THEY've MOVED

[pillainp]

Looks like our dear friends the Nigerian scammers have moved house:

From: "bello tanja" To: bellotanja05@latinmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:49:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: URGENT ATTENTION My dear friend, WITH DUE RESPECT,DON NOT BE SURPRISE OF RECEIVE THIS KIND OF MESSAGE FROM ME, I, AM BARRISTER. Bello Tanja, A SOLICITOR AT LAW AND APERSONAL FINANCIAL ATTORNEY TO LATE Mr.SHEU YUAN-DONG MY CLIENT Mr.SHEU YUAN-DONG LOST HIS LIVE WITH HIS WIFE AND THEIR ONLY DAUGTHER ON FEBRUARY 16 1998 IN A PLANE CRASH. HE HAS $14.2 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS WITH BARLAYS BANK HERE IN THIS COUNTRY BURKINA FASO. THE FUND HAS BEEN DORMANT IN HIS ACCOUNT WITH THIS BANK WITHOUT ANYBODY AVAILABLE TO CLAIM. LATE Mr.SHEU YUAN-DONG WAS A GOVERNOR OF TAIWAN CENTRAL BANK UNTIL HIS DEATH. SINCE THEN I HAVE MADE SEVERAL ENQUIRIES TO LOCATE ANY OF HIS EXTENDED RELATIVES, THIS HAS ALSO PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL, HENCE I, CONTACTED YOU TO ASSIST ME IN PENETRATING THIS MONEY INTO YOUR ACCOUNT BEFORE IT GETS CONFISCATED BY BARCLAYS BANK AUTHORITY. THE DIRECTOR OF BANK CONTACTED ME ON 15th FEBRUARY 2006 AND ASKED ME AS FINANCIAL ATTORNEY TO LATE Mr.SHEU YUAN-DONG, I SHOULD PRESENT HIS NEXT OF KIN TO PERMIT THEM RELEASE AND TRANSFER THE FUND FROM THEIR CUSTODY ELSE THEY DO NOT HAVE ANY OPTION THEN TO CONFISCATED THE FUND TO CENTRAL BANK AS UNCLAIMED FUND. THE FACT AND CONFIDENTIALLY IS, THIS SUM KEPT HERE VERY SECRET WHILE NOBODY KNOWS EXCEPTHIS WIFE AND AS A GOVERNOR OF TAIWAN'S CENTRAL BANK HE KNEW THAT ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, SO HE KEPT THIS MONEY HERE IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. UNFORTUNATELY HE LOST HIS LIVE WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE EVENT OF THE PLANE CRASH.I FINALLY DISCOVERED THAT IN ALL HIS FILESIN MY CHAMBERS AND AT THE BANK, HE DOES NOT INDICATE HIS NEXT OF KIN EXCEP THIS WIFE. AFTER SEVERAL UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO TRACE ANY OF HIS RELATIVES, I DECIDEDE TO CONTACT YOU IN ASSISTACE THAT YOU WILL STAND AS NEXT OF KIN OR BUSINESS PERTNNER TO PENETRATE THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT AS I MENTIONED ABOVE BECAUSE THE FACT REMAINS CLEAR THAT ANYBODY I PRESNENT TO THE BANK AS HIS NEXT KIN OR HIS BUSINESS PARTNER SHALL INHERIT THE FUND AND IT IS BASED ON THIS FACT THAT I ASK YOU TO GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE US DISCUSS ON TERMS OF PARTNERSHIP IN THIS ISSUE SO THAT I WILL FORWARD YOUR CO-ORDINACE/IDENTIFICATION TO THE BANK AS HIS LEGITIMATE NEXT OF KIN AND BENEFICIARY TO HE FUND. BEAR IN MIND THAT AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL OF TRANSFERRED OF THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, YOU WILL ENTITLE WITH 40% TO THE TOTAL FUND AND 60% WILL BE MINE BECAUSE T AM THE PERSON WHO WILL PROTECT YOU HERE AND DIRECTING YOU IN SUCCESSFUL OF THIS TRANSACTION TILL YOU CONFIM THE FUND IN YOUR ACCOUNT. Please visit this websites: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/ http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/160298.htm FOR YOUR INFORMATION, BEING A TAIWANESE OR NOT WILL POSE ANY PROBLEM FOR THE SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF THIS FUND TO YOUR ACCOUNT, THE ONLY UNLAWFUL REGARDING TO THIS IS, OUR CONSTITUTION HERE IS NOT ALLOW ANY INDIGENE AS BURKINEBE TO STAND AS NEXT OF KIN TO ANY FOREIGNER. I WAIT FOR YOUR IMMEGIATE RESPONSE SO THAT I WILL GIVE YOU A MORE DETAIL INFORMATION IN THIS TRANSATION. Truly yours, Barr. Bello TANJA Tel: 00226 76444470. NB: kindly call me when you found this interesting and you should also be aware that I am entitle in procuring any documentation which will guard this transaction.

It seems they are still not bright enough to leave Africa though, even if the names and people are purportedly East Asian.

Makes you wonder where this stuff is really coming from.

[peekaboo]

i'll bet you could send people an email saying:
"i be krook kryminal will going to am steel you mony. send me very much mony"
and people would still send money.

[pillainp]

There is the story about the guy in the States that put out the following ad:

Time Running Out. Send In Your Dollar Now"

By the time someone coomplained, he had already made almost 1 million dollars. The courts apparently dismissed the complaint on the basis that no implicit promises of service were made.

Is this a true story or just one of those "Legends"?

[HAL9000]

Quite possibly true... a friend and I once checked it out and a "legal scam" here in Canada is to place an ad in the newspapers stating "Make lots of money working at home stuffing envelopes, send $5 and SASE for informative brochure and start making money NOW! No commitments, no contracts, work when YOU want to!"

Well, all you do is wait for your replies, then when you get them, send a letter in the SASE provided that states, "Place an ad in the newspaper that says......".

So really.. what am I doing... I'm stuffing envelopes and sending them to idiots that send me money... I have as promised, no committment, no contract and work at my liesure.

[pam123]

Originally Posted by HAL9000 Quite possibly true... a friend and I once checked it out and a "legal scam" here in Canada is to place an ad in the newspapers stating "Make lots of money working at home stuffing envelopes, send $5 and SASE for informative brochure and start making money NOW! No commitments, no contracts, work when YOU want to!" Well, all you do is wait for your replies, then when you get them, send a letter in the SASE provided that states, "Place an ad in the newspaper that says......". So really.. what am I doing... I'm stuffing envelopes and sending them to idiots that send me money... I have as promised, no committment, no contract and work at my liesure.

Yeah, we've got that around here and we've got something else as well.
Buy back the Panama Canal
I kid you not, send these guys $10 and an SASE and they'll tell you how.
I thought it was a stupid joke when my mom showed it to me but it seems it's a legit scam.

[David M]

Dey obviusly went to da public school. All dis money an dey can't buy a spell chekur.

[one234oclock]

that is so funny

i've heard of those so many times

[jayb1234]

I feel left out.

I only get phony pharmaceutical, home and car loan and hot stock tip scam emails. If I knew where dynamic(change this part daily). com was located, I would mail them all the leftovers when I clean my fish, instead of leaving them in the trash can at the lake.

[Stuey]

LoL, this thread made me laugh.

After a while on gmail without spam, I now get random stock inflation messages where they claim a certain stock will skyrocket. In the disclaimer it says they were awarded free possession of several thousand (or million) shares that they soon plan to sell and that anyone who listens to their advice will most likely lose money.

[RazorDX]

Man, all I get are penis enlargement ads and ways to sell my timeshare. I've used the first type to grow my own condo, and the latter type to rent it out. It's pretty lucrative.

[tigstah]

i remember a newspaper scam, where the ad read, state of the art mixer. no batteries or electricity needed. send 29.99.
bea thompson who works for msnbc now, she was working for the nbc affiliate in d.c. exposed this scam. it was a plastic dinner spoon.

[HAL9000]

That's ok... I just got an e-mail to my hotmail account... I won the Microsoft Outlook Lottery!!!!

[catacon]

All the subjects to mine lately have been: djfwdhf8t341h58314h58125hiwehtq9wethq9485h219th292h359

The content's pretty much the same too.

[RazorDX]

A friend of mine got some of the best spam I have ever seen. It was a random poem generater. It created some truly funny works of art.

[Jester]

I have been getting really wierd ones in broken english that are trying to tell a story. I have started reading them and they are just nuts. I think there was supposed to be a virus attatched to them but earthlink or AVG strips them out before outlook gets to it. Still wierd though.

[glc]

I have been getting really wierd ones in broken english that are trying to tell a story. I have started reading them and they are just nuts.

Are you sure you haven't found Kathaksung?

[HAL9000]

LMAO... G, now I gotta go look at some of those old threads.. those were classic.

[HAL9000]

I WON AGAIN!!!! $1,000,000 USD!!!...

I just called and quit my job... this MUST be true... because at the bottom of the e-mail, it said;

Sincerely Yours, Iries Van Guus Lottery Coordinator. NB:THIS MESSAGE /NOTIFICATION IS NOT A SPAM MAIL!.

[pam123]

Originally Posted by HAL9000 I WON AGAIN!!!! $1,000,000 USD!!!... I just called and quit my job... this MUST be true... because at the bottom of the e-mail, it said; Sincerely Yours, Iries Van Guus Lottery Coordinator. NB:THIS MESSAGE /NOTIFICATION IS NOT A SPAM MAIL!.

And you didn't even have to buy a lottery ticket!

[mairving]

Originally Posted by glc Are you sure you haven't found Kathaksung?

Shh, you don't want to get a conspiracy going. You are with the NSA aren't you?

FYI, do a search over at ForumClick for more info.