What's Up With This?

[Onasander]

Thier not asking me for my credit card numbers or bank accounts, what's up with this new tactic?

 

FROM THE DESK OF MR.RUTHLAND WILLIAMS,

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT,

INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA,

LOME TOGO.

 

ATTN.

 

 

 

I am Mr.Ruthland Williams,the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA,Lome Togo in west Africa with due respect and regards.

 

 

 

I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.During our investigation and audting in this bank,my department came across an abandoned sum of $14.7m US dollars(fourteen million seven hundred thousand US dollars.)In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in march 1998 in a plane crash.

 

 

 

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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department decided to make this businness 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 fund to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

 

 

 

The Banking law here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed for five years,it will be forfeited to the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed bill.

 

A Togolaise cannot stand as the next of Kin to a foreigner.It is upon this discovery that I and my colleagues in this Department decided to contact you to collaborate with us to pull out this dormant fund. This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust to the bank and also present a foreign account where you will need the money to be re-transfered.I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100%risk free.

 

You have been adviced to keep top secret as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account.And ask us to come down to your country for subseque sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment either in your country or any country you advice us to invest inn.

 

 

 

We agree that 25%of this money will be for you as foreign partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account,10%will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 65%would be for me and my colleagues.There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.

 

 

 

Upon receipt of your reply,I will send to you the text of the application.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.This transaction will only take a maximum of 14 bank working days.

 

Further Information will be given to you as soon as I receive your positive response.

 

Thank's,

 

Mr.Ruthland Williams.

[Viggen]

they try to scam you, just delete and forget...

 

cheers

viggen

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Luckily we are all educated. To the mediocre person, that sounds practically tempting. To the person with intuition, its convincing but largely impossible with the given facts. Come on, 65% goes towards the bankers, absurd.

By the way, I suggest you get a new account with a good ISP who will actually block spam and suspicious emails like comcast for example.

[Primus Pilus]

They've come to be known as 419 scams.

419 Coalition

[Lost_Warrior]

::snickers:: I still love the "I'm a poor orphan in {some country you never heard of} only YOU can help me! Please send {rediculous amount of money} to {offshore bank account on weird island you never heard of} to save me and my family."

 

These scams are kind of funny when I get them in my email...I usually get a laugh at them before I delete them. Some of them sound suspiciously like drug dealings or something though...

[Tobias]

I got a phone call today from an American individual telling me that "as an American citizen, you have won a cruise in the Caribbean, please dial 9 to claim your prize!"

Well, that's fair enough. The only problem is this: I am an Australian citizen, and i live on a farm just south of the centre of New South Wales

Yes, they make me laugh sometimes too

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Over here in America, we have the do not call list and if they do call us, they will face the government's legal charges.

[Lost_Warrior]

But thats no fun! I love to torment them.

 

Me: "there not home"

them: "well when would be a good time to call back?"

me: "any time after the apocalypse would be great"

...once someone asked if I planned to go up or down...

 

Mail order meat place:

me: "do you carry all of the major varieties or road kill?"

them: "um....no we don't"

me: "well do you have possum?"

 

them: "we can give you a free window estimate while we're in the area"

me: "oh, no thanks, we don't have any windows.

them: "what?"

me: "we live underground. we don't have any windows."

them: o_O

 

[Pertinax]

In Britain now we regularly get sales calls from the US -amusingly they think our business is some sort of corporation with divisional heads, unfortunatley for them we have one member of staf who is capable of sustaining a ludicrous conversation for several minutes before producing ghastly punchlines eg: " its quite a bad time for you to ring regarding these investments as Mr S'****n the owner was savaged by a turbot on holiday in the Maldives" . I kid you not .

[Tobias]

In Britain now we regularly get sales calls from the US -amusingly they think our business is some sort of corporation with divisional heads, unfortunatley for them we have one member of staf who is capable of sustaining a ludicrous conversation for several minutes before producing ghastly punchlines eg: " its quite a bad time for you to ring regarding these investments as Mr S'****n the owner was savaged by a turbot on holiday in the Maldives" . I kid you not .

 

You know, the amount of quotes i have heard like that, originating from Britain, makes me ponder the saying "Only in the UK"

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

I wonder why I haven't gotten any of these scams in my email yet if you Brits seem to have alot of them.

[Onasander]

I've been getting them for a few years it seems, just seems this new one changed his tactics, mabey thier upgrades, like the agents from Matrix, Reloaded.