Email Scam.
08-11-2003 | 12:52 PM
#1
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Senior Member
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 4,774
From: Ames, IA
Got this today at work. The funny thing is that it was sent to a mailing list.
Some Nigerians have had stuff like this out for a while, and scammed Americans out of billions of dollars. Okay, so they scammed the stupid greedy ones, but still...
MR EZE OBI
BRANCH MANAGER,
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC
ATTN:
I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before but my confidence was reposed on you when the Chief Executive of Cotonou Chamber of Commerce and Industry handed me your contact for a confidential business interest. I am a UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA(UBA), Branch Manager, located at Victoria Island , Cotonou, Republic Of Benin also currently with the bank up to date. The intended business is thus; We had a customer, a foriegner from your country, resident in Cotonou. He runs and maintained a Corporate Account in my branchand had the sum of US$27,623.400(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLAR ONLY NO CENTS) as his lastbalance before he died as a result of auto crash. The customer died two years ago and uptil today non of his relative has come to claim his money from the UBA hence the deceased Custom!
er, MR. G. OSBORN died along with whom he filled in the bank's form as his NEXT OF KIN while opening his account with us. Having noticed this, I in collabration with two other top officials of the bank covered up the account all this while. Now we want you as our foreign partner since you are from the same country with the deceased customer to be fronted as his Next Of Kin and forward an APPLICATION LETTER OF CLAIM FOR INHERITANCE of theabove amount. We will use our position to delete and insert your name as the beneficiary of the NEXT OF KIN to his file in the bank for a smooth claims into youraccount for our disbursements. Your response is only what we are waiting for to commence the action as we have animously agreed to give you 25% of the total sum at the end of this transaction into your possession while 70% would be for I and my colleagues and the remaining 5% would be for any form of expenses that may be incurred during the course of this transaction !
in the both side. Your indication of interest and your urgent reply
isbeing awaited.
Best regards
MR EZE OBI
contact me throuhg my private address
dreze_obi2001@yahoo.com for more details.
BRANCH MANAGER,
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC
ATTN:
I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before but my confidence was reposed on you when the Chief Executive of Cotonou Chamber of Commerce and Industry handed me your contact for a confidential business interest. I am a UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA(UBA), Branch Manager, located at Victoria Island , Cotonou, Republic Of Benin also currently with the bank up to date. The intended business is thus; We had a customer, a foriegner from your country, resident in Cotonou. He runs and maintained a Corporate Account in my branchand had the sum of US$27,623.400(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLAR ONLY NO CENTS) as his lastbalance before he died as a result of auto crash. The customer died two years ago and uptil today non of his relative has come to claim his money from the UBA hence the deceased Custom!
er, MR. G. OSBORN died along with whom he filled in the bank's form as his NEXT OF KIN while opening his account with us. Having noticed this, I in collabration with two other top officials of the bank covered up the account all this while. Now we want you as our foreign partner since you are from the same country with the deceased customer to be fronted as his Next Of Kin and forward an APPLICATION LETTER OF CLAIM FOR INHERITANCE of theabove amount. We will use our position to delete and insert your name as the beneficiary of the NEXT OF KIN to his file in the bank for a smooth claims into youraccount for our disbursements. Your response is only what we are waiting for to commence the action as we have animously agreed to give you 25% of the total sum at the end of this transaction into your possession while 70% would be for I and my colleagues and the remaining 5% would be for any form of expenses that may be incurred during the course of this transaction !
in the both side. Your indication of interest and your urgent reply
isbeing awaited.
Best regards
MR EZE OBI
contact me throuhg my private address
dreze_obi2001@yahoo.com for more details.
Some Nigerians have had stuff like this out for a while, and scammed Americans out of billions of dollars. Okay, so they scammed the stupid greedy ones, but still...
08-11-2003 | 02:29 PM
#9
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Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 10,906
From: Peoria, AZ
Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Aug 11 2003, 01:25 PM
I assume they want you to pay them money upfornt or some ****, how in the hell do people get sucked into giving them anything..