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This email takes the cake
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 09:35 AM UTC
You just have to see this....I don't know what to make of it other than total BS. Is this guy for real! Ever since ARC was hijacked I had nothing but junk emails. Today I 63 and this one was in my regular mail. Now I'm going to have to change everything...

Dear Joseph,

My name is Mr.John Eze, i work in the credit and accounts department of African banking inco-operation,Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect of a foreign customer with Domicilliary A/C number2590074169. His name is Mr Erick Board.

He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria during the reign of late General Sani Abacha. Sir,since the demise of this our customer, Mr Erick Board , who was an oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and accounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c as next of kin to the late Mr Erick Board. He had only $28.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the deposit particulars.

As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position in the bank. Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of kin, I hereby ask for your co- operation in using your name as the next of kin to the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual sharing between myself and you.

At this point I am the only one with the information because I have removed the deposit file from the safe. By this doing, what is required of you is to send an application laying claims of the deposit as next of kin to the late Mr Erick Board. I will need your full name and address, company or residential, so that i can computerize them to tally with next of kin column in the certificate of deposit. Finally i want you to understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is ocassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a local cannot represent as next of kin.

When you contact me, then we shall discuss on how the money will be split betweenus. Trusting to hear from you, I remain. You can call me on this number 011-234-8023-416-295.

Respectfully yours,

Mr. John Eze
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 09:38 AM UTC
You gotta wonder if anyone is gullible enough to fall for these letters. Then again, if they are, they're too dumb to handle money anyway and it should be taken from them.
Henk
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 09:54 AM UTC
As these scams are known as " the Nigerian scam" you would have thought they move to another country... .

I can only repeat what I have said before, don't add your e-mail address in your profile page for all to see...
It's like leaving the key for the door under the mat.. (which is the first place a burglar will look).

Cheers
Henk
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 10:01 AM UTC
I have had this same email several times in the past.. Only with my name at the top. LOL..i think they are hilarious..but unfortunately..too many people fall for this crap.

Mary
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 10:01 AM UTC
Hi Joe!

I also received this kind of letter in my mail, with a slightly different text... Like those viagra, barely legal teen crap, monster c..k pumps and other junk mail just delete and forget!

Jean-luc
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 10:03 AM UTC
I use a filter from Spamjab , and it works pretty well. I used to get TONS of junk email from my website but now get hardly any at all. Haven't seen a Nigerian plea for ages, made me feel quite nostalgic - for about a nanosecond!
Black_Water
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 10:20 AM UTC
What's funny is the campus server here doesn't seem to have a good spam filter. I've seen almost the exact same letter two or three times a week since the beginning of the semester! As usual, just delete and move on...

Chris
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 10:36 AM UTC
Somewhere among my bookmarks is a web page of someone tagging the original guy along, for months. Pretty funny reading.... I'll see if I can find it later... :-)

here's a little write up from the Secret Service on the matter:
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
007
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 11:27 AM UTC
In the Netherlands there were some arrests last year for simular fraud schemes. Even personel from Nigerian and Spanish ambasadies were involved in it...
Unbelievable how many people fall for those emails and go on with it.
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 11:38 AM UTC
Hi there

I think I remember the same link as Dave - a guy playing the "rich old lady from Texas" and stringing these creeps along for months! Hilarious reading!

You should reply - if you waste their time for 10 minutes, you've maybe saved somebody gullible from being hit...

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 12:36 PM UTC
You can learn all about this marketing technique by enrolling in The University of Nigeria.
wolfsix
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 01:05 PM UTC
Hi joe

A couple of questions first . Was this an e-mail, or a snail mail ? You may want to advise the local post office if this was conventional mail. As hard as it is to believe some folks do fall for scams like this. Postal inspectors are the first line for law Enforcement to begin building a case against these clowns, and they need every piece of mail these people send out. I would not try to play along with these guys. Some of them are pretty smart and very tricky. They come up with some pretty advance ways of getting information. After all that is what they are after. This is one for the Feds. If there is a FBI office near you turn it over to them, if not turn it over to the post office and let them pass it along. Trust me on this one being a victim of ID theft is something that can take a victim years to recover from. You do not want any part of it

Harry
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 01:37 PM UTC
Don't even open them. Just delete and move on.
AndyD
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Posted: Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 03:15 PM UTC
Forward the emails to these guys!
Scam the scammers!!!
http://www.419eater.com/
almonkey
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Posted: Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 12:01 AM UTC
hi joe, andyd is right you should check out the 419eater site those guys string these fraudsters along by replying to these emails as fictitious characters. they may have got your email from a guestbook you have signed. if anyone sees guestbook entries saying something like GUYMEN MUGU MUGU thats a warning from one group of scammers to others that they are harvesting emails. at the end of the day these emails should be ignored and deleted. i read of one woman in England who handed over £20,000 yes thats TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS to a group of these criminals believing she would get millions later

P.S. he's also asking you to commit a criminal act by fraudulently claiming this money!