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Now this one is short, but it is quoting a credit card that does not exist.

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From: Dr Usman Shamshudeen
Date: 2008/8/10
Subject: YOUR SWIFT CREDIT CARD PAYMENT!!
To: info@betrug-online.info

新しいメールアドレスをお知らせします
新しいメールアドレス: yourswiftdreditcardpaymeuttaata@yahoo.co.jp

YOUR SWIFT CREDIT CARD PAYMENT!!

Dear Friend,

It was Resolved and Agreed that your inheritance/Contract Fund would be released on a special method of payment which tag Name Reads SWIFT CREDIT CARD.SEND YOUR NAME,ADDRESS,NEXT OF KIN.PHONE AND FAX NUMBER TO CLAIM YOUR FUND.

- Dr Usman Shamshudeen

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If you take a look at Wikipedia you will find an entry about Mr. Brumley. He was quoted to be a philanthropist and he died with several family members in a plane crash in 2003.

Now obviously this background is ideal for 419 scam crooks to misuse this information to put a bogus story about “lost” money in deepest Africa. Seeing that e-mails quoting money in Ouagadougou come in almost every day here, it does seem a favourite location for stories like this.

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From: HASSAN BILLY <mr_hbilly15@mixmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:24 AM
Subject: Mr.Hassan Billy
To: “mr_hbilly15@mixmail.com” <mr_hbilly15@mixmail.com>

Mr.Hassan Billy
01 Avanue BP Pardou,
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
 
GREETINGS, PLEASE I WILL LIKE YOU TO CONTACT ME THROUGH MY
PRIVATE EMAIL hbilly01@yahoo.fr
 
Complement of the day to you and your beloved family. Do not be astonished for receiving this mail. Please, I seek your permission and would want to get myself introduce to you. I am Mr.Hassan Billy. I work with BANK INTERNATIONAL OF BURKINA (BIB). I need your co-operation in receiving USD9.5M that has been in a dormant account with my bank for over 6years which belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.  I will provide you with detailed informations on the modalities of this operation once I have your interest but I must say that trust flourishes business. Therefore let your conscience towards this proposal be nurtured with sincerity and I will not fail to bring to your notice that, this transaction is hitch-free risk and you should keep this transaction (TOP SECRET).
 
I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and 65% would be for me, thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. Remember, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased, indicating your 1) Bank name, 2) Your bank account number, 3) Your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and my career as a banker, I will bring you up to date with all the informations as soon as I hear from you. If I don ‘t hear from you within a certain period I will assume you are not  interested.

Please, I want you to visit the website below for more informations about the plane crash and the Deceased DR.GEORGE BRUMLEY AND HIS FAMILY. 

www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html  www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1390626,00.html
 
Meanwhile, If you are willing, capable and honest for this transaction, Kindly indicate your interest by sending a response to my e-mail address at: hbilly01@yahoo.fr
 
Yours Truely,
Mr. Hassan Billy,

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This one is not a plane crash, but an earthquake.

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From: Mr Ahmed M.Tanko <mrahmedmm@orange.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Subject: REPLY FAST IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
To: mrahmedmm@orange.net

From: Mr Ahmed Mao. Tanko
Bills & Exchange Manager
Bank of Africa (BOA)
TEL 226 78 12 12 77 .
Burkina faso West Africa.
 
                                                     Compliment of the season,
Good day and how are you doing with your family? Hope fine. Please let this message do not be a surprise to you because i got your contact information and lay all the trust in you before i decided to disclose this confidential and successful transaction to you.
 
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
 
PROPOSITION;
 
I discovered an abandoned sum of $9M(NINE Million United states Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in Algeria Earthquake on 23 may 2003. Since his death,none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir.The bank cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
 Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out for the funds $9M (NINE Million United states Dollars) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary’s next of kin.It may interest you to note that i have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the followings:
 
1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.
 
These requirements will enable me file a letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made.I shall be compensating you with 45% on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be mine. Your share stays with you while the rest of mine shall be for investment purposes in your country. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you, I awaits your urgent email reply to proceed .

Regards,
Mr Ahmed Mao.Tanko

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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!

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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

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You could say this is another “deceased” account …

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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
 

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I often wonder at these plane crash stories. If you have been here often you know that the Andreas Schranner story has been regularly posted here. It goes something like this “a multimillionaire died in a plane crash and left a pile of money in an African bank”. The writer goes on to say “we now need some one to pose as the next of kin to claim this lost money”. The reason for this being there are no living inheritors and we would like the money for ourselves. huh!

So where does this go from here?

Anyone who falls for this story contacts the crooks and immediately gets put through the mill. Form one e-mail to another he gets more and more involved, sending documents and setting himself up as the legal next of kin. Or so he thinks …

In reality, he is just corresponding with the crooks in the guise of lawyers, bankers and notaries.

Once he has gotten in this deep, they push him to pay a fee of say, 800 Dollars or better Euros. It could be for taxes, lawyers or bank costs, whatever. Of course, it is an imaginary fee and it doesn’t really matter for what the crooks claim the payment to be for.
They put the pressure on the “victim” to pay, saying the deal cannot go through without it. Naturally the crooks can’t don’t have the money to pay the fee. They are only poor Africans.

Needless to say the money should be sent through Western Union and once this is paid, they push the poor victim for more.

They push him for what they can get. Which means that victims which are gullible enough, pay anything up to 20,000 Dollars and more.

This often means financial ruin for the victims. For the African crooks, it’s a way of life.

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From: Evans Efedua <evans_info@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Subject: Proposition
To:

Reply-To: evans_efedua2007@yahoo.com.hk

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Message-Id: <20080418194729.AA873AFDF3E@m162.magenta.fastwebserver.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:40:12 +0200 (CEST)

From: Mr. Evans Efedua
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
Regent Bank Plc
Victoria Island.
Email: evans_efedua2007@yahoo.com.hk
 
Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Evans Efedua, I am  the Manager, Credit and Foreign bills of  Regent Bank Plc. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of US$15.5M  (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)  from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

I am the account officer of a foreigner named  Late Mr. Morris Thompson who died in an air crash along with his wife  and only daughter on the January 31 in an Alaska airline Flight 261 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below  which was published by www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska  airlines.list

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself  and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery.  I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out  by me for the funds  to be released in your favor as the beneficiary’s next  of kin. Because after four years the money will be called back to the bank  treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of  the bank.  So it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall  be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow  the bank directors to share this money among themselves at the end of the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order  of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.  All I need from you is as follows:

1.   Your confirmation of your ability to handle this Business for me.
2.   Your word that you will keep this business as Confidential as possible at all times until we conclude this business.
3.   Your telephone and Fax numbers for communication.
4.   Age and Occupation.

I shall be compensating you with 30% (thirty percent)  on final conclusion of  this project for your assistance, while we will retain 65% (sixty-five percent) and 5% (five percent) goes for expenses because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this  business. If this business is acceptable by you.  Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.

Your faithfully,
Mr. Evans Efedua
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
Regent Bank Plc

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What do you think? Will send it with Fedex or DHL?

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From: DR FRANK SMITH <franksmith0011@myway.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Re:Notification
To:

From:DR FRANK SMITH
Manchester M27 5FX, United Kingdom.
Fax:TEL:+44 70457 04247.
 
Dear Sir /Madam,
 
This is to officially inform you that your funds of Ten Million United state Dollars only(US$ 10) has been approved for immediate delivery to you by cash payment via Consignment delivery to your door step .For the purpose of clarification,you are advised to reconfirm:
 
(1)Your Full Names
(2)Your Direct Telephone & Fax Numbers
(3)Your Physical Address
 
So that there will be no error during the delivery of the funds to you in your country of residence.Your quick response will be highly appreciated to enable us proceed further.
We awaits your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely,
DR FRANK SMITH.

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