What's a little fraud among friends?

[Tigger_Magic]

I was feeling out of the loop until I opened my email this morning. Finally I hit the jackpot! I hope I can get some pixie dust because I sure could use $8,640,000 right now.

And don't start thinking about horning in on my sweet deal either!

FROM DR SAMUEL DOSSA
ROYAL FINANCE AND TRUST BANK,
RUE CLUB DE FIFADJI,
1551 B.P. 00235 COTONOU,
BENIN REPUBLIC.

TEL +229-95402586
FAX +229-22324246

Compliments Of The Day, Permit me to introduce myself to you. My name
is Dr. Samuel Dossa a top Management Official of the above Finance Corporation in Cotonou,Benin Republic I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable person/company to handle an important assingment on behalf of my Colleagues and myself.

PROPOSITION: An Australian Engr MICHEAL ALLEN, a prosperous oil\Gold
merchant had in our Bank the sum of $28.5million in a domiciliary
account.Unfortunately, he was involved in a recent ghastly
motoraccident in Benin Republic,which lead to his untimely demise.
Efforts had been made by the management of my bank through the Australian
Embassy to contact any of the deceased children but to no avail. We later
discovered that he had no children.Given the skeletal information available to the bank, it has so far been impossible to reach any of the relatives.

The situation left for the Management is to declare the deceased
account dormant and revert the funds to trading for interest to the Bank. In
order to avoid this development, my Colleagues and I now seek your approval
to have you stand as a distant relative to Engr MICHEAL ALLEN,so that the
money would be released to you.All documents and proofs to enable you get the money will be carefully packaged once we receive your consent on this
proposal.I shall apply for a leave as soon as the funds get into your
reliable account to come to your country for sharing and investments
which you will assist me in doing.

May I assure you that this is safe and risk-free, as we have taken care
of all necessary modalities to ensure a hitch-free movement. I have the
authority of my partners involved in this assignment to propose that
should you be willing to assist us in this, your share would be 30 %.I
have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint
me. As soon as I hear from you I will send to you all the evidence and
proof.

Best Regards,
Dr. Samuel Dossa

 

[golfgal]

There was a notice in the drive thru window at the bank about these types of fraud cases. I know about 13 years ago the church we attended got a letter something like this in the mail, way before email was popular and had it investigated by a lawyer, etc. who couldn't find anything "wrong". They were about to act on it when someone in the church found out about it and stopped them.

 

[NJBlackBerry]

P.T. Barnum was right

 

[Tracey1974]

I get those almost every month to my work email- I just forward them onto my boss as my "resignation letter.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

I'm am waiting anxiously for Dr. Dossa's response to my reply to his offer. I could be set for life -- or for a few months of wretched excess -- depending on how quickly I squander my ill-gotten gain. I wonder if the IRS will want a cut? Maybe Dr. Dossa can help me set up an off-shore account in the Bahamas to stash my loot.

 

[Kim&Chris]

Good 'ol Sammy Dossa....he's so generous and thoughtful.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Good 'ol Sammy Dossa....he's so generous and thoughtful.

Too bad he corked his bat while playing for the Cubs...hopefully he'll still make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame!!

 

[Duckbarn]

This is an email that came to me at work.....



Hello!!!

How are you doing? I have found your email in Internet and decided write to you. My name is Ekaterina. I am 27 years old. Live in Russia, city Kirov. I am cheerful woman, for an entertainment like to do many things as sports meets, a camping, go to the cinema, theatre etc. In a word I like to do all that all people. I work in marketing structure on sale of cosmetics Oriflame. I have good life here. I not the rich woman, but can provide myself. I like to travel. I travelled to many countries. Never was in the USA, but I think that this good place to live and be happy. I know the English language well enough. I began to study professional English language several months ago and I do successes every day. Several months ago I started process of registration of the visa to travel in the USA. Now my visa is made practically out and in 2-4 days I can travel in the USA. I have received holiday from work till November, 20 and now I have a free time. I can take trip to some countries, but as the visa to visiting the USA already practically in my hands I prefer to take trip to the USA. It is interesting to me look what life there. Now I am in Moscow and I wait reception of the visa. I could fly in the USA in some days, but there is a problem which stops me. I planned to fly in the USA together with my girlfriend, but unfortunately her plans for trip in USA have changed and now I do not know what to do. A problem in that that I cannot fly in the USA because I know nobody in your country. I cannot fly to the country where I know nobody and consequently I have decided to write to you the letter. Possible It will be sounds silly but if you are interested a meeting with the nice woman, I shall like to meet you sometime soon! I never got acquainted through the Internet before but as my girlfriend cannot go in the USA together with me I decided to find the man which is interested in a meeting with the girl from Russia. I do not know your ideas about my letter, but it would be fine if we could meet and have some weeks together. On my trip I want to receive rest from my work and a life in Russia. Also the basic purpose for the future is search correct men for serious attitudes which go to a marriage. I have no children, but I want to have children in the future. I the mature woman also am ready to creation of family with correct the man. I do not know what you really search in the future but if we could meet I shall be happy to discuss with you more about our meeting. Please, write what your purposes and plans for the future? What you search in a life? What are you going to do this autumn? It would be fine if we could meet, do friendship or more than simply friendship. I shall be happy if you also have a free time and we could meet soon. I do not know your interests, but anyhow write to me back and I shall tell to you more about myself. Write to me all that you want. Probably we have similar plans and the purposes for the future and it will be interesting to us together.

I have easy character and you can write all that you want.
Ask any questions which interest you.
Write back and I shall tell more about myself and I shall send some my photos.

Please write to me back to: katyy@mail15.com

Have a good day,
Ekaterina
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Could this be real?

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Looks like I've got a "live" one. I wonder how long I can string this guy along... (suggestions for replies welcome!).

Dear Johnson,
Thanks for your mail. I am sorry for waking you up from sleep. Below is the detail of this transaction.
Following your positive response to my proposal, I want to tell you that this transaction needs urgency, truth, trust, sincerity, commitment and confidentiality. We must observe these principles to succeed. I want you to see this transaction as a mutual benefit for both of us and not as my personal problem. All of us must show commitment to make the project a huge success.

Meanwhile these are the steps we have to take to actualize the transaction:

1: LEGAL BACKING -

I am going to back up the transaction legally so that no authority will question the funds. You will be presented as the beneficiary and next of kin to late Engr Michael Allen and court/legal documents will be obtained to support the claims. I will consult and pay a high court attorney or justice of peace to get the legal documents which will confirm you as the beneficiary of the funds. The documents are very costly but I will take care of the expenses. They are 'the letter of administration without a will' and 'the affidavit of facts'.
I will send copies of the documents to you as soon as the lawyer gets them.

2: APPROVALS -

After obtaining the court documents, the next step would be getting approvals and foreign exchange allocation from the federal ministry of finance. This will cost me money too. In this country, obtaining official documents is not easy without spending money especially when it involves transfer of huge sums of money as in this our project, but you don’t have to worry as I am going to take care of the expenses.

3: SIGNING OF THE FOREIGN PAYMENT VOUCHER.

- Third stage will be the issuing of final approval by my bank for the transfer of the funds. At this stage, you will be invited by the bank to come to Cotonou here in Benin republic to sign the final fund release order documents or foreign payment voucher in the presence of the management of my bank. This is a statutory obligation on the beneficiary and if such document is not signed, the bank will not transfer the funds. If you cannot come to Africa, we can make a special arrangement for you to sign the documents and claim the funds in Europe preferably London or Amsterdam.

After signing the final fund release order, if your bank operates online you will be there in London or Amsterdam, to confirm that the fund is in your account before traveling back to your Country. The fund will be transferred to your nominated account within 48 hours. Once you confirm receipt of the money in your account I will resign my appointment here, get the vital travel documents and immigrate to your country to meet you for sharing and investment of the funds. I want you to know also that I want to invest my own share of the Money in America and I hope that you will help me to find a better investment to invest on.

Therefore send to me without delay, your name and contact address direct phone and fax numbers including your nominated a/c information where you want the funds to be transferred. An empty account is okay.

Please don’t feel embarrassed about the following question
a) How old are you?
b) Are you married?)
c) What is your position in the company?
d) Are you sure that you can handle this transaction and give a better advice when the need arrive. I am 52 years old and married with three children. Attached below is my international passport, death certificate and last statement of account of Engr Allen. I will like you also to send to me your international passport copy or any form of Identification.

Thanks and remain blessed.
Regards

Dr. Samuel Dossa

His email came with several attachments -- photos of an alleged death certificate and passport and something that looks like a bank account statement.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Wow... who needs the lottery when you've got e-mail! This came in my e-mail this afternoon. The money just keeps pouring in. Hello lifestyles of the rich and not-yet-famous!!

OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
20 Howard Barking London, 7UA11G
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer's Service Center)

Ref Number: MSN/231OXI/04
Batch Number: 12L/2005/04

ATTENTION:WINNING RESULT/ AWARD NOTIFICATION

This is to announce to you the result of the MICROSOFT PROMOTIONS held on the 12th of October 2005 in ENGLAND AND WALES . Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5224652456UT with serial number 5388/02, batch number 12L/2005/04, lottery ref number MSN/231OXI/04 and drew lucky numbers
08 - 15 - 17 - 22 -35 - 40 bonus ball 09
which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of ₤850,000(Eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling)in cash credited to file KLTT/KTU/2005ETN.This is from a total cash prize of ₤8.5 Million pounds sterlings, shared amongst the first TEN (10) lucky winners in this second category. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security Protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. The Lottery Draw facility uses special software to generate over 40,000 companies and 20,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world at random. The ball sets and machines are tested by independent bodies in order to ensure that they all operate in a random fashion and that they act in a similar manner. Statisticians regularly check the draw history and test the data for signs of bias.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
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FIDUCIARY AGENT
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Remember, all winning in this second category must be claimed not later than 1st of November 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.
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Sincerely,
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Co-ordinator
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