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First of all, Suzann tells you her personal details. It sounds more as though she is taking part in a partner website for singles if you ask me.

She then goes on to tell you that she is looking for a trustworthy soul willing to help her invest her money for her. It’s only 5.5 million USD, so you don’t have to stampede to help her just yet.

I don’t know about you, but I get a several of this kind of message to my tagged account every day. They are all supposedly from young African women with millions of dollars which they have to get out of the country.

It’s obvious that these messages are only used to target men. It’s the damsel in distress kind of message appealing to Knights in shining armour, which we all are, of course.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Suzann Badango <suzannbadango@xemail.de>
Date: 03.12.2007 05:41
Subject: Re: Miss Suzann Badango
To:

Hello My dear
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into financial transaction with you for our mutual benefits hence i write with do respect, i am Miss Suzann Badango from Liberia, I am a lady,with black hair,brown eyes,5fts 7inches tall,weigh 59kgs.

I wish to request for your assistance in a financial transaction, dear i got your contact in a cause of serious search in internet for a transaction partner,i wish to invest in a manufacturing and real estatemanagement industry in your country, i have five million,five hundred thousand united state dollars to invest in industry and i will require your assistance in recieving the funds into your position in your country.

I will gladly give you 10% of the total sum for your assistance,please it is important you contact me immediately for more clearifications on the next step hence it is my wish to relocate to your country as soon as this transaction is concluded.
Awaiting your immediate response.contact me with(suzannbadango4@yahoo.com)
Thanks,
Miss Suzann Badango

Tags: State Dollar, United State

This story has been told so often, that you get the impression there must be hundreds of wealthy cocoa merchants in Abidjan, who were killed by their business partners …..

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: sandrine_nzi22@yahoo.co.jp
Date: 27.11.2007 11:17
Subject: From Miss: Sandrine Nzi.
To: sandrine_nzi22@yahoo.co.jp

My Dear one,

I am Sandrine Nzi the only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs. Nzi Joseph My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip .

My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on March 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of twelve million,five hundred thousand United State Dollars. USD ($12,500,000.00) left in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan ,that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates.

That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management .

Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to .

(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 22years.

(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.

Moreover, Dear, i am willing to offer you 25% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas.

Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within fourteen (14) days you signify interest to assist me. Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Thank and God bless.

Best regards,

Miss Sandrine Nzi.

Tags: State Dollar, United State

This story has been used many times. As usual only names are changed, although Janet White has cropped up here a couple of times already.

Here are two cases for you:
Inheritance Scam using the HSBC Bank
Inheritance Scam this time from Nigeria

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR.PAUL OGHIE
Date: 28.11.2007 14:41
Subject: ATTENTION:BENEFICIARY,
To: undisclosed-recipients

FROM THE DESK OF:MR.PAUL OGHIE
DIRECTOR,INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA PLC,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.

ATTENTION:BENEFICIARY,

YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS OF $15.5M

THIS IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR OVER DUE INHERITANCE FUNDS HAS BEEN GAZZETED TO BE RELEASED, VIA KEY TELEX TRANSFER (KTT )-DIRECT WIRE TRANSFER TO YOU BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN OVER DUE FUND TRANSFER.MEANWHILE,A WOMAN CAME TO MY OFFICE FEW DAYS AGO WITH A LETTER,CLAIMING TO BE YOUR TRUE REPRESENTATIVE. HERE ARE HER INFORMATIONS:

NAME JANET WHITE
BANK NAME: CITI BANK,IN YOUR COUNTRY.
ACCOUNT Number: 6503809428.

PLEASE,DO RECONFIRM TO THIS OFFICE ,AS A MATTER OF URGENCY IF THIS WOMAN IS FROM YOU SO THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BEHELD RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING INTO THE WRONG ACCOUNT NAME. THE RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR,EXECUTIVE, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE SENATE COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN OVER DUE INHERITANCE FUND HAVE APPROVED AND ACCREDITED THIS REPUTABLE BANK WITH THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR,INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE / FOREIGN OPERATIONS,TO HANDLE AND TRANSFER ALL FOREIGN INHERITANCE FUNDS THIS YEAR.

HOWEVER,WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENTS DETAILS TO THE SAID MRS.WHITE,IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN WORKING DAYS FROM TODAY. CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.

BEST REGARDS,
MR.PAUL OGHIE

DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA PLC,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
ALL FOREIGN INHERITANCE FUNDS
CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS [FPD] ACCOUNTANT

Tags: Inheritance, Nigeria

Mr. Mashal wrote an e-mail in bold large letters. I am sure he wanted to make sure you could read it. Take a look at the screen shot of mashal’s e-mail

As you can guess he has found some money in a abandoned account which he desperately needs to get out of the country.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: mr mashal
Date: 24.11.2007 12:07
Subject: I NEED YOUR CALL EMAIL
To:

CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL FROM.
MR MASHAL AFRAAH
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB).
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

My Good Friend,

How are you doing together with your family? I guessed all is well. My massage should not be a surprise proposal to you because i got your contact information from the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our future survival in life.
Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

As i have said, I AM MASHAL AFRAAH. THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE OF FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OUAGADOUDOU BURKINA-FASO.
Now i have the intent to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of NINTEEN MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($19,300,000.00 ) for our future success.

This is and abandoned sum that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years ago. Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of the year against 2008.

Be informed clearly that it was stated in our banking rules and regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed till the period of 6 years started from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed fund.

As a honour and advantage bestowed to our foreign customers base on the rules guilding our bank, it was stated obviously that if you are not a citizen of Burkina Faso , you have the absolute authority to claim the fund hence you are a foreigner despite your differences from the country of origin of the deceased.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary and legit to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN OR EXTENDED RELATIVE to the deceased costomer.

On the transfer of this fund into your account, { 39% } being ( US$7,527,000.00) will be your share in respect of the account provision and your assistance rendered during the transfer of the fund into your bank account,{ 52% } being (US$10,036,000.00) will be my share being the codinator and the pillar of the transaction while the rest { 9% } being (US$1,737,000.00) will be shared to the respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity Organisation, Motherless Babies homes, and helpless disabled people in the World.

Now, if you are really sure of your trustworthy, accountability,confidentiality on this transaction, contact me and agree that you will not change your mind to cheat or disappoint me when the fund have getting into your account. Besides you should not entertain any fear because i am sure of the success as an insider in the bank.

Please reply with the assurance, include your private telephone and fax numbers necessary for facilitate an easy communication in this transaction.

As soon as you reply , give me a call through my private telephone number on ( 00 226 70437906 ) so that i will let you know the next step to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.

I expect your urgent communication and my best regard to you and all members of your family.
mashal_afra50@yahoo.fr
Yours sincerely,

MR MASHAL AFRAAH

Tags: United State

If you believe a Brit wrote this, I will have to correct you. It’s an African again

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR WILLIAMS COLE
Date: 21.11.2007 12:15
Subject: Dear Friend
To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear Friend

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I would like to introduce myself, I am Williams Cole and I work with the staff in the accounts management section of a well-known bank here in the United Kingdom.

One of our accounts is holding a balance of £15,000,000 (fifteen million British Pounds) and has been dormant for the past 3 years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a foreigner by name of Mr. Gerald Stone who died on the 4th of January 2002 in a planecrash in Birmingham here in the UK.

Since then no one has responded in anyway in regards to claiming the funds. As far as we can tell he has no family member who are aware of the existence of either the account or the funds. Information from the National Immigration Office also states that he was single on entry into the UK.

I have confidentially discussed this issue with some of the bank officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with us. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin. We will process these funds from the deceased and release them toyou, after due processes have been followed.

This transaction is totally risk free as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act. Think this over and should you be interested, please let me hear from you.

Regards,

MR WILLIAMS COLE

Reply to: cole20022003@excite.co.uk
   

Tags: Africa, Dear Friend, Deceased, Dormant Account, Mail, Money, Reply, United Kingdom

This name is new here - Nana Yaw.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Nana Yaw <nana_yaw388@yahoo.fr>
Date: 20.11.2007 16:16
Subject: From Nana G Yaw.
To: nana_yaw388@yahoo.fr

From Nana G Yaw.

Attn: Sir,

My name is Mr Nana G Yaw, I am the Branch manager in one of the leading international banks in Cote D’Iviore. I got your information during my search through the Internet.

I am 48years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don’t want problem, I only hope we can assist each other.

If you don’t want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the Branch manager of My Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Plateaux Abidjan at the end of each year.

On the course of the last year 2006 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made seven million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars [$7,750.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of.

I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 30% of the total fund. 

Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much.

As soon as I receive your response I will provide details to you on how we can achieve it successfully.

Please contact me via e-mail or with my pravite phone
number as: +225-07585-313.

Best regards,
Mr Nana Yaw.

Tags: Contact, Mail, Money, Yahoo

CNN kindly published the names of the passengers who died in the plane crash the crooks are referring to, which made the research for this e-mail easy.

AGCO Corp, an agricultural equipment manufacturer based in Duluth, Georgia, said its president and chief executive John Shumejda and senior vice president for sales and marketing Ed Swingle had died in the crash, Reuters reported.

CNN.com - Five die in UK jet crash - January 5, 2002

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: james richard <jamex14@live.com>
Date: 21.11.2007 10:52
Subject: FROM JAMES RICHARD (BUSINESS)
To:

Greetings,

I interest of investing in your country as well as seek your services in a private/confidential matter regarding late John shumedja who died leaving some funds unclaimed in our bank without any beneficiary.
This requires a private arrangement. Could you perhaps be able to receive these funds under legal claims then I will fill you in. I am willing to pay a generous management and transfer fees for your participation. 30%

I need assistance from a trustworthy and reliable person whom I will fill in as the beneficiary to provide an account where this fund will be remitted have all the details and will fill you in if you are really willing. Your major role would be to open a bank account where the funds will be transferred. The owner of the said account, is a foreigner who died on the 5th of January 2002 in a plane crash in Birmingham ; you can view this CNN website http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/04/england.plane/For details on the crash.

The funds in question are quite large (about £10,020,000). I will expect a straight answer from you. Yes or no. If yes, then let’s work out the modalities, I also expect you to provide me with your private mobile number so that I call you for further explanation.

I wait to hear from you

Regards,

Mr. JAMES RICHARD.

Tags: Crooks, Mail, Modalities, Plane Crash

If someone said to you, “Here’s 2 million Dollars. Do what you want with it.” Would you accept? Chances are you would.

That’s what these jokers are counting on.

Make no mistake though, it’s just a Money Transfer Fraud scheme.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Association Of European Charity Foundations <europeanofficer_2007@yahoo.de>
Date: 13.11.2007 21:23
Subject: NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID
To: undisclosed-recipients

Foundation’s Officer,
Association Of European Charity Foundations,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID.

Dear Sir Madam,
This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of the above International charity organization branch in the Netherlands as one of the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, education and business development.

The international registered Foundation is named after over 5 top company owners put together. The charitable foundation was reported by the business newspaper, the Economist between the year 2000-2007 to be technically one of the world’s wealthiest charity foundation- worth billions of USD($) - but its primary purpose is, by some, believed to be BRINGING INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH AND LEARNING TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY.  George Soros is chairman of the foundation. Having been rated as the founder and chairman of a network of foundations, the foundation has decided to randomly select email addresses that would benefit from this year’s donation/award.

Association Of European Charity Foundations in conjunction with the European Union is giving out a yearly donation of Two Million United States Dollars as specific Donations/Grants to 50 lucky international recipients worldwide in different categories for their educational pursuit, health care, personal Business development and uplift of their environments. These funds are freely given to you to use for your business educational and personal development and at least 30% to be used by you to develop a part of your environment, as this is a yearly program, which is a measure of universal development strategy, and eradication of poverty.

Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in your country this year, and your country is not the only country that is benefiting from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen from countries from all continents.

The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will be notable richness amongst many unusual people around the world.

This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen to receive the donation once. Which means that, subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again, so it’s your choice to spend the donation wisely on something that will last you a long time. And please do not bother following up this email, if you have benefited from this donation in previous years. Based on the random selection exercise of internet service providers (ISP) and millions of Super market cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$2,000,000.00 (Two Million United States Dollars) as charity donations/aid from the Association Of European Charity Foundations and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. Note that, your email was selected from either the internet, or a Shop’s cash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from.

You are required to expeditiously Contact the Executive Secretary below for qualification documentation and processing of your claims, from Monday through Sunday.

On contact with this officer, you’ll be given your donation pin number which you will use in collecting the funds. Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (N-222-6747, E-900-58) in all discussions. Executive Secretary,

Mr. Steven Garden
Tel:+31 619 114 285
Fax:+318 474 54671.
Email:eurocharityfoundation_2007@yahoo.de

Please note that this donations/Grants are strictly administered by “European Union” under delegated powers from the UNO. you are by all means hereby advised to keep this whole information confidential until you have been able to collect your donation, as there have been many cases of double and unqualified claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries, not later that 7 days after notification, as failure to do so will be to that particular beneficiary cancelled and its donation reserved for next years recipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Angela Jones
(Foundation officer).

Please note that this donations/Grants are strictly administered by European Union” under delegated powers from the UNO. you are by all means hereby advised to keep this whole information confidential until you have been able to collect your donation, as there have been many cases of double and unqualified claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation.

Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries, not later that 7 days after notification, as failure to do so will be to that particular beneficiary cancelled and its donation reserved for next years recipients.

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations 
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Angela Jones
(Foundation officer)

Tags: United State

I posted this story on October, 20th. That message came from Zuma Hazan. Just take at them both. You will immediately recognize them as being the same text. That’s how easy it is to run a 419 Scam …..

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: keita adamu <keita_adamu018@hotmail.fr>
Date: 10.11.2007 09:18
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
To:

FROM THE DESK OF MR KEITA_ADAMU, MANAGER AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA( B.O.A )
BURKINAFASO W/AFRICA
I am Mr Keita_Adamu, Manager Audit Accounting Department BANK OF AFRICA( B.O.A )I would like to know if this proposal will be worth while for your acceptance. 
I have a Foreign Customer,Manfred Hoffman from Germany who is an Investor, Crude Oil Merchant and Federal Government Contractor that was a victim with Concord Air Line, flight AF4590 killing 113 peole crashed on 25 July 2000 near Paris leaving a closing balance of Twelve Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($12.8m) in one of his Private US Dollar Accountthat is been managed by me as the Customer’s Account Officer.  Base on my security report, these funds can be claimed without any hitches as no one is aware of the funds and its closing balance except me and the customer (Now Deceased) therefore, I can present you as the Next of Kin and we will work out the modalities for the claiming of the funds in accordance with the law. 
If you are interested, Please call me to discuss in further details and our sharing ratio will be 60% for me and 30% for you.while 10% will be for the neccesary expenses that might occur along the line. +22676642303
Thank you,
Sincerely
Keita_Adamu.
N.B.In other for you to beleive me honestly try and go through this
(website)before you start with me.
Below is the website.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)

Tags: Inheritance, United State

This is a variation on the often used “my father was poisoned and left me a pile of money” story. Of course, Felix is not able to manage the money himself and he needs a trusting soul to help him.

Make sure it’s not you!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: fe35adams@yahoo.co.jp
Date: 10.11.2007 10:42
Subject: Re: FROM: FELIX ADAMS ( urgently assist me )
To: fe35adams@yahoo.co.jp

From: Felix Adams,
Country: Ivory Coast,
Location: West Africa.
Investment in your country
Dear,

I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I am asking for your assistance. . I got your contact information through site and decided to contact you, hoping that by Almighty God grace, you will successfully assist me out from my situations after seven days of prayer and fasting over seeking for an overseas guardance. I am Mr. Felix Adams ( 22 years old ). The only son of late Chief Jeseph Adams, who was a famous and wealthy cocoa and gold merchant base in Abidjan, the econimic capital of Ivory Coast located in West Africa.

My father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby and since then, my father took me so special. Before he died, he secrectly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of ($10,500,000.00 USD ).Ten million, five hundred thousand united state dollars. Deposited in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin.

I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.I am seeking your urgent attention to help me transfer the sum into your account for an investment purposes. Such as real estates management business. And i want you to help me invest this money in your country and help me to locate a nice school to continue my education in your country.I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your urgent assistance to me, immediately after the transfer of the fund into your account in your Country.

Yours sincerely,
Felix Adams.

Tags: State Dollar, United State