Well, this is probably the most interesting scam emails I have yet to read come into my inbox with the subject: A PROFITABLE BUSINESS PROPOSAL!!! Attnlease, DO GO THROUGH THIS PROPOSAL CAREFULLY REPLY BACK TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW I represent a top oil company as an executive in Russia. My name is Nicholas Poloskoval (MR) and I am the Personal Accountant to the organization I have a very sensitive and private offer from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile some offshore investment funds worth over US$55,000,000 (Fifty Five Million United States Dollars). I am constrained however to withold most of the details for now. But in summary the invested funds are in a bank in western Europe, we need to terminate this investments and re-profile the funds over to you for certain reasons. This is due to the major proble between the Russia government and one time the bigest oil Company in Russia (YUKOS OIL) in Russia presently. This is a legitimate transaction, if we are agreed on the terms you will be paid 10% for "re-profiling and subsequent management of the funds" . If you are interested, please write back by email to please with your trusted personal telephone numbers and email address and I will give you further details. Note that i am presently in Europe for now due to this project,as soon as you get back to me with a positive result we shall proceed on this project immediately.Your personal telephone number is required for proper communication please. Please keep this close to your chest as much as possible; we cannot afford any political problems. Write me back. I look forward to it. Best regards, Nicholas Poloskoval (MR) Private email : So yep, if any of you are interested go ahead and email the guy. I think it's pretty interesting because now this guy has an oil company...what a coincadence with all the Americans and the oil issues.
I always dismissed these as complete and utter spam. Recently however, ive been told that in the UK you do get the occasional nigerian who will want to buy your house for twice the price if he can pay cash. Now clearly he is trying to launder money, but you could actually claim ignorance and say that you didnt now it was illegal to take this money. For an ordinary citizen in the UK you could do this once or twice, if you were an accountant you would get disbarred... What if these emails are actually true? These nigerians/russians might actually be wanting to launder money? Anyone need $5.5m?
Usually these emails are just a means other gathering your personal information such as emails, phone numbers etc... to be later used for spam, marketing and maybe even fraud.