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Here we go with a typical lost or suspended account. Doing a quick research I was not able to find an prominent “Eward Merril” which would fit the deceased account story which is being used here.
This is unusual in that the crooks like to quote press releases which give their stories some creedance.
The person calling himself William Zuma says he is from South Africa. Now that could be true, but it is hard to prove. To tell the truth, it’s not all that important, because to run the Advanced Fee scam the crooks don’t actually have to be in the country they claim to come from.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: William X. Zuma <wxz2u2000@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:44 PM Subject: William To: wxz2u2000@hotmail.com
From: William X. Zuma Phone:+27 79 758 5599 Email:zumawills@yahoo.com
Dear Sir/Madam
I will like to solicit your help in a business proposition, which is by nature very confidential and a top secret. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one worried and apprehensive but I am assuring you not to worry, as all will be well at the end of this endeavor.
I am William Xhozi Zuma, Client Service Manager of one of the prime banks in Johannesburg South Africa, my partners and I have decided to seek your help in the transfer of some amount of money requiring maximum confidence from my bank. A foreigner, Late Dr. Edward Merrill, who was an oil merchant and contractor was our customer here at our bank and had a balance of US$106 million which the bank now expects his next of kin to claim as the beneficiary .
So far, valuable efforts has been made to get to his people but to no avail, as he had no known relatives more because he left his next of kin column in his account opening forms blank and he has no known relatives . Due to this development our management and the board of directors are making arrangements for the funds to be declared unclaimed, returned to South Africa being the point of origin and subsequently paid into the Reserve Bank purse. Usually, funds of this nature end up in the greedy pockets of some politicians due to our corrupt society.
To avert this negative development my colleagues and I have decided to look for a reputable person to act as the next of kin to late Dr. Merrill, so that the funds could be processed and released into his account, which is where you come in. Whereby you cannot come here in person for this transaction, we shall make arrangement with a qualified and reliable attorney that will represent you in liaising with my bank for inconveniency of you coming to my country.
All legal documents to aid your claim for this fund and to prove your relationship with the deceased will be provided by us. Your help will be appreciated with 20% of the total sum. Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this letter if you do not appreciate this proposition I have offered you. Thank you very much for your time.
I wait anxiously for your response via secure email id: zumawills@yahoo.com.
I often ask myself if these e-mails are deliberately written as though they come from an 8 year old or if the writer is just not able to write in the English language.
In this e-mail it appears as though this fellow cannot write, despite the fact that he is using words and phrases which are not usual in everyday language. Of course, if he really was a Government Minister he would have a better command of English than is demonstrated here.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: TASA <admin@204.14.88.43>
Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Subject: RE; INFORMATION
To:
DEAR!
I AM MR TASA WILLIAMS A FORMER GOVERNMENT MINISTER IN ONE OF THE COUNTRY IN AFRICA FROM JUNE 2004 TO MAY 2006.
JUST AT THE DAWN OF THE NEW REGIME IN MY COUNTRY , I WAS IMPRISONED BY THE NEW LERDERSHIP FOR THE ACCUSATION OF MISMANAGEMENT AND MISAPPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS.
I JUST RECOVERD FROM BAIL AFTER SIX (06) MONTHS IN PRISON.
IN ORDER TO AVOID CAPTURE AND REPATRIATION OF MY FORTUNE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE, I JUST ASK YOUR HONOUR, A PARTNERSHIP DISCRET FOR THE RECEIPT OF THE FUNDS AMMOUNTING TO A TOTAL OF USD13,000.000 MILLION. WITH GOLD DUST TREASURE DEPOSITED WITH ONE OF THE SECURITY COMPANY WORTH OF 5,000.000 MILLION GBP.
IN CASE YOU ARE INTRESTED IN MY PROPOSAL, AND YOU FEEL THAT YOU CAN HELP ME SECURE AND TO PLACE THESE FUNDS IN A PROJECT VIABLE OUTSIDE AFRICA FOR INVESTMENT IN PRIFITABLE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY WITH MORE DETAILS ON THE CASE.
THE CONDITIONS, THE OPERATION OF THE FUNDS, TRANSFER IN YOUR NAME AND YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WILL BE DEFINED IN OUR NEXT MATCHES.
PLEASE BELIEVE ME, FOR SECURITY REASONS AND TO MYSELF ON THIS TRANSACTION, I PREFERRED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS IN MY FIRST MEETING, BECAUSE I KNOW IT IS ON THE INTERNET THAT I CONTACTED YOU, AND AT THIS TIME, WHEN THE RISK IS LARGE ENOUGH IN BUSINESS.
WHILE I WAIT TO READ FROM YOU SHORTLY TO CONFIRM YOUR ASSISTANCE,RECEIVE MY HIGHEST CONSIDERATION.
Rainer Neske is the head of retail business operations at the Deutsche Bank in London. As such the African crooks are using his reputation and good name to back a typical 419 fraud e-mail.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr. Rainer Neske
Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Subject: Urgent From: Mr. Rainer Neske.
To:
Good Day,
I know this letter might come as a surprise to you as we might have not met before but I write you in good faith, hoping that you will treat this letter for assistance in a matter that shall benefit both of us.
My name is Mr. Rainer Neske,I am the Head of Private & Business Clients in Deutsche Bank AG, 1 Great Winchester Street, London, EC2N 2DB. I will need you to assist me in executing a Business Project from my bank here in UK, to your country which amount to GBP30 Million for partnership investment.
Yes, it’s true. This fellow is trying to blind you with swollen, official sounding words.
Just don’t forget, he’s only a miserable crook. Nothing more!
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ms Kent Afrido. <mskentafrido1@sibmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Subject: AMOUNT DUE FOR CREDIT(ON HOLD)USD$2.2Million
To: undisclosed-recipients
OUR FILE REF WAMI/VOL.103/APR/2008
SUBJECT: AMOUNT DUE FOR CREDIT(ON HOLD)USD$2.2Million
Good morning,
Upon assumption of office by this new democratic government, series of special meetings were held home and abroad with some leaders of the World Monetary Institution. that is to tell you that I am committed to upholding and defending the constitution and laws of this Institution as well as achieving a higher level of public safety and security through the prosecution of criminals in the state.
The purpose of the committee among other is to investigate, verify and settle all outstanding total pending Payment with maximum security .and records before me has revealed that your payment has not been effected is a result of official negligence.this is due to many abnormalities had happened in the institutions where some top official of the apex institutions are interested in your payment and they collaborate with impostors who are carrying a fake portfolios with levies misled and misguided about the position of your fund and having the opportunity to extort money from you that made it too longer up till date that explains why you receive different kinds of untrue emails and phone call from different people everyday.
May it interest you to know that your payment has since being effected through a new secure system for making fast confirmed payments, the money is in escrow and the account is set up under your email address only for your receiver of your withdrawer codes .Diplomatic Cash Ventures should have sent you an email by now with details such as when and where to pick up the cash. You can pick up the cash at any convenient bank locate in your area. If there are no convenient locations near you, you can request to transfer the cash direct to your bank account or issue you a cheque within 7 hours.
If you have not received your withdrawer codes yet please contact Diplomatic Cash Ventures Officer PAUL DAVIS at email address of diplomaticcashvbenin@netcourrier.com oR diplomaticcv@mail2africa.com They will charge you $215 which you will send a great deal less than a money wireservice would to enable the programming of your information in the micro chip compartment of central computer and your code will be send to you to enable you cash your money at your convenient time .Ask him on how you are to send it.
When writing to Diplomatic Cash Ventures always include the following information:
Name:————————————–
Complete address: ————————-
Telephone number: ————————-
Your receiver Email: ————————
Your Transact Number: Are 1256990775
Transfer Date: 018-04-2008
Expected Arrival Date: 022-04-2008
Transact Amount: $2.2Million
You are to send $215 For their chargesTo enable you receive your withdrawal code.
Finally be inform that your funds are fully free of any liens or encumbrances and are clean, clear and non-criminal origin and are available to pick, this guarantee is witness by the World Bank group,international Monetary Funds IMF Paris and London Club o
ditors,European Economic Community EEC, EFCC Africa and the Envoy’s of our CorrespondenceInternational Bank of Settlement world Wild.
Best regards,
Ms Kent Afrido
Policy harmonization chairman on public debt
You could say this is another “deceased” account …
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: hawa akin <hawa_akin@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Subject: urgent
To:
Dear Friend,
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never melt before. I am the Director in charge of Auditing section Bank in the Group Bank of African B.O.A,AS IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW,I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($12.6 million) Twelve Millon six Hundred Thousand US Dollars immediately to your account.Reply to my private e-mail: hawa_akin@yahoo.com
Eric’s e-mail is of the usual money transfer type. Of course, his father was killed mysteriously while in Europe. And guess what! He says his uncle did it!
It’s a fairy tale as always …
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: erickuame@mysinamail.com
Date: 2008/4/18
Subject: From: Eric Kuame .
To: erickuame@mysinamail.com
From: Eric Kuame .
Dear Respectful One,
Good a thing to write you. I have a proposal for you-this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.
I am Eric Kuame .22years old and the only SON of my late parents Mr.and Mrs.TOURE . My father was a highly reputable busnness magnet-(a cocoa merchant)who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad year 12th.Febuary 2003.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time.
But God knows the truth!
My mother died when I was just 6 years old,and since then my father took me so special. Before his death on Febuary 12 2003 he called the secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told him that he has the sum of Ten million,seven hundred thousand United State Dollars.(USD$10.700,000) left in fixed deposit account in one of the leading banks in Africa. He further told him that he deposited the money in my name,and finally issued a written instruction to his lawyer whom he said is in possession of all the necessary but legal documents to this fund and the bank.
I am just 22 years old and a university undergraduate and really don’t know what to do.Now I want an account overseas where I can transfer this funds. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast.The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life. I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.
Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help me as your son ?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account?
Please,Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.
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.
———- Forwarded message ———- 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.
It looks as though the Fondazion di Vittorio is a story which is working well for the crooks. It crops up as regular as clockwork.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY <fdvinfo9@verizon.net> Date: Dec 19, 2007 3:25 AM Subject: Contact Me Now To: recipients
Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY Batch No:…N-222-6747 E-900-56
Dear Beneficiary: Congratulations The Foundazion Di Vittorio has chosen you by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal educational and business development.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary 2007 program We are giving out a yearly donation of US$500 000.00 to 40 lucky recipients as charity donations.
PAYMENT VERIFICATION FORM Full Name:……… Home Address:…… Occupation:…….. Telephone:……… Fax:…………… Number:………… Sex:…………… Age:…………… Next of Kin:……. Batch No:…
Mr Arthur Ford E-Mail:fdv001@live.com http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it
Get this! Mike Ugochukwu sends you an scam e-mail. So far so good, but …
he tells you a tale of a huge fund transfer and calls himself Barrister Matthew Duke. If you look at the sender e-mail address, you will also see that Mike also calls himself Barrister Godwin Ugochukwu.
This is a great fairy tale, only the prince is not what he says he is.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Mike Ugochukwu <barrister_godwinugochukwu123@yahoo.com> Date: Dec 19, 2007 12:11 AM Subject: It’s very urgent To: barrister_godwinugochukwu123@yahoo.com Signed-by: yahoo.com
It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a suprise. This is because we have not met before but i am inspired to sending you this email by the huge fund transfer opportunity that will be of mutual benefit to the two of us. However, I am Barrister Matthew Duke, [the personal Attorney to the late Engr. Ronald Harriert, a national of Northern American], who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development company (SPDC) in Nigeria. On November 2002, my client,his wife And their three children were involved in a car accident along Sagamu/Lagos Express Road.
Unfortunately they all lost their lives in the event of the accident,Since then I have made several enquiries to several Embassies to locate any of my clients extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccesful attempts,I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you, since you have the same surname with the deceased. I contacted you to assist in repartriating the money and property left behind by my client, I can easily convince the bank with my legal practice that you are the only surviving relation of my client.Otherwise the Estate he left behind will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $15million U.S dollars (fifteen million U.S. America dollars). Conseqently,The bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since i have been unsuccesful in locating the relatives for over several years now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased,so that the proceeds of this account valued at $15million U.S dollars can be paid to your account and then you and i can share the money. 60% to me and 35% to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your governmen may require. Please all I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through and also Forward the following to me for the filling of the application of claim in your name urgently;
Your Full Name:
Your Age and Gender :
Your Nationality:
Your House Address:
Your Occupation:
Your Tele-phone and Fax No:
Note also that this transaction must be kept strictly confidential because of it’s nature. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me VIA this my confidential email (MatthewDuke@myway.com) . Yours Faithfully,
Assuming these crooks really sent 1.5 million US Dollars with UPS, this is what you should know.
All packages being sent through a worldwide courier service do get x-rayed. That means, money will be recognised by the specialists running the machines. If you are the recipient of such a shipment, you will be arrested for money laundering.
As the crooks will never send you any money, this will, of course, not happen. Even so, if you decide to contact these people, you will lose money.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: johnsuga3@zipmail.com.br Date: 29.11.2007 16:29 Subject: CONTACT UNITED POSTAL SERVICE FOR THE DELIVERY OF YOUR PARKAGE To: undisclosed-recipients
Dear Friend,
It has been long i heard from you, what is going on? i want to inform you that i have taking your package box of ($1.500.000.00) One Million five hundred thousand united state dollars to United Postal Service Courier company (UPS) benin republic for them to send it to you.
I meet the manager of United Postal Service courier company and i spoke with him he told me that they will delivery your package box to your door step with a cheeper rate, which he said that it will cost you the sum of $155 dollars to delivery the package to you. He further told me that as soon as they heard from you they will delivery the package box to you with out any delay.
Now i want you to contact United Postal Service courier company for the release of the package, i have submited the package box to them.
The director name is: ( Dr Dan Bruno ). Telephone: 229 9790-1442 E-mail: united_postal_service_benin@yahoo.fr Send them you full information to enable them locate you when they get to your country ok.
FULL NAME……….. ADDRESS…….. TELL PHONE………. FAX PHONE………. YOUR SEX…….. YOUR AGE……… COUNTRY……….. STATE…………. PHOTOGRAPH…………
Please do get back to me as soon as you have contacted United Postal Service courier company. Regards. Mr John Suga.
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