9Million richer

Hobbes

I know it's a scam, but it was funny as hell.

FROM MR BELLO AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK LOME - TOGO. MY DEAR , COMPLIMENTS,MY NAME IS MR BELLO,THE MANAGER CREDIT AND FOREIGN BILLS OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK LOME TOGO [ADB].I AM WRITING IN RESPECT OF FOREIGN CUSTOMER OF MY BANK(MR GENE BILLINGS OF AMERICA)WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER ADB100144986-00 WHO PERISHED IN THE PLANE CRASH OF 31 OCTOBER 1999[WITH EGYPTIAN AIRLINE 990] WITH OTHER PASSENGERS ABOARD AS YOU CAN COMFIRM IT YOURSELF THROUGH THIS WEDSITE. (www.cnn.com/us/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html). SIR,SINCE THE DEMISE OF MR BILLINGS,I PERSONALLY HAVE WATCHED WITH KEEN INTEREST TO SEE THE NEXT OF KIN BUT ALL HAS PROVED ABORTIVE AS NO ONE HAS COME TO CLAIM HIS FUNDS OF USD30M, [THIRTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS]HAS BEEN WITH OUR BANK HERE FOR A VERY LONG TIME.ON THIS NOTE I DECIDED TO SEEK FOR WHOM HIS NAME SHALL BE USED AS THE NEXT OF KIN,AS NO ONE HAS COME UP TO PUT CLAIM AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THIS FUNDS AND THE BANKING ETHICS HERE DOES NOT ALLOW SUCH MONEY TO STAY MORE THAN FOUR YEARS,BECUASE AFTER FOUR YEARS THE MONEY WILL BECALLED BACK TO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED BILL. IN VIEW OF THIS I GOT YOUR CONTACT THROUGH MY COUNTRY'S FOREIGN TRADEMISSION AFTER I WAS CONVNCED IN MY MIND THAT YOUR NAME COULD BE USED AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THIS CLAIM.THE REQUEST OF THE FOREIGNER AS A NEXT OF KIN IN THIS BUSINESS IS OCCASIONED BY THE FACT THAT THE CUSTOMER WAS A FOREIGNER AND A TOGOLESE CANNOT STAND AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO A FOREIGNER. I AGREED THAT $9M USD OF THIS MONEY WILL BE FOR YOU AS A FOREIGN PARTNER IN RESPECT OF PROVIDING AN ACCOUNT,WHILE 5% WILL TAKE OF ANY EXPENSIS THAT MIGHT BE INCURED IN THE PROCEES OF SUCCEEDING THE TRANSFER AND THE REST WILLBE FOR ME.THEREAFTER I WILL VISIT YOUR COUNTRY FOR DISBURSEMENT AS I AM ALMOST DUE FOR RETIREMENT. THEREFORE TO ENDEAVOUR THE IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF THIS FUNDS TO YOUR ACCOUNT,YOU HAVE TO APPLY FIRST TO THE BANK AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DISEASED INDICATING YOUR BANK NAME,YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER, YOUR PRIVATETELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS FOR EASY COMMUNICATION AND LOCATION WHERE THE MONEY WILL BE REMITTED. UPON THE RECEIPT OF YOUR I WILL SEND YOU BY FAX OR E-MAIL A DRAF APPLICATION OF CLAIM WHICH YOU WILL SEND TO THE BANK AND THE NEXT STEP TOTAKE. I WILL NOT FAIL TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THIS BUSINESS IS HITCH FREE AND THAT YOU SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN ANY FEAR AS THE WHOLE REQUIRED ARRANGEMENT AS BEEN PERFECTED FOR THE TRANSFER. YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME AS A MATTER OF FACT IMMEDIATELY ON MY PRIVATE LINE PURPOSELY AQUIRED FOR THIS BUSINESS FOR ITS CONFIDENTIALITY AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS LETTER. HOPEING TO HEAR FROM YOU. KIND REGARDS, MR BELLO.

Mr E

With all the money these guys have, you'd think they could afford a keyboard without a stuck capslock key, and a mail package with a spellchecker.... :rolleyes:

- Dave.

yossarin

i dunno - i read somwhere that they write like that so they'll seem stupid and you'll think you can outwit them.

fisty

WOW! 9 MILLION DOLLARS,
WHERE DO I SIGN?

PLEASE MR NIGERIAN, TAKE ME MONEIES, I DON'T WANT IT.

Stephen

NEXT OF KIN TO THE DISEASED

lol

Dustaz

Originally posted by fisty

PLEASE MR NIGERIAN,

They are togolese. Do try and keep up fisty

Bard

Originally posted by Dustaz
They are togolese. Do try and keep up fisty

The original scam was Nigerian, wasn't it?

Perhaps thats what he's referring to.

Pigman II

WHILE 5% WILL TAKE OF ANY EXPENSIS THAT MIGHT BE INCURED IN THE PROCEES OF SUCCEEDING THE TRANSFER

5% = $1.5m! And I thought the Irish banks were ripping us off on service charges!

Also apparently Nigeria has been voted 'worlds most corrupt country' for the past four years now. It seems like stuff like this has tarnished their rep. to such an extent now that they are getting blaimed for the ones they don't even take 'credit' for.

dod

I get an average of one of these damn mails every week. It was funny at first, now it's just a nuisance. I saw an article on RTE news/ prime time/ one of their current affairs programmes a few months back, where a member of the Gardai said to notify them if you got one of the emails. Being completely apathetic about it, I didn't bother, but when they started arriving so frequently, I had a look on the Garda Siochana website to see what email address to forward the email onto. You think they had details for what email address to forward the mail to on the website? Hell no, that'd be helpful. I estimate that come about 2050 AD, they'll be dragged kicking and screaming into the 1980s.

conZ

Scam the scammers

kiffer

even if they say togo they're from nigeria, I've seen ones from london, dublin, the ivory coast, and a number of other places. and the ones working out of dublin are nigerian as are the ones in london.

people loose a lot of money to these people ... it's very sad. (and funny)

ok may be there not all nigerian but well let me put it this way ... most are, no mater what they say, from Nigeria.

They could be sending out the mails from a cybercafe near you and with all the call shops and such in dublin, there are at least 2 or 3 groups in dublin.

the police dont really care as they are scamming people out side the country.

Capt'n Midnight

I like the bit about letting them keep one back for as security on the £170 .....

God loves a tryer

Capt'n Midnight

"the police dont really care as they are scamming people out side the country."

actually back home in Nigeria it's likely to be officials sending these things out - and an new scam by officials there is to try to track your money or the scammers down - for a nominal fee of course.....

And every three months someone breaks a oil / petrol pipeline - no one reports it 'cos they are stealing it using buckets - a consequence of corruption is extreme poverty and a shortage of cheap fuel - for a couple of days villagers suppliment thier income, and then there is another inferno.. - not as frequent or as many lives lost as in the periodic bay of Bengal overcrowded ferry disasters - but just as preventable...

kiffer

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
"the police dont really care as they are scamming people out side the country."

actually back home in Nigeria it's likely to be officials sending these things out - and an new scam by officials there is to try to track your money or the scammers down - for a nominal fee of course.....

I've seen this one as well ... that was really funny ... best thing was it was beening sent by the same person who was sending out the normal scams as well

I ment our police ...
its more trouble than its worth...

Silent Bob

What I always find amusing is that the chief of the "South Africa National Bank" (this was the last one I got) sent the mail from a go.com mail account.

Surely such a financial institution could afford their own domain

What I can't believe is that people are so stupid as to fall for something like that...

Gordon

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
a consequence of corruption is extreme poverty

Sorry to be nitpicky, but you mean - a consequence of poverty is corruption - don't you?

Capt'n Midnight

In general people are not corrupt unless cost/benefit advantages to it. Being corrupt in a law abiding country means you will be dealt with and people will not deal with you.
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The plebs in corrupt countries tend to be poor - mainly becuse of lack of competition and high prices and new Taxes and poor health care and poor infrastructure etc. Cartels and daft laws prevent competition.

Get rid of the corruption at the top and then the wealth of the country could be shared fairly - rather than giving contracts out to political cronies, big projects would go the best contractor and there wouldn't be so many scams with the price of land and brown envelopes.

But enough about Ireland - I'm sure it's the same in Nigeria,

The way I look at it there are one million wealth generators in this country (ie. private sector) and every billion wasted is another grand out of my pocket...

lordsippa

Just out of curiosity I took part in one of those scams and ended up laughing my way to the bank $12m richer. Swear to god. The bloke told me that I was the only reply he got and cause I was so nice and such he'd give me a bigger cut.

Still waiting for the cheque to clear mind...

Hobbes

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
actually back home in Nigeria it's likely to be officials sending these things out - and an new scam by officials there is to try to track your money or the scammers down - for a nominal fee of course.....

Indeed and if you turn up in Nigeria looking for the people/cash back there have been reports of your passport being taken off you and having to pay to leave the country.