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mattg2k4
12-20-2002, 07:39 PM
Just one more case of increasingly desperate spam mail:

FROM:MR BELLO UMAR
ECOBANK LOME TOGO,WEST AFRICA
TEL:+2289 900720


DEAR SIR,MY NAME IS MR BELLO UMAR, THE MANAGER
CREDIT AN FOREIGN BILLS OF ECOBANK LOME TOGO [ECB] .
I AM WRITING IN RESPECT OF FOREIGN CUSTOMER OF MY BANK
WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER 14-255-2004/utb/t WHO
PERISHED IN A PLANE CRASH [ETHIOPIAN AIRLINE 961] WITH
OTHER PASSENGERS ABOARD. SIR, SINCE THE DEMISE OF THIS
OUR CUSTOMER I PERSONALLY HAVE WATCHED WITH KEEN
INTEREST TO SEE THE NEXT OF KIN BUT ALL HAS PROVED
ABORTIVE AS NO ONE HAS COME TO CLAIM HIS FUNDS OF
USD.10.5 M, [ TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS]HAS BEEN WITH MY BANK FOR A VERY LONG
TIME . ON THIS NOTE I DECIDED TO SEEK FOR WHOM HIS
NAME SHALL BE USED AS THE NEXT OF KIN AS NO ONE HAS
COME UP TO BE THE NEXT OF KIN. AND THE BANKING ETHICS
HERE DOES NOT ALLOW SUCH MONEY TO STAY MORE THAN FOUR
YEARS,BECUASE AFTER FOUR YEARS THE MONEY WILL BE
RECALLED TO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED IN VIEW OF
THIS I GOT YOUR IMPRESIVE CONTACT THROUGH MY COUNTRY'S
TRADE MISSION
GUEST BOOK,AND I CONSIDER YOUR FAVOURABLE TO BE USED
AS THE NEXT OF
KIN TO THE DECEASED.

THE REQUEST OF THE FOREIGNER AS A NEXT OF KIN IN THIS
BUSINESS IS OCCASIONED BY THE FACT THAT THE CUSTOMER
WAS A FOREIGNER AND A TOGOLESE CANNOT STAND AS THE
NEXT OF KIN TO A FOREIGNER. I AGREED THAT USD 2.5 M OF
THIS MONEY WILL BE FOR YOU AS A FOREIGN PARTNER IN
RESPECT OF PROVIDING AN ACCOUNT,WHILE THE REST WILL BE
FOR ME, THEREAFTER I WILL VISIT YOUR COUNTRY FOR
DISBURSEMENT AS I AM ALMOST DUE FOR RETIREMENT .

THEREFORE TO ENDEAVOUR THE IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF
THIS FUND TO ACCOUNT AS APPLY FIRST TO THE BANK AS A
RELATION TO THE DISEASED INDICATING YOUR BANK
NAME,YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER , YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE
NUMBER, AND FAX NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION AND
LOCATION WHERE THE MONEY WILL BE REMITTED . UPON THE
RECEIPT OF YOUR I WILL SEND YOU BY FAX OR E-MAIL THE
APPLICATION AND THE NEXT STEP TO TAKE . I WIL NOT FAIL
TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THIS BUSINESS IS HITCH
FREE AND THAT YOU SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN ANY FEAR AS THE
WHOLE REQUIRED ARRANGEMENT AS BEEN MADE FOR
THETRANSFER. YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME AS A MATTER OF FACT
IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS
LETTER.TRUSTING TO HEAR FROM
YOU AS SOON AS POSIBLE.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
MR BELLO UMAR
ECOBANK LOME TOGO
WEST AFRICA.
DIRECT TEL:00 22899 00720

Geez... I wonder how many people really fall for these stupid emails. I wonder what they are selling... travel accomodations to claim the "inheritance"? Or are they merely searching for new members for this bank? One would think that if I was sent an email concerning 10.5 million USD, they would take care enough to have decent grammar, and notice they say "your country," but never mention just which country that is....

ZANEY123
12-20-2002, 07:46 PM
it is actaully a scam to get cash from your bank account....

Zaney123

suitcase
12-20-2002, 09:10 PM
imona sind him a mail soons i git home from werk.

LawyerRon
12-20-2002, 09:26 PM
That is actually a very old scam that started about 10 years ago. It gets recycled every few years though.

Tuf
12-20-2002, 09:32 PM
I remember reading it's a very profitable scam, hard to believe but I 've read where several billion dollars a year leave the US and UK on deals like this.

Alienware_Dude
12-20-2002, 09:50 PM
Man, you get all the good spam! All I ever get is, "We have your merchandise, FRIEND!". :(

mattg2k4
12-21-2002, 08:25 PM
Man, you get all the good spam! All I ever get is, "We have your merchandise, FRIEND!".
lol, sorry for taking up all the good spam! If you'd like, I can forward any interesting spam I get to your email address :p

Hot Rod
12-21-2002, 08:37 PM
I actually got one similar to this in regular mail a couple of years ago. Then I got it several times via email. It had to do with goverment grants from their country and needing bank accounts in the US to transfer the money to or something like that. I knew it was a scam right off but I checked with some of the security people at work to see if they had seen it before. They said that it was a scam to get bank account numbers and other personal info. Much like this email.

Alienware_Dude
12-21-2002, 09:42 PM
It sounds like something that would scam my Mom. Scary!

Colonel Sanders
12-21-2002, 10:10 PM
If it looks too good to be true, it probbably is fake...

But at least you can keep the e-mail to dream about one day such an event happening for real, without being a scam:drools:, ;)

Logan

LawyerRon
12-21-2002, 10:43 PM
I'm gonna date myself, but that's ok;
That particular scam started out as a "fax" scam that was faxed to thousands of businesses around 1990 (before we all had email).

Businesses were targeted then because individuals did not own fax machines; they were too expensive.

Paul Victorey
12-21-2002, 10:44 PM
Lol, I've gotten something similar. I highly doubt that the son of a Nigerian general who needs to get $15 million out of his country would solicit help by emailing a total stranger :D

I saw one website where someone played along with a scammer like this... I don't know if I can find it again though.