Beware! Email Scam

[Antoninus]

If you recieve this email, DO NOT do what it says to do


Barrister Chukwuemeka John
No,178 Walter Carrington
Crescent Victoria Island
LAGOS - NIGERIA
TELL: 234-805-583-0982

My Dear Friend
I am Barrister Chukwuemeka John, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr.Patrick Braddock who is from your country, who worked with Shell Development Company in Nigeria Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 2000, my client,his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident along sagbama express road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet,to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$17 million left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount were deposited.

The said Security Finance company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days.
Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now,I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim.

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
please kindly contact through this Email:johnchukwuemeka2@ny.com for more information or you call me on this phone number 234-805-583-0982
Best regards,
Barrister Chukwuemeka John

[J Santos]

Wait...

You mean I really WONT get $17 Million from a mysterious stranger from Nigeria? :rolleyes:

[Antoninus]

I seriously doubt it :) The only family that we have named Patrick is in prison right now and he aint worth no 17 million bucks

[Ahautenites]

It's even more amusing when I take this off the fax machine in the morning twice a week.

[farm girl]

Yeah.... That would pretty much get deleted before I finished.

[ravenmyst]

gee, I was sure I was gonna get rich, lol got that one too

[MysticWitch]

I seriously doubt it :) The only family that we have named Patrick is in prison right now and he aint worth no 17 million bucks

:rollingla

[Strega Del Vento]

:lol: I think it's so hilarious that people still email these scams to others.

[Rhisiart]

I love these. I like to reply to them as if I believe them and act really naive about how to do all the transfer stuff and keep doing really long but dim-witted responses. I do it to all the hoax emails I get. Eventually I end up giving them a piece of my mind, gather there addresses and send em in to the authorities if I can. Yeah, there mostly hidden but sometimes they mess up and I bet it really irkes the hell outta them! lol

Beware, there's a wolf under this sheeps clothing!

[bbnflpn]

i wonder what they actually do, do they get your account info for the transfer of funds and then rob you blind or somthing, on the same note i got this in my yahoo360 messages of all places (what a dumb butt, like i wouldnt think its a scam) i saw this on a tread some where (maybe here some where i cant remember) so i was warned so i thought that i would put it out there again.


Dear Friend,
Greetings in the name of the Lord,As you read this, I don't
want you to feel sorry for me,because, I know everyone will
die someday.
My name is Mr Sal Rab a merchant in
Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal
cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and
right now I have only about a few months to live, according
to medical experts.
I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never
really cared for anyone but my
business.Though I am very rich, I was never Generous, I was
always hostile to people and only focused on my business as
that was the only thing I cared for.But now I regret all
this, as I now know that there is more to life
than just wanting to have or make all the money in the
world. I have willed out most of my property and assets to
my immediate and extended family members as well as a few
close friends.
I have decided to give alms to charity organizations,as I
want this one of the last good deeds I do on earth.
So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia. Now that
my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this
myself anymore. I once asked members of my family to close
one of my accounts and distribute the money that I have
there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan,
they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do
not trust them anymore, as they are not contended
with what I have left for them.
The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash
deposit of eighteen million dollars $18,000,000,00 that I
have with a finance/Security Company abroad. I will want
you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to
charity organizations.I have set aside 10% for your time.
God be with you.
Salami Rabiu.
forward your reply to sall4christ@katamail.com for my own convenience
p.s,i will like part to go for the hurricane victims

[star_belfire]

I get that email in different forms everyother week. Who are they actually getting? No one is that stupid.

[Fairy Disturbed]

yea but when it comes to money, some people are really that desparate

[phoenixblayze]

nice,
do they honestly think that we would fall for that.....wait, im sure at least one person would

[ForestChild]

I love to reply to these things. I got one from England for the first time the other day. I asked them if they moved, and if so, was it pretty expensive living in England after being NIgeria for so long, etc.

They never reply back to me! :(

[LyraDragonStar]

Yea, I've got messed up emails like that before. I think they are stupid. I've emailed them back once, but I don't think I ever got a reply.

[KaidaMidnight]

I have actually had a man call me saying that they had a government grant in my name for "up to $5,000". I was like uh huh, and what do I need to do to get this? and he says.. "we need your bank account route number and account number to transfer the funds into". I Laughed so hard at him. You've got to be kidding me. First off.. grants come through the regular mail in checks.. not with someone calling you. I can't believe the nerve of some people.. LOL.. what is sad is that, this scam must work on some people for them to keep trying it.

[Garnet]

This has been floating around, in several forms, for many years. My Catholic grandma almost got rooked into one that promised her zillions of dollars if she helped transfer the untold wealth of persecuted Arab Christians to her bank account. Luckily, she showed the snail mail to my mum to brag about the money she'd be getting, & mum put a stop to it.

I actually answered the first e-mail like this I received, with a snotty suggestion that his letter would be more believable if he used a spell-check program. He wrote back assuring me that his offer was legit, & he kept sending me fervent letters to that effect, even after I lied & told him that I worked for the FBI, & would have the 'FBI International Fraud Investigation Unit' check his claims.
Finally I pretended to be an FbI secretary, claiming that I was on a secret mission indefinitely & couldn't be reached.

I get these letters periodically, & fortunately, g-mail is a great deal better at sending this drek to the 'Junk Pile' than Hotmail ever was.

[Koehnae]

I must get one of those a day. I never thought to reply to them... hmmmm... I feel a touch of naughty coming on... :shhhh:

[beachj]

:lol: I think it's so hilarious that people still email these scams to others.

I think it's so hailarious that people still FALL for these scams. :lol:
A Buddy of mine at work got this in his email once. Everyone got a good laugh at it. :lol: He thaught about emailng the guy and telling him hes full of crap, but we realised that if he did that, it would only confirm that his email adress was valid and thus be signed up for spam.

[mol]

I love to reply to these things. I got one from England for the first time the other day. I asked them if they moved, and if so, was it pretty expensive living in England after being NIgeria for so long, etc.

They never reply back to me! :(
This is the biggest mistake ANYONE can make. Your replies are processed by their servers, sometimes they even send a fake bounce back. Whatever the case they now know YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS REAL and they will immediately add you to their list to sell to other spammers.

Does this need to be sticky, folks? Come on!

[medit8ive_spirit]

I actually get about three of these a day...all from different "countries", some real countries and others are made up localities......yes, one can just delete them and ignore...but they won't go away....please report them to whatever service they use...(i.e. yahoo, msn...etc.-most of them have one address they use to email you and they have a totally seperate one they use for you to reply to!) I know it takes a little longer to report them...but it might help catch someone that has wrongfully acquired money from someone.

[beachj]

Hey Again,
I dont think the scam is always to get credit card numbers and for stolen identity. I think its a fishing attempt to gather email adresses. That way, even if you replay saying "F-Off" or remove me from your list, they realise that its a valid adress, and then can sell your adress to spammers. *shrug*
:lookwhats

[WtchyChick13]

This has been floating around, in several forms, for many years. My Catholic grandma almost got rooked into one that promised her zillions of dollars if she helped transfer the untold wealth of persecuted Arab Christians to her bank account. Luckily, she showed the snail mail to my mum to brag about the money she'd be getting, & mum put a stop to it.

I actually answered the first e-mail like this I received, with a snotty suggestion that his letter would be more believable if he used a spell-check program. He wrote back assuring me that his offer was legit, & he kept sending me fervent letters to that effect, even after I lied & told him that I worked for the FBI, & would have the 'FBI International Fraud Investigation Unit' check his claims.
Finally I pretended to be an FbI secretary, claiming that I was on a secret mission indefinitely & couldn't be reached.

I get these letters periodically, & fortunately, g-mail is a great deal better at sending this drek to the 'Junk Pile' than Hotmail ever was.

My father (a retired postal worker) used to see these in letter and postcard form almost 40 years ago. Some scams live on forever. :rolleyes:

[ValD]

If you enjoy the idea of baiting the people who send out these emails, take a look at 419eater.com (http://www.419eater.com/). These guys love eating scammers!

[leonora]

i have been sent that letter from the nigerian bloke over 71 times and lately i have been getting one from christian lady who is dying of cancer and found my details and wanted to give me £17 million to someone as unfortunate as myself?????

[mol]

Hey Again,
I dont think the scam is always to get credit card numbers and for stolen identity. I think its a fishing attempt to gather email adresses. That way, even if you replay saying "F-Off" or remove me from your list, they realise that its a valid adress, and then can sell your adress to spammers. *shrug*
:lookwhats
I said that, too!

[Djiril]

Here's what snopes.com has to say about this, it's an interesting article:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

And have you seen the one they send to musicians? :D
http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=22182

[DixieWitch]

I recently closed a Yahoo accoutn because I was getting 5-10 of these kind of emails everyday. I started forwarding it to spam@uce.gov Dunno if it'll do any good. But with the email I have now, it is hopefully better protected. I don't give it out anywhere but where it is needed. And I have a seperate email address I use for "junk mail" reasons....i.e. signing up on random websites.

[Rhisiart]

This is the biggest mistake ANYONE can make. Your replies are processed by their servers, sometimes they even send a fake bounce back. Whatever the case they now know YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS REAL and they will immediately add you to their list to sell to other spammers.

Does this need to be sticky, folks? Come on!

Yea but Mol, come on! In this day and age, it isnt hard to get my e-addy. I just love to hook em a little and think they have a mark who actually believes em. Its great if you can play naive long and good just to make em waste a little more of their time, kinda like messin with telemarketers...I like to draw em out and let them go thru their whole routine for like 10 minutes then throw the NAH at em and hang up! priceless!

[Garnet]

...kinda like messin with telemarketers...I like to draw em out and let them go thru their whole routine for like 10 minutes then throw the NAH at em and hang up! priceless!

Before I put myself on the 'no-call' lists, I never listened to telemarketers. I let 'em start their spiels, put the receiver down, & let them jabber away to nobdy. I didn't pick it up until I could hear the "If you want to make a call...." phone co. message.