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Remember the “cocoa merchant who was killed by his partners” story? This one is without the “killed by his partners” part though.

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From: Helen Dan
Date: Dec 28, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: FROM helen DAN
To: helen_dan7777@yahoo.ca

From: Miss.helen DAN
Country: Cote d’Ivoire
Dear friend,
PLEASE AND PLEASE DO NOT BE EMBARASED.
My name is helen DAN , I’m the only child/daughter of late Mr.and Mrs.koffiMy father was a very Wealthy Cocoa Merchant, the Chairman board of trustee, of all farm products exporters. (C.F.E) here in Abidjan the Economic Capital of Cote d’Ivoire.
Before the death of my father on 28th Dec 2006.
He made it clear to me that he deposited the sum of ($10.5,000,000,00 US DOLLARS)  TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE AMERICAN DOLLARS. Was deposited in fixed deposit account in my name as the next of kin in a cooperate Bank here in Abidjan,Cote d’Ivoire.  With a clause that, In his demise. As only member of the family, I can have access to the fund only if im 28 or i should look for a foriegn partner who will asist me to invest it abroad.

Dear, I have all the relevant documents my late father used in depositing the money in the bank right now with me and I can forward them to you on your demand for your view as soon as i hear from you and confirm your truelty to asist me.
I am humbly seeking for your assistance in these following ways:

1. To provide a Bank account where the money will be transfered into for investment purpose.
2. To serve as my guildian because I am a girl of 20 years old.
3. To find a good university in your country where I can further my education aswell.

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort input and mapped out 5% for any Tax you will pay during the transfer. 
Furthermore, if you indicate your opinion towards this matter as I will like us to conclude this transaction within (14) working days, if you are with me endeavour to make it known soonest.
Because I am presently in a Hotel here in Abidjan for the safety of my life.
Kindly send to me your direct telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

Please reply me via this my private
Thanks and may God bless you.

With Love,
Miss.helen DAN

Yes, the various oil companies and African authorities are among the oldest stories used by the Africans. The original scam letters, which were sent to Europe and the USA up to 40 years ago, used the NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) as the basis for their activities. It is still used for e-mails today, although I haven’t seen one for some time now.

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From: Fred Adams <fadams@jmail.co.za>
Date: Dec 29, 2007 8:30 AM
Subject: Hello
To:

Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr. Fred Adams, Chairman of the Tender Committee in one of the leading oil company. My Committee is principally concerned with payment of all contract awarded from 2004 to date, in order of priority as regard capital projects of our corporation. I am positive and convinced that you would provide us with solution to a money transfer deal valued at US$18 Million (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) and subsequently a joint business venture. I will need bank account in your country or offshore account. I would like to invest the money in manufacturing of products such as Household products, Electronic goods, Apparel and Textiles, Real Estate, Properties or Telecommunication in your country. If you have any other idea of investment, that would be welcomed by me. In the course of our duties as values, and project inspectors for the on-going liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, we have over-invoiced the value of some jobs done by foreign contractors to the tune of US$18Million. As follows: (1) Computer optimization and Installation 6,000.000.00 (2) Installation of 250,000.00 Monax Turbine$7,000.000.00 (3) Turn around Maintenance $5,000,000.00 The money will be shared as follows after transfer, 30% for you 70% for me. I know exactly how to present you / your company as the Beneficiary of the funds. Yours Faithfully, Mr. Fred Adams

Another popular background for the Lottery Scam is the UK National Lottery. You can see in the UK National Lottery list how often I have reported incoming e-mails in the past. It’s a lot!

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From: BRITISH ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES <srvb@corridor.net>
Date: Dec 29, 2007 1:41 PM
Subject: SEASONS GREETINGS…YOUR EMAIL WON YOU £500,000
To: info.waltersrichfield2@yahoo.co.uk

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68/BSH
Batch: 074/05/ZY369/BSH

SWEEPSTAKES UPDATES[CONTACT CLAIMS AGENT]

This mail is to give you final update of your won funds in the Uk National Lottery promotions whose informations was previously sent to you and you have not yet finalise the process of your claims. You are hereby advised to respond swiftly to the mail below.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188/BSH with Serial number 5368/02/BSH drew the lucky numbers: 03-11-13-18-26-31(bonus no.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 6.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000(five hundred thousand pounds) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03/BSH.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this,You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000(five hundred thousand pounds) would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agents will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security
reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program.Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent:

Mr Walters Richfield.
Email: info.waltersrichfield4@yahoo.co.uk OR
info.waltersrichfield3@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +447045729312
+447045729311
Fax: +448712565142

1, Amount won
2, Winning E-mail address
3, Batch Number
4, Refference Number
5, Ticket Number
6, Serial Number

Upon comfirmation of this mail you are advised to call any of our official numbers above for verification of your winning.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Loydd
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

Here’s a popular story which is used often used by the African crooks. Andreas Schranner,  who died in the Concorde crash in Paris, is the person who allegedly left some money in an account in, yes you guessed it, in OUAGADOUGOU!

Needless to say the story about abandoned money is not true.

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From: adamu luku <adamu25@hotmail.fr>
Date: Dec 29, 2007 5:18 PM
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF ADAMU LUKUMON
To:

FROM THE DESK OF ADAMU LUKUMON
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

Attn:
I am the Auditing and Accounting Manager, Bank of Africa (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an abandoned sumof US$20m dollars (TWENTY MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account that belongsto one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELLOW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

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 some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidings and laws 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 now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relationto 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 guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Six 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 occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this funds you must apply first to the bank as relation 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 the location where 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.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
ADAMU LUKUMON

This character goes into detail about how the quoted sum of money was embezzled. He also says he wants to enter into a joint venture to launder the money.

Would you trust an embezzler who tells you about how he did it?

It’s all lies, so you don’t have to take it for face value.

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From: ADEOLU BOLA <us001@computermail.net>
Date: Dec 27, 2007 5:19 PM
Subject: FOR YOUR INFORMATION
To:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Adeolu Adebola, Chairman of the Tender Committee in one of the leading oil company. My Committee is principally concerned with payment of all contract awarded from 2004 to date, in order of priority as regard capital projects of our corporation.
I am positive and convince that you would provide us with solution to a money transfer deal valued at US$18 Million (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) and subsequently a joint business venture.. I will need bank account in your country or offshore account.
I would like to invest the money in manufacturing of products such as Household products, Electronic goods, Apparel and Textiles, Real Estate, Properties or Telecommunication in your country. If you have any other idea of investment, that would be welcomed by me.
In the course of our duties as values, and project inspectors for the on-going liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, we have over-invoiced the value of some jobs done by foreign contractors to the tune of US$18Million.
As follows: -
(1) Computer optimization and Installation 6,000.000.00.
(2) Installation of 250,000.00 Monax Turbine$7,000.000.00
(3) Turn around Maintenance $5,000,000.00
The money will be shared as follows after transfer, 30% for you 70% for me.
I know exactly how to present you / your company as the Beneficiary of the funds.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Adeolu Adebola

This one is a variation of the “businessman in Paraguay” e-mail which comes in occasionally.

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From: Mr Peterson Jams. <Peterson_Jams@yahoo.dk> Date: Dec 27, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: Dear Friend,
To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear Friend,

I could not contact you earlier before now due to my tight schedules. I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that money under the co-operation of a new partner from Paraguay Presently I’m in Paraguay with the partner for some projects with the money.

I am using this opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of fund into your account due to one reason or the other best known to you.

Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthness you showed at the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $200,000.00.USD I have authorized my secretary to issue to you the said amount Via cheque.

Here is his contact information.
Name:Mr James Frank.
Email:james_frank230@yahoo.it

At the moment, I’m very busy here because of the investment projects which myself and my new partner are having at hand. Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to My Secretary on your behalf to send the cheque to you as soon as you contact Her without delay.

Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.

Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.

Your Brother,
Mr Peterson Jams.

This like the “pot calling the kettle black“. The crooks accuse a former partner of being greedy. (If you ask me, he is just a fictitious figure and only part of the story.)

The point is, all of these e-mails are driven by greed!

The lure of easy money is too hard to resist and coupled to the greed of the perpetrators it is a crime without scruples and causes the ruin of too many people.

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From: Mr.Desmond Eyadema.
Date: Dec 28, 2007 1:06 PM
Subject: Treath Very Urgent.
To: desmond_ey11@yahoo.fr

Dear Sir/Madam,

Compliment of the season to you and your entire family and I pray that may the almighty lord guard you and your family.

Let me start by introducing myself properly, I am DESMOND EYADEMA, the son of the late Ex PRESIDENT of TOGO in WEST AFRICA but based in Dakar-Senegal now, I call you in respect of my consignment box in LONDON, which I want you to assist me and stand as my foreign beneficiary to receive my fund over there in LONDON, this fund am writing you about is 18.5million Pounds Tarling which my late father deposited with a SECURITY COMPANY for myself and my mother, and Mr.JOHNSON ASCOT who was suppose to receive this consignment in LONDON, Was demanding for 50% which I and my mother disagreed,that was why we have to stop the delivery to him immediately and search for another Beneficiary who can help us on this matter.

I will give you 20% of the total fund involve for your assistance,because that was the same agreement we had with our former beneficiary Mr.JOHNSON ASCOT before he later change is mind because of his greed, please if you are willing to help us, kindly reply me for more details.

Thanks and God Bless.

Yours Sincerely
Mr.Desmond Eyadema.

Funny how these people always quote things like honour, honesty and trust in their e-mails. Those are exactly the traits that they do not hold for themselves.

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From: esther Kou-Layweah <estherkoulayweah000@live.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2007 6:46 PM
Subject: Urgent Response
To:

From: Mrs. Esther Kou-Layweah,

Attn:Sir

I know you will be surprise to receive this mail from me as we do not know each other, nevertheless I am Mrs. Esther Kou-Layweah from Monrovia Liberia presently residing in Ghana. I would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation to secure an opportunity to invest and to go into joint business partnership with you. I have a substantial capital I honorably intend to invest jointly with you into a lucrative business venture based on your advise and directive. The essence of this mail is to open up communication with you to enable us know each other as regards to our plan to invest our money judiciously with you.
Please feel free to email me for further clarification on my intention to partner with you.
my email ;estherkoulayweah9@myway.com
God bless you as I will be looking forward to hear from  you urgently.
Mrs. Esther Kou-Layweah & Daniel (son)

Do you know who Kim Woo Choong is?

I didn’t until I got this e-mail.

He is the founder of the Daewoo Group from Korea.

Now Mr. Kim got himself imprisoned for fraud in 2006.

Doesn’t that sound like a good background for a first class scam e-mail?

And here it is, offering you a miserly 15% for your services.

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From: Ms. Cheung Pui Ling <cheung@icbcasia.com.hk>
Date: Dec 21, 2007 6:50 PM
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL
To:

Dear Friend,

This is a Management Placement on behalf of Mr. Kim Woo Choong.

Mr. Kim Woo Choong is looking for an experienced business person/company that can profitably invest monies in excess of Fourty Nine Million US Dollars outside China. The sum will be paid from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

Visit our bank website at http://www.icbcasia.com/eng/index.shtml

Or request immediate information from:

Mr. Zhu Qi
Managing Director and,
Chief Executive Officer,
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited
33/F, ICBC Tower 3 Garden Road, Central Hong Kong
Toll free No: + (852) 800-90863
Local Fax No:+ (852) 301-54297
Email: zhuqi_icbc001@hotmail.com

Most importantly, you will be required to:

[1]. Act as the original beneficiary of the funds.
[2]. Receive the funds into a business/private bank account.
[3]. Invest/Manage the funds outside of China.

Mr. Kim Woo Choong is willing to pay 5% for your role as the beneficiary partner to the funds. Also, a subsequent 10% “Management Commission” will be paid for your advised investment services. A further 5% will be used to write off any expenses incurred in the course of transferring the principal sum.

If you prefer to be re-contacted for more express information, please send us your:

[1] Full Names:
[2] Contact address:
[3] Direct Telephone No:

Be advised to visit the following links to be better acquainted with Mr. Kim Woo Choong?s current profile and personality.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/30/skorea.daewoo/?section=cnn_latest
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HF01Dg03.html
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=8637

We expect your correspondence and our response will be swift.

Signed:
Ms. Cheung Pui Ling,
Company Secretary
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited
33/F, THE ICBC Tower 3 Garden Road,
Central Hong Kong.
E-mail: cpl_icbc101@hotmail.com

This one was just in time for Christmas.

As usual, these jokers have made up a few names. Added a titel or two and even quoted “uklottery.co.uk” as the sending domain name.

Watch out for the telephone number. It’s rerouted to another number, which could be anywhere.

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From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY[AWARDS DEPARTMENT] <info@uklottery.co.uk>
Date: Dec 22, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
To: undisclosed-recipients

The U.K. National Lottery
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.

Customer Service/Claims Department
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Winner,
You are the winner of the UK National Lottery Online Promo Programme that was held on saturday the 16th of December, 2007.
All participants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 500,000 unions,associations and corporate bodies listed online.
This promotion takes place Quarterly.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:01 03 06 22 23 39 21[bonus ball] Which subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £629,195.00(SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE BRITISH POUNDS) Your REFERENCE NUMBER:Ref: UK/9420X2/68 must be quoted in all your correspondence to this office. You are to contact our claims officer via email below:
Mr Ray Collins.
Tel: +447031959378
Via email: claimsboard_raycollins@hotmail.com

with the following information:
FULL NAME
FULL ADDRESS
NATIONALITY
OCCUPATION
RELIGION
SEX
AGE
MARITAL STATUS
AMOUNT WON
BATCH NUMBER
EMAIL ADDRESS
PHONE NUMBERS[LAND/MOBILE]

SIR RICHARD K. LLOYDS
Online Coordinator for the U.K. National Lottery.

Note that all replies must be directed to
Mr Ray Collins:
claimsboard_raycollins@hotmail.com

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