does anyone get these annoying emails?

[Guest]

i keep getting letters from strangers on some international matter, and its starting to get annoying because whenever i block their address i am bound to get another letter from another email address. heres an email i got today:

'Dear Sir,

I am making this contact with you in good faith, my name is Mr Bello
Umanah, the personal accounting officer to Late Hon. Chuba Okadigbo, the
former Nigeria Senate President. Herein after shall be referred to as my
client.

During my client's tenure as Nigeria Senate President, he was in charge of
Federal government investments abroad from which he accrued so much money.
And having a personal intention of investing abroad after his tenure, he
secretly deposited the sum of US$20 Million(Twenty Million United States
Dollars) with a Security Company in Madrid, Spain.

But unfortunately, he died on Thursday September 25, 2003
http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/darti ... digbo_a_sa
.htm leaving this huge amount of money in the custody of the Security
company without claim from anybody. As the personal accounting officer,
iwas the only person he confided in and therefore the only person that
knows about the existence of this funds as he was avoiding implications
since he was in service then.

I am interested in a foreign investor with a sound business proposal who is
capable of using his/her facilities to claim and transfer this funds into
his/her account, hence i personally appeal to you seriously for your urgent
assistance to move this money into your country where i believe it will be
judiciously invested for the benefit of both of us.

I have in my possession every necessary legal document to backup your claim
and which will also enable you work in accordance with the security company
in Madrid, Spain, all i require is your honest cooperation.

Best regards,

Mr. Bello Umanah'

wtf?

[dd47]

mate that sounds like a total wind up

if you want advice either reply and tell them where to stick their con or just deal with the fact that some tit has it in for you and delete them. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR BANK DETAILS, YOU WILL GET IN TROUBLE.

you are likely to be the victim of criminals trying to fob off stolen money or something and/or empty your account.

[Cain]

[s]dd47 wrote on 01:39, 29th Oct 2004:
DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR BANK DETAILS, YOU WILL GET IN TROUBLE.


agreed. give them to me where they will be safe.

seriously., don't reply, it just confirms that somebody reads the emails, and you'll get more.

[hr]
It's now who you know, it's who who you know knows

[dd47]

[s]Cain wrote on 01:41, 29th Oct 2004:

seriously., don't reply, it just confirms that somebody reads the emails, and you'll get more


hmm good point

[C.]

If you can reply and get the scammer to send you pictures of himself with red circles drawn around his boob then you win!

That'll make sense if you skim through the below link:
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm

[meh]

You...you mean to say that after going to all the trouble of sending the kind and generous Mr. Umanah my bank details, I won't receive the secretly deposited sum of US$20 Million?! Oh cruel world, why do you mock me so?

And yes, I get those e-mails constantly.

[novium]

an old scam.

Although I do know someone who managed to convince a less-than-intelligent scammer running a similar scam to give them 200 bucks. To cover some nonexistant fee of some sort:)

[novium]

since I am bored and can;t sleep:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.asp

"In a nutshell, the con works by blinding the victim with promises of an unimaginable fortune. Once the sucker is sufficiently glittery-eyed over the prospect of becoming fabulously rich, he is squeezed for however much money he has. This he parts with willingly, thinking "What's $5,000 here or $10,000 there when I'm going to end up with $2 million when this is all done?" He fails to realize during the sting that he's never going to get the promised fortune; all of this messing around is designed to part him from his money."

[Satine]

Yup, I get those e-mails quite regularly. They are promptly disposed of!

[md25]

In one of Scott Adams' books he tells how he, as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, gets tens of these emails a day. While he just deletes them, he knows of high-level managers - responsible for multi-billion dollar deals that affect the economy of the workd - who were suckered for squillions by the scammers.

Says something about the corporate world that the captains of industry feel that they can get away with defrauding a foreign country.

[Bonnie]

I get about 10 a day because I have three e-mail accounts, two of which must be on hundreds of different e-mail lists and databases because they're for work and that's the nature of my job.

It's a bit funny to see how they're slightly different each time I get them. Someone must be out there altering them a bit every day, but then they're dumb and send them to the same people again. Because yesterday I didn't believe them, today I'm suddenly going to believe that the exact same story has happened again in the same make-believe country to a different government minister. Yeah, that also gets me, the few times that the country doesn't actually exist, I wonder what's going on int this world.

[richey]

I got that same email a few days ago...I deleted it straight away!

[Guest]

It's an old old scam, just block em.

[Guest]

I get usually two or three of these in my Uni email account a day.

[Phoenix]

The above email has been sent to me multiple times in some form or another, and I've been wondering, who the hell would be stupid enough to go, "Oh, this looks like a legitimate email"?

The following is my response to such email:


Dear Jubril Abacha-

I just happen to have nineteen billion dollars US because I am super rich. But somehow I can't get that money because the government has conspired against me or something like that. So what I need is a go-between or someone who can collect my money and put it in their bank account (which I happen to need the information for). This person, of course, would be entitled to thirty percent of the amassed sum (but I'll conveniently leave out the fact that entitled does not mean guaranteed).

I've done a RELIABLE online search, tracking a number of people (namely you) and my findings have indicated that you're a trustworthy person. (Because people are always honest on the internet and stuff.) I was wondering if you would like to come to the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE so we can have a conference (and you can have the time of your life sranded out in the desert).

This email is one hundred percent REAL and I've selected you because I know you're an honest person. That's something we have in common; I promise that I'm not fake or trying to steal your money or trying to make you meet me so I can kidnap you and hold you for ransom.

Please contact me if you are interested in my proposal. But this is secret, so don't tell anyone.

Best Regards,