Anyone else get this email? Lol... FROM: MR PETER AMED. AUDITTING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER, BANK OF AFRICAN (BOA) OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA. TOP SECRET DEAR FRIEND, I AM MR.PETER AMED,THE AUDITTING MANAGER OF BANK OF AFRICAN (BOA) BURKINA FASO IN WEST AFRICAN CONTINENT. DURING MY INVESTIGATION AND AUDITTING IN THIS BANK,I CAME ACROSS A VERY HUGE SUM OF MONEY BELONGING TO A DECEASED PERSON WHO DIED ON 31ST OCTOBER 1999 IN A PLANE CRASH WITH HIS WIFE: VIEW THE SITE : (zenpageweavers.com/malikahti/journal/flight.htm) AND CNN NEWS: (cnn.com/US/9910/31/egyptair.families.02/) BANK OF AFRICA GOT INFORMATION AFTER HIS DEATH THAT HIS TWO CHILDREN WHICH THEIR NAMES DID NOT MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE SITE WERE AMONG THE VICTIMS.THE BANKING LAW AND GUIDLING HERE STIPULATES THAT IF SUCH FUND REMAINED UNCLAIMED AFTER TEN YEARS IT WILL BE TRANSFERED INTO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED FUND AND THE FUND HAS BEEN DORMANT IN HIS ACCOUNT WITH THIS BANK WITHOUT ANY CLAIM OF THE FUND IN OUR CUSTODY EITHER FROM HIS FAMILY OR RELATION BEFORE MY DISCOVERY TO THIS ISSUE.THE SAID AMOUNT WAS US$13.7M (THIRTEEN MILLON SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS). MEANWHILE THE TRANSFER OF THIS FUND WILL REQUIRE A SECOND PARTY OR FELLOW WHO WILL FORWARD CLAIM AS THE NEXT OF KIN OR BUSINESS PARTNER OF THE DECEASED TO THE BANK OF AFRICA,AND ALSO PRESENT A FOREIGN ACCOUNT WHERE THE FUND WILLBE RE-TRANSFERRED AFTER PAYMENT APPROVAL IS GRANTED.SO,THE REQUEST OF FOREIGNER AS NEXT OF KIN OR BUSINESS PARTNER ON THIS TRANSACTION IS OCCASSIONED BY THE FACT THAT THE CUSTOMER WAS A FOREIGNER AND I, AS A BURKINABE CANNOT STAND AS NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED. MOREOVER,I WILL NOT FAIL TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE. AND ON SMOOTH CONCLUSION OF THIS TRANSACTION,YOU WILL BE ENTITLED TO 40% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS GRATIFICATION, WHILE 10% WILL BE SET ASIDE TO TAKE CARE OF EXPENSES THAT MAY ARISE DURING THE TIME OF TRANSFER AND ALSO TELEPHONE BILLS, WHILE 50% WILL BE FOR ME. DUE TO THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DORMANT FOR MANY YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE OWNER,YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT AN UPFRONT EXPENSES WILL BE INVOLVE ON THIS TRANSACTION BEFORE THE FUND WILL BE TRANSFERRED INTO ANY OF YOUR ACCOUNT BY THE BANK OF AFRICA. AND IT'S BOTH OF US THAT WILL PAY AN UPFRONT EXPENSES WHICH WILL BE INVOLVED ON THIS TRANSACTION IN ORDER TO ENSURE A SMOOTH ANDSUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF THE FUND TO YOUR ACCOUNT. I WILL BE HERE IN THE BANK OF AFRICA AND MONITOR THE WHOLE TRANSACTION WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE UNTIL YOU CONFIRM THE TOTAL FUND IN YOUR ACCOUNT PEACEFULLY.ONCE YOU CONFIRMED THE TOTAL FUND IN YOUR ACCOUNT SUCCESSFULLY, I WILL COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR MY OWN SHARE OF THE FUND.UPON RECIEPT OF A POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM YOU,I WILL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE TRANSACTION AND APPLICATION FORM YOU SHOULD SUBMIT TO THE BANK AS THE BENEFICIARY OF THE FUND. PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY VIA MY E-MAIL ADDRESS I WILL BE EXPECTING YOUR URGENT REPLY. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION. YOURS FAITHFULLY, MR.PETER AMED. Code (markup):
Nope, it's about the 5th time, but I think it's weird because it's got news links on it, CNN. Also I think it was manually sent =|
But most of these use such big names to make them sound legitimate I hope no one actually falls for these... lol..
i think this its called "idiot tax" if people really fall for this. and remember: THERE ARE NO LOWERCASE KEYS ON AFRICAN KEYBOARDS!!!
Oh my god, what a great offer! You should accept and send them the money they need, before they give the offer to someone else..
Actually......there are. As I got a few e-mails with scams written in normal lowercase. But regardless.....these scams are pretty idiotic and I wonder if anyone has fallen for them yet. Tracking how many people buy into it would a great CNN story within itself. Interesting is the fact that most of these originate from Africa. I think they chose it because it is most difficult to trace and verify facts in the countries there.
It is definitely a Junk mail. If you are using Outlook, you can download Zonealarm (latest version) as now it comes with junk mail filter plus phishing. Now I have lesser junk emails as all are directly into that folder. It will be automatically delete after 1 day. This helps to reduce my eyes' stress.
these spams are making me angry but then you only have the smilie for being mad! i get a lot of these, and am pretty much sure we can't do anything just declair them as spam and ignore them! i still remember, someone has given a suggestion, to submit these spammers email id's to p0rn sites! anyways, just forget it
we can just drive them mad and keep an default long and hard-to-understand response somewhere and c&p them back, or ask them difficult questions about the transaction just to waste their time
i get about 200 spam emails per day. luckily gmail filters out 99.999% of them.....I only get spam in my inbox about once a month. just think if it was true though.... oh... i think they meant the name to be 'ahmed' not amed in the letter..and the use of the word 'huge' when describing the money is not very obviously a scam is it?