Thread: wierdest email...

i got this email today, wasnt in my bulk or anything, but .. hm, its strange. here:



From Mrs Janet Samba
Abidjan -Cote d'lvoire
Marcory 12

Greetings,

Assalamu Alykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh! May The Creator, The First
&
Only & OneGod- ALLAH help you to take & end the very holy month
'Ramadan'
perfectfully & successfully! And May Allah Make you one of the much
lucky
and successfull persons in this life and life after death.

I am Mrs Janet Samba, an accountant of auditting and accounting section
of
Clientis bank in Cote D'Ivoire. With due respect and regard I wish to
seek
your urgent assistance to transfer the sum of (U.S.3 MILLION DOLLARS)
THREE
MILLION from the above mentioned bank. This money belongs to one of our
customers,(Robert Rice ) who died in a plane crash with his wife and
the
fund has been lying dormant with the bank without any claim, either
from his
family or relation up to date. I am contacting you to act as the
bonafide
next of kin to the deceased. There is no risk in this transaction, as
all
loope holes have been taken care of, and all necessary informations as
regards to this fund have been secured.

Please be notified that I am still working with the bank and it's only
me
and my colleague(boss) that are aware of this development thus treat
this
proposal as confidential and secret for our security. I have served the
bank
faithfully for good number of years and 'am presently preparing for my
retirement therefore, hence I see this as a golden opportunity to be
comfortable in life after retirement. As soon as this fund is secured
into
your account I will forward you an off-shore account where you will
transfer
our own share.We agreed sharing ratio to be as follows: 25% for you the
account owner, 70% for me and my boss, while 5% will be set aside for
expenses made during the transaction.

Here is the website of the plane crash that took the life of the
account
owner and his family:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

Looking foward to hearing from you.
My regards,
Mrs. Samba.

It's obviously along the same lines of the whole Nigerian banker e-mail that was sent out a while back. They say they have millions of dollars for you in hopes that you'll give them a bank account number or something so they can take your stuff!

i can believe people these days we had a older couple come in to the Wal-mart where i work and wanted to send $800 dollars to someone in Jamacia so they would get entered in a drawing.
It took 5 people to finally talk them out of it.

Yeah man it's a scam I've had similar stuff sent as well, I don't know if anyone is dumb enough to fall for this kind of stuff anymore.

oh i know its a scam lol, but the way they started out the email and stuff i just got a kick out of

I have a whole file of them I have saved.
Some are really creative.
I even get them faxed to me once in a while.
They are a con job.

Nigerian crime ring.


They actually get people to give them the bank account #s and they take all your money???

I got an email supposedly from paypal the other day, it basically said I had won an item on e-bay and was requesting payment. I hadn't been bidding on any items at that time so I reported it to them as fraudulant (without opening any links), which they later told me it was.

My point being this the email looked genuine as I deal with paypal regularly and maybe somebody who would have a lot of payments pending may click to pay it by accident. Something to be wary of ppl.

I received a similar e-mail and I'm not sure what to do:

Dear Prophet,

Send me all your money and titles to all your assets or I will take you on a fishing trip that you will never forget.

VikingNed

I'm not sure what to do about that e-mail.
I think I may just delete it.

I had a website bookmarked once that was the story of a few college kids that scamed one of these scammers.

They said they wanted to help him, but they were from a church and that in order for them to help him he needed to be baptised. So he had to take pictures of himself getting dunked in a river, then he had to paint a white hand on his man boobs take a pic and mail it.

They messed with him for over a year. Actually made something like 65$ off him lmao. He was pissed.