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UNCC_99XJ
August 15th, 2006, 12:05
Got this in my inbox for my school account this morning:

Dear Tim,

I am Mr. Abii Debe, staff of Citco Trust & Finance House Accra Ghana, I
am the Credit management and recovery manager with the Company office
in Ghana before I was transferred to our head office here in Lagos
Nigeria, Late Engineer Wilson Nolan was my personal Client before he
died in an accident, he was a contractor with Shell Development Company
and he is from your Country.

On the 21st of April 2002, Engr. Wilson, his wife and their two
children were involved in a car accident along Platue express road and
all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Before
the time of his death, he had a deposit of $14.5Million which he
declared as family treasure in the Finance House Accra office where I
was working then, which is only I and his lawyer knows the true
content, Unfortunately, till this moment no person has come as his
relation for his chattels with us. I humbly request your attention to
this matter so that I can present you as his next of kin and
beneficiary to his chattels. It is not a very difficult thing to do and
it will not take time.

All I will need is to put your name and particulars as his next of kin
to in our computer database and we file in an application for the
release of the fund. It does not necessarily mean that you must be in
Ghana to conclude the deal; we may request that the money be sent to
Europe for your collection. Please contact me as quickly as possible
through this email address (adebe0000@yahoo.es) treat this matter as
very important and confidential. When I hear from you, we shall discuss
the terms of sharing of the money after the claim. Contact me now so
that I can delegate the Attorney who is also going to be part of the
deal.

I await your urgent response.

Best regards,

Mr Abii Debe


Now I know this is onviously pure rubbish and i've seen these before, just with different "situations". I'm definately gonna alert the proper people at my school, but I thought I might have a little fun with the guy. What would yall do?

jdougn
August 15th, 2006, 12:26
Flood the email address with junk mail is my first thought.
Get everybody I know to "sign up" on his website with fraudulent info is second.
Ignore it is third, but probably the smartest..... naaaaah :roll:

Menzenski
August 15th, 2006, 13:34
http://www.419baiter.com/.

non-stick
August 15th, 2006, 19:05
Delete it and move on. It's just another scam designed to separate a fool from his/her money.

I can't believe two things:

1. They still try this

2. It actually works.

Some people are just too trusting.

UNCC_99XJ
August 15th, 2006, 19:06
Delete it and move on. It's just another scam designed to separate a fool from his/her money.

I can't believe two things:

1. They still try this

2. It actually works.

Some people are just too trusting.

I've always wondered myself how people actually fall for this crap. i'd still like to mess with the guy some, then report it.....would be a little fun atleast.

johnlv6
August 15th, 2006, 19:07
Delete it.

DansGreyMj
August 15th, 2006, 19:10
wanna here somrthing crazy, my mom asked me to check her e-mail for her- same story, different names, and different location

non-stick
August 15th, 2006, 19:14
I've always wondered myself how people actually fall for this crap. i'd still like to mess with the guy some, then report it.....would be a little fun atleast.

The only outcome would be that you will have verified your email address as valid and now you will get EVERY scam, spam, and come on in the world until you want to hang yourself. I work InfoSec and I can tell you that any retaliation isn't going to even get noticed.

If you run that scam on 100,000 people and you get two to bite, you still win. Email doesn't even cost postage and it is hard as hell to prosecute. At least if it arrives via USPS you can charge them with mail fraud. Internet jurisdiction is always a tough one to argue.

Just let it go and read the next piece of spam in the inbox....

UNCC_99XJ
August 15th, 2006, 20:45
yeah i guess i'll just let it go...but it's my school inbox...not really gonna be using that one anyways, so i wouldnt really care if it gets spammed to death or not.

5-90
August 15th, 2006, 21:24
One word - mailbomb. I've got to figure out how to do those myself - preferably with an "anonymous remailer" involved.

I've been told it's a "Joe job" for most SPAM/Adverts, but I'm tired of seeing it clogging up my inbox anyhow. I figure a mailbomb is about the closest thing I can get to "getting rid of scrap" like I used to do with HCI, VPC, DNC, and various other "worthy causes..."

5-90

POSXJGuy
August 16th, 2006, 11:24
no joke man, i was working at a dive shop and this one guy came in that we knew and he was talking about offshore investments. apparently he got suckered by one of these emails and paid out 20k dollars one day. never saw it again and the us government was after him for claiming this business transaction on his taxes. now he is a world of trouble. i knew people fell for this sh*t but i never thought i would meet someone who actually did.

XJ Dreamin'
August 16th, 2006, 11:50
no joke man, i was working at a dive shop and this one guy came in that we knew and he was talking about offshore investments. apparently he got suckered by one of these emails and paid out 20k dollars one day. never saw it again and the us government was after him for claiming this business transaction on his taxes. now he is a world of trouble. i knew people fell for this sh*t but i never thought i would meet someone who actually did.

You can relate the full story http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92967 :)

bjoehandley
August 16th, 2006, 17:29
5-90's idea makes me think of a story I saw on TV a while back about internet predetors (sp?) and would make me wonder if that solution would work in this case. One of the people the show was interviewing had a friend who's son had encountered one of these internet perverts and was being pressured to send a naked picture of himself to this guy. He told his dad (hte interviewee's friend) and they decided to respond and send him a file made to look like a picture, but was actully very nasty computer virus instead!

jpars
August 16th, 2006, 17:31
treat this matter as
very important and confidential.
:thumbup:


why dont we all band together and sign him up for as much free porn as possible?

bjoehandley
August 16th, 2006, 17:39
:thumbup:


why dont we all band together and sign him up for as much free porn as possible?

ROFLMFAO:thumbup: