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Another 419 scam type of message using a “plane crash” story, with the difference that this fellow says the money is in a Bank of Ireland account.

The story never changes, does it? This was on of 7 e-mails which this fellow sent me.

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From: <nicolaswilson@live.com>
Date: 2008/10/20
Subject: From Mr.NICOLAS WILSON
To: nicolaswilson@live.com

From Mr.NICOLAS WILSON

Attn: Sir,

I am Mr.NICOLAS WILSON, I am in urgent need for a foreigner that I will work in hand with me to transfer the sum of $10million to his company Account or private account. I have to contact you directly for this deal as I am convinced that you are capable of handling this transaction.

I am a civil servant working as a director in federal ministry of works and housing here in South Africa. with position here in the ministry I have the opportunity to over invoice a contract that was awarded to a forien contractor. The said contractor has been concluded and paid in full.

I want us to put heads together and transfer the left over funds (USD 10Million which was insured and deposited in the paying bank’s escrow account) to your company or personal account as soon as possible.

I have contacted an accountant in the paying bank that will work with us to enable us get this money transferred to your account within 10 banking working days according to him.
All documentation and arrangement has been made by him to ensure that every thing go well.
Hence; i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 70% for me and the banker while 30% will be for you.if you agree to my business proposal.

My full information, identification copy and details of this transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive a positive responds from you.

Upon the successful transfer of this money to your company or personal account,
I will travel down to country for the sharing of the money according to the agreed percentage and to investment my own part under your care in your country or any country of your choice.

Please indicate your interest to work with us by sending to my direct email (nicolaswilson@live.com) the below information for more clarification, easy communication and agreement purpose between both of us.

(1) YOUR FULL NAME
(2) YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
(3) YOUR TEL AND FAX NUMBER

Trusting to hear from you as soon as possible.
Thanks & Best Regard

NICOLAS WILSON

Please feel free to delete and ignore if not interested.

This is obviously a copied e-mail. The writer forgets to name the bank where the dormant account apparently is held.

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From: Mr. Andy Hornby <mrandy27@msn.com>
Date: 2008/10/18
Subject: Urgent Reply Me…..
To:

From: Mr. Andy Hornby,
Manchester M27 5FX,
United Kingdom.
Attn:…

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics although. I am presently in London working as an investment consultant with the above bank at their London office. And I am poised to work this deal out if we can do business. Be so kind to contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible business deal involving money transfer of about £25,000,000 (Twenty-Five Million British Pounds). In one of our periodic auditing, I discorved a dormant accounts with holding balance of 25,000,000 (Twenty-Five Million British Pounds) which has not been operated for the past three years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a foreigner, and he died without a WILL.

As at this moment,I am constrained to issue you more details about this business until your response is received. And I would love to furnish you with a little bit of my biography as we progress with the business. As we have not meet before. So send me your nominate account information as states below where you like the money to be transfer so that I will write and apply an application for the release of the fund immediately into your account:..

Beneficiary Name…….
Bank Name…………..
Bank Address………..
Account Number………
Swift Code………….
Routing Number………
State & Country……..
Your Tel/Fax Number….For easy communication.

This is extremely urgent. Awaiting your positive feed back as soon as possible.

Warmest regards,
Mr. Andy Hornby

The fellow who wrote this wants you to believe that, because he states he is the director of UK bank, he is trustworthy.

It’s just another African scam e-mail.

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From: Patric Bale <bale_patric@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 16 Oct 2008 16:12
Subject: CAN YOU HANDLE THIS
To:

Attention

I am Mr. Patric Bale Provincial Director in a prominent Bank here in the United Kingdom. I have an urgent suitable and confidential business proposition for you.

On June 6, 2004, a foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the South Africa Mining Corporation, Mr. Richard Moss made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$18,300,000 (Eighteen Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars) in my branch here in the United Kingdom. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.  After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the South Africa Mining Corporation that Mr. Richard Moss passed away after a brief illness. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.

 I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Richard Moss did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$18,300,000 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year.  No one will ever come forward to claim it.  According to the United Kingdom Banking Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

 Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Richard Moss so that the fruits of this old man’s labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the Attorney placed to handle this transaction will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits which will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the service of two Attorneys for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world which you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin.  The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 75% for me and 25% for you.

There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address below. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details (upon your positive reply the Bank and other relevant details shall be given to you that will help you understand the transaction).

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
Thanks and regards.

Mr. Patric Bale

Branch Manager

This person named Merlin is definately not a magician.

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From: Mr. Aidan Merlin
Date: Sep 2, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: PRIVATE !
To:

Good day,

My name is Aidan Merlin, trained and working as Account Officer for
the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS). As regard this project, I had
taken pains to find your contact through personal endeavours.

I write to contact you about a Foreigner who died here in Singapore,
Twenty-two years ago leaving behind an estate/capital (US$12.8M with
interest) here in
Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) where I work till date, but nobody
has come forward or put an application for the claim. I feel it is
very important I include the websites of the unfortunate incident for
you to view, which claimed the life of the late investor.

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/about_us/history/maturing_saf/v05n03_history.html.print.html?Status=1

http://infopedia.nlb.gov.sg/articles/SIP_783_2004-12-31.html

I can confirm with certainty that the said Investor died intestate in
1986 and no next-of-kin to his estate and no body came forward all
these years. I am of the
settled conviction that using my insider leverage and working with
you, we can secure the funds in the account for ourselves instead of
allowing it pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the Government
of Singapore.

In pursuant of the above plan, we choose you in this transaction
specially because you bear the same NAME with the said Investor.
However you shall be handsomely rewarded for your assistance and
co-operation in this transaction; as my colleagues and I have
collectively agreed to allocate 20% of the total funds for your role.

However, if you are interested in carrying out this deal, you are
advised to email me the following information as stated below so that
we can immediately commence on the process on how the funds will be
released to you as the Next of Kin.

i. RE-CONFIRM YOUR FULL NAMES:
ii. CONTACT ADDRESS:
iii. DATE OF BIRTH:
iv. TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER:
v. OCCUPATION:

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and I urgently wait to hear from you.

Best regards,
Aidan Merlin
mr.aidanmerlin@live.com

The message from 2005 is much the same as today. The address is different, but not much else:

http://crime-online.info/2005/08/cheung-pui-has-iraqi-money-to-share/

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From: Cheung Pui
Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Subject: Please read
To:

MR. CHEUNG PUI
HANG SENG BANK LTD.
DES VOEUX RD. BRANCH,
CENTRAL HONG KONG,
HONG KONG.

Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr Cheung Pui director of operations Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you. Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client Major Fadi Bassem who was with the Iraqi forces and also a business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of twenty four millions five hundred thousand United State Dollars in my branch. Upon maturity several notices was sent to him, even during the war. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that the Major and his family had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigations it was also discovered that Major Fadi Basem did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.

As you can see, twenty four million five hundred thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the by-laws of my country at the expiration of 6 years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Major Fadi Bassem so that you will be able to receive his funds.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we will come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Major Fadi Basem, all that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your full name and address so that the attorney can commence his job, after you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary documentation for the movement of the funds to an account that will be provided by you.

There is no risk involved at all in the matter as we are going to adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue. Once the funds have been transferred, we shall share in the ratio of 70% for me, 25% for you and 5% for any expenses incurred during the course of this operation. Should you be interested please send me your private phone and fax numbers for easy communication and finally after that I shall provide you with more details of this operation.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Mr. Cheung Pui.

Just another “George Brumley” message.

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From: MR MARSHAL DUMBA
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:45 PM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
To: marshaldumba34@orange.net

FROM MR MARSHAL DUMBA
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

Dear friend,

RE: TRANSFER OF ($7,000.000.00 USD SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)

I want to transfer to overseas the sum of ($7.000.000.00USD) Seven Million United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa. I would like to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve as far as it can receive money.

I am MR MARSHAL DUMBA an accountant and personal confidant to Dr.George Brumley who died together with his wife in a plane crash on the July 21st 2003 on their way to attendwedding in Boston, he is an American, a physician andindustrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is ($7.000.000.00USD) Seven Million United States Dollars), no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to transfer the whole $7,000.000.00 (Seven Million United States Dollars) into a safe account abroad, but I don’t know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,But can only be approved to any foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Dr.George Brumley is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with the inheritance procedures.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount,55% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. You should observe utmost CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I will require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

You should fill this form below and send to me immediately as soon as you receive this letter: THIS IS MY Email address_(marshal_dumba34@ymail.com)

Your Full Name: ………..
Your Address : ……….
Your Telephone: ……….
Your Age: ……………
Merital Status: ………..
Your Country: ………….

Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Sincerely
MR MARSHAL DUMBA
MAIL ADDRESS (marshal_dumba34@ymail.com)

Marshal Dumba, George Brumley, 419 scam, OUAGADOUGOU

Need I say more?

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From: From: FRED AMATA
Date: 2008/8/28
Subject: From: FRED AMATA
To:

From: FRED AMATA
Spain Europe.
Reply to: ffedamata@gmail.com
Dear Sir,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact from an international brochure because I do not know any body I will contact. I prayed over it and believed that you will be a reputable and trust worthy person that I can trust and do business with, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business assistance. I am Fred Amata the only son of late Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mabel Amata of blessed memory.

My father until his untimely death was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in West Africa; my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip to our cocoa plantation in Abidjan a neighboring country from my country West Africa. My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on 16th November 2005 in a private hospital in Accra Ghana. 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) he deposited with a private security firm in Spain, which he used my name his only son as the next of Kin in depositing of the money with the private security firm in Spain. The security firm is not aware that the box contains money and my father warned me to keep this as a top secret till I get a reliable foreigner that will assist me get the box out as his foreign partner. He also explained to me that it was because of th

Please, I am sincerely seeking your assistance in the following ways: (1) to assist me claim the box containing the money from the security company as my late father’s foreign partner. (2) To serve as a guardian of this fund. (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 because I cannot go back to my country till I am a full grown man.

Moreover, sir I will like you to tell me what you will take from the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the successful release and transfer of this fund into your bank account in your country. Please you should indicate your interest towards assisting me by writing me an email via: ffedamata@gmail.com or give me a call on my contact above as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven days (7) days you signify interest to assist me. Please keep this proposal confidential.

Thanks and God bless.

Best regards,

FRED AMATA

Fred Amata, 419 scam

Yes, it’s another e-mail from Ouagadougou touting an imaginary account, using George’s name to promote it. The reason is simple, George Brumley is easy to research on the internet. His background makes the story halfway believable.

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From: MR MARSHAL DUMBA
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:48 AM
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
To: marshaldumba34@orange.net

FROM MR MARSHAL DUMBA
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.

Dear friend,

RE: TRANSFER OF ($7,000.000.00 USD SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)

I want to transfer to overseas the sum of ($7.000.000.00USD) Seven Million United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa. I would like to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve as far as it can receive money.

I am MR MARSHAL DUMBA an accountant and personal confidant to Dr.George Brumley who died together with his wife in a plane crash on the July 21st 2003 on their way to attendwedding in Boston, he is an American, a physician andindustrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is ($7.000.000.00USD) Seven Million United States Dollars), no other person knows about this account. I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to transfer the whole $7,000.000.00 (Seven Million United States Dollars) into a safe account abroad, but I don’t know any foreigner. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,But can only be approved to any foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the a/c Dr.George Brumley is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with the inheritance procedures.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount,55% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. You should observe utmost CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECRECY in this transaction, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I will require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

You should fill this form below and send to me immediately as soon as you receive this letter: THIS IS MY Email address_(Marshal_dumba@hotmail.fr)

Your Full Name: ………..
Your Address : ……….
Your Telephone: ……….
Your Age: ……………
Merital Status: ………..
Your Country: ………….

Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Sincerely
MR MARSHAL DUMBA
MAIL ADDRESS (Marshal_dumba@hotmail.fr)

George Brumley, Ouagadougou

I wonder how many corrupt bank managers there are in Africa? I expect there are quite a lot.

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From:  <tonykante@executivemail.co.za>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Subject: Urgent Transaction
To: tonykante@executivemail.co.za

Amalgamated bank of South Africa
ABSA Building ,
 Pretorius and Van der Walt Streets,
P.O. Box 3915 Pretoria 0000
Johannesburg, South Africa.

From: Mr. Tony Kante
Mobile num: +27 78 592 4817
Private: tonykante2@executivemail.co.za

Dear Sir/Madam,

I know that this message may come to you as a surprise since we do not know each other before now, but for purpose of introduction, I am Mr. Tony Kante, an Auditor in ABSA BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. During my usual auditing in the bank, I found out about an account opened in this bank in 1990 and since 2000 nobody has operated on this account.

After going through some old files in the record, I discovered that the owner of this account is Mr. Smith B. Andreas, a foreigner, and a miner at Kruger Gold Co, died since1997. And no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation has proven as well that his Company does not know anything about this account and the amount involved is Forty Million United States dollars (USD$40 M).

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can only be approved to a foreigner with a proof that he is related to the deceased,  Mr. Smith B. Andreas.

I need your full co-operation to make this work; I want you to come in as a distance cousin to late Mr. Smith B Andrea. And the management will be ready to approve the transfer of this money to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you later.  If you are able and willing to handle such amount in strict confidence and abide to my instructions and advice, we shall all benefit because this is a life time opportunity. With my position now in the bank I can lobby for the transfer of this money to your account, which you will provide with the assurance that the money will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. As I will apply for my annual leave the money gets to your account.

I will use my position and influence to effect legal approvals and onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance forms from the departments of Justice and finance . This is my private email address: tonykante2@executivemail.co.za

Please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take immediately. Send also your private telephone and fax numbers including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. At the conclusion of this business, you will get 30% of the total amount, 65% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might incur during the transfer process.

Yours truly,

Mr. Tony Kante
+27 78 592 4817
tonykante2@executivemail.co.za

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Tony Kante, South Africa