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Nigerian 419 Scam
I get about 5 mails like the below every day (on my gmail account, not on glocals)

Its a prime example of the 'Nigerian 419 Scam', and its hard to beleive it, but some poeple buy into this stuff, and end up sending these people money...


Dear Friend


 


This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am Mr. John Freeman currently Head of Corporate affairs with a reputable bank here . I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.


 


I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On November 6, 2005, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the CHEVRON PETROLEUM CORPORATION, MR. KHALIL AL NASSER made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued at US$16,500, 000.00 (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently. Upon maturity in 2005, as his account officer and as well the bank manger, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but the letter was returned undelivered.


 


After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was again returned and finally I discovered from his contract employers, Chevron Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Khalil Al Nasser died as a result of torture in the hand of Saddam Hussein (former Iraqi President) during one of his trips to his country Iraq, as he was accused of leaking information to the Americans.


 


On further investigation, I discovered that MR. KHALIL AL NASSER. family wife and two sons died during the Gulf War in Iraq and was the reason why he did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank and did not leave any WILL.


 


This sum of US$16,500, 000.00 have been floating and placed under dormant/unserviceable account by my bank management since no one have heard from the owner since 2005. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I have made so far, my bank management is not aware of it, I am the only one that have the information.


 


With the recent change of government in my country and with their efforts to support the United Nations in check mating terrorism aid , the government will pass a new financial control law which will give the government authority to interrogate account owners of above $500.000.000. to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for terrorism support. If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, the government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot provide the account owner to explain the source of the money.


 


I cannot directly transfer out this money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the Account Officer to late MR. KHALIL AL NASSER, coupled with my present position and status in the bank as Head of Retail Banking Group, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you.


 


All documents to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out and there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law,


 


If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. If you are interested, contact me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you


 


Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I shall send you copy of the deposit certificate issued to Al Nasser when the deposit was made for your perusal.


I wait your urgent reply .


Regards,


Mr. John Freeman

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I get about 5 mails like the below every day (on my gmail account, not on glocals)

Its a prime example of the 'Nigerian 419 Scam', and its hard to beleive it, but some poeple buy into this stuff, and end up sending these people money...


Dear Friend


 


This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am Mr. John Freeman currently Head of Corporate affairs with a reputable bank here . I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.


 


I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On November 6, 2005, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the CHEVRON PETROLEUM CORPORATION, MR. KHALIL AL NASSER made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued at US$16,500, 000.00 (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently. Upon maturity in 2005, as his account officer and as well the bank manger, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but the letter was returned undelivered.


 


After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was again returned and finally I discovered from his contract employers, Chevron Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Khalil Al Nasser died as a result of torture in the hand of Saddam Hussein (former Iraqi President) during one of his trips to his country Iraq, as he was accused of leaking information to the Americans.


 


On further investigation, I discovered that MR. KHALIL AL NASSER. family wife and two sons died during the Gulf War in Iraq and was the reason why he did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank and did not leave any WILL.


 


This sum of US$16,500, 000.00 have been floating and placed under dormant/unserviceable account by my bank management since no one have heard from the owner since 2005. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I have made so far, my bank management is not aware of it, I am the only one that have the information.


 


With the recent change of government in my country and with their efforts to support the United Nations in check mating terrorism aid , the government will pass a new financial control law which will give the government authority to interrogate account owners of above $500.000.000. to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for terrorism support. If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, the government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot provide the account owner to explain the source of the money.


 


I cannot directly transfer out this money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the Account Officer to late MR. KHALIL AL NASSER, coupled with my present position and status in the bank as Head of Retail Banking Group, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the next of kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you.


 


All documents to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out and there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law,


 


If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. If you are interested, contact me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you


 


Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I shall send you copy of the deposit certificate issued to Al Nasser when the deposit was made for your perusal.


I wait your urgent reply .


Regards,


Mr. John Freeman


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Re: Nigerian 419 Scam
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A couple of weeks ago I received some spam mail saying that I had one the Spanish lottery. EUR 700,000. The interesting thing is that this mail came in the post -- via snail mail. I was quite impressed, my address was hand-written, correctly spelled and everything. And the international postage cost was EUR 0.62. I was so impressed that I stuck it to the fridge with a magnet. 
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A couple of weeks ago I received some spam mail saying that I had one the Spanish lottery. EUR 700,000. The interesting thing is that this mail came in the post -- via snail mail. I was quite impressed, my address was hand-written, correctly spelled and everything. And the international postage cost was EUR 0.62. I was so impressed that I stuck it to the fridge with a magnet. 
hayes, Aug 9, 2009 @ 23:39
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 Hayes:

Who knows, maybe it's the real thing! Maybe you really won the money, and Santa & The Tooth Fairy will deliver it to you express! 

Nir

(Damn, I wish the new site had a 'smily' icon!)
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 Hayes:

Who knows, maybe it's the real thing! Maybe you really won the money, and Santa & The Tooth Fairy will deliver it to you express! 

Nir

(Damn, I wish the new site had a 'smily' icon!)

Nir Ofek, Aug 10, 2009 @ 09:04
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 Hayes:

Who knows, maybe it's the real thing! Maybe you really won the money, and Santa & The Tooth Fairy will deliver it to you express! 

Nir

(Damn, I wish the new site had a 'smily' icon!)

Aug 10, 09 09:04
I propose we add the smiley icon to the new site.  

And I propose we have an contest for the most hilarious personal scam-attempt story.  

//puts in the suggestion box
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I propose we add the smiley icon to the new site.  

And I propose we have an contest for the most hilarious personal scam-attempt story.  

//puts in the suggestion box
TheMoney, Aug 10, 2009 @ 12:15
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 I got one of those Spanish lottery mails international post in the US as well, it was a couple years ago. I still have it here. It was a copy of a copy really bad quality, and about a 15 degree angle on the 2nd copy, I don't know why they spent so much to send the post when they had such a poor copy inside!
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 I got one of those Spanish lottery mails international post in the US as well, it was a couple years ago. I still have it here. It was a copy of a copy really bad quality, and about a 15 degree angle on the 2nd copy, I don't know why they spent so much to send the post when they had such a poor copy inside!

StephenSQL, Aug 10, 2009 @ 21:20
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 Yes, smileys would be cool.


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 Yes, smileys would be cool.

Casuistik, Aug 10, 2009 @ 21:32
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These are annoying as well, but earlier in the days when newspapers were key sources for
advertisement on how to earn $400 - $1000/week from home. And to find out you had to
send them $25 check to get all the information.  So for those desparate folks looking
to make a few bucks send the check and surprise surprise... what you get, is a piece
of paper explaining to you to find a newspaper or advertisment space to post the same sort
of adds and hope enough gullible people fall for the
trap. 
Once in college I recall being convinced to attend an
information session on making a few bucks, and it had something to do with some pyramid
scheme: basically you recruit more pawns to join in on the scheme to sell stuff and
somehow you make profits on what your pawns and their pawns bring in.  The whole
thing smelled like a rat that I just left.  
One time my
company had an employee hired without proper background checks. One day I noticed the
new guy who sat across from me had been absent for long time.  One manager said
he was 'sick'.  So the friendly me reached out and called him (wish I'd never had his
number) to make sure he was ok, as he had mentioned he lived close to where I lived. Well,
this guy had the most elaborate story of his "cancer" and a whole lotta stuff going on in his
life, making you feel really sorry for the guy. Then one weekend he called saying he really
needed to get his expensive medicines but he was having problems with his insurance (cuz
it was a weekend), so he needed to borrow an exhorbitant amount to get the meds. Turns
out, this guys was fired from the company and management never told the other employees
that he was let go regardless of what the reason was, but it was due to his drug problems.
 In the end, few of us were scammed by this guy cuz we were not warned
by management. We later found out one of the managers was also scammed pretty badly.
 But due to his lack of responsibility of not informing others to stay away from this
person, we had to learn a hard way. Would this consistute irresponsibility on the part of the
employer? or in the case of the US there's always the problem with 'confidentiality of
information' bullshit.  This was rather a harsh lesson, cuz you want to help a person,
yet you end up being burned and start questioning every person you meet in the future.
 
Oh, and don't get me started on 'scams of the heart'... this
could really get ugly. 
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These are annoying as well, but earlier in the days when newspapers were key sources for
advertisement on how to earn $400 - $1000/week from home. And to find out you had to
send them $25 check to get all the information.  So for those desparate folks looking
to make a few bucks send the check and surprise surprise... what you get, is a piece
of paper explaining to you to find a newspaper or advertisment space to post the same sort
of adds and hope enough gullible people fall for the
trap. 
Once in college I recall being convinced to attend an
information session on making a few bucks, and it had something to do with some pyramid
scheme: basically you recruit more pawns to join in on the scheme to sell stuff and
somehow you make profits on what your pawns and their pawns bring in.  The whole
thing smelled like a rat that I just left.  
One time my
company had an employee hired without proper background checks. One day I noticed the
new guy who sat across from me had been absent for long time.  One manager said
he was 'sick'.  So the friendly me reached out and called him (wish I'd never had his
number) to make sure he was ok, as he had mentioned he lived close to where I lived. Well,
this guy had the most elaborate story of his "cancer" and a whole lotta stuff going on in his
life, making you feel really sorry for the guy. Then one weekend he called saying he really
needed to get his expensive medicines but he was having problems with his insurance (cuz
it was a weekend), so he needed to borrow an exhorbitant amount to get the meds. Turns
out, this guys was fired from the company and management never told the other employees
that he was let go regardless of what the reason was, but it was due to his drug problems.
 In the end, few of us were scammed by this guy cuz we were not warned
by management. We later found out one of the managers was also scammed pretty badly.
 But due to his lack of responsibility of not informing others to stay away from this
person, we had to learn a hard way. Would this consistute irresponsibility on the part of the
employer? or in the case of the US there's always the problem with 'confidentiality of
information' bullshit.  This was rather a harsh lesson, cuz you want to help a person,
yet you end up being burned and start questioning every person you meet in the future.
 
Oh, and don't get me started on 'scams of the heart'... this
could really get ugly. 

YouMeCo, Aug 11, 2009 @ 05:18
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Someone on Glocals fell for one of those earn money by posting links to google scams last week.
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Someone on Glocals fell for one of those earn money by posting links to google scams last week.

hayes, Aug 11, 2009 @ 12:04
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scammers get scammed.

 www.419eater.com
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scammers get scammed.

 www.419eater.com
popeye, Aug 11, 2009 @ 13:38
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 Casuistik, I agree with you...

Smileys would be great!


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 Casuistik, I agree with you...

Smileys would be great!

Ehsaan, Aug 11, 2009 @ 14:08
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scammers get scammed.

 www.419eater.com
Aug 11, 09 13:38
Oh, those are beautiful!

I read a similar example years ago and immediately tried to do something similar myself, but the guy on the other end gave up on me after 2 or 3 exchanges.

Reminds me of the glorious P-P-P-PowerBook prank.
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Oh, those are beautiful!

I read a similar example years ago and immediately tried to do something similar myself, but the guy on the other end gave up on me after 2 or 3 exchanges.

Reminds me of the glorious P-P-P-PowerBook prank.

hayes, Aug 11, 2009 @ 14:09
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you guys should take a look at 419eater.com  - it's a group that's dedicated to scamming the scam artists.  the gallery pictures are hysterical.
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you guys should take a look at 419eater.com  - it's a group that's dedicated to scamming the scam artists.  the gallery pictures are hysterical.

Londoner, Aug 11, 2009 @ 15:32
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you guys should take a look at 419eater.com  - it's a group that's dedicated to scamming the scam artists.  the gallery pictures are hysterical.

Aug 11, 09 15:32
 Man, your avatar is so right on spot: the link of this site is posted by popeye 3 posts above yours...


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 Man, your avatar is so right on spot: the link of this site is posted by popeye 3 posts above yours...

Casuistik, Aug 11, 2009 @ 18:27
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