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by Rob_Wolchek from Southfield

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It's likely you've opened your inbox to find a mysterious e-mail from some oil executive who's looking for a trusting person to help him move 50-million dollars out of his corrupt African country and wants to deposit it into your bank account.  Maybe you've  been inforned that someone with your last name died in a car crash and the overworked official needs to find an heir to this person and get rid of the paperwork on his desk and the money by giving it to you...he just needs a few hundred bucks wired to him so he can process the dough.  Perhaps you've gotten a realistic looking check mailed to you with a letter from some company saying it's a down payment for a big sweepstakes you've won and they just need a few grand sent Western Union to get you the rest of the million bucks they owe you.  Scam artists from Africa have been using these ploys for years to trick us out of our money.           

The latest scam involves puppies that are trapped with missionaries in Africa.  I expose it in my latest Hall of Shame story and have some fun messing with the scam artists.

The African scam letters are funny but they work.  This is your chance to post the letters you've received so we can all see them, have a laugh and warn others.  Post them here with your comments! 

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Tallmanok2 read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2007 | 8:57 AM

Rob just a brief comment. In Africa they eat Dog.

SEEDUB read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2007 | 9:47 AM

DOES THIS MEAN I WON'T GET MY PUPPIES!!!
:o


Only Kidding :)

I don't open strange E-mails.

psymama
Jul 18, 2007 | 10:41 PM

Ch

Guangdong Xin Venture (HK) Ltd
101 Wing Sing Lane , Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Tel/fax: 852-301-45789
Email: amstrong360_ltd@excite.com

Attention: Client.

We the management, members and staff oaf Guangdong Xin Ventures will be
very appreciative of your consideration of our proposal for you to
represent us in your country as a medium of receiving payments for
goods
supplied to our customers in North America. We are very confident that
your legal professional background will be very helpful to our
situation
as clients will be instigated to effect payments promptly to avoid
litigation due to late payments. We deal in Chinese art and interior
design and the global need for our goods has given rise to a
significant
increase in our customer base world wide. In anticipation of your
acceptance, I am taking the liberty to explaining in detail the
requirements and need for your services.

Due to the growing trend for the need for Chinese arts and interior
design
in North America and the world in general, there has been an upsurge in
my
customer base and the need for me to expand my business network to meet
up
with the responsibilities at hand. I assume you understand the need for
every business to grow and expand to increase profit. As a result of
this
development, I have had the need to extend my customer base to North
America. However, it is only logical that changes are put in place to
meet
up with the demands for a speedy intercontinental monetary transaction
as
time is always a factor in effective business management.

psymama
Jul 18, 2007 | 10:44 PM

Sorry: Here is the rest of it.

To give you a better understanding of what your responsibilities will
be
as my representative, it is important that you understand some
difficulties that I am faced with presently in receiving funds from
clients in North America. Firstly, most payments for goods are drawn in
checks and it takes approximately two weeks for checks from other
continents to clear with our local banks. These delays mostly result in
our late response to orders and we sometimes loose clients to other
suppliers.

Secondly, we experience high tariffs and foreign exchange charges as
funds
will have to be converted by our banks to local currencies as they are
cleared with our banks and re converted to foreign currency as we place
orders for supplies from our international suppliers. As you can see,
the
back and forth process of currency conversion, results to high charges
for
foreign exchange thereby resulting to increase in cost of doing
business.
But with your assistance as my representative, funds that are to be
used
for supplies will be sent directly to you from my clients there by
avoiding the intercontinental banking processing time between Asia and
North America.

From my business experience, I have come to realize that every good
business reference starts with a satisfactory performance and I have
decided that it is better for us to prove to ourselves how efficient we
are. I believe this is better than any recommendation or references. I
have come to the proposal that any funds received by you on my behalf,
entitles you to

mrsjonsar31
Jul 18, 2007 | 11:04 PM

Liked your story tonight. Me and my husband just got scammed. Not by this story but by trying to buy clothes off E-Bay. It only cost us $200.00 to learn this lesson but we found that others fell for the scam and lost thousands. All the money is sent to Roma Italy, same mail address and we found the mail address is a church, but you have to send the money by Western Union. So if anyone buys off e-bay pay by paypal only, do not send a western union money order. My husband said they were good real good because the email he recieved was through e-bay on the lot of clothes we were bidding on.

lyssy1 view my photos
Jul 19, 2007 | 12:25 AM

BARR FUNSHO JOHNSON wrote: FROM:BARRISTER FUNSHO JOHNSON
16,PARK VIEW ESTATE IKOYI
LAGOS,NIGERIA.

Dear friend

This mail is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever form to you
but I must solicit your confidentiality, I know a proposal of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that it is
sent in good faith and will be of mutual benefit to both parties.
I am Barrister Funsho Johnson, the Personal Attorney to Late Mr.Thomas,an
American Citizen, who worked with African Petroleum Company in Nigeria.

On December 26th 2003,Mr.Thomas, his wife and their only daughter aboard
the, Boeing 727 Beirut-bound charter Jet which crashed on takeoff on
December 26th 2003, see the below link for read more news about the air
crash:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
Since then I have made several inquires to your embassy to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has prove unsuccessful and these several
unsuccessful attempts to locate any member of his family hence I contacted
you.

I am contacting you to assist me to repatriate the money and property left
behind by Mr.Thomas before they get confiscated inthe bank treasury or
declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit were lodged.
Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about
$US15.3 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have the account confiscated within the next fourteen official working
days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relat

katrinawoods9
Jul 19, 2007 | 1:30 AM

Hi Rob, hey I saw your topic tonight and I wanted you to take a look at this. All this information you would see comes from the UK daily. at times 15 times a day I will get emails from diffrent people asking me cash a check for them and I will be half.I put up a spam blocker but it just don't work????

frankjohn11@zipmail.com.br
CONTACT FRONTIER FOWARDING COURIER COMPANY

Attn Dear,

I have Paid the fee for your Cheque Draft.but the manager of Eko Bank
Benin
told me that before the check will get to you that it will expire.So i
told
him to cash the $850,000.00
all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $850,000.00 in cash was
made with FRONTIER FOWARDING COURIER COMPANY.

This in the information they need to delivery your package to you.
DR,LARRY IDRIS(+22993585745)
EMAIL:(frontier_forwarcourieserv1001@yahoo.fr)
1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS.
3.YOUR CURRENT TELEPHONE NUMBER.
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE
Please make sure you send this needed info's to the Director general of
FRONTIER FOWARDING COURIER COMPANY Dr,LARRY IDRIS with the address
given
to you.

Note.FRONTIER FOWARDING COURIER COMPANY. don't know the contents of
the
Box. I registered it as a BOX of an Africa cloths. They don't know it
contents
money. this is to avoid them delaying with the BOX. don't let them know
that is money that is in that Box.

Sincerely
Sec Mark Henry

Rob_Wolchek read my blog
Jul 19, 2007 | 1:44 AM

These are great! Keep them coming! I got a few sent to my e-mail before I left work tonight...I'll try to post them tomorrow. Thanks everyone! Rob

prettyeyesgirl
Jul 19, 2007 | 2:53 AM

hey rob i get the scam emails all the time, heres one i got today

Attention,

I have Paid for the delivery fee for your Cheque Draft.but the manager of Financial Trust Bank Plc Benin told me that before the check will get to you that it will expire.So i told him to cash $950,000.00 all the necessary arrangement of delivering the $950,000.00 in cash was made with
GLOBAL MAX COURIER COMPANY DIRECTOR.
Below is the needed information to enable them deliver your fund to you immediately. the only fee you have to pay them is $95 usd that they will use to obtain insurance certificate and claims of affadvite that will prove that the parcel that consist total sum of $950.000.00 belong to you be rest assure that all other fees have been paid by me.

GLOBAL MAX COURIER COMPANY DIRECTOR

PROFFESOR.REV.MAXWELL JOHN

EMAIL=========gm_couriercompanybenin1@yahoo.fr

Telephone=====(+229)930-530-79

1.YOUR FULL NAME__________________________________

2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS_______________________________

3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER_______________

4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE____________________

5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE__________________________

6.COMPANY REGISTRATION NO__________________________EG58945

7.CODE NMBER_______________________________________0140479


8.YOU NEAREST AIRPORT______________________________

Thanks and Remain Blessed.

BARR.DANIEL UCHE

prettyeyesgirl
Jul 19, 2007 | 2:55 AM

>From Mr. William Wu

I am Mr. William Wu of Natwest Bank London. I need your services in a confidential matter regarding consignment out of a family beneficiary deposit. This requires a private arrangement.

On July 6,2006, our client Dr. Steve Anderson, a businessman, made a numbered fixed deposit of US$25 million for 6 (six) calendar months, Upon maturity; my Bank officially sent two-man delegate to his residence in United States were he reside only to find out that the business mogul and his family died in a car ascident.

It was discovered that Dr. Steve Anderson did not declare any next of kin in his official papers, including the paper work of his bank deposit. and no one will ever come forward to claim it.According to the laws in England, at the expiration of 2years the deposit will revert to the ownership of England Government if nobody applies to claim it.

You will receive these funds under legal claims; all legal documents will be carefully worked out to ensure a risky free transfer. I will like you as a foriegner to stand as the next of kin to receive the fund.

Sincerely
Mr. William Wu
Phone: (44) 7024097815

prettyeyesgirl
Jul 19, 2007 | 2:56 AM

ATTENTION,

This is to inform you that your fund has been approved for immediate
payment to
you. For the purpose of verifications/clarification, you must first contact
the claims department by email for processing and remittance of your prize
award to you. Your bank assigned claims officer contact email is

CONTACT NAME: MR RAYMOND BAKER
CONTACT OFFICE: 15 CROYDON STREET,SE 24 LONDON UK
EAMIL: raymondbaker70700@yahoo.co.uk
TEL/FAX: 44702 402 8857, 44 702 406 7845.

He is to help you in claiming your due prize. NOTE: Do not reply this
mail. You
are to contact your claim`s officer directly/ immediately with the below
informations For claims Verification first.

FULL LEGAL NAMES: COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS: COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
AGE: OCCUPATION: TEL: FAX: PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENCE(SCANNED)

Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

Yours Sincerely

DR STELLA JUNE

prettyeyesgirl
Jul 19, 2007 | 2:57 AM

ATTN: CUSTOMER,

THE MANAGEMENT OF CONTINENTAL BANK PLC REPUBLIC OF BENIN, WISHES TO INFORM
YOU THAT WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF OUR DRAFT CHEQUE ISSUED IN YOUR FAVOUR IN
TUNE OF $915,810.00 USD ONLY,FROM YOUR AGENT AND HE TOLD US TO
CANCEL THE CHEQUE BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO RECEIVE IT.
SO YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY AND TELL US WHAT IS GOING
ON BEFORE WE PROCEED ,
YOU CAN CONTACT OUR DIRECTOR
MRS SANDRA OBI ON THIS WEBADDRESS: continental_bankbplc@yahoo.fr
BEFORE WE CAN TAKE ANY ACTION WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY AS
SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS E-MAIL .

THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION.
YOURS FAITHFULLY,
MR JOE UBAH.
SERETARY FOREIGN OPERATION DEPARTMENT,
CONTINENTAL BANK PLC COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.

prettyeyesgirl
Jul 19, 2007 | 2:58 AM

i mark them as spam and a whole new set shows up the next time i check my email it drives me absolultely crazy

jjones499
Jul 19, 2007 | 6:08 AM

Dear sir/madam,

Good day. I am sorry that I have to contact you through this medium. I have a
Business proposal that will be financially rewarding to both of us. My name is
Godson Mark I am a cousin of Mr. Taylor formal president of Liberia I am
Currently here in Nigeria since the time my cousin Mr. Taylor was dethrone on
The 11th August 2003 to Calabar, Nigeria is currently been heard right now in
Netherlands for war crime chargers.

And I want to let you know that I am Currently in charge of a hug amount of U.S DALLAS $12.2 million Dollars and this is why I am contacting you to help me to keep this money in your account As soon as these money leaves to your account I will join you in your country and I want to let know you must keep this very confidential because they are about to frizzy my cousin asset here in Nigeria. So if you are ready to do this business with me, please contact me immediately on my email address so that I can tell you what to do next to have this money in your account.
Reply back to my private mail box : mr.g_mark1@yahoo.com do not reply to this mail box i used in sending this message to you.

Regards

Mr. Godson Mark

Good Day



-------------------------------------------------------
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This message was sent using http://webmail.coqui.net

JaneSDoe
Jul 19, 2007 | 7:47 AM

Dearest J*******

Thank you very much in this regards I have tried all my possible to contact him unsuccessfully, I don’t really know why his number is not coming and have this appointment of consignments trunk boxes needed to deliver to him. Please I will like to ask you if you can do to assist me receive the boxes from the Diplomats Company coming to deliver it from Swiss Airline.

If you can assist me you are going to have your share of the total fund is an appointment for me and Mr. Pruss before but maybe God has away of bringing you in as my next partner in sharing. Please the money is current in the custody of Royal Trust Finance and Security in United Kingdom London and I will want you to contact the Head of Operation on how you will like to receive them.

You will have nothing to worried about I have every evidence to secure the fund from the security custody all they need now is for me bringing anyone as the foreign Business Beneficiary to Late Weah Johnson if you ready the fax I sent. I don’t want this opportunity to slit my fingers I called the finance and security yesterday that I am going to provide the foreign Business partner to late Weah Johnson of Liberia today.

Henceforth I contacted Pruss and was not on seat, I really need this transaction completed for me soon, and if you can open your pure heart and believe to assist me I am going to immediately fax or email attach the legal document covering the deposit to you for you to contact Royal Trust finance and security to instruct them when and are you will claim the consignments.

JaneSDoe
Jul 19, 2007 | 7:48 AM

But I will always be here to guild you if any there is something you don’t know and they asked you then you will quickly call me here in Africa Ghana for me to answer the question then you take back to the security firm in England. The Certificate of Deposit and the Certificate of Ownership is with me right here in my office including the contract Bond.

But right now I am sending you death certificate of deceased Chief Weah Johnson, day late Weah Johnson deposited the Boxes with the Security Company in England with photography of his burial which the United Nation arrange. Please I want you to call me if you are interested to assist me in this regards to enable me handle over the legal papers to you and the security contact information.

Find below the photography and death Certificate

Best Regards
General Musa Mohammed
United Nation West Africa Ghana


*********************************************


Dear Mr.Pandya
Good day

My names are Lucy heilein, i am a Serria Leone by nationality.Presently i leave in ghana with my mother since the political crisis in my country that took the live of my father.We have a trunk boxes that is presently in LONDON supposed to be delivered to our foreign beneficiary, but due to some misunderstanding, we have to call the diplomat to stop the delivery.

Our former beneficiary came to ghana to meet and discuss with the security company and ask the company to come and deliver the boxes to him in LONDON.As at when he came to ghana to meet with the company, we where allowed by the company to inspect the two trunk bo

JaneSDoe
Jul 19, 2007 | 7:49 AM

boxes and as at the time of inspection, we collected from the boxes one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.From the money we paid for the insurance,the demmurage Anti-Terriorist and Drug Certificate and custom charges and also for the shipment of the two trunk boxes to London.So we have paid for the shipments .

We told him we will give him 40 percent of the total amount of 40 million dollars in the Two trunk boxes, 30 percent for his assistance and 10 percent for any expenses incured when the trunks gets to LONDON, which he agreed but when the boxes gets to the Heathrow International Airport in LONDON, he called and told us he want us if he receive the consignment we have to Split the fund equaly, so he will have to take 20 million dollars and my mother refused and ask the shiping company diplomat to stop the delivery.

This is why we came to you.Please, help us to receive the Two trunk boxes, so that my mother and i can come and leave with you so that you can take her to a specialist doctor who will take care of her because she is suffering from Cancer of the Lungs.Now the Two trunk boxes are there in LONDON.
Please get back to me so that i can send you the name and telephone number of the diplomat there in LONDON .Attached to this mail are the documents, my International passport the pic of my late father and my aged mother when they went to deposit the consignment with the security company and the funeral ceremony of my late father after he was killed, also with the video tape of the money i took with my late younger brother who died of ulcer, during the time

ALEKSHA520
Jul 19, 2007 | 7:49 AM

I GET ABOUT 2-4 EMAILS JUST LIKE THE ONE BELOW EVERYDAY!!! IT'S RIDICULOUS!!

FROM BARR PAUL EZE
PAUL EZE CHAMBERS
SOLICITOR&ADVOCATE
PLOT 204,WILSON CLIFFORD CLOSE
VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS,NIGERIA.

Dear Sir,

May I introduce myself to you. I am Barr Paul Eze, the attorney to
the
the late Mr. Dickson Steinke, an American who lived and worked in
Nigeria before his untimely death at Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The
late Mr. Dickson Steinke had some funds in his bank account which have
remained unclaimed for the past 3 years.

His bank have issued a final notice to me to present his next of kin
within the next 6 weeks or have his funds in the bank confiscated. I
wish to present you to his Bank as his next of kin so that all his
money will be paid to you.

All i want you to do for me now is this, give me your mailing address,
your private phone number, your company name with address.

Get back to me asap.

Yours faithfully,

Barr Paul Eze

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JaneSDoe
Jul 19, 2007 | 7:51 AM

of inspection in the company.

Note: I WANT YOU TO ASSURE ME THAT I CAN RELY ON YOU ONCE THIS CONSIGNMENT GETS TO YOU.
NOTE THAT THE CONTENT OF THE CONSIGNMENT IS UNKNOWN TO THE DIPLOMAT FOR SECURITY REASONS AND THE FUNDS ARE CLEAN AND SPENDABLE BILLS.
I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU IMMEDIATELY BY EMAIL,SO THAT MY DREAMS WILL REST SQUARELY ON YOUR SHOULDERS.
BEST REGARDS
LUCY HEILEIN



***The first one one from "General Musa Muhammed" was after he sent a fax to one of our clients and I emailed him just to tell him he had the wrong number. I didn't think about the office number being on my email. He started emailing and actually calling my office multiple times to reach me. He finally stopped after I sent him links to every 419 Men scam buster page I could find and told him not to contact me anymore. The second one came 2 months later with the exact same pictures as the "general's" complete with a video of the money. The only difference was the name on the "certificate" and I don't know a Mr Pandya.

TonyaMiller
Jul 19, 2007 | 8:30 AM

MORE NAMES TO LOOK OUT FOR
Kieleysietzrandall@yahoo
gonzalesztrerrishome283@yahoo
kelvincollins101@yahoo
merey-dianpaker@yahoo.com
ALL CLAIM TO BE ON A MISSION IN NIGERIA OR WEST AFRICA ONE EVEN IN ARIZONA, PROMISSING DELIVERY OF DOG OR DOGS ON NEXT DAY FLIGHT FOR 150.00-300.00.

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