Soon To Be Rich

[R. Richard]

I'm soon to be very rich. Well, I would have been rich, except I did this really stupid thing. I did a search on "FBI fraud e-mail" and e-mailed them the following:

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To: R. Richard


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MR SALDIK KEITA
OUAGOUDOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO
REPLY TO: saldik_keita111@sify.com
CALL:0022678189685

Dear Sir,

RE: TRANSFER OF ($9,500.000.00 USD NINE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)

We want to transfer to overseas the sum of ($9,500.000.00USD) Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa.

I would like to ask you to quietly 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 a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve as far as it can receive money.

I am Mr Saldik Keita an accountant and personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston.

Dr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD 9,500,000.00) Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account.

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to alocal person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine 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 inheritance procedures.

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 the process of transferring.

You should observe utmost CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I will require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

I look forward to your prompt response.please REPLY TO: saldik_keita111@sify.com

Sincerely,

Mr Saldik Keita

 

[3113]

Congratulations, RR! And how amazing it is that Mr Saldik Keita would pick you for this. He must have trusted you a lot--but shouldn't you be keeping this secret and confidential?

And how tragic about Dr. Shah and his wife! Those flights from Africa to Boston can be treacherous.

 

[mynameisben]

Well, i've always thought it a better foreshortening of Richard than Dick. I support you in your decision.

 

[R. Richard]

What I'm hoping is that sufficient complaints will eventually force the authorities in Africa to take action. The person(s) sending this sort of thing can be tracked down, since there is really no guarantee of privacy in most African countries. Once the sender is tracked down, the local authorities can persuade them not to do it again, assuming that the local authorities want to stop them. With sufficient outside pressure, the local authorities will act.

(But wait, you say. How can frequently uneducated, illiterate African police with nothing but clubs possibly enforce ... Right, stupid question.)

 

[jomar]

I will soon to be richer than you as I have much more opportunity to have the aforementioned opportunities.

 

[Loring2]

Yes of course

What I'm hoping is that sufficient complaints will eventually force the authorities in Africa to take action. The person(s) sending this sort of thing can be tracked down, since there is really no guarantee of privacy in most African countries. Once the sender is tracked down, the local authorities can persuade them not to do it again, assuming that the local authorities want to stop them. With sufficient outside pressure, the local authorities will act.

(But wait, you say. How can frequently uneducated, illiterate African police with nothing but clubs possibly enforce ... Right, stupid question.)

A sufficient number of complaints will force officials in Africa to be aware that one particular scam artist is writing clumsy letters that almost no one believes. You'll notice that I said "almost" because someone will buy that proposition as surely as god made little green apples.

Never underestimate the deadly combination of true stupidity and greed.

The government will of course retrain the scammer to write better scams because these things constitute as much as 3% their GDP.

 

[R. Richard]

A sufficient number of complaints will force officials in Africa to be aware that one particular scam artist is writing clumsy letters that almost no one believes. You'll notice that I said "almost" because someone will buy that proposition as surely as god made little green apples.

Never underestimate the deadly combination of true stupidity and greed.

The government will of course retrain the scammer to write better scams because these things constitute as much as 3% their GDP.

The African governments don't give a damn that someone is defrauding foreigners. The same African governments will, if enough international pressure is applied, arrest and prosecute the person(s) guilty of fraud. Not because the person(s) are guilty of fraud, but because they got caught. The defrauding of foreigners is not a concern. The possible ejection of an African bank from international money transfers is a concern.

Actually, the letter that I received is a cut above the usual run of the mill scam letter. It appears to have been written by someone who actually knows a bit of English.

Finally, many of the victims are stupid and greedy. However, there are those who are trying to live, while watching their small remaining cash assets dwindle who will try anything, since they're going bankrupt anyhow.

The scam is one of a type that was originally called 'Spanish prisoner' and is now called 'Nigerian 419.' In Africa, Nigeria is referred to as 'The land of 10 milllion magicians.' They aren't referring to stage magicians.

 

[oggbashan]

The African governments don't give a damn that someone is defrauding foreigners. The same African governments will, if enough international pressure is applied, arrest and prosecute the person(s) guilty of fraud. Not because the person(s) are guilty of fraud, but because they got caught. The defrauding of foreigners is not a concern. The possible ejection of an African bank from international money transfers is a concern...

The Nigerian Government is trying hard, because these scams damage their country. Some of their police investigators work with British and American Police forces and have had some significant successes - but there are thousands of Nigerians involved, organised by several crime syndicates.

Millions of similar emails are sent weekly and if only a very small percentage find gullible people, tens of thousands of pounds/dollars are generated every week for each syndicate.

The people who send these emails work like telephone call centres - poorly paid and earning commission on successes. The people who organise them make significant amounts of money even by UK/US standards.

Og

 

[Trudy_Antone]

You got a better offer than me. I was promised 5 million from a lawyer in the Saudi. It came as a real letter with a certifiable letterhead (the company existed, the lawyer did not) and the surname of the deceased was the same as mine. They needed a long lost relative to release the estate to.