HA! Email scam.... feel free to have fun

[Tortures Dionysos]

I can't believe people are still trying to pull these types of scams.

"youssuf_issiaka" <youssuf_issiaka@sohu.com>

FROM THE DESK OF MR YOUSSUF ISSIAKA
BILL AND EXHANGE UNIT
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION

I am the manager at the bill and exchange department bank of african(ADB)here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$18.2m dollars ( USdollars)in an account that belonging to one of our foreign customer. Who died along with his entire family in Monday,31 July, 2004 in a plane crash in paris. Please visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm"

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account ,10%will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me.

Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone and faxnumber for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Dear p/s reply this email thanks

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Youssuf Issiaka.(ADB)

[OHMEGA]

sounds legit

[Supermick]

Originally Posted by The Blob

I can't believe people are still trying to pull these types of scams.

I can't believe they actually work. My brother-in-law works for the US Justice Department as a prosecutor in their Fraud Crimes division, and he tells me that this is a huge problem. Amazing.

[Tortures Dionysos]

Originally Posted by Supermick

I can't believe they actually work. My brother-in-law works for the US Justice Department as a prosecutor in their Fraud Crimes division, and he tells me that this is a huge problem. Amazing.

I know. Who reads that crap and thinks it's true? Idiots.

I think someone from DDM needs to reply to them. Seeing what goes back and forth might give us a good laugh. I really don't have any ideas of what to reply with, so I figured I would toss it out to DDM.

[Sir Meh]

Dateline once followed up with one of these things and even met some guy in England. It was lol when they called him out

[alexican]

wow! FREE MONEY!!

*register sounds*

[MACK]

i get those at least once a week!!

I will post up my next one, hehe

[Mrs. DeeJay]

Originally Posted by Jean-Luc Dickhard

sounds legit

yeah, but...

he's hit a MAJOR snag


July 31, 2004 was a Saturday

hmmm....maybe I should write this fool.

/thinks

[johnny861]

I always respond back asking are they sure they don't mean Zimbabwe dollars, Cause I think that works out to like $0.0024 USD and hence not worth my time.

[MACK]

HA! I just received this one today...

this is a bit different from the other scams Ive seen, they are getting creative, but no better with their spelling....

frommaryfundation <maryjones@yahoo.de>reply-tofedexwestafrica@live.com
toundisclosed-recipients
dateSun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:34 AMsubjectCONTACT FEDEX

Hello!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me
for your Confirm able Bank Draft of$800.000.00
United States Dollars, but I did not hear from
you since that time. Then I wentband deposited
the Draft with FEDEX EXPRESS DELIVERY, West
Africa, I travelled out of the country for a six Months
Course, What you have to do now is to contact
the FEDEX EXPRESS DELIVERY. as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your
package to you because of the expiring date.
For your information,I have paid for the
delivering Charges, Insurance premium and
Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing
that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor
Terrorist attack in your Country. Again, I would
have paid for the security keeping fee but they
said no because they don't know when you will
contactthem and in case of demurrage.You
have to contact the FEDEX EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL with the
following information.

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
address:

CLAIMS AGENT:
Mr:Terry Smith

EmailAddress:fedexwestafrica@live.com
Telephone:+2348054998544

there and know when it will get to your
address.Let me repeat
again, try to contact them as soon as you
receive this mail to avoid any further delay and
remember to pay them their Security Keeping
fee of $250.00 US Dollars fortheir immediate
action.You should also let me know through
email as soon as you receive your Draft.Yours
Faithfully,

Mrs.mary jones.

[zymote]

LOLZ! Like FedEx is using webmail. Awesome.

[MACK]

ROFL

here is the latest one...

fromCopyright®Microsoft Corporation 2008 <micteam2@earthlink.net>reply-toCopyright®Microsoft Corporation 2008 <consultwilliamjohnson@live.com>
to
dateWed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:42 AMsubjectElectronic E-mail Award Promotion/Micro Lottery CHIP NO: 9465206mailed-byearthlink.netsigned-byearthlink.net
MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT LOTTERY
MICROSOFT HOUSE PRESCOT, LONDON E1 8RP.
UNITED KINGDOM.
REF NO: M154S/WL07
MICRO (LOTTERY) CHIP NO: 9465206

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD PROMOTION

Dear Lucky Winner:

Today, we announce the 10 lucky winners of the MICROSOFT LOTTERY PROGRAM held on 9TH JULY, 2008. Your company or your personal e-mail address,attached to the Chip Number: 9465206,

won in the First lotterycategory 001 Your email address has brought you an unexpected luck, please read through this message.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum

of £1,550,952.00 GBP in cash credited to file MSW/9080118308/02/LA.This is from a total cash prize of £17.000,000 GBP (Seventeen Million Great Britain Pounds) shared amongst the

ten (10) lucky winners.

All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web' site through Microsoft computer ballot system (MCBS) and extracted from over 100,000 individuals and companies. For

security reasons,you are advised to keepyour winning information confidential till your claims is processed and money remitted to you in the manner you deem fit to claim your

prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid unwarranted abuse ofthis program by some unscrupulous elements.

Note that all claims process and clearance procedures must be duly completed early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of double claim, you are advised to keep this notice

to yourself because we shall not be responsible for any divert of funds as a result of you disclosing your lottery award details,I hereby advice you to report to the Microsoft

lottery claims agent whose information is stated below.

Contact Person:
Barrister William Johnson
E-mail:consultwilliamjohnson@live.com
Tel.: +44-704-570-5663

Do email or call the above mentioned person, at once with all the claims requirements below. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications.

CLAIM PROCESSING FORM
1. Full Name:
2. Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Date of Birth:
5. Phone:
6. Mobile:
7. Fax:
8. State of Origin:
9.Country:
10.Sex:
11.E-mail Address:

The above requirements are needed to enable the immediate release of your won prize.

Best Regards,
Dr (Mrs) Elizabeth Andrea
Secretary Microsoft Mega Jackpot Lottery

NOTE: You are to contact your claims processor immediately via email. Be informed, that any claim not made before forthnight from date of notification indicate that the winner has

voluntarily forfeited his/her winnings.

WARNING!!!
ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO YOUR CLAIMS PROCESSOR IMMEDIATELY; THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.
Microsoft Mega Jackpot Lottery, property of the Microsoft Inc.Copyright®2008. All Rights reserved.

[Supermick]

Originally Posted by MACK

ROFL

here is the latest one...

Setup a new email address through gmail or yahoo or something like that and reply back to the message. I want to know what they do/say.

[MACK]

Im contacting microsoft about it, going to see if they will pursue this themselves

[MACK]

hahahaha

check this out

best idea ever!!

Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch, scammer style!

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