Look at this Email i just received...

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Mr Bob Newman.
18 Independence Close,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Ph874-762-919760
Fax874-762-919761

BUSINESS ASSISTANCE.

We want to transfer to overseas the sum of One hundred
and Forty Two Million United States Dollars
(U.S.$142,000,000.00) from South Africa.

I want to ask you to kindly look for a reliable and
honest person who will be capable and fit to provide
either an existing bank account or to set up a new
bank account immediately to receive this money,
though an empty bank account could serve this purpose
as long as you will remain honest to me till the end
of this important business trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down
either now or in time to come.

I am Mr Bob Newman.the external auditor of a
Bank.During the course of our auditing,I discovered a
floating fund in an account opened in the bank in
1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this
account again.After going through some old files in
the records, I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a “Heir apparent to the
throne�Ehence the money is floating and if I do not
remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.

The owner of this account who is Mr.Eshed.B.Willey,
a foreigner and an industrialist died, since
1990,until now no other person(s) knows about this
account or could give any documentary evidence
concerning this account. As such this account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as
well that Eshed.B.Willey until his death was the
manager Oriental Diamond Company,in South Africa.

However, if you are interested in this business we
will start the first money transfer with Forty Two
Million U.S.Dollars(U.S.$42,000,000.00) upon
successful transaction without any disappointment from
you. We shall also re-apply for the payment of the
remaining amount to your account.

While the total amount involved is One hundred and
Forty Two Million United States Dollars
(U.S.$142,000,000.00)only. I would want us to make
a first transfer of [Forty Two Million United States
Dollar.(U.S.$42,000,000.00)from this money into a safe
foreigners account abroad before the rest. I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can
not be approved to a local account, without valid
international foreign “Agreement�E but could only be
approved to any foreigner with valid international
credentials passport or drivers license and foreign
account because this sum is in U.S. dollars and
the former owner of the account Mr.Eshed.B.Willey is a
foreigner too, thus the money could only be approved
into a foreign account.

However, knowing all this, we will reach a binding
agreement in this regards.

As a matter of urgency, I will inform you the next
step to take, while you Send your private telephone
and fax number including the full details of the
account to be used for the deposit.

I want us to meet face to face to build confidence
and to sign a binding agreement that will bind us
together before transferring the money to any account
of your choice where the fund will be safe. Before we
fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and
investments,I need your full co-operation to make
this business a success, because the management is
ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give
to you,upon your positive response and once I am
convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
the instructions of a key bank official who is deeply
involved with me in this business. I need your strong
assurance that you will never let me down.

With my influence and the position in the bank
we can transfer this money to any foreigner's
reliable account which you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending our physical
arrival in your country for sharing.

And to build confidence that you can come immediately
to discuss with me face to face after which I will
make this remittance in your presence and three of us
will fly to your country at least two days ahead of
the money going into the account.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately
I hear from you that you are ready to act as directed.

To prove the authenticity of the business I will use
my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals
for onward transfer of this money to your account with

appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries,
foreign exchange departments, embassy and Board of
Internal Revenue Services.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be
given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,
while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during this process.

I look forward to your earliest reply through
telephone,Fax or my email address.

Yours truly

Mr Bob Newman
 
hmm.. That used to just be a Nigerian scam that became an Afghaniscam. Now its hopped to RSA. tsk. Block the sender.
 
don't you know not to open email from people you're unfamiliar with? ;)
 
Got any checks from you ex-wife laying around? Could be useful for something.
 
Bermuda? Thats nice and isolated in the mid ocean.

No Caribbean at all? That cuts out about 30 countries and leaves only like 5 ... depending upon the definition of a 'west atlantic' country.
 
aha.. Found the root source. Its supposedly a French Telecom number for the Atlantic region that is the equivalent of a US 800 or 808 number to appear as a business as well as disguise identity. It popped up on a tracer list of central Nigerian scam numbers that will reverse bill you for 15$ a minute... at a minimum.
 
Inmarsat is the parent company that issued the number. They are in London.

808 is what the phone company issued as backup to 800 numbers when they ran out of 800 numbers.
 
i once hit reply adn said i cant help and that im sorry but i know some business majors they can help more. they still email me with that BS. its some kinda pyramid scheme isnt it?
 
I think normally, you give them your bank account info, then they proceed to drain it. It's a fairly old trick already.
 
unclehobart said:
Inmarsat is the parent company that issued the number. They are in London.

808 is what the phone company issued as backup to 800 numbers when they ran out of 800 numbers.
Don't you mean 888? 877? 866? and recently 855? I've never come across an 808 number. :)

From my database:

Code:
87476    Inmarsat    XNM    ARW    INMARSAT-M ATLANTIC OCEAN REGION WEST/MINI
 
PuterTutor said:
I think normally, you give them your bank account info, then they proceed to drain it. It's a fairly old trick already.

is that what it is?? thanks for the info PT. all this time i thought it was a pyramid scandal but i wasnt sure cause i dont know how those things work. hey isnt that illegal what they do?
 
Yep, but if you willingly give them your info, then you are the one being the dumbass. If a person did want to try something here, I'd suggest going to a new bank, open an account with the bare minumum. See what happens.
 
I don't know, I think unclehobart was on to something with the reverse billing. We got an email here at work last year about some con where they ask you to call, and it bills you like a couple grand a minute or something like that. I think its more about getting you to call, and then the scam you some how with the phone call itself. This may be a different scam, but there was certainly one like this going on in the spring last year. I guess its some enormous irreversible phone charge to some island in the caribean, but I don't remember which one. This may be a different scam, but it sounds similar.
 
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