I'm Rich!!!

[KeLviN]

e-mail recieved yesterday:


ATTN:

I am mariamabacha, the widow of Sani Abacha THE Late
Nigerian Head of State.You were introduced to me
through the Chamber of Commerce. I am presently in
distress and under house arrest while my son Mohammed
is undergoing trial in Lagos and Abuja.He is presently
detained in prison custody. The government has frozen
all the family account and auctioned all our
properties. To save the family from total bankruptcy I
have managed to ship through an undercover courier
company, the sum of US20,000,000.00.kept by my late
husband.The money was disguised to beat the Nigerian
Security and it is currently deposited in a security
company. I want you to receive the money and pay into
your Account for the family safely.I am offering you
30% for assisting me secure this money fast before it
is located by the Nigerian Government Agents.Contact
me immediately with my Email Address so that I can
forward to you all necessary details. Endeavour to
send you phone and fax numbers for easy
Communications.
Best regards.
mariamabacha.



so, you think i should call her back?
of course it's fake, but what is the point of this letter? they allready have my e-mail address.... are they fishing for phone numbers? why? phone numbers are not that important... can anyone see a point?

[Chris]

http://www.haxial.com/fraud/mikeaba.html

[astcell]

If you want to take one of these scam artists for a ride on their own scam, try this:

http://www.buddyweiserman.com/

[blackwave]

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Originally posted by astcell
If you want to take one of these scam artists for a ride on their own scam, try this:

http://www.buddyweiserman.com/

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[ashman]

Hah! It's up to 30% now. When I first got that they were only offering 10% :)

[converge]

Ya!! They didn't offer me that same deal? Am I not worthy of a high profile scam?

[Mr Sneak007]

This is called the advance fee scam, they suck you in then get you to send funds to cover costs while they arrange transfer. Do not get involved.

I recenty had a meeting with a client who claimed to be ex S.A.S. (uk speacial forces) who wanted to invest funds that he claimed were waiting to be picked up in a Hanger in Amsterdam. This differed from normal scams in that he had claimed to have met the people while on duty and that they didn't want any money up front. We contacted interpol who arranged a meeting to pick up the funds. And they were indeed there!! It was in all the National Papers!! So had this guy kept it to himself then he may have been a millionaire!!!

[Chris]

Originally posted by Mr Sneak007
This is called the advance fee scam, they suck you in then get you to send funds to cover costs while they arrange transfer. Do not get involved.

Really? You mean this perfect stranger didn't really select Kelvin specifically to get in on the ground floor of this fabulous money making opportunity?

This is a scam? Wow, who'd have guessed!

[astcell]

Hmm, buddy has his permissions hacked I guess. But here is a good place to start:

http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Fraud/Advance_Fee_Fraud/

[KeLviN]

Originally posted by Chris
Really? You mean this perfect stranger didn't really select Kelvin specifically to get in on the ground floor of this fabulous money making opportunity?

you mean i'm not special?! :(

[^Dash^]

She wants you

I think you should call her back !!!
She's got the do' so go for it....

[Verruckt]

Those are so damn annoying. My linux users group regularly gets about 3 or 4 of those a week. God this scam has been around forever. Hasn't every single person on the internet gotten one already? Surely they have run out of victims by now...

[astcell]

I like it when the spam has an 800 number to call. Call them from a pay phone, they have to pay for every incoming call, so spam them back! Of course I think this is fraud is some law somewhere....

[KeLviN]

what are all the 800 numbers now....
i know it's:
800
888

but i think there are more.....

[astcell]

877