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Because I receive so many of these funny scams lets start a collection of the different ones people get, just got this one:

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SG Private Banking
Societe Generale
11/F CRC Tower,
All Seasons Place,
87/2 Wireless Road, Lumpini
Phatumwan.Bangkok,Thailand.

Dear Friend
I am Mr.Tum Boonlai Manager Director of SG Private Banking Asia Pacific. In my Bank, we discovered a sum of $12,700,000.00 (Twelve Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that belonges to one Late Mrs.Melodie Adolphin an American, who died along with his entire family, on monday 27th 2004, in dawn broke Monday across the Bay of Bengal,countries struck by tsunamis in the wake of the most powerful earthquake the planet has seen in 40 years.Since we got the information about her death, i have decided that i seek an assistance from a foreign partner/business partner who can asssist me in the transfer of this funds directly to his account since there will be no next of kin to come over and file a claim as next of kin over her money because we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.

Unfortunately, nobody will come forward to claim this money since our bank is a private banking and our bank laws prohibits our customers relations to act as next of kin except when indicated. It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence by contacting you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin to Late Mrs.Melodie Adolphin, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.

Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking laws and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant for a period of time,is deemed closed and all
money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury account.Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of this financial quarter of 2005, when nobody come forward to lay claims. The reason for requesting your assistance, is occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (Late Mrs.Melodie Adolphin)wasforeigner,and we have access to her detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of kin to Late Mrs.Melodie Adolphin.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your account as you will prefer since our group has a trust company to aid this business in several countries in Europe and Canada,I shall agree to give you 20% for the role you will be expected to play in this deal and
70% for my colleagues and i, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties in the course of this Therefore,you are expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this business. After receiving your
reply, you will be communicated to with the transaction.exact steps to take. I
expect your urgent response and I shall contact you for further discussion on
this matter,to enable us conclude this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch. Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security
reasons considering my official position in SG Private Banking.

Personal Regards,
Mr.Tum Boonlai

I don't have on eto add but I have gotten one in the past very similar to yours minus the earthquake stuff. People will try anything to rip people off :mad:

I get those regularly, wish that I had time to screw around with the people that send them. :stir:

Another one. rotfl

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From:Managing Director
Empaco International

URGENT ATTENTION

I run an international Business Promotion and Consultancy firm and I got your contact through email directory in my quest for a foreign investment for one of my clients.

My client is a senator and also the chairman of the Senate committee on Pension,insurance and manpower development in the National Assembly of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.He was also into precious stone industry and owns mines in Tanzania and also in Kenya. He also used to deal (buy and sell) in diamonds from Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) before international ban was placed on diamonds from war torn countries. Hence he decided to stop his diamond business and diversify his investment portfolio by
investing abroad in different sector on partnership basis as he is presently restricted from all form of business transaction by the Nigeria constitution as a political office holder(Senator)


The followings are his specifications for your consideration and
immediate attention:

1. Investment capital up to USD $29.00million

2. Area of interest - real estate, hotel, transportation, civil construction, industries, and fisheries.

3. Shares of partners depending on capital input, therefore subject to negotiation.

4. Interested party must be a Godfearing one that will not sit on my client's
money and must provide a copy of his/her identification as that will protect his interest before he releases and remit his capital to the designated account for the project. Please kindly note that you need not reply if you are not satisfied with the above conditions as my client will prefer to deal with somebody serious as the entire management and running of this venture will be the person's responsibility, because it will not be possible for my client to be physically present most of the time in view of his time consuming commitments as a senator. Kindly give this proposal an urgent attention, as i am looking forward to read from you via this mailbox, empaco_consult@mail2world.com

Yours Faithfully
Mr Jang Ogene B.L
Managing Director
Empaco International

The first one is a variation on the venerable "Nigerian Scam". That's an oldie but a goodie.

I've noticed that most of the scam mail I get now are Phishing attempts - spoof emails from "financial institutions" asking you to verify your account information. Pretty ingenious, actually. You go to the page, log in with your login and password at what looks like the official site, but is actually a spoof site that logs your login and password for the site owner to then use for his own purposes.

PayPal and Ebay are huge targets for phishers.

Never input personal information on a site that you have linked to from somewhere else, especially an email. Always type the address in or use your bookmarks. waytogo

Want a good laugh - check out what this guy did to a guy that tried to scam him on Ebay for a powerbook...

P-P-P-Powerbook! (http://p-p-p-powerbook.com/files/thepowerbook.pdf)

Damn, that was funny, took me a while to read but worth it. rotfl

hahah rotfl
That was great waytogo

The latest one:
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FROM THE DESK OF PETER IBE,
CHAIRMAN CONTRACT REVIEW COMITTEE
OF NATIONAL ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY
(NEPA) NIGERIA.

DEAR SIR,


I am Saint PETER IBE the Chairman Contract Review Committee of National Electric
Power Authority(NEPA). Although this proposal might come to you as a surprise
since it is coming from someone you do not know or ever seen before,I decided to
contact you based on Intuition.


We are soliciting for your humble and confidential assistance to take custody of
Eleven Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.{US$11,500,000.00}.
This sum (US$11.5M) is an over invoice contract sum which is currently in an
offshore payment account of the Central Bank of Nigeria as an unclaimed contract
entitlement which can easily be withdrawn or drafted or pay to any recommended
beneficiary by my committee.


As a civil servant I am not permmitted to have a foriegn accounts due to the
civil service code of conduct and I therefore need a trust worthy partner abroad
to co-operate with me in recieveing this money on my behalf.


Also becuase of the finances required in the process of the transaction,my
present financial resources as a civil servant may not be sufficient for me to
handle the transfer alone succesfully without assistance from a good and a
willing pertner abroad On this note, you will be presented as a contractor to
NEPA who has executed a contract to a tune of the above sum and has not been
paid.


Proposed Sharing Partern (%):
1. 60% for me .
2. 30% for you as a partner/fronting for us.
3. 10% for expenses that may be incurred by both parties during the cause of
this transacton. If this proposal interests you, do responed as soon as possible
with the following information:


1. The name you wish to use as the beneficiary of the fund.
2. Your Confidential Phone and Fax Numbers.
3.your account informatiom for the transfer to be made.This account will be
presented to the committe for approval/order of payments.
Further discussion will be centered on how the fund shall be transfer and full
details on how to accomplish this project.


Email me your response at this email address

Thank you and God bless.


Best regards,


Engr: PETER IBE

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Here is another one. Too bad it's basically impossible to track down and kill these SOBs...

My Dear Friend,

I am Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha, wife to the late Nigerian Head of state,
General Sani Abacha who died on the 8th of June 1998 while still on
active
service for our Country. I am contacting you with the hope that you
will be
of great assistance to me, I currently have within my reach the sum of
24
million U.S Dollars cash which I intend to use for investment purposes
outside Nigeria. This money came as a result of a payback contract deal
between my husband and a Russian firm in our country's multi-billion
dollar
Ajaokuta steel plant.

The Russian partners returned my husbands share being the above sum
after
his death. Presently, the new civilian Government has intensified their
probe into my husbands financial resources which has led to the
freezing of
all our accounts, local and foreign, the revoking of all our business
licences and the arrest of my First son. In view of this I acted very
fast
to withdraw this money from one of our finance houses before it was
closed
down. I have deposited the money in a security company with the help of
very
loyal officials of my late husband.

No record is known about this fund by the government because there is
no
documentation showing that we received such funds. Due to the current
situation in the country and the government attitude to my family, I
cannot
make use of this money within, thus I seek your help in transferring
this
funds out of the sub-African region. Bearing in mind that you may
assist me,
l have decided to part with 20% of the total sum. Please kindly reply
through this email address and include your personal telephone and fax
numbers.

I want you to visit the links below:

http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/27/swiss.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/909972.stm

Your urgent response is needed. alternative mail:mabacha22@eriga.lv

Regards,
Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha.





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The 419 scam, or Nigerian scam, is one of the oldest ones out there. Can't believe anyone still falls for it.

http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

http://www.nigeriaembassyusa.org/419statement.shtml

OK, here's the latest one I received with an Iraq twist. :rolleyes:
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Dear Friend,

With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed up courage to contact
you.
I am presently serving in Iraq with a coalition army that I will disclose later;
I found your contact particulars from the Iraqi chambers of commerce. I am
seeking your
assistance to evacuate the sum of $17,000,000.00(seventeen million dollars) to
your country or any other safe country of your choice; as far as I can be
assured that my
share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here. This is no
stolen money, and there are no dangers involved.
SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in various currencies was discovered concealed in barrels with piles
of weapons and ammunitions at a location near one of Saddam's old palaces during
a
search and rescue operation, and it was agreed by the members of my unit present
that the money be shared amongst us, this was quite an illegal thing to do,
but I tell you what? No compensation can make up for the risks we have
taken with our lives for the course of freedom, and to conceal this kind of
money became a problem for us, so with the help of a contractor with a British
security
company working here, I was able to deposit the package with their company.

He does not know the real contents of the package, and believes that it belongs
to a fallen comrade who trusted me to hand over his belongings to his relatives.
I will
discuss means of retrieving this package from the security company when I am
sure that you are willing to assist me.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a
third party if you are not willing to assist me. I do not know for how long we
will remain here,
and I have survived 2 suicide bomb attacks, this and other reasons I will
mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I honestly want this matter
to be resolved
immediately.

Please contact me through my email (petergomez@rediffmail.com) we discuss
further

Respectfully,

Peter Gomez

Two in the same day!

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#18/20 John Howard Close, JO, BORG
SOUTH AFRICA.
RE: TRANSFER OF ($18,000.000.00 USD EIGHTEEN MILLION
US DOLLARS)
Dear sir,

I want to transfer to overseas ($18,000.000.00 USD) Eighteen Million United
States Dollars) from Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), I want to ask
you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person
who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to
set up a new Bank a/c

immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive
this money, as long as you will remain honest to me. I am Mr Mandla Gantsho
the Director of DBSA, during the course of our auditing I

discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and
since 1993 nobody has operated on
this account,after going through some old files and records I discovered
that the owner of the account died


without an [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this
money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this
account is
Mr. William U. Smith, a foreigner, and an industrialist. He died since 1993
and no person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation

proved to me as well that Mr. William U. Smith until his death was the
manager of EagleEye [pty]. SA.
We will start the first transfer with Nine (9) million

[$9,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappointment from
your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your
account. I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved

to a local person here. We will sign a binding agreement, to bind us
together in this transaction as soon as you indicate your interest. So
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take.

The management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are

capable. With my influence and the position in the bank, we can transfer
this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending my physical arrival inyour
country for sharing. I will destroy all documents of transaction immediately
we receive this money leaving no trace to any place.

I will use my influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments.
Please, reply urgently giving me the following information:

(a) Your expected Compensation in percentage of
capital/Income derived from Total Invested capital.
(b) Annual percentage tax on capital income in your
country.
(c) Inflation rate in your country.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
God bless.
Yours truly,
Mr Mandla Gantsho..

Another one.
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Dear sir,


PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

I am very sure that this message will be a very suprising letter to you
since we have not make any business relationship before.I am only
contacting you for this important business because I have no other means
of doing it unless I am supported by a foreigner who will make claims of
the Money.

We want to transfer to overseas account (15,000.000.00 POUNDS) (
FIFTEEN-MILLION POUNDS STERLINGS) from a bank here in london,I want to ask
you, If you are capable or to quietly look for a reliable and honest
person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will
remain honest to me till the end of this important business, trusting in
you and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.



I am DR. DOM CELE., the External Auditor General of (A BANK OFSCOTLAND
UNITED KINGDOM).During the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating
fund in an account opened in the bank in 1997 and since 1999 nobody has
operated on this account again,after going through some old files in the
records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a
[Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money
out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of this account
is Mr. MR JOHN HUGHES a Canadian and great industrialist. He was African
Area Director of SIL International, who unfortunately died in the plane
crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30
2000. You will read more stories about MR JOHN HUGHES's family death with
there pictures and SIL ere www.wycliff.jo/Jugendkeller/john hughes.htm
Also about the crash on visitingthis
website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html.

No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that until his death he has a Gold/Diamond Consulting firm.

I also found out that their only surviving daughterJOHN HUGHES died last
year.


The total amount involve is (15,000.000.00 POUNDS) and we wish to transfer
this money into a safe foreigners account abroad.

But I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but to a
foreigner who has correct information about the account,which I shall give
to you upon your positive responses.I am revealing this secret to you with
believe in god that you will never let me down in this business, you are
the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take.


I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee
that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank official Will
destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money
leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position and influence of
other staffs to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total
amount, 60% will be for us. There is no risk at all, and all the paper
work for this transaction will be done by me using my position and
connection in the bank. i am wait for your urgent reply.

Yours faithfully,


DR. DOM CELLE.

Another one.

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FROM:Collin Uku


To You: {For your attention}

This is in respect to your non response of our earlier letter to
you on behalf of the Trustees and Executors to the Will of our
late client. I wish to notify you that you were listed as a
beneficiary to the total sum of FIVE million five hundred thousand
British Pounds because of the power bequeath on us in the codicil
and last testament of the deceased. Until his death he was a major
share holder in big companies which include textile and construction
companies here in Africa. He was a very great philanthropist during
his life time.He died on 9th January 2004 at the age of 68.He was
buried on the 3rd of February.Even though he was a foreigner
living and working here, he requested before his death that
he be buried here in his words, "I regard here as My home and the
people as my people".

For your information, we have nominated you mainly because
you bear the same SURNAME as our client. we can easly work
and make claim of this sum with your cooperation. We
therefore reckoned that you can receive this funds.All the
legal papers will be processed on your response.In your
acceptance of this deal, we request that you kindly
forward any proof of identities of yours, your current
telephone and fax numbers and forwarding address to enable
us file necessary documents at our high court probate
division for the release of this sum of money from the
Bank.You should please reply to comcu@lawyersmail.com


Congratulations and send your phone number for further
discussions.


Yours faithfully,

Collins Uku
(SOLICITORS ADVOCATES)
Reply to: comcu@lawyersmail.com

Man you get a lot of those! You must be listed at www.suckers.com.

When all these millions start rolling in, you're going to share, right? :)

Just part of having a few websites with my contact info everywhere I guess, oh well, looks like I am going to be a Kazillionaire. rotfl

My Dear, I am MRS GRACE KOPI from Ivory Coast. I am a widow being that I lost my husband a couple of months ago. My husband was a serving director of the Cocoa exporting board until his death. He was assassinated on August 2003 by the rebels following the political uprising. Before his death he deposited the sum of $14.5M fourteen Million five hundred thousand USD in a private security Company in Europe which was for the importation of cocoa processing machines. Note, according to my late husband the money is in a trunk box and he did not disclose to the security company the real content of the box he did it to reduce the cost of demurrage fees and for the safety of the fund according to him, he declared to the security company that the box contains a family valuables. I want you to do me a favour, to help me invest this fund in a profitable investment in your country as I do not have any knowledge of investment, that will be after we retrieve it from the security company. For your efforts, you shall either choose to receive 25% of the total fund or go into equal partnership investment with me in your country. My interest is in areas, like real estate and industrial production. This is my reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist me and my only son Francoise, indicate your interest in replying soonest. E-email : (gkopi@rediffmail.com) Thanks and best regards . Mrs.GRACE KOPI

Notice, no mention what Credit Union you belong to, just "Credit Union Customer".
Dear Credit Union customer, ( this warning comes from your bank - CREDIT UNION SERVICE )

Credit Union Service Center is committed on maintaining a safe environment for its community.
To protect your account, Credit Union has one of the most advanced security systems
in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the Credit Union system for unusual activity.

We recently have determined that different computers have tried to login into your bank
account, and multiple password failures were present.
We now need you to confirm your account to us.
If this is not completed by June / 01 / 2005 we will be forced to suspend your account
indefinitely until your renewed data is verified.

To get started please click here or on the link below:
www.creditunion.net/update-secure

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Please understand that this is a security measure meant to protect your account.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you for using Credit Union services ( we have over 1800+ locations in all USA )

Another one from our Nigerian friends. rotfl

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NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX,
IKOYI,P.M.B 127011,
LAGOS.

Dear Jenise,

It is my pleasure to contact you for assistance and business co-operation. I
know the content of this letter might be surprising to you. But I assure you
that every word of it is true. Even though we hardly know each other I believe
you can help me.

I am Engr.Kuci Morgan, The President of a special task force in charge of the
sales of petroleum products in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. My office
monitors the sales and lifting of crude oil and petroleum product by foreign
dealers. With the cooperation of my assistant and head of the audit committee
attached to the task force,I have
>successfully saved about $12.6million US Dollars.

This money is as a result of allocation of excess crude oil to the foreign
dealers, which has been sold but which money is not entered in the financial
statement of my task force,knowing current the rise of oil prices. This money is
now lying unclaimed in the account of the task force, known only to my partners
and me involved in the excess
allocation.

However, the legislators of the democratic government of my country have set up
a panel to look into the activities of some government companies and
parastatals. We do not want the panel to discover the money we saved. We cannot
lodge this
>money into our private bank account In my country, public servants are not
permitted to operate any account in excess of $500,000 U. S Dollars.

Now the idea is to have a foreign partner whom the sum will be transferred to.
We have concluded arrangement to transfer this money to your private bank
account if you permit us to use it. All you have to do is to send me your
private phone I will send you the details of the transfer and necessary document
as the beneficiary.

Please on your reply,we will be able to discuss the modalities. We intend to
invest our share of the sum in business with your knowledge and past experience
your advice will be highly needed for the investment.

Don't worry about any problem in this business. I assure it is safe and no risk
is involved. No other party is aware of the sum from the excess allocation
except my partner and me. However, this transaction should be secret and
confidential.

We awaits your reply on your participation,Time is of great essence to us.

Regards,

Engr.Kuci Morgan

I think you have broken the record for the most scam emails received :doah: you do get alot of them rotfl