lawyer in charge of the funds. He will direct you to the bank and arrange the transfer document of the funds from my account to your preferred account as the beneficiary of my funds. My lawyer's contact email [e-mail]
God bless you !

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 05:23 PM

and the money is still in the Hungarian bank waiting for you ...

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Mrr at work
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 12:08 PM

We got one from some Hungarian about how someone with our (unusual) last name had been killed in a "ghastly" accident in Japan, I am quoting the letter, and the bank in Hungary is the only place all their money was, and we were apparently the heirs. And they had the real name of a woman who had run the bank, even! I was pretty impressed. Plus we are half-Hungarian on our Mom's side, so it was very well researched...

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 07:51 AM

maybe you are missing out on a fortune ...

how odd to get a real letter with a stamp! & only giving an email contact

sandra (shaking head at thought processes of letter writer)

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 24 Feb 15 - 02:50 AM

I received a letter, through the post recently, purporting to be from a Chinese banker (!) He claimed that he had worked for someone called "Charles [my surname]" as his "private investment manager". Apparently this "Charles [my surname]" had recently died and no relatives could be traced. Then ... single account in a Chinese bank ... international people finders failed to find any relatives etc., etc., etc. So, the Chinese banker had decided to take the initiative himself and: "in the process I have been provided with your (i.e. my) details". Wow - my lucky day! He proposed that: "we don't allow this money go to (sic) the Government and work together to legally secure this money etc., etc., etc. He asked me to write back to him using an e-mail address (the only contact details provided) and, of course, he "kindly" requested me to: "keep this communication confidential etc., etc., etc."

I may be missing an opportunity of a lifetime ... but, then again, maybe not(?) ... but I haven't used that e-mail address. I have reported the letter to the relevant authorities though ... just in case it's a fraud .. . surely not?

Subject: RE: BS: All the Scams Aren't in Nigeria
From: EBarnacle
Date: 23 Feb 15 - 09:28 AM

I have offered to meet a couple of the couriers with their packages of money at the airport or local UPS/FedEx offices. Somehow, they all fail to continue the correspondence.

You show me yours, I'll show you mine.