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This story is very similar to the “my father was poisoned by business partners” story. The difference being this time, that he was done in by unknown REBELS.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ROSE GUEI <rosegueiuu23@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Dec 25, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: FROM ROSE GUEI
To: rosegueiuu23@yahoo.co.jp

FROM ROSE GUEI
Abidjan cote D`Ivoire
West Africa.

Dearest One,

I am the first duaghter of an ex military/ex president been an opposition party to the present Government of COTE D`IVOIRE. On the 19th sept 2002 my father/mother including every members of our family was murdered by the unknown REBELS during the time they attack our house by shooting and looting, even this is one of the things that contributed to the present crisis in our country today.

God so kind I was not in town when the incident occurred, the plans of the REBELS is to kill every members of our family so that no one will rise up to revenge as time goes on. I am in our country without any one knowing although I am on hiding so that the unknown REBELS will not get to me and kill me like they killed all the members of our family. Why I still stay back in our country is to transfer the $18.5mUSD which my late father deposited in the custody of one of the SECURITY ASSISTANCE COMPANY,here in Abidjan,he deposited the fund as a family treasure containing AFRICAN ART WORK FOR EXPORT for security reasons, as security company does not operate as bank where some one can deposit his/her money openly.

Before the death of my father he gave me the covering documents of the fund deposited in the security company, as I am his first duaghter and he so much loved me that was why he made me the beneficiary of the two iron trunk boxes containing the $18.5mUSD.

Right now I wish to transfer this fund to you so that you will assist me to invest the money into any viable sector in your country, also you will help me to join you in your country for me to start up a new life with you there immediately the fund gets to you. since I am no longer safe as far as Africa is concern at the moment, I wanted to transfer the fund before leaving the country because this fund is my last hope and the only hope I have now.

Before I even pick you to assist me I have prayed and slept over it asking God to provide for me a Godly minded person that will assist me in this transaction. I will give you more details of the transaction in my next mail with my pictures ok.
Awaiting to hear from you.
Thanks and God bless you.

Miss Rose Guei.

Tags: Africa, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Security Company, Security Reasons, West Africa, Yahoo

This is an almost exact copy of the previous message. The name has been changed slightly and a different e-mail address is being used.

It almost looks like they are split testing this message.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Miss.Ema Oke <misssemaoke@yahoo.com>
Date: Dec 26, 2007 1:51 PM
Subject: ATTN: BENEFICIARY.
To: e@yahoo.ca

Dear Sir,

My name is Mrs. Okere. I work with the Barclay bank Ghana West Africa.
kindly be informed that we have over draft of US$29.5Million dollars in our bank. So based on this matter, I and my pattern has decided to contact a foreign person like you whom shall then contact our bank as the beneficiary to the fund as we shall present you to the bank.
You will get 40% plus 5% of the total sum for your assistance. Be advised that you will be responsible for any charges out side the bank, which is why we are giving you the above mentioned 5%. But be informed that all transfer charges at the bank shall be deducted from the total sum.

All required of you for now is just to call me on my direct cell phone +233 206777941, or forward your cell phone number so that I can call you and advise you on how to start your first contact with the bank. We need a lawyer as well for our documentations. Remember on no condition shall my name be mentioned before the bank, because I work there, I hope this is well understood by you.

Regards,
Mrs. Okere.
Ghana, Accra.
West Africa.

Tags: Africa, Contact, Dear Sir, Documentations, Mail, Mao, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, West Africa, Yahoo

This character’s writing qualities are somewhere about primary school level. Let me ask you. Would you do business with someone who cannot spell partner correctly?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ifeoma N.Okere <ifeoman.okere@yahoo.com>
Date: Dec 27, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Hello My Dear.
To: e@yahoo.com

Hello,

My name is Mrs. Ifeoma Okere. I work with the Barclay bank Ghana West Africa.
kindly be informed that we have over draft of US$29.5Million dollars in our bank. So based on this matter, I and my pattern has decided to contact a foreign person like you whom shall then contact our bank as the beneficiary to the fund as we shall present you to the bank.

You will get 40% plus 5% of the total sum for your assistance. Be advised that you will be responsible for any charges out side the bank, which is why we are giving you the above mentioned 5%. But be informed that all transfer charges at the bank shall be deducted from the total sum.

I need your cell phone number so that I can call you and advise you on how to start your first contact with the bank. We need a lawyer as well for our documentations. Remember on no condition shall my name be mentioned before the bank, because I work there, I hope this is well understood by you.

Regards,
Mrs. Ifeoma Okere.

Tags: Africa, Contact, Documentations, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, West Africa, Yahoo

Here’s another scam message from OUAGADOUGOU. This time the crooks are quoting Andreas Schranner as the owner of the abandoned account.

If you have been following Crime Online at all, you will know that Andreas Schranner is often used in this type of message. It’s easy to confirm that there ever was somebody with that name. There is even a link to the BBC report on the Plane crash.

Remember the Concorde that went down in Paris? That’s where Andreas Schranner died.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: adamu luku <adamu29@hotmail.fr>
Date: Dec 18, 2007 9:07 PM
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF ADAMU LUKUMON
To:

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

Attn:
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 sumof US$20m dollars (TWENTY MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account that belongsto 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 guidings 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 relationto 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 Six 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 funds 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 the location where 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.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
ADAMU LUKUMON

Tags: Africa, andreas schranner, Auditing, Bank Of Africa, Burkina Faso, Crooks, Deceased, Disbursement, Email, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Plane Crash, Receipt, Reply

It looks as though the Fondazion di Vittorio is a story which is working well for the crooks. It crops up as regular as clockwork.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY <fdvinfo9@verizon.net>
Date: Dec 19, 2007 3:25 AM
Subject: Contact Me Now
To: recipients

Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY
Batch No:…N-222-6747 E-900-56

Dear Beneficiary:
Congratulations The Foundazion Di Vittorio has chosen you by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal educational and business development.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary 2007 program We are giving out a yearly donation of US$500 000.00 to 40 lucky recipients as charity donations.

PAYMENT VERIFICATION FORM
Full Name:………
Home Address:……
Occupation:……..
Telephone:………
Fax:……………
Number:…………
Sex:……………
Age:……………
Next of Kin:…….
Batch No:…

Mr Arthur Ford
E-Mail:fdv001@live.com
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it

Tags: Contact, Crooks, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Occupation

Just like all of the other “I’ve got cancer and have a pile of cash to donate to charity” e-mails, it’s the same story with different names.

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From: marvis smith <mrs_sm5@yahoo.com>
Date: 18.12.2007 00:00
Subject: Friend in the Lord,
To: mr.ricky_smith1954@yahoo.co.uk

Friend in the Lord,

Please use this money for the churches and less privileged.

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. In my search for a reliable and God fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. My name is Mrs.Marvis Smith. I’m a 65 years old woman and from Congo. I was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai. I was also married with two children.

My husband and two children died in a car accident six years ago. Before this happened, my business and concern for making money was all I live for. I never really cared about other values in life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless homes. I have also donated some money for humanitarian needs in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany and some Asian countries. Only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of properties and livelihood people in Canberra, Australia through fire.

I was moving with great pity and compassion that I decided to make this contribution on assisting people over there, I kept $US15,000,000.00 Million in a long-term deposit account in a Finance company. Presently, I’m in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for oesophagi cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of the fire outbreak in Australia and other charity organization. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and distributes it accordingly. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 20% of it to yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incur during the process of collecting and distributing the money. If you are willing to help, please reply as soon as possible. May the good lord bless you and your family.Please the only thing you need to do is to pay for some docunents on my behalf.Please i want you to know that you are the only person that can take money from this fund.The bank can not dedect money from the fund.

Please, send reply and all correspondences to my
Most Reveren; Dan Makozi
Email; rev.dan09@yahoo.com

Regards,

Mrs.Marvis Smith

I Urge You To Contact Me Immediately For Further Details Bearing In
Mind That The Bank Has Given Us A
Date Limit.

Information Needed Are
YOUR FULL NAME…. ……………………………

TELEPHONE NUMBER…………………………

OCCUPATION……………………………..

AGE………………………..

SEX…………………………..

COUNTRY…………………………………

Please Act,
Regards,
Rev. Dan Makozi

Tags: Africa, Contact, Email, Gani, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Occupation, Reply, Yahoo

This e-mail has been doing the rounds for some time. You may have seen it being sent from Jackie Lee with the following e-mail address: shangai@yahoo.com.cn

The job is “Money Laundering”. It is also used for fraud, quoting a local agent who is responsible for transactions.

You stand to be arrested for one of the above crimes if you decide to take up the job.

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From: Shanghai S.H.M Machinery Co <chun_yoo@yahoo.com>
Date: 18.12.2007 01:44
Subject: ACT AS OUR COMPANIES PAYMENT REPRESENTATIVE..
To:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please allow us to disturb your precious time! We are the Chinese biggest foreign trade  wholesaler.
Shanghai S.H.M Machinery Co., Ltd based in People Republic of China, is in need of representatives in Europe and North America and south America and Canada to represent its interests with some companies that export products from her in China to this continents.

Shanghai S.H.M Machinery Co., Ltd is sourcing for a payment representative in USA, Canada, United Kingdom.
The Representatives will act as a receiving payment agents and also placing orders for goods and products from customers.

You will be paid total sum of 2000US$ as a monthly salary for your duties carried out as our payment recieving officer.

Our client is only making payment via Bank Wire Transfer and Cash, we need your help as a payment account officer to recieve funds in your country to avoid delays in transfer to China which takes over 3 to 4 weeks, and it definately causes delay in customer’s order shipment.

If you are interested in working for us, send your Name and Mobile Phone Number to email: chun_yoo@yahoo.com

Thank you.
Shanghai S.H.M Machinery Co., Ltd.
Industry Building, Zhuqiao To, Shanghai, CN

Tags: Dear Sir, Email, Madam, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, United Kingdom, Yahoo

Hoorah, I am going to get a check over 6.5 Million GB pounds!

If you believe the WHO sends out money with no strings attached, I have to disappoint you.

This is a scam e-mail and there will be no check in the post.

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From: world health organisation <worldhealth@who.us>
Date: 12.12.2007 01:17
Subject: As Predicted: WORLD HEALTH ORG (Have you received the 6.5, million GB Pounds)..
To: undisclosed-recipients

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Head Quarter: Geneva, Switzerland
File Number: EMRO/07/FT1127
Clearance Number: WHO1000909
FBI Clearance Number: FBI9001801

Anders Nordström
Assistant Director-General - WHO
Email: whorganization@us.com

Esteemed Client

Please, be informed that the parcel of a certified cheque of (6.5, million GB Pounds) left the World Health Organization Head Quarters on 8th of November for your address, it is important we know when you get the parcel, so as to know when to invite you for the Winners Dinner Night on the 22nd of December, 2007. If the parcel is not received then get back to us for more details of transfer. Please, be informed that the Organization is aware and acknowledge the fact that you are a very responsible PERSONNEL we believe and hope you’ll utilize these funds for it’s main purpose: to help the less privileged.

We understand the gravity of your work and how it takes most of your time; we hope you will create just little time to help the less privilege. Please contact the licensed and accredited agent assigned to you below for more details of the funds. You are advised to be steadfast in getting the funds, the award has not been made public yet as it is only available to particular persons where you happen to be one.

If you are unable to work for the WHO, be kind enough to return the cheque.

Anders Nordström
Assistant Director-General - WHO
Email: whorganization@us.com

NOTE: Your Privacy is Important to the World Health Organization.
Employees of the World Health Organization are Prohibited from disclosing
any information you provide, except as provided by Law. No Personally
Identifying Information (such as your name, address or phone number) will
ever be captured by visiting our Web pages, unless you voluntarily choose
to provide it. The National Association of State and Provincial Lotteries
recently alerted the World Health
Organization and every other online organization to get clearance number
before having any online promotions or Awards, as there are too many scams
going on online. So if by chance you received or you have received any
mail of such do not be reluctant to ask for the Clearance number, they are
always 10 digits both alphabetical and numerical numbers take note. You
will find our clearance number on top of this page. We hope and will
believe that you will use this opportunity to show how you can help the
less privileged, you were chosen because we know and accept the fact that
you are liable enough to handle this. We
also believe you will use it as an opportunity to show how you care about
the less privileged, so do all you can to claim this award and ensure you
help the less privilege. If there is anything you will have to do to make
sure this award meets its purpose we will most appreciate it.

This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which
it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged,
confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the
reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or
agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient,
you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of
this communication is strictly prohibited.

If you have received this communication in error, please notify us
immediately and delete this message and all its attachments. Thank You.

Tags: Contact, Email, Gani, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Scams

This is another joker assuming we know each other. Don’t bother sending an e-mail to global@speed.com. It’s only a parked domain.

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From: GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY <global@speed.com>
Date: 12.12.2007 09:52
Subject: CONTACT THE GLOBAL SPEED COURIER IMMEDIATELY FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR CASH.
To: undisclosed-recipients

ATTENTION,

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your money but I did not heard from you since that time as we fixed.Then I went and deposited the $1.500.000.00 Million USA Dollars,as consignment box to GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED in Benin Republic,because I traveled to SAUDI ARABIA to visit my friend and i will not come back till next month ending.

I want You to contact the GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED to know when they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering charges.The only money you have to send to them is the security keeping fee of your consignment which is which is $155.00 Us Dollars to received your package.The company will deliver it to you on C.O.D so this security keeping fee $155.00 Us Dollars is the only money you have to send to them.

CONTACT PERSON; DR.DAVID AKA DISTRICT
MANAGER GS Courier Company Limited BENIN
REPUBLIC.E-mail:(globalspeedcourier_company101@yahoo.fr )
CONTACT PHONE+229-9369-7920

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the insurance fee. I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake on the delivering.Reconfirm below information to the company.

Your Full Name———————–
Your Address—————————
Home telephone———————
Office telephone———————
Your pic———————————-

Let me know as soon as you receive your package,and check the contents weather the complete of the total $1.500.000.00 

Regards
Barr.Nelson Udo (ESQ)

Tags: Consignment, Contact, Courier Company, Home Telephone, Insurance Fee, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Office Telephone, Yahoo

Be assured this is not from the Robert Kaufman company.

The crooks have have been very diligent with this one. The Robert Kaufmann company does exist and you will see that the crooks have used an official e-mail address in the sender ID.

Contrary to what these people say about the Robert Kaufman being a Japanese company, this is not true as the real Robert Kaufman is a US company.

It is a very risky job, if you decide to do it. You will be charged with money laundering as soon as the banks see what you are up to. They have to report all suspicious transactions to the FBI or authorities in other countries.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ROBERT KAUFMAN <onlinejobs@robertkaufmanfabrics.com>
Date: 22.11.2007 17:25
Subject: LEGITIMATE JOB OFFER**PART TIME**
To: undisclosed-recipients

Robert Kaufman Fabrics is a Japanese Cotton Quilting Fabrics and a reputable company in Japan looking for representatives in AMERICA and all over EUROPE . We Robert Kaufman Fabrics are into textiles, fabrics manufacturing and exportation. We pay well and you can earn up to $350 or more twice a week. The required job is easy and little to do online and little time is needed,and much money involved when finished (1-2hrs a week). Contact us for more details. limited offer while good money lasts,you have nothing to loose.

reply back to : robertkaufmanfabrics@yahoo.com

Regards
MD/CEO
Robert Kaufman
Robert Kaufman Fabrics

DETAILS

—————–
Robert Kaufman Fabrics needs someone to work for the company as a Representative/Manager in other countries. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the Europe and America. You dont need to have an Office and this certainly won’t disturb you from other work(s) you have going at the moment, Our integrated FABRIC manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world leading suppliers. Order processing, production monitoring and process flow are seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network .
* The average monthly income is  about 4000.00 Euro.
* No form of investments from you.
* This job takes only 1-2 hours per day This we need to get payments for our products as soon as it possible because customers can just “forget” to pay. Unfortunately we are unable to open bank accounts in  the United US without first registering the company name.

Presently with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put the on hold. For fear of loosing the customers outrightly. Secondly we cannot cash these payments from the US soon enough as international Cheques take about 14 working days for cash to be made available. We lose about 75,000 Euro of net income each month because we have money transfer delays.
YOUR TASK is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are not invloved in any sales. Our SALES manager sells products. Once he makes a sale we deliver the product to a customer (usually through USPS OR FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified Cheques and Money orders based on the amount involved. We have decided to open this new job position for solving this problem and to create job for those seeking and it’s convinient.

JOB DESCRIPTION
——————————————————
1. Recieve payment from Customers
2. Cash Payments at your Bank
3. Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment process
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send payment to. (Payment is to forwarded either by Money Gramme or Western Union Money Transfer. Local Money transfers takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer payment almost immediately. For example you ve got 3000.00Euro You take your income : 300.00 Euro Send to us: 2700.00 Euro - cost of sending, First month you will  have 15-20 transactions on 3000.00-4000.00 Euro So you may calculate your income. For example 18 transactions on 3500.00 Euro gives you 4410.00 Euro…..to signify your interest in this job,send us the following details; for more transactions made the higher your percentage……

FULL NAME ;
ADDRESS ;
STATE ;
CITY ;
ZIPCODE ;
PHONE NUMBER ;
AGE ;
OCCUPATION ;
AS ALL THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IN YOUR RECIEVING PAYMENTS……..THANKS

you can login into our website :
http://www.robertkaufman.com/fabrics/quilt_gate_fabric/

reply back to robertkaufmanfabrics@yahoo.com

Regards
MD/CEO
Robert Kaufman
Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Tags: Amp, Contact, Crooks, Fedex, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Occupation, Reply, Western Union, Yahoo