George Brumley’s money is up for grabs again
Posted by Michael Holdcroft in 419 scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Inheritance Fraud, tags: Bank Of Africa, Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou, Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, Dr George, Dumba, E Mail, Foreigner, George Brumley, Honest Person, July 21st, Marshal, Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, Personal Confidant, Personal Savings, Plane Crash, Prime Bank, State Dollars, United States Dollars, Untimely Death, West AfricaYes, it’s another e-mail from Ouagadougou touting an imaginary account, using George’s name to promote it. The reason is simple, George Brumley is easy to research on the internet. His background makes the story halfway believable.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR MARSHAL DUMBA
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
To: marshaldumba34@orange.net
FROM MR MARSHAL DUMBA
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.
Dear friend,
RE: TRANSFER OF ($7,000.000.00 USD SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)
I want to transfer to overseas the sum of ($7.000.000.00USD) Seven Million 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 MARSHAL DUMBA an accountant and personal confidant to Dr.George Brumley who died together with his wife in a plane crash on the July 21st 2003 on their way to attendwedding in Boston, he is an American, a physician andindustrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003.
The amount involved is ($7.000.000.00USD) Seven Million United States Dollars), no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to transfer the whole $7,000.000.00 (Seven Million United States Dollars) into a safe account abroad, but I don’t know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,But can only be approved to any foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Dr.George Brumley 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 40% of the total amount,55% 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.
You should fill this form below and send to me immediately as soon as you receive this letter: THIS IS MY Email address_(Marshal_dumba@hotmail.fr)
Your Full Name: ………..
Your Address : ……….
Your Telephone: ……….
Your Age: ……………
Merital Status: ………..
Your Country: ………….
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Sincerely
MR MARSHAL DUMBA
MAIL ADDRESS (Marshal_dumba@hotmail.fr)
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Linda,
many thanks for your note. I reckon the only “vision” these people have, is getting as much of our money as possible.
Unfortunately it works for them.
Michael
I recieved an email from a Mr. Nelson Makata about the same thing do I just ignore it?
This is the email
Hello,
I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us. I am a Manager of a leading bank in South Africa, A client of mine died in 2003, Kenya plane crash along side his family and he has a lodgment fund of US$17.7M. My client name is Dr. George Brumley, you can confirm from this website below.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
No other person knows about this account or anything concerning these funds, no beneficiary and nobody have ever come for the claims and if we do not remit this funds out it will be confiscated into the Government National Treasure. I am seeking for your Co-operation to present or front you as the beneficiary of the funds. The Strategy is to use our influence as managers of the bank to make or front you the beneficiary and approve
the release funds to you the beneficiary of the funds since no beneficiary. If you are interested forward to me your names, cell, Phone/fax, profession,age and country so I can contact you on and discuss further.
Thank You,
Mr. Nelson Makata
hello guys..i just received this letter..i almost believed..lol..good thing i did some research.
Vous êtes invité :: FROM DR PATRICK DANIEL (call me 226-75-45 83 60)
Par votre hôte: Patrick Daniel
Date: vendredi 18 septembre 2009
Heure: 12h 00 – 13h 00 (GMT+00:00)
Rue: Dear Friend, I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department in Bank of Africa, Ouagadougou. I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which I explained below; In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $15.5m US dollars (seventeen million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 2003 in a plane crash.Since i got information about his death, The bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because The fund cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) 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 (I want to present you as his business associate) to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it I expect that you contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter, and send me your personal data including your recent passport before i send you the application which you will fill and send to the bank for continuation of this transaction. Hoping to hear from you immediately with this email address: patric_daniel@hotmail.fr Yours faithfully,Dr Patrck Daniel. Accounts & Audit Department,Bank of Africa.Nb. gives me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication with you,
Viendrez-vous ? Répondre à cette invitation
Brandy,
the scam emails always have an unbelievable offer. If there is no reason you can think of, why you should be the chosen one, forget it. Ignore it! Delete it!
Michael
but i’m not brandy.
Hi Tiffie,
my response was in answer to Brandy’s question. You get to see all comments which have been made here, so that’s the reason why you got my answer
All the best
Michael
i just recieved this email about dr geogre brumley….its from a mr paul molele, man people must really think that americans are dumb!!!!
Kim, they think everyone is dumb enough to fall for their stories
Michael
Attention everyone… If it seems too good to be true, it is.
Any time ANYONE asks you for your name, address, any account info, etc. They are Phishing, they do not know you. DO NOT Give them any information – EVER!
First do like many of you did and go to the web to see if this is legit. Chances are it is not.
If your “credit card” company emails you because you have an issue with your card – CALL them to see if this is true – DO NOT RESPOND to the email.
If your paypal account emails you to say you have a problem – Log into your SECURE ACCOUNT and see for yourself – do not respond via email. You can forward that email to paypal directly and let them know there is a phishing scam going on … again.
PLEASE America watch out for yourself because EVERYONE is looking to take advantage of you. If you do not take care of yourself – no one else will. It is amazing how many times people freely give their personal info over the net to someone they do not know.
Best of luck and quit being so naive.
Many thanks Jon
Some good advice there
Michael
You know I’ve just got this e-mail from a Benjamin Vusi, and I knew it was a scam from the beginning. And thank goodness I came upon this site. These scams are so stupid. They kind of make me giggle a bit.
I often think, “How do these crooks get away with this stuff?”. Unfortunately there are still enough people around, who have no idea that these emails are designed to relieve them of their hard earned money.
Michael
how could i report this people to the authorities?
Hi Justin,
you can report these messages to your police authorities in your country, but don’t expect too much to happen.
The basic problem with trying to catch these crooks, is the fact that they are usually in a country where they can do their dirty deals with practically no risk. Mostly they are somewhere in Africa, where corruption is a part of daily life. So they grow up learning how they can cheat the next guy out of their money.
Because of this, us non Aficans are easy meat, because most of us have nothing to do with corruption at all and don’t recognise this kind of scam at first glance.
There is no international agreement in place to combat this kind of crime and, to tell the truth, a lot of people say it’s your own fault if you fall for one of these scams. So we won’t see world leaders doing anything about it any time soon.
Your only way of protecting yourself, is to think twice before answering one of these mails. Do some research online and see if there is any information about the person or type of message.
Recognising the mails for what they are, is the only way you can protect yourself these days.
Michael
What s the harm of giving them just my name, cell phone number and address of the dorm i am staying in because i unfoutunately did.
Hi Chris,
those details are not all that useful to the crooks, apart from the fact that they can contact you easier. You have to remember, they want you to give them money voluntarily and they have several reasons why you should do that.
Just remember, you never, ever get money from them.
Michael
I received this Email.
Guten Tag,
Meine namen ist Dr Robert Nkojo,Ich bin ein Manager einer fuehrenden Bank
in Sued Africa. Ich moechte Sie bei meiner Bank als Erbe meines
verstorbenen Klienten, Dr. George Brumley, praesentieren und bitte daher
um Ihre Mitarbeit. Bevor mein Klient verstarb, verfuegte er ueber
14.7millionen Usd auf sein Konto.
Dr. Brumley, ein Amerikaner und Geschaeftsmann, vertarb in einem
Flugzeugcrash zusammen mit seiner Familie. Das koennen Sie auf der
folgenden Website nachpruefen..
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
Es weiss sonst niemand von diesem Konto. Wir werden als Manager/Leiter
unserer Bank unseren Einfluss einsetzen Ihnen diese Gelder zu uebergeben.
Wenn Sie interessiert sind, schicken Sie mir bitte Ihren vollem Namen,
addresse, Handy- und Faxnummern, Beruf, Alter, und Ihr Wohnort,unter meine
email addresse Robert_Nkojo@amscultance.com damit ich mich mit Ihnen in
Verbindung setzen kann. Vielen Dank im voraus
MFG
Robert Nkojo Dr
Good day,
My name is Dr Robert Nkojo, I am a manager of a leading bank
in South Africa. I want you in my bank as the heir of my
deceased client, Dr. George Brumley, and render please
for your cooperation. Before my client died, it has
14.7millionen Usd to his account.
Dr. Brumley, an American businessman and, in a vertarb
Plane crash along with his family. You can on the
check and following website ..
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
It knows no one else from this account. We will be as a manager / director
our bank will use our influence handed over to these funds.
If you are interested, please send me your full name,
addresse, phone and fax numbers, occupation, age, and you live under my
Robert_Nkojo@amscultance.com email addresse so that I with you
Connection can be set. Thanks in advance
MFG
Dr Robert Nkojo
Hallo Jens,
Dr. Robert Nkojo ist neu hier. Vielen Dank für die Info.
Dr. Robert Nkojo is new here. Many thanks for the Info.
Michael
I received email from -
Dr David Moore
14 York Road, Ilford, Essex
1G1 3AD London, England
Informing me of a $5 million inheritance from George Brumley asking for my name, address and phone number.
Bill,
thanks for posting this fellow details.
Michael
I received a similar email today from Ezi Thabo Douglas:
Good Day,
I am a consultant/Auditor. A client of mine died in 2003, Kenya plane crash and he has a lodgment fund of US$14.7M. And no one knows about the funds,If you are interested, forward your names and cell Phone/fax, profession, age and country so I can contact you immeaditely.My client name is Dr. George Brumley, you can confirm it on the web page below: http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/21/Worldandnation/12_Americans_die_in_K.shtml.
Thank You.
Mr. T.Douglas
After about a minute of research I discovered that Dr. Brumley did leave at least two heirs, so the concept that his money has gone unclaimed is absurd. ” The Brumleys’ surviving children, twin daughters, live in Atlanta”
James,
many thanks for the info. It goes to show that the Africans don’t really research to deeply when they come up with a story and, once they have one that works, they milk it for as long as possible.
Michael
You’re invited to: READ CAREFULY YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED,
By your host: Mr Ali Osman
Date: Monday November 16, 2009
Time: 7:00 am – 8:00 am (GMT +00:00)
Street: FROM THE DESK OF :MR ALI OSMAN AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION, BANK OF AFRICA ( B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO,WEST AFRICA. I am Mr Ali Osman, bill and exchange manager with the Bank of Africa.(B.O.A) I need your assistance in transferring the sum of ($10.5)million into your account within 14 banking days. This account belongs to a foreign customer by name, DR GEORGE BRUMLEY who died along with his entire family in a plane crash. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you in respect of the provision of a foreign account,50% for me while 10% is for establishing of foundation for the less privilleges in your country . Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. Reply me if interested.This is my personal email address: aliosman111@gmail.com. Your Full Name…………. Your Country……………. Your Age……………. Direct Phone Number……………….. Your Occupation…………… Your Sex…………… I await for your urgent response. Thanks Mr Ali Osman
Will you attend? RSVP to this invitation
i have 2 emails and on both i have recieved emails related to somthing like this? im gueesing they are a scam?
what idiots lol
You guessed right, Blue
Michael
These people have nothing better to do with their time look out for Mr. Zari re Thank you…I got this this morning…
Привет, hello! I had emails like yours
“paul nedu 23-08-2009 14:56 пожаловаться удалить
Good Day:
I am Mr Paul Nedu, a senoir Accountant in a financial
bank here in Lome; Togo west Africa.
l know my letter will come to you as a suprise knowing
that we dont know ourselves very well, but l plead
with you to be patient with me because friends
gets to meet and know themselves in a day and become
good friends, I got your contact through Name
directory so i decided to contact you.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of
Twenty millon United States Dollars (USD 20;M)In an
account
that belongs to one of our deceased customer a
physician and a philanthropists, George Brumley Jr.
who unfortunately lost his life
including that of his entire family in a charter plane
crash in kenya.
Since we got information about his death, I have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
money because The management of this bank
can not release it unless somebody applies for it as
next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines but Unfortunately
he died along with his entire family in the plane
crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund
behind for the claim.hence my reason in contacting
you is for you to stand as the next of kin,i will
assist you to present every proof documents which will
help you to execute this money.It is therefore upon
this discovery that I decided to make this businness
proposal to you.
The bank will release this 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 I don’t want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Togolies can not stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
There after I will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages we agreed on.
Awaiting your most urgent response!
Regard’s,
Mr Paul Nedu.”
“> Dear Sandra ,
>
> Thanks for your email. I have contacted you becuase of this question of
> next of kin to deceased. I thus implore you to stand as one and present
> for the claim to this estate. I am much willing cooperate with you than to
> allow this fund be confiscated by the authorities. I am very ready to back
> you up with the the necessary paperwork legalities and assure you that
> this will done legitimately and immune you from any form illegality now or
> in future thereafter concluding this transaction.
>
> If by the Grace of God, the said amount inter into your account, i will
> come to you country with my family for investment, and i will need your
> assistance for the investment. Please call me as soon as you receive this
> email.
>
>
> I therefore want you to send me
>
>
> 1) your full names —————————— ————-
> 2) your full contact address —————————— –
> 3) Your contact telephone and fax numbers ————-
> 4) Your Occupation —————————— ————-
> 5) Your Age —————————— ——————–
> 6) Your country ————— ——————————
>
> So that I can write a letter of introduction of kinship in your favour
> and send to the bank urgently,
>
> I am looking forward to your positive response and cooperation.
>
> Best regards,
> Mr. Paul Nedu
> Tel:+(228)8507842″
hi, got one of those mails also, and am thinking about to catch me one of those prepaid phones just to make me some fun. maybe pretend that i am in urgent need for that money since i lost my home in a fire, also all my documents are lost and i have to sleep at a friends place where i only can stay for 2 or three days then have to hop over to another friend who is so nice to let me stay for some days, maybe they can send me some money to get a new passport so i can access my bank account again …
Hey Fade,
warum nicht?
You can certainly give it a go. If you do, let us know how you got on
Michael
My email was from a Johnson Khune. $27.7mm. Are there people that dumb out there that fall for something like this???
Unfortunately, enough people fall for these stories to be really lucrative for the crooks.
Michael
Hi, i recently received one of these emails from a mr Isaa Ibaraham…at this moment in time i am desperately broke, so when i saw his email it was as if an angel had come down from heaven to help me!! I hate people like this, giving a false hope to desperate innocent people!
You said it Lisa.
There more dastardly types of emails coming from these people, which are targeting people looking for ways to earn money.
Michael
I got this one a couple days ago. I had a feeling it was bogus, lol.
From:
“DR PAUL RICHARD”
Add sender to Contacts
To:
undisclosed-recipients
Good Day,
Urgent Business Proposal.
I am the Director of Bill and Exchange at the foreign remittance
Department of Africa Development bank (ADB). I am writing to seek your
cooperation over this business deal. In my Department, I discovered an abandoned sum of (US $10 Million United state Dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that
took place in Kenya, The account belongs to the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a
citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but naturalised in Burkina-Faso and
contractor with Anglo Gold.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin or business associate to come and claim his money because it cannot
be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or business associate
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all
his supposed next of kin or relation died along with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. You can read more about the crash on
visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
it is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to your account as the next of kin or
business associate.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remains dormant after four years; the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen is highly needed to release this fund. I will
like us to share this money mutually on two equal halves between me and you .
Please note that I don’t have any asses to withdraw any cent from this money
due to the money was insured by the owner DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY. I will indulge you at this point to understand that this is privileged information and must be
strictly confidential.
Best Regards
Yours faithfully,
DR. PAUL RICHARD
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
Federal Republic of BURKINA-FASO
PRIE CONFIDENTIAL NOVAT
Akima,
your feeling didn’t fail you on this
Michael
Julio,
many thanks for your advice. In my experience reporting these mails to the abuse desks of the various providers often does not lead to much, or you have to jump over a real high hurdle to get them to react.
It would be great if reporting the crooks would achieve at least that they are located, but often it does not get even that far.
Until there is an international agreement for the police authorities world wide, to enable them to cooperate on catching crooks like those mentioned here, not much is going to happen. The crooks can operate risk free for as long as they want.
It’s a sad fact, so the best way to combat them is to inform others and show them what to look out for.
Michael
MIchael:
Thanks for to be there, helping others to avoid beeing robed, As you said it is very difficult that Int’l entities take serious the treat, when we report scam we are only estatistics, nothing less but nothing more, I guess that tha’s the price for technology, always there are some worms, in the best box of apples. Do you know how you hunt the rabit? you go for it, where it lives, that it is the best shoot, just tell me when we go hunting, they use face book all other kind of webb sites to get the e mail address, or simply they visit webb sites where you apply for jobs, that it is the source for candidates, In my modest opinion we have to fight for better legislation
in this matter, then enforce policies by writting our public officials, and then the media.
I am all ears to start.
sincerely JULIO VIDELA
Michael – Where do you suppose that they are obtaining our email addresses?
Below is the scam I received. The grammar/spelling/punctuation was a huge indicator.
Subject: Form Mr zari Tanko
From: Zari Tanko
——————————————————————————–
Dear Friend,
This Message Might Meet You In Utmost Surprise. However, It’s Just My Urgent Need From Foreign Partner That Made Me Contact You For This Transaction. I Am A Banker By Profession And Currently Holding The Post Of Foreign Remittance In Our Bank. I Have the Opportunity of Transferring the Left over Funds sum of ($15.5Million.Usd) In One of our Foreign Customer account, who is An Investor, Gold Merchant and Federal Government contractor. (DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY. From KENYA) who died along with his entire family on Monday, July 21, 2003 Posted: 1:00 AM EDT (0500 GMT) in a plane crash, leaving a closing Balance of $15.5M in one of his current US Dollar Account that is been Managed by me as the Customer’s Account.
I Am Inviting You for a Business Deal Where This Money will Be Shared between both of Us, in the Ratio of 60% for me, 30% for you, 10% For Any income expenses that will come During the transfer, If You Agree To My Business Proposal. Further Details of the Transfer Will Be Forwarded to You As Soon As I Receive Your Retune mail, And send to me your personal information as below:
Your name…………
Your address………………
Your occupation………………
Your age…………
Your Telephone number…
I’m waiting your swift respond, have a Great Day. My private email address is, zari_tan1@voila.fr
Thank Yours Faithfully,
Mr zari Tanko
Jazz, they “harvest” emails wherever they can. There are also huge lists doing the rounds. So once you are on a list, you will continue to get these “wonderful” deals.
Michael
You aren’t joking! I happen to have another one sitting in my inbox now. Sheesh.
hahahaha…if me I can e-mail similar to the above, with very little difference, mentioned that MR. George Bromley was the one who died with his family. Weird.
hey Michael, I heard from you that it wanted to dredge scamer as much money from us, how? is how the process they took money from us? would not that would not happen if we do not give anything anything to him?
Rizky,
you are right. Don’t give them anything. Don’t email them. Don’t call them.
Just delete the email.
Michael
I got the same email telling me I would recieve €19,18m. Ofcourse I dont belive it but
how can they obtaine any money from me if I just give them my name cell Phone #
(which is a prepaid phone), profession, age, and country?
Just curious!
Mike,
the trick is to get you to transfer money to them. These all sorts of ruses to achieve that, such as claiming there are lawyers or notary fees, taxes to pay, bank fees and sometime they even say they have to pay someone graft money. Of course, you never get anything from them, but they will try to keep you paying sums to them for as long as possible.
Michael
I got a letter from Dr G Patrick about the 7,5 mill US dollars from Georg Brumley. I answered “him” like this: Full name: R U Sick Postal adress: R U Evil . Do you know how many people who throw away money on this and how bad they feel and how sad they are.. dont you understand what you do to them? I will come and eat you alive with plastic forks and knives! And unbelieveable I`ve got an anwer: THIS IS NOT A JOKE MY FRIEND. THOSE PEOPLE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE GREEDY PEOPLE:
Helge,
that was a good one
And greedy they are and it’s just too easy
Michael
Yes. Good old George. I think these people are really something. You have to agree that if you send money to them then you deserve all you get back. I would worry more about identity theft. I just send all mine to the police Email and let them worry about it. It is after all a public nuasance and a waste of every ones time.
Macabre
Very true Macabre
There is absolutely nothing free about anyone/anything requiring one red penny from you!