Solve : Shall I reply to his letter?

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Answer» Hi all, I received an email letter from someone who claimed himself to be a Dr. from somewhere, and here is what he wrote to me: Quote HELLO FRIEND, how are you doing?hope you are fine. Now i have the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINETEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (19,300,000.00) for our mutual benefit. this is an abandoned fund that belonged to one of our foriegn customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash DISASTER since few years ago. meanwhile i was very fortunate to come across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers file inoder to sign and submitto the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008. be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund REMAINS unclaimed till the period of 8yaers starting from the date of death of the customer,the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as an unclaimed fund. As an honour and advantage bestowed to our foriegn customers base on the rules guiding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a citizen of Burkina-Faso,you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foriegner despite your differences from country of origin of the deceased. on the transfer of this fund into your account,(39%)being(U.S$7,527,000.00)will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,(52%)being(U.S$10,036,000.00)will be my share being the coorfdinator and pillar of the transaction while the rest (9%)being(U.S$1,737,000.00)will be shared to the respectable charity homes which has been my second dream to be of help to humanity. Now,if you are really sure of your trustworthy,accountability and confidentiality on this transaction without dissapointment,reply&contact me through my private telephone number(00 226 78 217 634)for further details.i expect your letter. I wonder if this is a trap, so I paste the context here. Please advise me! Thanks! kittyIf I were you, I would not. Its just another scam..You can be 100% sure it's a scam. It's probably originating from Nigeria. See this: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp or do a Google search on Nigerian email scams for plenty more.It's called a 419 scam. after Article 419 of the Nigerian Penal Code which forbids this type of offence. Even if it was true, you would be guilty of conspiracy to steal. (All the best confidence tricks RELY on the greed of the victim.) If you thought it was true, do you still believe in fairies and Father Christmas? It sounds like a big scam where you have to give so much money to get some back that you never do. I didnt read the whole thing but it sounds like one of those. Where would this money come from NINETEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND ? The money would be given to the nearst family member if it was true.Quote If you thought it was true, do you still believe in fairies and Father Christmas? Look, she was smart enough to bring this to us, wasn't she? Perhaps sarcasm isn't necessary. The Russians / Ukrainians love me, lately. I get all kinds of e-mail lately about my customer service resume on Monster, and how I'd be just great at being a transaction agent to move monies for them -- everything from real estate to antiques and other items. $3K a month or more is promised to me, if they can move monies into an account I set up. Yeah, I know --they're probably laundering money. My financial situation is dire enough that it kills me every time I get one -- you don't know how true and how real I want these offers to be. (My opinion is that the economy has sucked since the dot-com crash in 2000 - 2001, but I digress...) So yeah, I want there to be a Father Christmas -- what he represents: the spirit of unselfish giving, and truly caring about your neighbor. Fairies? I wouldn't mind a little magic, myself. I am old, frustrated, and cynical. The scams have been around for years, Kitty -- the internet just makes it all the easier and more efficient to spread them around. Thanks for bringing this example to us, and good on you for trusting yourself enough to wonder if it MIGHT be for real... Sorry, Aegis, but con artists rely on people being gullible. 3,000 dollars a month is slightly above the low end for a clerical/admin/customer service job where I live, and you don't run the risk of being arrested and imprisoned for conspiracy to launder money. If law enforcement agencies go onto these guys, who do you think would be left holding the baby? You. Yes, they do rely on people being gullible, and greedy -- too many of us willing to take shortcuts, willing to go for the easy money... It not how many are, its those that dont know its not true.Quote It not how many are, its those that dont know its not true. Good point. It's easy to think that people are just, somehow, gonna know what's real and what's not real.They send quite a few of these out. Depending how succesful they are is whom every sends back. True that they keep tring an will always be differnt but it should stop ones like these from reappearing.What amazes me is that anyone would think for more than 0.00001 second that they might get some money out of one of these schemes. Just think about it. You get an ill-spelled ungrammatical email from a stranger in another country, probably another continent, who says they need your help to steal some money that is not theirs (and not yours) from a bank account. Or the Russian mafia or Colombian druglords or whatever want to launder money through your account. These crooks need your help? They are self confessed criminals whose chosen method is deceit and fraud, yet you are supposed to believe they will be honest with you? Suspending disbelief for a moment longer, there is the question of what your bank will do when 16 million dollars comes into your checking account from Nigeria. You think they'll just quietly credit it to you? Just about every country now has laws in place to prevent money laundering. My own British bank will freeze, pending query, any non-preadvised deposit over £10,000, that is 20,000 US dollars. They harvest email addresses from people who are careless enough to place them on websites so that a "bot" can harvest them. In so doing, such people are advertising to the whole world that they are -- shall we say -- not the most cautious of individuals. Next stage in the filtering process is if you reply. Now you have ascended to the 2nd rank of, er, dummies. They know that you are the sort of person who might very well fall for the scam. Now they try to get your bank account, date of birth, etc details out of you. Another possibility is that they ask you for money, to help with fees or to bribe a bank official. If you comply, you have reached the 3rd stage. Payday for the scammers! Either by identity theft or by fooling you into paying advance fees, they bleed you dry. If I don't know where the message came from then I would just forget about it, I normally would just erase it and if I get more from the same person I would just block him out of my email address.Quote from: internetnova on March 14, 2008, 11:15:21 AM If I don't know where the message came from then I would just forget about it, I normally would just erase it and if I get more from the same person I would just block him out of my email address. Same here Quote You get an ill-spelled ungrammatical email from a stranger in another country, probably another continent Cheap shot of the day: I get that from people in this country. I get that from businesses. I get that from people whom I would expect to know better, or at least use the resources AVAILABLE to them to make better presentations. Your point is well taken, though.

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Hi all,

I received an email letter from someone who claimed himself to be a Dr. from somewhere, and here is what he wrote to me:

Quote

HELLO FRIEND,

how are you doing?hope you are fine.
Now i have the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINETEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (19,300,000.00) for our mutual benefit.
this is an abandoned fund that belonged to one of our foriegn customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash DISASTER since few years ago.
meanwhile i was very fortunate to come across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers file inoder to sign and submitto the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008.

be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund REMAINS unclaimed till the period of 8yaers starting from the date of death of the customer,the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as an unclaimed fund.
As an honour and advantage bestowed to our foriegn customers base on the rules guiding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a citizen of Burkina-Faso,you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foriegner despite your differences from country of origin of the deceased.

on the transfer of this fund into your account,(39%)being(U.S$7,527,000.00)will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,(52%)being(U.S$10,036,000.00)will be my share being the coorfdinator and pillar of the transaction while the rest (9%)being(U.S$1,737,000.00)will be shared to the respectable charity homes which has been my second dream to be of help to humanity.

Now,if you are really sure of your trustworthy,accountability and confidentiality on this transaction without dissapointment,reply&contact me through my private telephone number(00 226 78 217 634)for further details.i expect your letter.

I wonder if this is a trap, so I paste the context here.
Please advise me!
Thanks!

kittyIf I were you, I would not.
Its just another scam..You can be 100% sure it's a scam. It's probably originating from Nigeria. See this: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp or do a Google search on Nigerian email scams for plenty more.It's called a 419 scam. after Article 419 of the Nigerian Penal Code which forbids this type of offence. Even if it was true, you would be guilty of conspiracy to steal. (All the best confidence tricks RELY on the greed of the victim.) If you thought it was true, do you still believe in fairies and Father Christmas?

It sounds like a big scam where you have to give so much money to get some back that you never do. I didnt read the whole thing but it sounds like one of those. Where would this money come from NINETEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND ? The money would be given to the nearst family member if it was true.Quote

If you thought it was true, do you still believe in fairies and Father Christmas?

Look, she was smart enough to bring this to us, wasn't she? Perhaps sarcasm isn't necessary.

The Russians / Ukrainians love me, lately. I get all kinds of e-mail lately about my customer service resume on Monster, and how I'd be just great at being a transaction agent to move monies for them -- everything from real estate to antiques and other items. $3K a month or more is promised to me, if they can move monies into an account I set up. Yeah, I know --they're probably laundering money. My financial situation is dire enough that it kills me every time I get one -- you don't know how true and how real I want these offers to be. (My opinion is that the economy has sucked since the dot-com crash in 2000 - 2001, but I digress...)

So yeah, I want there to be a Father Christmas -- what he represents: the spirit of unselfish giving, and truly caring about your neighbor. Fairies? I wouldn't mind a little magic, myself. I am old, frustrated, and cynical.

The scams have been around for years, Kitty -- the internet just makes it all the easier and more efficient to spread them around. Thanks for bringing this example to us, and good on you for trusting yourself enough to wonder if it MIGHT be for real...

Sorry, Aegis, but con artists rely on people being gullible. 3,000 dollars a month is slightly above the low end for a clerical/admin/customer service job where I live, and you don't run the risk of being arrested and imprisoned for conspiracy to launder money. If law enforcement agencies go onto these guys, who do you think would be left holding the baby? You.
Yes, they do rely on people being gullible, and greedy -- too many of us willing to take shortcuts, willing to go for the easy money...
It not how many are, its those that dont know its not true.Quote

It not how many are, its those that dont know its not true.

Good point. It's easy to think that people are just, somehow, gonna know what's real and what's not real.They send quite a few of these out. Depending how succesful they are is whom every sends back. True that they keep tring an will always be differnt but it should stop ones like these from reappearing.What amazes me is that anyone would think for more than 0.00001 second that they might get some money out of one of these schemes. Just think about it. You get an ill-spelled ungrammatical email from a stranger in another country, probably another continent, who says they need your help to steal some money that is not theirs (and not yours) from a bank account. Or the Russian mafia or Colombian druglords or whatever want to launder money through your account. These crooks need your help? They are self confessed criminals whose chosen method is deceit and fraud, yet you are supposed to believe they will be honest with you?

Suspending disbelief for a moment longer, there is the question of what your bank will do when 16 million dollars comes into your checking account from Nigeria. You think they'll just quietly credit it to you? Just about every country now has laws in place to prevent money laundering. My own British bank will freeze, pending query, any non-preadvised deposit over £10,000, that is 20,000 US dollars.

They harvest email addresses from people who are careless enough to place them on websites so that a "bot" can harvest them. In so doing, such people are advertising to the whole world that they are -- shall we say -- not the most cautious of individuals. Next stage in the filtering process is if you reply. Now you have ascended to the 2nd rank of, er, dummies. They know that you are the sort of person who might very well fall for the scam. Now they try to get your bank account, date of birth, etc details out of you. Another possibility is that they ask you for money, to help with fees or to bribe a bank official. If you comply, you have reached the 3rd stage. Payday for the scammers! Either by identity theft or by fooling you into paying advance fees, they bleed you dry.
If I don't know where the message came from then I would just forget about it, I normally would just erase it and if I get more from the same person I would just block him out of my email address.Quote from: internetnova on March 14, 2008, 11:15:21 AM

If I don't know where the message came from then I would just forget about it, I normally would just erase it and if I get more from the same person I would just block him out of my email address.

Same here Quote

You get an ill-spelled ungrammatical email from a stranger in another country, probably another continent

Cheap shot of the day: I get that from people in this country. I get that from businesses. I get that from people whom I would expect to know better, or
at least use the resources AVAILABLE to them to make better presentations.

Your point is well taken, though.

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