Email Scams – Always Good For A Laugh November 3rd, 2009
From time to time I check through my Spam folder just to ensure that my filters are working properly and that nothing is being wrongly filtered. Tonight whilst doing this I came across one of the old fashioned scam emails; you know the ones, where someone in an African country desperately needs your help to transfer a large amount of money and in return, you’ll be paid handsomely. I needed a laugh so thought I’d read through it, I wasn’t disappointed, how funny!
It makes me laugh that the people behind these scams really believe someone is going to fall for it when the language they use is so poor – surely if you are trying to pull one over on a English person you would either learn the language properly first, or at least use the spelling and grammar check on Word!
Needless to say I hit the delete button but before, I thought I’d share the content with you; it made me laugh.
Enjoy!
From Nelson Daniel
Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.
West Africa.
Avenue 12 Rue Reine Abla Poku,
12 Bp 7854 Abj 12, Cote D’Ivoire.Dearest in the lord,It is my pleasure to write you after consideration, since I can not be able to see you face to face. please I need your help. I am Nelson Daniel the only son of late Mr & Mrs Joseph Daniel, from Cote D’Ivoire. (I am 20years of age.)My father was a liability Cocoa and Gold merchant in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire before his untimely death After business trip to Tunisia to nagociate on a cocoa and gold business he wanted to invest there. A week after he came back from Tunisia, he got an accident with my mother of which my mother died instantly but he died five days after in a private hospital.. On that faithful afternoon, I didn t know that my father was going to leave me after I had earlier lost my mother, but before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die, (MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE) he called me to his bed side and told me that he deposited the sum of ($6,500,000.00) Six Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars in one of the prime bank here in Cote D’Ivoire.That the money was meant for his cocoa and Gold business he wanted to establish in Tunisia. according to my father he deposited the money in a fixed suspense account using my name as the next of kin, He instructed me to seek for a reliable and trust worthy business partner for my life time investment abroad. Now I have succeeded in locating the deposit documents and the bank where this money is here in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. I have also discuss this with the bank manager and he agreed. But due to the fact that am still younger and inexperienced, I am now seeking for your assistance to help me transfer this money out from my country Cote D’Ivoire to your account abroad so that we should invest it in any meaningful and lucrative business in your country because this is my only hope in life.I am willing to offer you 15% of the total fund if only you can help me out of my present predicament.I seek your assistance in the follwing ways:(1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transfered into..
(2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the successful transfer of this money into your account,and also to help to further my education under your care.
(3.) To help invest this money in a profitable business since I am only 20yrs of age and do not know much about business.
(4) To sponsor me transfer this money into your account,
(5). I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after the money gets into your account.Contact me on this phone number: +225 4566 3710.The worst part of it is that my uncle is trying to kill me over this money because I refused to hand him over the documents covering this money, He has sold all my father’s land properties including his cars which rightful belong to me and now he want me to hand over the banking document of my father in my possesion which I refused. Now he said that he will have this money by all means even if it means killing me, so because of this I ran away from home and hide in a hotel,pending when this money will be transfered so that I can leave the country for my safety.Thank’s and God bless you.
Yours sincerely,
Nelson Daniel
Yeah, thanks Nelson. Something tells me we won’t be doing business anytime soon
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2 Responses
Andy Squibb Says:
Count me in. Sounds like a cracking deal from an honest, straight up chap.
David Hurst Says:
My fave is the car buyers… http://www.davidhurst.co.uk/2007/04/23/ill-buy-yer-car-mate-but-can-i-pay-by-cheque/
