I think I'm going to be rich
I received this email this morning:
The desk of Barrister Martin Takawira
Canadian High Commission Trade Office Cradock Place ,
10 Arnold Street, Rosebank
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I believe you will understand my situations, even if we have not met
but I know you will understand that I source your name from human
resource profile catalog on your realm.
Barrister Martin Takawira is my name, I am the Personal Attorney to
Late Mr. Hand Riekie who was working with Anglo Platinum Limited,
Located at Johannesburg South Africa , On the 6th day of june 2007, My
Client and his wife and their two children were involved in a car
accident along Gauteng Road Johannesburg , South Africa .
Regrettably, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident
and since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate
any of my client's relatives, nut no way, My friend, I decided to
trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his
family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in
repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Bank.
Particularly, I know the bank where he deposited the fund, the amount
there is (35 Million Rands only) the bank knows me very well and they
have asked me to present some one to claim the fund left my late
client as they all know I am his only notary. Now, the bank said I
should get the spouse within the next ten official working days. Since
I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for almost 2 years
now, I will be happy to present you as the spouse of the deceased to
claim the fund as the only existing spouse to him so that the Bank
will transfer the fund to your account.
As soon as you have received the fund in your account, I will come
over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund
and then you and I will share the money in this order: 70% will be for
me, 30% will be for you. I have all the necessary legal documents that
can back our claim we may make with the Bank. All involve is your
honest co-operation and pure mind to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Best regards.
Barrister Martin Takawira.
Basic Notary
10 comments:
OMG - I can't tell you how many of these I get! They're all the same.
Have you been hit by Michael W yet?
I'm relieved to see all he needs is your "honest" cooperation.
Muppie
had hundreds of em.
Mailed one back once and said "Ok, send the money and I'll split it with you"
Then they ask for bank account details.
Do these muppets really think people are so stupid?
Are they?
Bet politicians fall for it every time
There are some excellent opportunities out of Nigeria as well.
Who is Michael W?
Oh, you'd know if you'd been spammed by him in the past 24 hours.
Here.
Hit everyone on my blogroll so far.
Take great care with these 419 scams. People have lost their lives by being greedy. Just look at the language and you can tell that a quasi-literate wrote it.
Lutz Kranz
WC. I've been hit by a version of Michael W. Different name, same site.
Lutz, thanks for your concern. I do realize these are scams.
http://firefly376.vox.com/
Mr. A, apparently I'm offending folks all over the place! Had to move to allow folks to comment and didn't have everyone's e mail. So here is the new site.
I get that message all the time, mostly at work. Weird, huh?
Eyah, uhuh. I recently received two requests on MySpace, pitious requests from women in Nigeria and another African country. No food, etc. A trip to the Net to investigate and the two countries are top on the list for scams....
Sad - what if someone out there REALLY needed the help?
MichaelW apparently has some internet knowledge - he's broken our "circle of friends" in...with his annoying hits...
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