Mr. Luis from Madagascar

[impressive]

Just in case any of y'all are inclined to assist ...

Greetings,

I am Mr. Luis from Madagascar; I need your assistance if possible please.My father Dr. Rakotozafy was killed on his way to visit the family of the late president of Togo (Mr Gnassingbe Eyadema), who died of heart attack on the 5th of February 2005 on a good Saturday.

After the death of my father, my mother took us out of Madagascar to south Africa were I manage to enter a ship to Europe. I am seeking asylum now in Europe due to the fact I don't have relatives or friends in Europe to stay with before claiming our funds that made me move to Europe. I have informed the firm I am in Europe already for claims.
Due to this effect, I need your urgent responses to move the funds lodged in by my late father before his death to your country for private investments etc.
I am seeking for your trust to assist me move this funds into your country for private investments now, and I am assured in me that you are a trustworthy person that can not only assist me get the funds into your country alone, but also keep it safe for us until my family and I come over to your country and we shall make proper arrangements for good investments together, But if you already know a profitable business we can invest in please let me know also.

Amount deposited is (US$8.5million). We shall thank you after this funds has gotten into your country through your assistance with 20percent of the total money, this is what I am going to do. If you wish we can put it in writing also. All documents covering the funds are in our custody.

Please respond to me only on my personal Email: address: (ty2ks@netscape.net) if you are willing to assist us in this Best regards.
Mr. Luis

 

[minsue]

*snicker*

 

[impressive]

*snicker*

Are you making fun of Mr. Luis from Madagascar?

 

[Liar]

"...who died of heart attack on the 5th of February 2005 on a good Saturday."

Man, I sure don't wanna know what goes down on a bad Saturday.

 

[impressive]

I'm popular today ...

Dear Friend,

RE: COLLECTION OF FUND (US$15,900,000.00) UNDER SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT.

Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you for such a big transaction through an ordinary letter which makes it suspicious considering the type of fraud proposals moving around the world today. However, I was advised to explain this transaction to you on a face to face meeting. I could not do this because of the situation in the world today not being sure of your reaction.

I am brown billy, a Consultant and Broker from Kingston Jamaica. I was hired by a Japanese Businessman to broke an investment deal between him and an oil company in Venezuela.

This deal was executed in January,
1997 and matured for termination in January 2001. On maturity, the Japanese Businessman and the oil firm decided to terminate the investment in cash to avoid payment of investment tax which amounted to several tens of millions of US Dollars to the American Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A special arrangement was made between a top Japanese banker working with Japanese bank in New York, the Oil company and the businessman to terminate the investment in cash payment under a fictitious name, with an arrangement to change it later with a power of attorney which they prepared and handed over to the banker.

I was directly involved, well paid and mandated to organized and carry out the deal. All the cash was withdrawn in August 2001 and transported to europe by direct bank vault delivery to a private diplomatic storage in europe for safekeeping pending the collection.

The real content of the boxes was not declared to the storage as it was delivered as personal family treasure and diamonds.The codes for the storage, secret codes for the opening of the boxes and its keys were all handed over to me.
Mr. Takashi the New York businessman was planning to go to europe by mid November 2001 with me for the collection when the unexpected happened in Sept 9/11 attacks on the twin tower which claimed his life and that of the top banker. This left me devastated and confused as I have not yet handed over the deposit details to the owner and the power of attorney prepared for the change which was signed was still with the banker in his office which was lost.

It was agreed with the storage that the consignment would be collected on or before 12 months from the date of delivery. Since last December, the diplomatic storage manager has been calling me to bring or tell the owner to come over for collection. Since then,

I have been finding any reliable person to collect these consignments under special and well negotiated arrangement until I came across your details.Be rest assured that this transaction has been well organised, 100% safe, legal, risk free and should be kept very confidential.signify your interest by contacting me via my private Email: brownbilly77@netscape.net

Regard,

brown billy.



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[impressive]

Oh, a new one (with a tired theme) ...

FROM THE DESK OF MR KAHID AHMED.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A).
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
WEST AFRICA.

Assalam Alieku Dear Friend,

I am the manager of bill and exchange department BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars ( fifteen million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in november 1998 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.

Then after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer . you should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
immediately. PLEASE MY DEAR FRIEND THIS IS MY PRIVATE LINE YOU CAN CALL
ME IMMIDEATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL. 00226 (76 63 87 21)

THANKS
MR KAHID AHMED.
B.O.A (BANK OF AFRICA)

I'm saving these 'cause there's a plot bunny tickling the edges of my mind involving such SPAM scams. *shrug*

 

[cloudy]

I got this one recently, and saved it simply because the spelling and grammar were amusing:

My Dear Friend.

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund $10.7m
transferred under the comperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my secretary his name is lawrence chalk and his Email Address ,lawrence_chalk02@yahoo.fr secretary ask him to send you the total $800.000.00 which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attemptsto assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with my secretar lawrence chalk and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. in the moment, i am very usy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with lawrence chalk, and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

with best regards
HON; mikuju

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Just in case any of y'all are inclined to assist ...

Don't fall for it Imp. It's really a ploy by the Madagascar Penguins to get you to bankroll their next breakout attempt!

 

[impressive]

Don't fall for it Imp. It's really a ploy by the Madagascar Penguins to get you to bankroll their next breakout attempt!

Shit! There goes my plot bunny.

 

[RogueLurker]

Awhile ago, I came across ScamBaiter website. For one reason or another this fellow corresponds back and forth with the originators of these spam emails ... it can be rather amusing at times.

 

[Guest]

I got this one recently, and saved it simply because the spelling and grammar were amusing:

I like this line: Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time.


You wanna share the joy, cloudy? After the suffer ness?

 

[cloudy]

I like this line: Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time.


You wanna share the joy, cloudy? After the suffer ness?

That was my fave line, too.

I'll always share with you.

 

[Guest]

That was my fave line, too.

I'll always share with you.

(but what's suffer ness?)

 

[cloudy]

(but what's suffer ness?)

I haven't figured that one out yet. Maybe we could just make up our own definition.

 

[Guest]

I haven't figured that one out yet. Maybe we could just make up our own definition.

Oooh.

I'll bring the torture implements, then.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I got this one recently, and saved it simply because the spelling and grammar were amusing:

I sometimes wonder if the bad grammar and spelling are intentional. 419 scamers are highly oganized and the newwer ones are not only ruthless, but fairly smart and techno savy. Since these letters are produces en mass, by people paid to simply copy them and aren't the work of an individual making it up as he goes along, it would seem, that you could hand out gramatically correct and proofed masters. I think perhaps, they appear so badly mangled, because it gives the impression of someone whose english is bad and thus conforms to the impression most westerners have of Africans. I also wonder if it dosen't inspire some confidence in the mark that he's intelectually superior to the writer and thus, he is less prone to think critically.

 

[Guest]

 

[cloudy]

Oooh.

I'll bring the torture implements, then.

Or toys.

 

[Guest]

Or toys.

That's what I said.

 

[cloudy]

That's what I said.

oh, duh.

Not enough coffee this morning.

 

[Guest]

I've been getting some recently to an email address with my real last name as part of it, addressed to me, and referencing the death of someone with the same last name.

Mr. Bare,

A Mr. Jeremy Bare, of Detroit Michigan, an employee of our state run oil company recently passed away. We realize you are not his next of kin, or even related, but we need your assistance in freeing the 20 million US he had control of in an account...

So some personalization is occuring.

These first appeared, before email days, as faxes, and as I recall, were fairly well written and on bogus letterheads.

 

[Belegon]

I see I'm not the only one who saw the title and thought "I like to move it"

there are lots of variations on these scams....believe me.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

The most humorous part is when they address me as "dear brother or sister in Christ". Gee, I thought I was a pagan! Don't recall being a Christian.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Shit! There goes my plot bunny.

Private, get busy on that typewriter!

Yes sir!

Dear imp,

...

 

[glynndah]

I frequently sign up for "free" offers with an different name. Hector can get a college diploma, meet hot chicks from his area and impress them with his secrets of staying power and rescue poor Third World diplomats who are having trouble with corrupt bankers, all with just a computer, a bank account and a credit card. Not bad for a three-year-old neutered tom cat.