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did anyone else here recieve this E-mail?

Post by emp|typ|athetic » Mon Jun 16, 2003 6:37 pm

chuguel@lycos.com wrote:(Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL)

DR. PATRICE SASU ULOAKU.
Director,
Auditing and Accounting,
Financial Trust Bank,
Cotonou - Benin,
West Africa.

Dear Sir,
URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
BANK TRANSFER OF US$15.2M ( FIFTEEN MILLION,TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS)

With due respect and regard, I have decided to contact you in regard to a business transaction
that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the said transaction .
As it may interest you, I got your impressive information through my good friend who works with
the chambers of commerce on foreign bussiness relations here in cotonou .


During our annual audit in this bank,my department again came across a very huge sum of money belonging
to a foreign investor who we believe is deceased.His accounts has been dormant for over a decade now
The said investor will today be 102 years, judging from his age and from the fact that his account has
not recorded any payment or withdrawal for over 20 years,we came to the obvious conclussion that
is must be deceased.

I and my colleagues have decided to seek for your assistance to enable us transfer this huge sum of money
overseas for our own private use.
Meanwhile all the whole arrangements has been done to put claim over this fund and have it transfered to
your bank account as the bonafide next of kin.
All files and computerized records that has to do with this transfer will be permanently destroyed immediately
after this transaction is done,this will guarantee 100% security for all involved.

In fact we could have done this transaction alone but because of our positions in this country as civil
servants, we are not allowed to operate foreign bank accounts by law and would not like to raise eye
brows.
This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow in whose account this money will go.

All you need to do is to open account with a German Bank called COMMERZ BANK in Frankfurt-Germany.
We have already concluded all arrangement with the Manager of this Bank, She will be waiting for your call
for the immediate execution of this business.

COMMERZ BANK (FRANKFURT BRANCH)
MRS. PETRA KOHLER (Manager)
Private Telephone: 0049 160-98700229.
Email:(kohler@execs.com)

She will set up a coperate account on your behalf (You need not to travel to Germany yet),she would send
you as well as us your bank details, and we will immediately transfer the above mentioned sum of money
in to that account.
Our representatives would then fly and meet you in any country of your choice in-order to have an intimate
and physical contact with you.You will have to thereafter direct MRS. PETRA KOHLER to transfer the money from
your COMMERZ BANK account to any of your designated Bank account in your country.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. For your assistance, you will be
entitled to 25% of the total sum as gratification, while 75% will be for me,my colleagues and Mrs.Kohler.

Please, you are adviced to keep this top secret as we are still in service.I will be monitoring the whole
situation from here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account.

Yours faithfully,
DR.PATRICE SASU ULOAKU.

Note:For further inquiries, strictly contact me through (uloaku@presidency.com)
some of you must have heard of this 'african scam' going on.
like i get all my world news updates, i read about it at SA. I never figured i might be a target myself. :?
im really quite flatterd, given the fact that i'm actuallly ass-flat broke..
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Post by Arigatomina » Mon Jun 16, 2003 6:46 pm

Wow! I thought it was just me. I haven't gotten that version, but I have received two other versions with basically the same message - give me your account information so I can drain it of everything it has while I pretend you'll be getting money deposited. It's a pretty sad attempt at a scam, though. I haven't heard any news about an 'african scam,' but it's nice to know it's a common thing. I can't see any reason they'd target my email address - it's too 'out-there' - and not connected in any way to my actual identity.

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Post by jonmartensen » Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:19 pm

Try to call the number collect.
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Post by Veldrin » Mon Jun 16, 2003 9:00 pm

I've gotten another version of that. Pretty sad, yet funny.

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Post by EarthCurrent » Mon Jun 16, 2003 9:48 pm

This is a modification of the Nigerian banking scam.

http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml

If it really bothers you, you can contact your local treasury Department field office about the email.

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Post by Lyrs » Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:20 am

:cry: I didn't get one. :cry:

damn that hotmail spam control!

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