Sunday, February 26, 2006

Sucker

Fraud. Fraud. Fraud. I finally received one of these e-mails.

DEAR FRIEND.

This business proposal to you is strictly confidential, with due respect. Sorry at this perceived confusion or stress may have receiving this letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that, I am constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of it.By way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Mary Kobe, the wife of late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER [West African peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are trapped in obnoxious custom and raditional norms.

We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in the hands of my late husband's family, simply because I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken all that I suffered with my husband to acquire including treasures, houses and his bank particular seized by them. I wanted to escape to the abroad with my children on exile, but again they conspired and stole my international passport and other traveling document to further frustrate me.

Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code from a Security Company in EUROPE, that my late husband deposited U.S $14.2 Million cash with this security company in ONE OF THE EUROPEAN STATEs. It has therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact someone, a foreigner like you to help me receive/secure these funds overseas in a reliable bank Account (presumably an empty Bank Account, if available) and to help invest it on our behalf as well, while we find a way of getting out to meet with you in your country.

These funds are kept with the Security Company in EUROPE to avoid detection, seizure or diversion. I have had several telephone discussions with the Director of the security company in Europe,who has express willingness
to help me on meeting the company's demands. This is why I have contacted you to help save my children and
I, receive these funds on our behalf. But, you would need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help
me, you would not divert the funds.

My children and I have resolved to give you 20% of the total sum. This is all my children and I have got to live on.

Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not disappoint me. I look forward to your urgent response, including:

-name(s) in full
-your phone/ mobile No
-and also your fax no for easier communication
-your address

NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code)
for this fund are safely kept with me which I can give
you as soon as you express desire to help me.

Stay blessed.
MARY KOBE

NB
you may send your reply to this address: corre1000spond@msn.com

1 comment:

Emily said...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/n/nigeriascams.htm

There is more info at this link on the many different forms of this scam.

Truth Or Fiction is a great site if anyone hasn't heard of it, btw.

-Em