I got this male from someone called Abdul Yussuf. I have no idea how the guy got my e-mail (it wasn't my hotmail e-mail, it was the one I never give anywhere ) - I have never heard of him. Anyway here it is:
From: Abd Yusuf
Union bank of africa,
Lagos Nigeria
I am the head of acccounting dept.of union of Bank of Africa,Lagos
Nigeria. I am writing following the impressive
information about you through one of my friend
who run a consultancy firm. He assured of your
capability and reliability, although
I did not tell him the details of the business I want
to do with you.
In my Bank I discovered an abandoned sum of
10.5million pounds in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers who died along side with his
entire family in November 1997 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.
Unfortunately I learn that all his supposed next of
kin or relations died along with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund
behind for the claim. It therefore upon discover that
I in the department now decided to make business with
you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation of the
deceased for safety keeping and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we
dont want this money to go back into Federal
Government account as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that
such money remained after four years the money will
be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
fundThe request of a foreigneras next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand as next
of kin to a foreigner. We agreed that 35%
(negotiable) of this money will be for you as foreign
partner. Thereafter me and my two colleagues will
visit your country for the disbursement according to
the percentages indicated. Please be honest to me.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of the fund
to you as arranged you must apply first to the bank
as next of kin of the deceased.
Upon your reply, I will send you a text application,
which you will fill and fax to the bank, upon receipt
of the fax in the bank, I will look for a reliable
lawyer for you, since you know that I am working with
the bank and I must not be seen making claim for you.
He will be in charge of your claim and you will not
inform him about him, bit I will still be guiding you
on the way forward.
Note that this transaction is confidential and risk
free. As soon as you receive this mail you should
contract me through
my e-mail address
Best Regards.
Dr. Yusuf
The funniest thing is that it was a yahoo adress!
Just thought I should post it...
Vicsun, I certainly agree with your assertion that you are an unpleasant person.~Chanak
I have received very similar one last month. Though it was from a woman and Credite Suisse was the bank in the email, the mail also related to Nigeria.
I think it's very fishy, but not quite sure what to do with it. Should I report to somewhere? I still have the email.
"Strength without wisdom falls by its own weight."
A word to the wise is sufficient Minerva (Semi-retired SYMer)
Originally posted by der Moench:
<STRONG>I've gotten that exact same e-mail! How odd! Some sort of scam, no doubt.</STRONG>
Yep...you're all right...it's a scam...
Someone from Sweden had replied and "payed" some money in order to recieve the "abandoned sum"....needless to say he didn't get any money....
It was on the news here a couple of weeks ago...
“Child abuse doesn’t have to mean broken bones and black marks. Young growing tissues are far more vulnerable to carcinogens than those of adults.
Knowingly subjecting children to it is child abuse.”
My grandparents got nearly exactly the same thing in a letter from Lagos, it really is annoying, the exception was that it wasn't about an accident it was about a business fund or something.
I've gotten plenty of these mails, there are many people sending them out.
In Denmark they even go under the term "Nigeria Letters" because most of them and especially the early ones originate from Nigeria.
These letters have been known from as much as 5-8 years ago here in Denmark
What is even more wierd, is that there are actually people taking this bait Talk about stupidity
Originally posted by Aegis:
<STRONG>I feel sorry for people who end up getting tricked by these scams. The people scam them are jsut terrible...</STRONG>
If they trick old people, or people who aren't sane in one way or another, then I feel sorry for them.
If NORMAL (sane), people are tricked I think they are just stupid. (at least in the times when it's so clear that it's fake)
In these times it's pretty obvioes that you can't trust everyhing.
Besides, people who react fast to things like this are just stingy, and the people who do the scam work on this human factor.
It is a scam.
In geneva, the un organizations have recieved it as well.
So have i and my college.
It changes time to time, it is sometimes Congo, Kenya and stuff.
If you get stuff like this delete it right away.
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"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" - Winston Churchill
Originally posted by THE JAKER:
<STRONG>Do people here OPEN emails? I just delete ev3rything all the time.</STRONG>
I only open emails when I know the sender, they explicitly state what they've sent, and I know they were sending it, in advance. Anything else simply gets trashed.
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>I only open emails when I know the sender, they explicitly state what they've sent, and I know they were sending it, in advance. Anything else simply gets trashed.</STRONG>
AND they don't have a history of forwarding me dumb Bill Clinton jokes all the time!
I also got one from Nigeria about money needed to be put in an offshore account and they wanted my bank account details. There is no way I was going to give my account details to an unknown person! I think this was part of the same scam. Anything that promises free money or lots of money for a 'small' upfront fee is IMO likely to be fraudulent. Just out of interest how do these people get your email addresses?
Chewbacca - "Rwaaarn!"
Han Solo - "You said it Chewie!"
Azim - "No one controls my destiny, at least not one who attacks downwind and smelling of garlic"
It was in my "delete box" for more than month... (I was moving house and too many things in my mind then, okay?) I completely forgot about it, until I saw this thread. I didn't delete it completely, because I thought I might need to report to somewhere.
I've never heard of this Nigeria one in UK, but if it seems to be very big scam in other Europe. Where should I report, anyone know?
"Strength without wisdom falls by its own weight."
A word to the wise is sufficient Minerva (Semi-retired SYMer)
) - I have never heard of him. Anyway here it is:
