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This e-mail goes to great detail to explain what the crooks want to do. Now the funny thing about it, is fact that the deceased’s personal details are kept anonymous. They only go on to say that he had the same surname. It is written so that the e-mail would fit anybody who receives it.

Reading the text you get the impression it has been written by an educated person with a good command of the English language. It’s a far cry from the usual mumbo jumbo and semi-official language which is often used in other messages.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr Stewart Barculo
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM
Subject: I AWAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE
To: undisclosed-recipients

Standard Life Bank,
30 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh EH1 2DH
EMAIL ;stew_bar22uk@yahoo.com.hk

Good day,

I am Stewart Barculo, Staff of Standard Life Bank Limited.

I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he
placed under our banks management Eight years ago. I would respectfully
request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect
the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail.

I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is informed
of this communication. I would like to intimate you with certain facts
that I believe would be of interest to you. In 2000, the subject matter;
came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private
banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of
Fifty million united states dollars, which he wished to have us turn over
(invest) on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case; I made
numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief
operations officer of the private banking sector, especially given the
volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerous
occasions prior to any investments being placed. I encouraged him to
consider various growth funds with prime ratings. The favored route in my
advice to customers is to start by assessing data on 6000 traditional
stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of alternative investments.
Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and
made attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued
profit and interest stood at this point at over ten million United States
Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired
low risk guaranteed returns on investments.

In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in here in the United
Kingdom. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a
security firm. I informed him that Standard Life Bank would have to make
special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due
process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to
cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained about the charges
but later came around when I explained to him the complexities of the task
he was asking of us. Cash movement across boarders has become especially
strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate and made the
funds available to the security firm. I undertook all the processes and
made sure I followed his precise instructions to the letter and had the
funds deposited with the security firm. The Security Firm is a specialist
private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and
blue chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake
transactions that need immediate access to cash. This small and highly
private organization is familiar especially to the highly placed and
well-connected organizations. In line with instructions, the money was
deposited with the security firm.

The deceased told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his
arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication we
had, this transpired around 25th February 2003.In June last year, we got a
call from the security firm informing us that the inactivity of that
particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was
concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was
the only one who knew about the deposit at the security firm, and I could
not understand why the deceased had not come forward to claim his deposit.
I made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I immediately passed the
task of locating him to the internal investigations department of Standard
Life Bank. Four days later, information started to trickle in, apparently
our client was dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead
of a heart attack in Cannes, South of France.

We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was
confirmed. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible
surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come
forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking
affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but
also some levels of detachment from conventional processes. In his
bio-data form, he listed no next of kin. In the field of private banking,
opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence,
accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers and codes to
make the accounts anonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors
of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring
that there are no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they
nominate next of kin. Private banking clients apart from not nominating
next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this
case; the deceased died without a testate. In line with our internal
processes for account holders who have passed away, we instituted our own
investigations in good faith to determine who should have right to claim
the estate. This investigation has for the past months been unfruitful. We
have scanned every continent and used our private investigation affiliate
companies to get to the root of the problem. It is this investigation that
resulted in my being furnished with your details as a possible relative of
the deceased. My official capacity dictates that I am the only party to
supervise the investigation and the only party to receive the results of
the investigation. What this means, you being the last batch of names we
have considered, is that our dear late fellow died with no known or
identifiable family member. This leaves me as the only person with the
full picture of what the prevailing situation is in relation to the
deposit and the late beneficiary of the deposit.

According to practice, The Security Firm will by the end of this financial
year broadcast a request for statements of claim to Standard Life Bank,
failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the
deposit back to Standard Life Bank. This will result in the money entering
the Standard Life Bank accounting system and the portfolio will be out of
my hands and out of the private banking division. This will not happen if
I have my way. What I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical
practice but I want you to understand something. It is only an outsider to
the banking world who finds the internal politics of the banking world
aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge
rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain
portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general
direction of what I propose. There is Fifty Million Dollars deposited in a
security firm, I alone have the deposit details and they will release the
deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the
existence of this deposit for as far as Standard Life Bank is concerned,
the transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to
the security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file
are just customer services and due process. The security Firm has no
single idea of what’s the history or nature of the deposit. They are
simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any party that
comes forward. This is the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of
money trying to track this man’s family; they have investigated for months
and have found no family.

The investigation has come to an end.

My proposal; you share the same surname with our late client; I am
prepared to place you in a position to instruct the security Firm to
release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt
of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half. That
is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release
the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 50/50.I would have gone ahead to
ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line
to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. But on the other hand,
you with the same very name as the original depositor would easily pass as
the beneficiary with right to claim. I assure you that I could have the
deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank
of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased I will then
officially communicate with The Security Firm and instruct them to release
the deposit to you. With these two things: all is done.

The alternative would be for us to have The Security Firm direct the funds
to another bank with you as account holder. This way there will be no need
for you to think of receiving the money from The Security Company. We can
fine-tune this based on our interactions. I am aware of the consequences
of this proposal. I ask that if you find no interest in this project that
you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and
destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and
forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not
approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like me who have
made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking
sector. I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good
conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my
industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come
ones’ way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for
once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances won’t
pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work
with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me.
I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new
opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well
worth undertaking.

I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you
refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows
of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has
planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Let’s share the
blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through
this email account stew_bar22uk@yahoo.com.hk if you give me positive
signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to
inform you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny
knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting
me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through
my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will
provide for you and also through this email address. I do not want any
direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as
they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in
line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this
instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a
wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as
to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is
nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter
of gold.

This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do
not betray my confidence.

Kindly send your response to my private email address:
stew_bar22uk@yahoo.com.hk

I Await Your Response.

Stewart Barculo.

Stewart Barculo, Standard Life Bank

Tags: Banking Sector, Business Discussions, Chief Operations Officer, Crooks, E Mail, Edinburgh, Educated Person, English Language, Far Cry, Funny Thing, Hk, Integrity, Lothian Road, Mumbo, Private Banking, Standard Life Bank, Stewart Barculo, Subject Matter, Undisclosed Recipients, United States Dollars, Urgent Response

This is just like most of the messages which are being sent out by African crooks. They are not always logical.

You can see that they use various kinds of messages by reading a part of one sentence

contract fund, inheritance or Lottery Wining

Obviously they are trying to catch people who may have been victims before.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr. Hamilton Huang.
Date: 2008/8/25
Subject: Attn: Sir/Madam.
To: undisclosed-recipients

BNP Paribas Bank
10 Harewood Avenue,
London, NW1 6AA,
UK.
Tel: 447-024-034-163.
Fax Number: +447-006-012-637
(Customer Services) Ref: Ref: MX/9420X2/68

Attn: Sir,

RE: AN OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT ON ACCRUED INTEREST OF Ј1,800,000.00 GBP.

This is a notification that your contract fund, inheritance or Lottery Wining, which was deposited in our bank; BNP Paribas Bank Plc., since 1994-2007 has accumulated an interest sum of Ј1,800,000.00 GBP only. Base on the joint agreement signed by the board of trustees of BNP Paribas Bank Plc., the management has mandated us to pay you the accrued interest pending when approvals would be granted on the principal contract/inheritance Sum.

Therefore, you are advised to forward to us immediately
Beneficiary Full Name:
Address: Tel:
Fax: Age/sex:
Occupation:
Bank Details, with Account Number, Swift Code etc.

To this email address: hamiltonxx@sify.com

Your prompt attention and urgent reply to this message is needed. For immediate attention call on the above phone numbers.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Hamilton Huang.

Hamilton Huang, Paribas Bank

Tags: Accrued Interest, Age Sex, Bank Details, Bank London, Bank Plc, Beneficiary, Bnp Paribas, Bnp Paribas Bank, Board Of Trustees, Crooks, Hamilton Huang, Harewood, Inheritance, London Nw1, Madam, Mr Hamilton, Official Notification, Paribas Bank, Swift Code, Uk Tel, Undisclosed Recipients, Urgent Reply

Dubious loan offers like this are coming in more frequently these days. It looks as though the sub prime market is proving to a lucrative harvesting place for all sorts of crooks.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ~EXCEL FINANCIAL HOME~
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:01 AM
Subject: APPLY FOR URGENT LOAN HERE
To:

Monday-Saturday:7:30am-6:30pm {Processing time}.
Sunday:12noon-6:30pm {Processing time}.

Compliment of the season.

I am Mr. Austin Brown of Excel financial home.
I am a certified loan lender i give out loan at interest rate 0f 3%. I give out loan for any purpose. Do you want to pay your bills?, oR in financial problem? even bad credit? or for any other reason?. Contact us today with the following
email: officeloanlender@gmail.com

With the following information:

Full Name:……………………
Contact Address:………………
Phone:……………………….
Country:……………………..
Amount Needed as Loan:…………
Loan Duration:………………..
Sex:…………………………

we can start with the processing of your
loan immediately.

Mr. Austin Brown
Managing Director

loan fraud, austin brown, Excel Financial Home

Tags: Address Phone, All Sorts, austin brown, Bad Credit, Compliment, Contact Address, Crooks, Duration, Email, Excel, Excel Financial Home, Interest Rate, Loan Duration, loan fraud, Loan Lender, Loan Rate, Managing Director, Processing Time, Sex, Sub Prime Market

Regardless of which Social Network you may belong to, you will eventually get message like this from an African crook:

Tags: 419 scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Crooks, Hi5, Thierry Roland

It’s been some time since this one has been around. I imagine these crooks with the Olympics just started, the Chinese touch could be quite lucrative.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From:Mr. Hon-Hing Wong<<honghingwong@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Subject: KIND ASSISTANCE REQUIRED
To: undisclosed-recipients

MANAGING DIRECTOR
DAH SING BANK LTD
36TH FLOOR DAH SING BANK
FINANCIAL CENTRE LTD.
108 GLOUCESTER ROAD,
HONG KONG

MAIL:mrhwong006@gmail.com

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Hon-Hing Wong , Managing Director Dah Sing Bank Ltd, Hong Kong.
I am contacting you with respect to a portfolio amounting to $35,520,000
USD (Thirty Five Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States
Dollar) deposited by a German Merchant named Mr. Mathew Schneider.

On the 18th of October 2002 Mr. Mathew Schneider deposited $12,000,000
USD (Twelve Million United States Dollars) under our portfolio management
department for four years and the deposit matured on the 18th of October
2006 with over 196% growth which amounted to a total of $35,520,000 USD
(Thirty Five Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States
Dollar).

Mr. Mathew Schneider, has since passed away without stating his next of
kin because he deposited the funds in our establishment at a point he was
finalizing divorcing his wife and had no kids coupled with the fact that
he was an orphan, this funds has since mature and the roll-over on the
funds has also expired.

This sum of $35,520,000 USD (Thirty Five Million, Five Hundred and Twenty
Thousand United States Dollar) is still  in my possession in my Bank
lifeless and unnoticed because there will never be a claim on the funds
and all material and immaterial documents and certificates relating to the
funds is also in my possession.

According to the Hong Kong Law regulating cases of this nature which is
also typical to other Asian countries, at the expiration of 5 (five)
years, such funds will revert to the ownership of the Government for
financing military operations, such as purchasing of arms and ammunitions
for the military.

In order to avert this negative development, I will like to seek for your
permission as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Mathew
Schneider so that the fruits of this old man’s labor will not be use for
financing weapons which will further enhance the courses of war in the
world in general.

The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of
60% for me and 35% for you and the balance of 5% for  will be responsible
for the major /trivial expenses incurred in the course of the transaction.
There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this project will be done
by my attorney and with my position as the credit officer guarantees the
successful execution of this project. If you are interested, please reply
immediately.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with further information’s
and modalities that will help you understand the transaction.

You should observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this
project would be most profitable for both parties because I shall require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Thanks and regards.
Mr. Hon-Hing Wong

Tags: Hon-HingWong, Advance Fee Fraud, 419 scam

Tags: 419 scam, Asian Countries, Bank Ltd, Centre Ltd, Chinese Touch, Crooks, Dear Friend, German Merchant, Gloucester Road, Hing, Hong Kong Mail, Kind Assistance, Management Department, Managing Director, Mathew, Orphan, Portfolio Management, Sun Aug, Undisclosed Recipients, United States Dollar, United States Dollars

A good example of the crooks using 2 major organization’s names to instill a basis of trust and seriousness.

Rest assured, it is a classic scam e-mail…..

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: pharelljones <pharelljones@o2.ie>
Date: Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Subject: Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European Countries
To: recipients <Undisclosed>

THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
OHCHR, Dalais Wilson, CH 1211 Geneva 10,Switzerland
Senior Human Rights Officer and international  payment department

Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European Countries

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT WITH AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Sequel to the meeting we have with all the African country leaders regards to all the payment been owed by the Africa and Europe continents, the Chairman African Union  (AU) with that of European Union (EU) have made it known to all the beneficiaries been owed by African and European countries via contract, inheritance, Lottery Winners, during There recent interview with British broadcasting co-operation (BBC) that all the debt been owed by the African and European countries should be paid to them via EU / AU account with the supervision of the International Monetary Fund Unit London UK,  which you happened to be one of them.

You are advice to stop any further communication with anybody and contact  this office, The International Monetary Fund Unit London UK which the officer in-charge is

Mr. Anthony G. Leach
Email: inlt_monitoringlon@london.com
Tel  +44 702 4099344
Fax: +44 870 9134316,

Your above fund has been deposited in your account stated below which was submitted to this office by your representative.

Some petitions we received made it known to us that some beneficiaries have loose all they have achieve in the life time due to the way African and European countries are asking them to pay one charge or the other in regards of their payment.

Be inform that your payment has been transfer into your account provided by your representative Mrs. Susan Wang below.

HSBC NINBO BRANCH CHINA
ACCOUNT NO   90887224091149
ACCOUNT NAME SUSAN WANG
ROUTING NO    64585783
SWIFT CODE: HSBC166349XT

Please contact Mr. Anthony G. Leach immediately for the collection of your International Transfer Payment Advice (Payment Slip Or Telex Copy) to enable you confirm your payment in your account without further delay, he is the only authorized officer in International monitoring fund unit London UK to handle and witness your payment, any other further communication you have out side his office is at your own risk, and you are advice to stop making any further payment to any one without Mr Anthony G. Leach notice because he is the only authorize officer  with International Monetary Fund unit London  UK  via African Union  (AU)  reserve account  under united nations payment gazette .
We apologies to you and your company or family for what it might has cost you in the past without receiving your payment upon the charges and taxes you have paid before.
Get back to us immediately you confirmed your payment in your account to enable us close your payment file with us.
Best regards

Frej Fenniche,
Senior Human Rights Officer united nations Switzerland
Email: un-organiza1@europe.com

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, UNO, IMF

Tags: Beneficiaries, Beneficiary, British Broadcasting, Continents, Country Leaders, Crooks, E Mail, European Countries, Imf, International Monetary Fund, Leach, Life Time, London Uk, Lottery Winners, Major Organization, Paym, Petitions, Seriousness, United Nations Organization, Wilson Ch

Just don’t answer Job offers like this one. It’s another scam from African crooks.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: steven James &lt;stevenjames@yahoo.com&gt;
Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Subject: Brisko Textiles & Fabrics JOB OPPORTUNITY
To:

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Steven James, CEO of Brisko Textiles & Fabrics,an establishment that deals in the Import and export of Cocoa buttercream,Rubber,Cotton and textiles and fabric materials.I am looking for a trustworthy representative in the United State that will aid as a link between us and ourcustomers in the United State.I would like to know if you are interested.

I m looking for a representative in the United State who will be working as a partime worker and I will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction,Respond only if you will like to work from home part-time and get paid weekly without leaving or it affecting your present job.

I will like to know if you have a bank account with any of this banks (WELLFARGO BANK AND BANK OF AMERICA) if you do,i
think you have the job already.

Please if you are interested forward the following info to my email address:

FULL NAME : ……………………
FULL ADDRESS : …………………………
PHONE NUMBER (S) : ……………………………
GENDER : …………………………….
AGE : ………………………………..

please reply me back to my private email

Thanks
Steven James

Technorati-Tags: Transfer Agent Scam, Steven James, Brisko Textiles & Fabrics

Tags: Address Phone Number, Amp, Bank Of America, Brisko Textiles & Fabrics, Cocoa, Crooks, Dear Sir, Fabric, Fabrics, Fri, Gender Age, Home Part Time, Import And Export, Job Offer, Job Opportunity, Madam, Message From Steven, Steven James, Technorati Tags, Textiles, Transfer Agent Scam, Trustworthy Representative, United State

Yes, this is a further adaption of the charity e-mail.

It’s interesting to note that the crooks mention an air crash, which they found reported on CNN. As a starter, they inform you of the delivery charge (£ 155.34 British Pounds), which gets you to accept fees from the beginning.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mrs. Emily Olivier Jackman &lt;emily313@gmail.com&gt;
Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:19 AM
Subject: Read Carefully !
To: undisclosed-recipients

I am sure this mail would be coming to you as a surprise since we have never met before and you would also be asking why I have decided to chose you amongs the numerous internet users in the world, precisely I cannot say why I have chosen you but do not be worried for I come in peace and something very positive is about to happen to your life right now and to the lives of others through you if only you can carefully read and digest the message below. The internet has made the world a global village where you can reach anybody you have not met before.

Before I move further, permit me to give you a little of my biography,I am Mother Emily Olivier, 87 Years old woman and the wife of Late Sir Jackman Olivier who died in a Plane crash on Monday the 7th of September 1998 GMT 14:22 UK while they were flying from New York to Geneva.Please see site below for more information. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/index.html

After the death of my husband I became the Head of his investment and now that I am old and weak I have decided to spend the rest of my life with my family and loved ones whom I never had time for during the course of my business life, but before the death of my husband we had a plan to use the last days of our lives to donate half of what we have worked for to the less privilege and charity homes and the other half for ourselves, family members and close friends, and it is so unfortunate that my husband is not alive today to do this with me and I am very weak and old now, hence I have decided to do this philanthropic work on behalf of my late husband and I.

Presently, I have willed out almost half of our assets to several charity homes and to some of the less privilege in different countries. Despite the agreement between my late husband and I to give aid to the deprived, we also agreed to render support to an individual we have not meet before in life due to the fact when we were still young in life we receive an anonymous help from an individual we did not know and which we have not being able to know till date, the impact we got from such gesture made us to do same.

I am sorry to inform you that you will never have the chance to know me because I have just concluded the assignment which my husband and I have agreed upon before his sudden death and you happened to be the beneficiary of our last WILL, irrespective of your previous financial status, hence I need you to do me a favor by accepting our offer that will cost you nothing. I have presently deposited a Cheque in the sum of £ 5,800,000.00 British Pound with FedEx express to deliver to you, what you have to do now is to contact the FedEx COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date.

For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country.

You have to contact the FedEx COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your cheque with this information bellow;
Contact Person: Mr. Mark Robbins
Email Address:fedexunitedkingdom@live.com

Again, you are not to pay for the delivering Charge, the Insurance premium and the Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque because I have already paid for them, the only money you are expected to pay is £155.34 British Pounds for the security keeping of the cheque so far.

I would have paid the fee but the company insisted that I should not because they don’t know when you will be contacting them and to avoid demurrage or further cost.

You are to reconfirm the below information to them to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

Postal address;
Full Names:
Direct telephone number;

Below is the security keeping code: (SCT/0433/F) of you draft, you are to also present it to them for verification before delivery.

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to ask them to provide you with the method they wish to use in receiving their security keeping fee of £ 155.34 British Pounds for their immediate action.

Note: Please I do not want you to thank me or my husband all I need you to do is to invest wisely with it and do the same good to someone?s life someday as this is the only way this world would be a better community if we render selfless services to one another.

Be also notified that I will no longer be reading my emails or surfing the internet as I have retired completely from the outside world to my ranch, at this moment I have nothing to do with cars, emails and other luxuries, all further correspondence should be forwarded to the courier company for the delivery of your cheque to you..

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Emily Olivier Jackman
Technorati-Tags: 419 scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Emily Olivier Jackman,

Tags: 419 scam, Adaption, Advance Fee Fraud, Air Crash, British Pounds, Business Life, Close Friends, Cnn, Crooks, Days Of Our Lives, Delivery Charge, E Mail, Emily Olivier Jackman, Fri, Global Village, Gmail, Last Days, Old Woman, Olivier, Plane Crash, Rest Of My Life, Swissair, Undisclosed Recipients

It’s obvious this mail is designed to to target people who have been in contact with 419 and lottery crooks before. Maybe they are wondering why they have not recieved any money and this one is an attempt to get these people to part with their money again.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: &lt;danielwalker4@chinaren.com&gt;
Date: 2008/5/10
Subject: ATTN: FUND BENEFICIARY
To:

ATTN: FUND BENEFICIARY

THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR FILE ON LOTTO WINNINGS,CONTRACT/LONG OVER DUE PAYMENT AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR INHERITANCE PAYMENT.

SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE OFFICIALS IN THE BANK YOUR ENTIRE ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO YOU.

WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THESE HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM.

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION FROM MR. PRESIDENT.

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF BENIN. THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WORTH YOUR INHERITED FUND OF USD$1.700 000 WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS T WENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND THIS WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE PAYMASTER GENERAL CARD PAYMENT CENTER MR. JAMES BROWN ON HIS EMAIL ADDRESS: contactatmpaymentcenter11@yahoo.fr

Direct Open Tel/fax: 229-93811365

AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
5. PLEASE THE ONLY MONEY YOU WILL PAY IS ACTIVATION FEE OF $185usd

THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT USD$1.700 000 AS PART PAYMENT FOR THE 2008 FISCAL YEAR.

ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION,YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(S) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT. FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, CALL AND EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM TH E ABOVE MENTIONED OFFICE.

NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT,WHICH IS (ATM-822) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.

REGARDS,

DR.DANIEL WALKER

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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 &lt;wxz2u2000@hotmail.com&gt;
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.

Yours truly,

William Zum

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