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I just got this email, like many I receive every day. We should start a thread with all of them now. I think I will make this one of those threads.

From Frank Kouame

Cote D Ivoire

Dear Sir,

I am aware that we have never seen each other before,neither have we exchanged any form of formal contract or correspondence before. I am equally aware that this world is full of dishonest people I am Frank Kouame from Republic of Cote D Ivoire in West Africa,My dad was a cocoa dealer,befor the faithful day he met is death in the hands of the rebel who killed him.My families were captured in Bouaka, on the first day the war started,and my father was assassinated with my mother by the assassinators, my mother dead instantly but my father dead later after two days at the hospital.On that faithful day. my father disclosed to me that he deposited, (the sum of 10,500,000.00 Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in a Security company in (Abidjan).Presently I am here in bidjan,the capital city of Cote D Ivoire. I am desperately in need to move and re-locate this huge deposit to your country for safe keeping as this is the only wealth remaining for the future survival.Please endavour to email me back for further clarifications over this issue.

Remain blessed ,

Regards

Frank Kouame

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cinamin;707640 wrote: I just got this email, like many I receive every day. We should start a thread with all of them now. I think I will make this one of those threads.


Cinamin, it's possible that Frank is describing his situation honestly but you should be careful before you take him entirely at face value. It's flattering for you to have been chosen by him to ask you for your help but he'd surely find it easier to ask a local visitor directly, unless you have more experience of commercial security transactions than I thought.

A forum I used to belong to, still do actually, had a three year running correspondence with one of these guys. One of the members who was stationed in germany at the time decided to have some fun with the guy and after a week or two brought the rest of us into it. I t was an amazing three year run of hilarity topped off my a mass email to him when we finally gave in and admitted to playing him for a fool.

Uncle Fester has a thread for these things...look under Spam and Scam.

there was something about these e-mails on the news the other day,that there still people out there handing out there banking details:-2 they also interveiwed one of the people who send these e-amils and they said its easy money:-5

Hahaha oh boy not another person that gets these, I never knew they were so common!



If anyone is looking for that Scam and Spam thread here it is for you, very entertaining!! :wah:



http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=30883

Another one.

HELLO DEAR, GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. I MRS. HELEN RABBI KAMOR, A WIDOW TO LATE MR. DAVID KAMOR. I AM FROM PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA. I AM 67 YEARS OLD, I AM A SERVANT OF GOD, SUFFERING FROM LONG TIME CANCER OF THE BREAST, FROM ALL INDICATION MY CONDITIONS IS REALLY DETERIORATING AND IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS THAT I WON'T LIVE MORE THAN 2 MONTHS, ACCORDING TO MY DOCTORS, THIS IS BECAUSE THE CANCER STAGE HAS GOTTEN TO A VERY BAD STAGE. MY LATE HUSBAND DIED THROUGH A PLANE CRASH IN 2005 WHILE TRAVELLING FROM LAGOS TO ABUJA, AND DURING THE PERIOD OF OUR MARRIAGE WE COULD'NT PRODUCE ANY CHILD. MY LATE HUSBAND WAS VERY WEALTHY AND AFTER HIS DEATH, I INHERITED ALL HIS BUSINESS AND WEALTH. THE DOCTORS HAS ADVISED ME THAT I MAY NOT LIVE FOR MORE THAN 2 MONTHS, SO I NOW DECIDED TO DONATE MY WEALTH TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS GOD FEARING, TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCHES IN AFRICA, AMERICA ASIA, AND EUROPE AND TO PROPAGATE THE WORD OF GOD TO THE WORLD, WHICH WOULD GO A LONG WAY IN SAVING MORE SOULS FOR OUR HEAVENLY FATHER WHO IS COMING VERY SOON TO TAKE HIS PEOPLE HOME. I SELECTED YOU AFTER VISITING THE INTERNET AND I PRAYED OVER IT.I AM WILLING TO DONATE THE SUM OF $15,000.000.00U.USD (FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) TO YOU TO START UP THIS HEAVENLY PROJECT. PLEASE I WANT YOU TO NOTE THAT THE MONEY IS LYING WITH COMMERCIAL BANK IN NIGERIA WHERE I AND MY HUSBAND LIVED ALL THROUGH OUR LIVES, AND UPON MY INSTRUCTION, MY ATTORNEY, WHO LIVES IN NIGERIA WILL FILE IN AN APPLICATION FOR YOU FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE MONEY IN YOUR NAME. LASTLY, I HONESTLY PRAY THAT THIS MONEY WHEN TRANSFERRED WILL USED FOR THE SAID PURPOSE, BECAUSE I HAVE COME TO FIND OUT THAT WEALTH ACQUISITION WITHOUT CHRIST IS VANITY. BEAR IT IN MIND THAT YOU WILL BE ENTITLED TO 30% FROM THE FIFTEEN MILLION USD FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL USE ONCE THE MONEY GETS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. KINDLY REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS (kamorhelen1955@yahoo.dk ) MAY THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE SWEET FELLOWSHIP OF GOD BE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. REPL TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS (kamorhelen1955@yahoo.dk ) I AWAIT URGENT REPLY. YOURS IN CHRIST. MRS. HELEN RABBI KAMOR.

Have you seen the commercials on television concerning these?

KB.;708450 wrote: Have you seen the commercials on television concerning these?


I haven't seen commercials, but I've seen something on one of those shows like 20/20. I mean I know they are a scam. But to they know that we know?

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cinamin;708512 wrote: I haven't seen commercials, but I've seen something on one of those shows like 20/20. I mean I know they are a scam. But to they know that we know?They know - they're not looking for people who might normally think the scam's real. They rely on inducing mental illness.

It's not really greed on the part of the victim. No victim is that really stupid. Nobody reading that scam would be so dim as to think it's remotely possible that there's truth in it.

Here's what I think happens. I think it's like a river breaking its bank and cutting a new channel to flow along.

Some people have worries regarding their security. They might have more money going out than in and be watching their savings dwindle. They may be aproaching retirement with insufficient savings. They may have a huge desire to get something they don't have. Some of these people aren't just momentarily concerned, they have a deep underlying fear of not finding a way to their goal. It may have been there for years, it may be intensifying. Most especially in some of them it may be constantly on their mind, being turned over, a hundred possible solutions presenting themselves to the imagination and each being tested and retested but always found inadequate. These are people who have brought worrying to the status of an art-form.

The scam turns up and something snaps inside. The only thing between themselves and relief is a single step which can't even be conscious, all it takes is a mental switch from a world in which this offer can't be true to one in which it can. On the one side is continued worry, on the other is downhill relief for evermore. Merely to believe that this is a valid offer is immediate satisfaction of all the pent-up desire for stability. One reader in a hundred thousand, maybe, is at that moment of vulnerability where their underlying brain takes control and throws reality just that little bit off track. Everything else in the world is just the way it was before, but now their problems have all gone away and they're safe. The river is in its new bed, the old course has disappeared, all it takes is belief that the email is true.

The wording shows - in all of the scam offers - that the sender is gullible and uneducated, no match for the victim to cope with. There's no indication that a cost is involved. By the time the request for funds to release the loot arrives the victim already knows, erroneously, that the process he's engaged in will satisfy his needs and he'll never have to go back to worrying again. A thousand dollars is insignificant compared to what he's so close to. Then five, then ten, then another twenty thousand. Queries from his bank or from relatives threaten him - if he doesn't make the payment he'll be back to worrying the way he did before. It's all blanked out by the belief that was set up when his mind broke.

People have killed themselves when they've finally been forced to recognize that they've been robbed, if indeed they ever manage to admit it. Some run out of money making the payments and still think they were in a good deal.

Lottery addicts, in my opinion, are often in exactly the same state of mind. It's why I think the lottery is as evil a scam as the emails.

Would you send me his e address ? Id like to correspond with him.

Nomad;708582 wrote: Would you send me his e address ? I'd like to correspond with him.
For what? I deleted it. But I can open my email and every day have a few of them. I'll post some more tomorrow. I just deleted several from my Yahoo email.

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Notice the very bad grammar and spelling. The Topic was "Compersation for Your Efforts". The email address is barr_david_hills@msn.com

Dear Partner,

I would have written to you earlier before now,but i misplaced your

email

address due to my computer break down for some time,I thank God for my

secretary who was able to find out your email address in my

computer,I'm

happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred

under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I am in

Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.

Meanwhile, I didn't forget you’re past vivid efforts and attempts to

assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some

how.

Now contactmy secretary in Nigeria his name Mr. Ade Jones, his contacts

is

as follow, email: mradejones_007@yahoo.it, ask him to send you the

total

of $500.000.00

which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and

attempts

to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time

very

much.So feel free and get in touched with my secretary Mr. Ade Jones

and

instruct him where to send the amount to you. Please do let me know

immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the

sufferness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of

the

investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand.

finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my secretary on

your

behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with Mr. Ade

Jones, he will send the amount to you without any delay.

Regards,

Barr. David Hills (esq)

More.....From :Mr.Mike Akume

Federal Ministry of Finance 5th Floor, Annex 3, New Federal Secretariat

Complex,Shehu Shagari Way, Central Area Abuja Nigeria.

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Mr.Martins Ibeh I'm the personal secretary to the Minister

of

Finance. I'm contacting you to confirm from you if actually YOU know

one JEFF

LEE who claims to be your business associate/partner from AMERICA.

Following the protest of the International Community, The World

Bank,IMF and

the instruction from THE PRESIDENT UMARU YAR'ADUA that all outstanding



foreign

DEBTS especially NTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT should be released to the

BENEFICIARIES.

The said JEFF LEE is claiming to us that you were dead and have

instructed he

to make a change of ownership to your funds before your death, thereby

providing this account information (BANK NAME: CITI BANK,NEW YORK. BANK

ADDRESS:NEW YORK, USA. ACCOUNT NUMBER:6503809428.ROUTING NUMBER:

122006743 A/C

NAME: JEFF LEE) as the original account information where the said

approved

$30Million Dollars will be remitted into.

This development is coming now that the Ministry of Finance wants to

offset all

outstanding payments owed to all foreign beneficiaries around the

world by

this Country in which your payment file was affected.As you may know,

the

total amount approved in your favor is the total sum of $30Million

Dollars. And

by virtue of claim we need to confirm from you if it's really true

that JEFF

LEE is your business Associate/partner in AMERICA and if we did not

hear from

you soonest it automatically means that you are actually dead and the

information passed to us by JEFF LEE is correct.

You are to contact me through my email address as soon as you receive

this

message so as to know the true position of things with you so That we

won't

make any mistake in remitting your outstanding payment to a wrong

Person/account.Your swift response will help this ministry a lot Do

email me

with your informations below:

Your Name:

Address:

Sex:

Age:

Occupation:

Your Next of Kin Name and your date of Birth:

Your Telephone/Fax number:

Driver's License/int'l Passport

Best Regards.

Mr.Mike Akume. secretary to Minister: Federal Ministry Of Finance(FMF).

TEL: +234-806-731-6969(24 hrs)




address....info@fmf.org