I was just checking through my e-mail when I noticed there were a couple of junk folders. Of course, Gmail really does a great job of filter spam. But what I read gave me a laugh. I thought I might share to you one of the 'features' of phishing e-mails. Of course, it was 'top' quality. ibrahim zongo <xxxxxxxx@hotmail.fr> * FROM THE DESK OF MR IBRAHIM ZONGO THE BILL & EXCHANGE MANAGER BANKE OF AFRICA (BOA) Dear Friend, First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET. However after series of petition was recieved by this present regime from foreign contractors and inability of the BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)to fulfill their obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors, in conjunction with the council of ministers, they mandated us to carry out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign contractors and to effect payments immediately. During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.M (Ten million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about the Plane Crash: www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 50% would be for me, while 10% will be for expenses incure during the transaction. There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will only take us14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do and move the fund into your account without any delay and thatyou should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangement have been made for the transfer. You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data information of the deceased customer. your faithfully MR IBRAHIM ZONGO THE BILL & EXCHANGE MANAGER BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) You'll probably find a ton of grammatical errors. Amusing, that Mr 'Ibrahim Zongo' signed up for a French Hotmail account.
I receive these kinds of emails in my junk mail folder and robots are also submitting to my website contact us form. I think this is featured in dateline.
I receive this type of email on a daily basis really, sometimes several. All go into my Junk and are never/rarely ever read (Depends how bored i am).
Why do you read such crap Even if I open such an email I just delete it without reading (though sometimes I do but somtimes). It's a waste of time & it doesn't worth reading IMO