your kind attention please...

ponderosa

What manner of scam be this?

Anyone else received this kind of email?

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My Dear,


I greet you in the name of our lord whom we serve.

My name is Mrs.Princess Mawa. I am a widow and a mother of a girl without a male Child. I know you will see my letter to you as anembarrassment considering the fact that we do not know ourselves. I plead with you to be patient with me and give me audience because I found myself in a situation that I dont have any option than to contact you,so that you can help me in this problem I found myself into, so I feel very pleased to contact you fo! r your assistance and business relationship. I live in Cote D'Ivoire with my only Daughter. My late husband was a loving, caring and hard working Business man who deals on OIL AND PETROLEUM BUSINESS but was killed by hired armed assasins.there is currently a civil war going on in Cote Ivoire where we are presently residing and thus my writing you this mail. Before the sudden death of my beloved husband, and father of my only daughter, my late husband intended to make an establishment through the assistance of his FOREIGN PARTNER outside Africa with the sum of US$10,000,000.00 (TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) but unfortunately he died before this proposed venture without even submitting the particulars of his FOREIGN INVESTOR whom the money was to be transferred into his account who is the BENEFICIARY of the money.Following his death, his family members insisted that I am not entitled to his property (Assets and money) since I am a woman and my offspring is all girl as I d! o not have a male child for my late husband claiming that it is what our tradition entails. Well, because of this barbaric traditional law here in COTE D'IVOIRE which doesn't permit a woman to inherit her Husbands property incase of death if she has no male child, the relatives of my late Husband are expected by tradition to take over the management of his business and other properties including myself who automatically becomes a wife to one of his immediate brothers.Unfortunately to this wicked family members of my late Husband,the US$10,000,000.00 which my late Husband intended to use in establishing a business through his FOREIGN PARTNER ABROAD was deposited in a Security Company In Europe named Holland unknown to his family members. I and his lawyer are the only ones aware of this money,so I and my late Husbands Lawyer have discussed this matter with a Staff of the security company that we want this money transferred claimed by you so that I can leave this country with m! y only daughter to come and meet with you in your country where we wish to stay for the rest of our lives to enable me take care of my only daughters educational needs since my husband's family members vehemently opposed the furtherance of her education. According to the staff of the security company the best way to secure this funds is to proceed to their company in Holland to do the necessary required things there and claim the funds from them on my behalf, after which you clear and claim it from them it will be used for business establishment subject to the Advise of you on the kind of Investment to go into with the funds. Now at this juncture, I therefore to enable us forward it to the security company in Holland as my beneficiary whom will claim the funds from them on my behalf As soon as I get your positive response, I shall provide you with all the rest necessary detail for the conclussion of the transaction.including the documents of the deposit of the money which is! in my position now. After due consultation with my Lawyer, I have decided to to give you 20% of the total money as a reward for your sincere assistance while the remaining 80% of the money will be put into any lucrative investment of your choice which of course will be under your Management and control. kindly send throug my email, your personal details as requested above including your contact information for easy communication.Please for confidentiality and secrecy because at this moment I cannot communicate freely with you through our telephone number in the house, kindly contact me through email and I will call you when you give me your telephone contact.It is important I inform you that my late Husbands Attorney has assured me that he will handle the legelity of the transaction with you to the end of it so be ensured that the transaction is 100% risk free and successful. Thanking you for your anticipated co-operation and urgent response.Note that in your inability to t! ravel to Europe Holland to conclude the transaction we can negociate with the Security Company's Staffs,so that they can deliver the funds to your verious destination.


Remain Blessed.

Yours Respectfully,

Mrs.Princess Mawa.

- mawa princess

Merrick

Golddigger.

meldrew

Best thing to do with that is to bin it , its a complete scam

lol
"mrs princess"

scaaaaam anyway

Pompey Magnus

Do people actually fall for these scams?

monkeyfudge

Depeche_Mode wrote:

Do people actually fall for these scams?

A few hundred people a year in the UK anyway according to a Watchdog special I once saw... you'd be surprised how stupid some people can be when greed takes over.

JohnCleary

I was too lazy to read the whole thing... what exactly is she/he looking for?

takola

monkeyfudge wrote:

A few hundred people a year in the UK anyway according to a Watchdog special I once saw... you'd be surprised how stupid some people can be when greed takes over.

Please tell me you're joking??? FOOLS!!!!!

jhegarty

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud

Sam Vimes

Depeche_Mode wrote:

Do people actually fall for these scams?

unfortunately so. i see it as a tax on stupidity

jor el

takola wrote:

Please tell me you're joking??? FOOLS!!!!!

He's not, it's true. Greed is a very powerful motivator.

You can have a lot of fun with them if you reply though. Just act all needy and stupid and see how far you can get them to go. There's plenty of 'scamming the scammers' stories around the internet. Some are priceless and they get the scammers to all sorts of things, like getting the guy to take a picture of himself in his underpants and holding a sign that says Amadán. Have a look for p-p-p-powerbook for one of the better ones, though it wasn't an email scam.

chamlis

Dear Sir or Madam,

i am Nigerean Royaltie
(Please ignore the fact that I cannot Spell Nigerian or Royalty)
Give mons now!

godtabh

jor el wrote:

Have a look for p-p-p-powerbook for one of the better ones, though it wasn't an email scam.

That was a classic!

The people who send these emails send hundreds of thousands.

If only a few people reply and they make a couple of grand in each one they can make their money.

JungleBunny

She could have at least used spell check on that thing before sending it to make it "somewhat" believable!

Really can't believe how many people fall for that stuff!

ponderosa

Just checked out that wikipedia article...... and while that scam-baiting business sounds fun in a 'the mess-er becomes the mess-ee' kind of way, I don't think the company I work for would appreciate me using company time that way... tempting though.:p

edanto

One of the sites jor el was talking about is at http://www.419eater.com/

They've taken the mick out of lots of scammers - I've no idea why they want to spend their time doing that, but it's a funny old read. Looking through the site also shows you how the scammers aim to get some money out of you after the initial hook.

gandalf

Ah the classic old 419

Surprised these are still around, but then again with more and more Proles getting on the interweb there is plenty of fodder around for them to milk