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This is a typical example of the original 419 type of scam e-mail.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: mrsgrace grace <mrsgrace_240@yahoo.ca>
Date: Oct 12, 2007 12:10 PM
Subject: Bussines Deal
To: mrsgrace_240@yahoo.ca

Dear friend ,

I am mrs grace,the manager in charge of auditing and accounting unit foreign remittance department in a bank here in Lome Togo in west Africa.

With due respect and regards I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction, During our investigation and auditing in the bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person, a foriegner who died in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant
in his account with the bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before my discovery to this development,Although personally, I kept this information secrete within myself and  to enable the whole plans and idea be profitable and successful during the time of execution.

The amount involved is $9M US Dollars ( NINE MILLION US DOLLARS).Meanwhile, all the whole arrangement and directives needed to put claim over this fund as the next of kin to the deceased, Upon your acceptance all the information will be forward to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity,In fact, I could have done this
deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant,we are not allowed to operate a foriegn account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank, this is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust of Oath
to the bank and also present a foriegn account where you will need the said fund to be transferred into, after due verification and clarification to designated bank account.

We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for  me. There after I  will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin
of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer .
You should contact me immediately if you are interested and ready to transact with me. Then I will request for some vital information  from you first before we could proceed. In your reply do remember to include your full name and your direct Telephone/Fax number for easy communications between us.

Please you have been adviced to keep top secret as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this deal with you, I will be monitoring the whole situation here in the bank until you confirm the money in your account and ask me to come down there for subsequent shearing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further
investment,either in your country or any other country you may advice me to invest in.

All other necessary information will be sent to you when I hear from you, I suggest you get back to me as soon as possible, stating your wish in this deal.

Waiting for your soonest response, please reply at
Yours faithfully,
 mrs  grace

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From: muhamed bello <muhamed_bello12@hotmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2007 5:33 PM
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED
To:

MR MUHAMED BELLO.
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU -BURKINA FASO.
Reply me here please.
Email:muhamed_bello7@myway.com

Dear Friend,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it's just my urgent need for  foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($12.5million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash.You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking  
on this web site  Hence,i am inviting ou  or a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 60/30 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further details of  the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail.
have a great day.
yours,
Mr Muhamed Bello
Send your Reply to my new email address.
Email;muhamed_bello7@myway.com

NB, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THIS TRANSACTION AS YOUR TOP SECRECT AND MAKE IT CONFIDENTIAL TILL WE RECEIVES THE FUND INTO THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU WILL PROVIDE TO THE BANK. DONT DISCLOSE IT TO ANY BODY "PLEASE", BECAUSE THE SECRECY OF THIS TRANSACTION IS AS WELL AS THE SUCCESS OF IT.

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From: JOHN COLE <fabricsandpoles@zmailermail7.net>
Date: Feb 9, 2007 9:35 AM
Subject: HELLO FRIEND
To: kelvinannex@yahoo.com

Dear Citizen,

My name is John Cole , accounts clerk with a United Kingdom based bank. I have taken considerable time to search for a reliable individual to partner me in a very rewarding enterprise.
It is my desire having found you, to present to you an opportunity of assisting me in moving some funds of a deceased client with legal authorization as the only identifiable relative and next of kin to the deceased.

I cannot lay any claim to the funds as a staff of the bank, but i can provide you with inside information legally required to lay claim to the funds as the next of kin to this client and have the money transferred to your home country. I shall provide a clearer detail of how we can accomplish this if i hear from you again. You must reply to johncole243@yahoo.co.uk You stand to be bountifully rewarded for your participation.

Please remember to keep every information revealed to you in the utmost of confidentiality.

So long,

John Cole.

Andreas Schranner’s fortune is up for grabs …… Again?

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From: abdu yola
Date: Jan 26, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF ABDU YOLA
To:

FROM THE DESK OF ABDU YOLA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

Dear Sir

I am the AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$25m dollars (TWENTY FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELLOW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application .

I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
ABDU YOLA (B.O.A)

The Bello’s are very busy this year ….

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: muhamed bello
Date: Jan 14, 2007 5:36 AM
Subject: Your Response Needed ASAP
To:

MR MUHAMED BELLO.
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU -BURKINA FASO.
Reply me here please.
Email:muhamed_bello7@myway.com

Dear Friend,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($12.5million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash.You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 60/30 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail.
have a great day.
yours,
Mr Muhamed Bello
Send your Reply to my new email address.
Email;muhamed_bello7@myway.com

NB, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THIS TRANSACTION AS YOUR TOP SECRECT AND MAKE IT
CONFIDENTIAL TILL WE RECEIVES THE FUND INTO THE ACCOUNT THAT YOU WILL
PROVIDE TO THE BANK. DONT DISCLOSE IT TO ANY BODY “PLEASE”, BECAUSE THE
SECRECY OF THIS TRANSACTION IS AS WELL AS THE SUCCESS OF IT.

It’s not Egyptian Air 990 this time. Just the same the story is much the same

——— Original Message ————————-
Subject: For your kind attention (14-Mrz-2006 12:27)
From: abdulza008@yahoo.com
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: abdulza008@yahoo.com

Hello,

I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa, Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 1998 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin (We want to present you as his business associate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill .Due to security reasons, I expect that you call me on my private line +226 76 041017 immediately you receive this letter. for more details,

Yours faithfully,
DR ABDUL ZABUDAGA

Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa

- Abdul Zabudaga

Tags: 419 scam, internet fraud

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Here’s a good story involving a lot of scandel at the UN. On top of which I should stand in as the next of kin for them.

To cut a long story short, this is just a scam.

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: FROM ME (02-Nov-2005 16:27)
From: melkaed@netscape.net
To: xx@xxx.xxx
Hello,

I am Prof Usman Melkaed Dansuma, a special UN representative in Ghana
West Africa, following the Oil for Food scandal involving Mr Kojo Annan-Son
of the UN Scribe, the UN Office in Accra Ghana has decided to release all
funds to prospective oil Bidders previously held, it was aimed at calming
down the heightened tension over the false allegations that Mr Kojo Annan
was involved in the Oil for food Scandal. Please view these pages below

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1333819.htm

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june05/volcker_3-29.html

In 1983 the government established the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
(GNPC) to promote exploration and production, and the company reached
agreements with a number of foreign firms.The most important of these
permitted US-based Amoco to prospect in ten offshore blocks between Ada and
the western border with Togo. Petro Canada International has prospected in
the Tano River Basin, and Diamond Shamrock in the Keta Basin. In 1989 three
companies, two American and one Dutch, spent US$30 million drilling wells in
the Tano basin. On June 21, 1992, an offshore Tano basin well produced about
6,900 barrels of oil daily.

There were numerous bidders to these oil well seeking oil exploration or
who may have actually carried out contracts effectively but contracts got
terminated following the tensions at the UN headquarters on the allegations
that Mr Kojo Annan (From Ghana) and his associate Company Cotecna was
involved in the Oil for Food deals, as such the ruling President Kuffour
Government decided to temporarily terminate all contracts in Ghana (Please
note that this contract or case is not related or linked to the oil for food
scandal but the Government in Ghana took the decision to temporarily
terminate all contracts to enable investigations since Mr Kojo Annan is from
Ghana), now that the issue has been resolved, report reaching our UN Office
indicate that the original contractor has died on a Colombian airliner
which crashed in remote western Venezuela, it is believed he had visited
Venezuela to get Oil Contracts, our search has been directed at any of his
siblings, friends or relations to make claim of the sum US$3.2Million, I
need you to stand in as his next of kin considering that your name is the
closest of all my enquiries and searches please view this page
http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,12716,1550148,00.html

Accordingly the money has been packaged and deliverable by our UN special
courier agent the issue has been resolved, please be informed that no
delivery charges is required.

Please note: This contract sum is not linked to the Oil for Food programs
or Scandal but because the personalities involved are from Ghana, the
contracts sum of the deceased contractors along with others were held to
enable investigation take place, and I am personally involved in the
dispatch of the money you don’t have to worry.

Get back to me by telephone or email as soon as possible.
+233 243 908 298
Regards

It looks as though all these stories are being changed to give the impression that potential victims are dealing with europeans and european companies. This is not true.

It’s Africans who are behind all of this, regardless of where they say they are from.

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: TRUSTING YOU IN ACTUALIZING THIS GOAL. (03-Nov-2005 9:04)
From: tomdeswaanworld8@msn.com
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

FROM THE DESK OF TOM DE SWAAN
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
ABN AMRO BANK NETHERLANDS.
PRIVATE EMAIL:tomdeswaan_22@walla.com

RE: TRUSTING YOU IN ACTUALIZING THIS GOAL

Dear Friend,

Let me start by introducing myself to you, I am Tom De Swaan, Chief
Financial Officer, ABN AMRO BANK. I saw your contact during my private
search in the internet and I want to believe that you will be very honest,
committed and capable of assisting in this business venture.

Firstly, let me explain the source of this funds and what you are expected
to do. A foreigner, LATE DR. GERALD A. SOFFEN was an astronomer and had a
functional account with the ABN AMRO BANK NETHERLANDS until his death some
years ago. The deceased Late Gerald A. Soffen banked with us and had a
closing balance as at 22nd November 2000 worth € 24,500,000.00 (Twenty Four
Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros). My bank now expects a next-of-kin to
claim the funds as the beneficiary. Efforts have been made by ABN AMRO BANK
to get in touch with the Late Gerald A. Soffen’s family or relative but to
no avail.

Based on the perceived possibility of not being able to locate Late Gerald
A.soffen’s relatives, the management under the influence of our chairman and
the board of directors are making arrangements for the funds to be declared
unclaimed and channeled to an unknown account. It is based on this that I
have contacted you to stand as the next-of-kin of Late Gerald A. Soffen so
that the funds, will be released and paid into your account as the
beneficiary/next-of-kin to the deceased.

All documents to enable you get the funds have been carefully worked out as
I have secured documents from the different offices concerned for the smooth
transfer of the fund to your nominated account. It has been agreed that you
will be compensated with 30% of the remitted funds, while I keep 60% as my
share and 10% is been set aside for both local and international expenses
that might be incurred in actualizing this transaction.

If this proposal satisfies you, please reach me either by mail;
tomdeswaan_22@walla.com, or phone; +31 64 921 4989, for more clarification
about how this will be done.

Yours faithfully,

TOM DE SWAAN
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
ABN AMRO BANK NETHERLANDS.

That’s easy to answer. First of all, it’s a good story. It is exactly the kind of legend that the Africans and others love to use. Secondly, the writer tries to convince you that he actually is a “top executive”. And thirdly, one freemail address to send the message and one to receive the replies.

There are a couple of other points, but I don’t want these boys to know everything I know, do I?

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Independent Committee of Eminent Persons (ICEP), (27-Okt-2005 13:04)
From: automailer3@msn.com
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

ATTN.,

My name is Lawrence Eagleburger a member of Independent Committee of Eminent
Persons (ICEP), Switzerland. ICEP is charged with the responsibility of
finding bank accounts in Switzerland belonging to non-Swiss indigenes, which
have remained dormant since World War II. It may interest you to know that
in July of 1997, the Swiss Banker’s Association published a list of
dormant accounts originally opened by non-Swiss citizens.

These accounts had been dormant since the end of World War II (May 9, 1945).
Most belonged to Holocaust victims.

The continuing efforts of the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons
(ICEP) have since resulted in the discovery of additional dormant accounts
-54,000 in December, 1999. The published lists contain all types of dormant
accounts, including interest-bearing savings accounts, securities accounts,
safe deposit boxes, custody accounts, and non-interest-bearing transaction
accounts.

Numbered accounts are also included. Interest is paid on accounts that were
interest bearing when established. The Claims Resolution Tribunal (CRT)
handles processing of all claims on accounts due non-Swiss citizens. A
dormant account of ORDNER ADELE with a credit balance of 11,500,000 US
dollar plus accumulated interest was discovered by me. The beneficiary was
murdered during the holocaust era, leaving no WILL and no possible records
for trace of theirs. The Claims Resolution Tribunal has been mandated to
report all unclaimed funds for permanent closure of accounts and transfer of
existing credit balance into the treasury of Switzerland government as
provided by the law for management of assets of deceased beneficiaries who
died interstate living no wills).

Being a top executive at ICEP, I have all secret details and necessary
contacts for claim of the funds without any hitch. The funds will be banked
in the Holland or London, being a safe for funds and we can share the funds
and use in investment of our choice. Due to the sensitive nature of my job,
I need a foreigner to HELP claim the funds. All that is

Required is for you to provide me with your details for processing of the
necessary legal and administrative claim documents for transfer of the funds
to you.

Kindly provide me with your full name, address, and telephone/fax. for
further information to ensure that the fund is transferred to a secure,
numbered account in your name in the Holland or London, of which you will be
capable of accessing the funds gradually and transferring to your country
and other banks of choice in the world. My share will be

60 percent and your share is 40 per cent of the total amount. THERE IS NO
RISK INVOLVED. You can find additional information about unclaimed funds
through the internet at the following websites:

www.swissbankclaims.com

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9902/09/germany.holocaust/

www.avotaynu.com

www.icheic.org

www.livingheirs.com

www.wiesenthal.com

The Holocaust Claims Processing Office has put funds in Escrow awaiting
submission of valid claims for necessary disbursement, I find myself
privileged to have this information and this may be a great opportunity for
a life time of success without risks. Due to security reasons, reply to me
via email only. You may reply to me securely on the following email,
burgerence@netscape.net .

Thank you for your prompt response.

Best Regards,

Lawrence S. Eagleburger