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Anyone else getting hit by a barrage of emails asking them to help liberate funds from some country? This has to be the 6 I've gotten over my several email accounts in the last week or so. Yeah I know this scam has been done before but I swear this is the heaviest attack I've gotten so far!

Todays entry:

FROM: DR.SALLA COKER.
FAX:1 435 514 7136
25 Adefobi Street,
Ikoyi Island,
Lagos.

Goodday,

I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good
health and success in your pursuits particularly through my
proposal as contained in this letter.

Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must
first implore you to treat with the utmost confidentiality
as this is required for its success and to have faith in
this transaction, for opportunities like this only comes to
one once in a life time.

My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal
Government of my country's Contracts Review Panel (CRP) who
are interested in diverting some funds that are presently
floating in the accounts of the Apex Bank of my country. In
order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your
assistance to enable us transfer into your nominated
account the said floating funds.

The source of the funds are as follows: During the last
military regime in my country,government officials set up
companies and awarded themselves contracts that were
grossly over-invoiced in various ministries and arastatals.
The present civilian government set up the Contract Review
Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of
payments made available to it by the decree setting up the
panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those
who are being owed outstanding amounts.

My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of
these funds,which are presently floating in our (Apex)
Central Bank, ready for disbursement and would like to
divert some of it for our own purposes.

However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and
members of this panel, we cannot acquire these funds in our
names or in the names of companies that are based in my
country. I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of
trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look
for a reliable overseas partnerm into whose account we can
transfer the sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million,
five hundred thousand U.S.dollars).

That is why I am seeking your assistance. We have agreed to
share the money to be transferred into your account, if you
agree with our proposition as follows;

(i) 25% to the account owner (you).
(ii) 65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 10% to be used in settling all expenses ( both
you and us) incidental to the actualization of this
project.

We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project
in foreign stock markets and other viable business till we
are ready and able to have access to them without raising
any eyebrows here at home. Please note that this
transaction is 100% safe and risk-free.

We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14)
banking days from the date of receipt of the following
information through the fax number stated above: Your
company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers;we will
use your company's name to apply for the payment and
backdate the award of the contract in favour of your
company. We are looking forward to doing this transaction
with you and we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in
this transaction.

I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this
transaction when I hear from you.Please get in touch either
through my email address above or my American internet Fax
number 1 435 514 7136.

Best regards,


DR.SALLA COKER.
 
I've recieved about 20, they seem to be dying off. I've heard it all- from the rich widow in India, pursued by thugs, to all those strange millionares who've died in Africa and the banks that need my help. And who could forget the Christian come on, they 'prayed about it, and found my name"

What is worse is a troll who keeps sending me the same 41k file full of virus. I never open it, but he keeps trying, even to impersonating Symantec.


munk
 
That's a well known scam, usually originating in Nigeria. Many of the versions I receive come from the UK. It promises you a fortune from some hard luck story if you will only help by surrendering your banking info. Guess what happens next.
 
You make a fortune and get to buy all the khuks you want?




There has also been several International Lotteries I've allegedly won- for millions of pounds.

munk
 
I used to get a bunch of these, but not for a while. I guess someone claimed the money.
 
I get a half-dozern of those con jobs a day.

Scariest thing came yeaterday. A message from PayPal about shipment details on an item I had won on eBay - chick here for details. Looked very official. Only I didn't have anything coming from eBay. It was yet another "Trojan Horse" virus effort - one of hundreds.
 
I got one from Paypal claiming to be my 'billing' details.


I got one yesterday saying, "free Porn."

All the ones from Bruise contain that ridiculous figurine he uses...sort of a give-away...


munk
 
I'm starting to get ones saying I won the Italian Lottery. If these guys actually put their creativity into something worthwhile, who knows what they could achive. Excuse me, weird flashback, I must apologize, I now sound like my father.
 
It's kind of scary how devious these guys are I get mail all the time telling me I've won a lottery, asking me to help some african potentate get money out of his country and of course my paypal and ebay account are always in trouble and that I should log in and give them my login and password.

I feel sorry for anyone who is the last bit trusting or gullible and really sorry for any one who is greedy enought to think they can get somthing for nothing :eek:
 
Well, I can tell a fake when I see it, but, here's a joke on all you guys: I am getting a full 10% of $30,000,000 from the distant nephew of the former Lt. Governor of Zululand, just for letting him and his associates (secret partners high up in the current administration!) use my bank account for a few days to transfer money!

Of course I had to put up $10K of my own money to help push the deal through, but pretty soon I'll be swimming in khuks and you guys can say "Yep, I knew him when he was one of the 'little people'"!

My African contact says there may be room for one or two more limited partners though, so if you're interested in making millions like me, just let me know! :D

Regards,

Norm
 
Svashtar said:
Well, I can tell a fake when I see it, but, here's a joke on all you guys: I am getting a full 10% of $30,000,000 from the distant nephew of the former Lt. Governor of Zululand, just for letting him and his associates (secret partners high up in the current administration!) use my bank account for a few days to transfer money!

Of course I had to put up $10K of my own money to help push the deal through, but pretty soon I'll be swimming in khuks and you guys can say "Yep, I knew him when he was one of the 'little people'"!

My African contact says there may be room for one or two more limited partners though, so if you're interested in making millions like me, just let me know! :D

Regards,

Norm

Norm your a real prince for making such a nice offer :eek: :D :eek:
 
About 5-10 of these every day here and i try tio keep my addresses (the ones that do get spammed) private. Sigh.
 
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