Most Pathethic 419 Scam Email Ever!

[JetsetBkk]

My name is Miss Letisha Aisha from Sierra leone and medical.dear I,m interesting to know more of you after seeing your email details here on the Internet as i want to relocate to your area for living and invest of my inheritance fund.

I know you will be surprise to receive this message from complete stranger from Sierra Leone you have never seen or meet or discuss with but it is a great pleasure writting and knowing you over here.

I know there is no violent and crisis in your country and that lead to my contact with you as i want to reside there.

I have contacted you before and no response or reply from you and wondering if you got early message i sent to you, please let me know if you receive this one again it by writting to my email below, please get back to me confirming the receipt of this message.

All i need from you is to help us get the total money transfered into your account for investment once we change the beneficiary in your name and favour as the person we authorise and empower for the clearance .

I am going to write to you and explain to you in details once i hear back from you.

I NEED YOUR DIRECT PHONE TO ENABLE ME CALL YOU AND DISCUSS WITH YOU AS THIS MESSAGE IS BEYOUND EXCHANGING ONLY EMAIL MESSAGE BECAUSE THE FUND IS THE ONLY HOPE OF MY LIFE AND LIVING AFTER THE DEATH OF MY PARENT IN WAR IN IVORY COAST.

Can we talk about it.you can send me through my e-mail [email protected]

please call me for us to discuss in details 00229-97689290

MY DATA:

MY NAME: MISS LETISHA AISHA

MY AGE: 25 YERARS

MY OCCUPATION: MEDICAL STUDENT BEFORE THE WAR STARTED AND IN LEVEL 2

MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE AND NO BABY YET

NATIONALITY: SIERRA LEONE

MY FATHERS DATA:

HIS NAME: MR. EZEH WILLIAM

OCCUPATION: EXPORTER OF GOLD DURST AND HE DEPOSITED LARGE QUANTITY OF GOLD DURST FOR ME IN THE INSITUTION HERE WHICH WORTH AND WILL DISCUSS ON THAT ONCE OUR FUND IS CLEARED AND TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FOR INVESTMENT AS ARRANGED.

AGE BEFORE HIS DEATH : 52

NATIONALITY: SIERRA LEONE |

and can i have your private email address to enable me send my photos and datas id and the deposit document for your perusal and understanding and please make sure you keep this to yourself as this money is the only hope of my life and living and am trusting and confiding in you after seeing your details on the Internet.

The amount deposited for me is valued $9.5million and please if you know you are capable to help me transfer the fund into your account you reply and call me on phone as this is beyound email writting on the internet.

Please if you are ready to work out this with me and help me, i will need your details as below.

I NEED YOUR TELEPHONE AND MOBILE..................................

I WANT TO KNOW YOUR OCCUPATION OR JOB...............................

FOR US TO TALK IN MORE DETAILS OVER MY FUND TRANSFER AND FOR ME TO BE 100% YOU CAN HANDLE THIS VENTURE

All i need is your honesty and trust and i will email you in details once i hear back from you.

Miss Letisha Aisha

I wonder if anyone ever replies?

[Carib]

I wonder if anyone ever replies?

Yes, that is why the keep on sending these things, only one fool needed, and the trouble to find that fool is just sending mails.

It is a kind of having your own website earnings.....but slightly different....

[naka]

They all seem pretty lame ... but have to agree, that one is a doozie.

Naka.

[Jockstar]

Thats definately the worst one i have seen. Check out this site for more and people winding them up.

http://www.419eater.com/

[Crushdepth]

I wonder if anyone ever replies? laugh.gif

I've responded a few times just out of idle curiosity to see if there was anyone really at the other end (of course there was, and to my suprise the IPs really were located in Nigeria).

A few weeks ago I received one about intellectual property/legal issues concerning registration of domain names same as our work site. It was carefully targeted and they had me going for a while - until it emerged that you could 'buy' the additional domains yourself to avoid legal complication, at which point the mighty Google quickly revealed it to be a scam. Kind of embarrasing to get sucked in to responding after receiving literally tens of thousands of similar things.

Edit: I love the gallery/trophy room page on that 419eater site. Bloody funny. The Scam-o-rama FAQ page is a good laugh too.

Edited May 23, 2008 by Crushdepth

[jstumbo]

People that are still getting these scams need to update their spam filters. No way something like this should have gotten through a spam filter.

You have to figure that the average person in Nigeria probably make around $1 a day. So if they could just get one person for $1000 a year, they would already be 3x the average salary for a person in Nigeria.

[JetsetBkk]

People that are still getting these scams need to update their spam filters. No way something like this should have gotten through a spam filter.

Actually, this was in my "Bulk mail" folder.

But sometimes I like to look to see what's been filtered out.

[jackk]

I found that one today in my spam folder.

It's the first time I get that kind of "you got scammed? Then get scammed one more time"

Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 20:12:42 +0100

From: "adamsjohn00054 Gazeta.pl" <[email protected]>

Subject: CONTACT OCEANIC BANK FOR WIRE TRANSFER

Attention Dear Beneficiary,

We are very sorry for what happen to you since last year,

Now listen the reason this money is coming to you is that the government of

this country has found that you was scammed since last year and they have

arrested those that scammed people.

So since yesterday after we did not hear from you or receive your mail we

have made arrangement with OCEANIC BANK BENIN REPUBLIC on how to transfer

your money into your bank account at your country and note that your money

which bank going to transfer is $800.000.00 and what you have to do right

now is to contact the bank immediately so that the manager will transfer

your money into your bank account and be informed that we have paid the bank

for the open of new account fee for you. now listen the money that remain

which you can pay to him is wire transfer fee which is only 150.00 to

transfer your money directly into your bank account at your coun try ok.

Try to contact bank through this.

HON.MR.TONY HUBERT OCEANIC BANK MANAGER

MANAGER'S PHONE NUMBER..00229-93840292

FAX..+229-97438

EMAIL....([email protected])

...

...

May God Be With you

from ups company Manager

Benin Republic

Dr.ADAMS JOHN

[JetsetBkk]

...the government of this country has found that you was scammed...

I hope they get some money from someone soon - and use it for English lessons.

[JetsetBkk]

Here's another I just got:

Attn:

I am Barrister Don Robert Don, a solicitor at law. I am the personal

Attorney to late Enger: J .E. MORGAN, a national of United States of

America, who is a Contractor and have spent most of his life in this country

(SPAIN) Here in after, shall be referred to as my client. On the 11th Of

March 2004, my client, his wife and their only son were involved in a Train

bombing accident in Atocha Train Station here in Madrid Spain.

All occupants of the Train unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have

made several enquiries to the embassy to locate any of my clients extended

relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives

over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but all to no avail.

Hence, I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the assets and Capital

valued at ($10. 5M) million dollars left behind by my late client before

they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Banco La Caixa Madrid

Spain where these huge deposits were lodged. The Banco La Caixa has issued

me a notice last week to provide the Next of Kin or have the account

confiscated within the next twenty Official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 4 years

now, I seek the consent to present you as the Next of kin to the deceased,

so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.

Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the

sharing ration and modalities for the transfer. I have all necessary

information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim.

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this

transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a

legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

As soon as you indicate an interest, send me an e-mail with the bellow

details.

1. Your full name and address

2. Your telephone and fax number

Waiting to hear from you.

Best regards,

Barr. Don Robert Don, Esq.

COPY YOUR REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS

[email protected]

TEL: +34 638-888-248

[raro]

received two good ones recently....one was posing as a US Marine who stole the gazillions off an Iraqi warlord and the other one even better:

A (good looking) Thai chick chats me up on yahoo messenger. No cam (what a surpise) but sends pictures. Works (so the story) at the World Bank in London. She is in charge for some food program and the world bank has some sort of a raffle where they give out some 6 Million USD (or was that pounds? Anyways....) to 10 lucky winners each year.

I continue asking her for nud_e pics (which I did not get...) and she continues asking me for my bank details (guess what... )...had some entertainment value for while.

[h90]

from time to time (say 6-12 month) I read about a silly Austrian (in Austrian newspapers) who lost 5-15.000 Euro.

So there seems to be plenty of people, considering that most keep it secret that they are so stupid

[tracer]

Thats definately the worst one i have seen. Check out this site for more and people winding them up.

http://www.419eater.com/

Very first time I had a HAND written letter was in (I guess) 1976.

I was at that time in Thailand and used as standard slightly different email addresses for memberships/subscriptions etc.

Having 3 firstnames one can vary any thing and made it a flexible system. I had those scammers writing to me supposedly while my office was being rebuild making a mess of phones etc in underdeveloped Thailand... Beauty was that a surface letter took about 6 weeks to find its way to me(!) and if you start thinking how many contradicting letters you can write in 6 weeks....

Pitty was that someone in my office answered unasked a letter and gave them my number....

[JetsetBkk]

This one is short and to the point! :

Ref:UK/9420X2/68

Batch:074/05/ZY369

You have won £750,000GBP.

To claim your prize,Contact Dr. Alan Brain with the following informations.

Name,Address,Age,Occupation,Country

Email:[email protected]

Sir. kolyn parkins.

I love the name! "kolyn"

Just Googled the name - he's well known, apparently: http://wordpress.com/tag/kolyn-parkins/

[Greenside]

Wasting their time or winding them up (if you've got the time) is the most satisfying strategy, I think. My company used to get 419's by mail as far back as the early 80's and despite all the publicity, people who you would otherwise expect to be intelligent fall for them all the time but are usually too embarrassed to admit it.

More anti scam sites

Quatloos! -- Cyber-Museum of Scams and Frauds...

Antiscam.Net - The Original Antiscam Site - Russian Women Blacklist

Is this email a scam ? Ask the Scam-O-Matic! (www.scamomatic.com)

Just sending false info back (from a disposable email address) must waste a good deal of their time. Here are a couple of resources for fake data to save you inventing your own, although if you have the energy that's sometimes fun.

Fake Name Gen

Credit Card Numbers (for testing websites not shopping, but see the mail the developer gets)

Outrageous Name Gen (click on "Make Me Fabulous" to start)

Somewhere I once followed the (real) story of a guy who led a Nigerian scammer on for months to the point where he'd convinced the thief that he was about to deposit a huge sum in the requested bank account via Western Union. There had been many "near misses" up to this point - aborted meetings at airports, transfers that went wrong due to the bank etc - but this was going to be the real thing. The scammer's expectation was at a peak (this was for about US$ 100,000) and so just to ensure that the cash was going to the right beneficiary, the "victim" called from his mobile as he was arriving to confirm the details. The call was recorded so you could follow the story on the website. Yes, the details were OK...He just arrived at the Western Union office, got out of the car still on the phone and to the sound of screeching tyres, a lot of screaming and shouting and a police siren in the distance was run over and instantly killed. A "passer by" picks up the phone and describes the scene. The scammer hangs up. Wonderful.

I think this story is on the Quatloos! site but can't find it again. If anyone does, maybe they'd PM me as I'd love to read it again.

Edited August 16, 2008 by Greenside

[JetsetBkk]

Acknowledge.

Although you might be apprehensive about my email as we have not met before i am Mr. Patrick Chan Executive Director of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Hong Kong.

An Iraqi named (Farouk Baseem), a businessman made a numbered fixed Deposit valued at Twelve million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, we later Found out that farouk baseem and his family had been killed during the war In bomb blast that hit there home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was.

We later discovered that Farouk Baseem did not declare any next of kin in his Official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit, my proposal is To put you as next of kin, should you be interested in executing this with me. Indicate your interest; mail me at my personal

E-mail: [email protected]

Sincerely,

Mr.Patrick Chan,

"where his personal oil well was"

[raro]

A customer of mine received recently enquiries from Cameroon and Benin with similar scams, they want to buy merchandise off him. I post more of it in the SME section now as a warning to the general public.

[mgjackson69]

I had someone contact me via Skype for a similar deal, bringing "gold dust" to Thailand to sell.

I strung her (purported to be female, who knows?) along for about two weeks, just for grins...then she disappeared.

[jackk]

That one is not an African scam, but the title is fun. I received it today and it was sent from Russia :

Subject: Going to Pattaya, take this

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 12:14:44 +0200

http://xxxxxxxx.com

VIAGRA

10 pills x 50mg $37.00 ($3.70 per pill)

30 pills x 50mg $69.00 ($2.30 per pill)

60 pills x 50mg $124.00 ($2.07 per pill)

90 pills x 50mg $179.00 ($1.99 per pill)

120 pills x 50mg $213.00 ($1.78 per pill)

http://xxxxxxxx.com

At least we know now where Russian spammers spend their holidays

[JetsetBkk]

This one's a real pisser for me as I know this charity and these bàstards are using their good name to scam people:

From: Queen Elizabeth's Foundation

Woodlands Road Leatherhead

Court Leatherheadd Surrey

KT22 0BN.

Dear Beneficiary,

Congratulations once again on behalf of the Donations Board. We do believe that your winnings will be put into good use for community, educational and business development. On Behalf of the Screening Committee of Donations Board, I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the Email Screening and Verification Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your Category.

Hence you are therefore cleared, your cheque has been issued and you can now claim your donation.

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of the above International charity organization branch in the England as one of the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, education and business development Association Of Queen Elizabeth's Foundations. in conjunction with the Queen Elizabeth's Foundations is giving out a yearly donation of 500,000.00GBP, Five Hundred Thousand Pound Sterling as specific Donations/Grants to 50 lucky international recipients worldwide in different categories for their

educational pursuit, health care, personal Business development and uplift of their environments.

These funds are freely given to you to use for your business educational and personal development and at least 30% to be used by you to develop a part of your environment, as this is a yearly program

Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in your country this year, and your country is not the only country that is benefiting from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen from countries from all continents. The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will be notable richness amongest many unusual people around the world. All necessary documents that will facilitate the issueing of your ATM CARD in your Name has been processed.

The documents have been securely sealed and packed for security reasons which makes it impossible for anyone to view it until its been delivered to you.

Note: that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you.

This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the national gambling act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3rd July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

For your ATM CARD to be remitted to you, be advised to contact Mr. Collins Brown with the details below and request im to start the processing of your ATM CARD, to enable you withdraw your grant funds at any of the ATM cashpoint in your locality.

Bank Name-----------Scotia Bank Plc

Contact Person-------Collins Brown

Tel------+447031907686

+447031930599

E-mail---------- [email protected]

Make sure you contact Scotia Bank with the above contact email address and also send them your personal info as stated below;

YOUR COMPLETE LEGAL NAME:

HOME OR OFFICE ADDRESS:

PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS:

E-MAIL:

Best Regards,

Mrs. Hope Doris

Woodlands Road Leatherhead

Court Leatherheadd Surrey

KT22 0BN..

*******************************************************

Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People is a registered charity No 251051.

Registered as a company limited by guarantee in London No 892013. Registered at Leatherhead.

[JetsetBkk]

How kind of the UN Secretary General to send me an email...

26-09-2008

Attention:

How are you doing today? Hope all is well with you and family?,You may not understand the reason why this mail is coming to you.We`ve been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS in the person of Mr.Kofi Anna.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$950,000.00

This includes every foriegn contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government probelms or irregularities etc.

We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees.

You have to contact Mr. Jim Ovia, our payment agent in West Africa, as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in West Africa, contact him immediately for your Cheque/International Bank Draft of US$950,000.00 This funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose. He will send it to you and you can clear it in any bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send him your full Names and telephone numbers/your correct mailing address where you want him to send the Draft to you and tell him your file Reference below RC NO 11,335

Contact Mr. Jim Ovia immediately for your Cashier Cheque:

Person to Contact:Mr. Jim Ovia

Email: [email protected]

Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your Bank Draft.

Making the world a better place for the sake of humanity. Give him your file RC NO 11,335 and you are free to contact him via telephone number which he will provide to you upon the receipt of your email.

Regards,

Dr. Ban Ki-Moon.

UN SECRETARY GENERAL

(UNITED NATIONS)

[silverhawk_usa]

Just received;

DEAR AMERICAN:

I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.

I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY

HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF

800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT

WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.

I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, WHO WILL BE MY

REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU

MAY KNOW HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION

MOVEMENT IN THE 1990S. THIS TRANSACTIN IS 100% SAFE.

THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY. WE NEED A BLANK CHECK. WE NEED THE

FUNDS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CANNOT DIRECTLY TRANSFER THESE FUNDS

IN THE NAMES OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS BECAUSE WE ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER

SURVEILLANCE. MY FAMILY LAWYER ADVISED ME THAT I SHOULD LOOK FOR A

RELIABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON WHO WILL ACT AS A NEXT OF KIN SO THE

FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFERRED.

PLEASE REPLY WITH ALL OF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, IRA AND COLLEGE FUND

ACCOUNT NUMBERS AND THOSE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO

[email protected] SO THAT WE MAY TRANSFER YOUR COMMISSION

FOR THIS TRANSACTION. AFTER I RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, I WILL RESPOND

WITH DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT SAFEGUARDS THAT WILL BE USED TO

PROTECT THE FUNDS.

YOURS FAITHFULLY MINISTER OF TREASURY PAULSON

[mgjackson69]

I wonder if anyone ever replies?

Yes, that is why the keep on sending these things, only one fool needed, and the trouble to find that fool is just sending mails.

It is a kind of having your own website earnings.....but slightly different....

Those that reply, other than people winding them up for fun, are either stupid or greedy, or both....

Several years ago the Catholic Diocese in Omaha NE got taken for several 10s of thousand dollars, chasing after a purported several million.

I laughed my ass off at that one...

Edit: forgot this -> som nom naah

Edited September 26, 2008 by mgjackson69

[dotcom]

I like the ones that want you to send them $150.00 to set up a bank account or whatever.

No mucking about. Send me $150.00 & I will send you 2.7 million.

Mrs Sani Abacha.