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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

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

Rahim explains that he has found a further abandoned account and wants to share the money with you.

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From: rahim 26abibu <rahim_26abibu@hotmail.fr>
Date: 03.12.2007 10:32
Subject: FROM MR RAHIM ABIBU PLEASE REPLY VERY URGENT
To:

FROM MR RAHIM ABIBU.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,
Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I will first introduce myself as MR RAHIM ABIBU,THE CHIEF AUDITOR WITH BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

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$20m dollars (TWENTY MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account that belongsto one of our foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON FROM FLORIDA, U.S.A) 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 then, nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money, as he has no family member that has any knowledge as to the existence of either the account or the funds; I have confidently agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with. My proposition to you, is to seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin and beneficiary of this late client, So that the proceeds of this account valued a huge sum shall be paid to you, and then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed percentage of 30% for you, While 60% for me and others involved, 10% shall be used for miscellaneous expenses while the remainder shall be given to a reputable charity home because the money is owned by a deceased person.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act, funds will be released to you after necessary processes have been followed. Let me hear from you as soon as you get this message, so we can proceed.

Best regards,
MR RAHIM ABIBU

Tags: Africa, Auditing, Bank Of Africa, Bib, Burkina Faso, Dear Friend, Deceased, Email, Mail, Money, Plane Crash, Reply

This story has been used several times during the last couple of weeks. Although on this one the crooks did spend some time to rewrite it.

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From: Edna Yeo <yeo_edna@voila.fr>
Date: 02.12.2007 22:17
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY!!!
To: yeo_edna@voila.fr

Dear,

I know what I am about telling you might put you at the edge of your sit but quite frankly, I have no other person that I can readily confide in this dificulty that has befallen me for quite sometime but you since I saw your profile on the website, I just couldn’t let go. I feel that I could confide in you so that you could help me out of it.

I do not know exactly how to begin. However, I do know that the only way to begin is to begin. My father died last year as a result of the conspiracy of his associates who got him poisoned in one of their business outings. Before my father’s sudden death, he was influentially wealthy as a cocoa merchant here in Cote d’Ivoire and excelled in all his endeavours. This brought the jealousy of his associates who felt very unsecured by his affluence that he would monopolise their business one day with his money. The result of this jealousy was the eventual elimination of my dad through poison. I was at the University of Cape Coast then when I got the news of my father’s ailment hence rushed back home to meet him up at the hospital. It was at the hospital that he told me about the fund $17.5m which he deposited with a bank here in Abidjan and craved my indulgence to look for a foreign partner who I can trust to help me get it transferred and invest it accordingly since he could not trust our local people here anymore.

Since his sudden demise, I have tried the much I can to have access to the fund to no avail since I was told by the bank that based on the agreement of deposit, I cannot have access to the fund kept in a suspense account umless I have a foreign partner with me. This is where you come in. My father deposited the said fund with the intent to have it transferred overseas for foreign investment which he could not live to actualise. Now, that I am the next of kin to the fund and the only child, it becomes incumbent on me to make proper use of the fund but the most paramount thing at this moment, is to complete my education while you invest the fund pending my graduation from the university.

As soon as you signify your interest to help me get this fund transferred, I shall forward you with the bank contact details so that you would contact them immediately. Be assured that all the necessary arrangement to have the fund transferred hitch-freely would be put in place here hence will pose no difficulty.

Immediately, the fund is confirmed in your account, you are to work out modalities to have me come over immediately to your country and complete my education.
PLEASE REPLY TO: ed_yeo2@yahoo.com

Awaiting your urgent response, I remain

Edna

Tags: Cocoa, Contact, Crooks, Endeavour, Heir, Indulgence, Modalities, Money, Reply, Sudden Death, Urgent Response, Yahoo

A friend of mine sent me this message today. I do not know if this is a scam mail, but it certainly looks like it.

If you know more about it , please make a comment.

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Sat Dec 01 12:46:28 2007
EARN 485 EURO PER WEEK WITH MARRIOTT HOTELS !‏ 

From: MARRIOTT HOTELS, IRELAND. (infolotto2007@charter.net)  
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:34:44 PM 
Reply-to: info.marriott_recruitment@strompost.com 
To:     

—-MARRIOTT RECRUITMENT AGENCYIRELAND,UNITED KINGDOM.

Dear Viewer,

MARRIOTT HOTELS, IRELAND, offers you Job Opportunity in theirexclusive5 Star Hotel with lots of benefits and allowances in their ongoingrecruitment. For further inquiries about this recruitment exercise,contact :Mr Christopher AndersonRecruitment Manager;mail to: info.marriott_recruitment@strompost.comWe hope to hear from you soon. Thank you.Best Regards,Mrs. Anthonia Peterson.Head of Recruitment Agency.MARRIOTT RECRUITMENT AGENCYIRELAND,UNITED KINGDOM

Tags: Contact, Heir, Mail, Reply, United Kingdom

Michael James is late. Really that’s what’s written here.

Sandra, his supposed daughter, says he was poisoned by business colleagues. Now, I am sure I have heard this somewhere before …

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From: sandra james <sandra16james@yahoo.com>
Date: 30.11.2007 13:19
Subject: Dearest one,
To: sandra16james@yahoo.com

Dearest one,

I am writting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you. I want to find out if it’s possible for you to deal with individual as to investment.
I came across your profile and I feel it’s highly reputable that is why I pick an interest getting across to you in respect of investment at my disposal. I will be so glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.
I am Sandra James 22Years Old Lady from (cote d ivore) ,the only daughter of Late Micheal James , My father is now late he was a well known cocoa and gold merchant business man in my country( cote d ivore) ,he was poisoned by his co-business partner a year ago.
The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assistance in the area of my future investment and also for a help hand over some huge amount of money in my possession.
This fund ( US5.6 Million dollars) is deposited in a bank in my country in (cote d’ivoire) a years ago by my father he made me the sole beneficiary.I am now asking you to stand on my behalf,to stand as my partner and in time of the claim and investment as well. I have made up my mind to offer you 13%of the total money while the remaining will go into a productive investment.
Pls attach your direct and full information as you reply to me. You can also contact me with this email
sandrajamesjames@yahoo.com

Thanks and remain bless.

Best Regards
Sandra James

Tags: 6 Million, Amount Of Money, Cocoa, Contact, Email, Mail, Money, Reply, Yahoo

If you believe a Brit wrote this, I will have to correct you. It’s an African again

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From: MR WILLIAMS COLE
Date: 21.11.2007 12:15
Subject: Dear Friend
To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear Friend

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics. I would like to introduce myself, I am Williams Cole and I work with the staff in the accounts management section of a well-known bank here in the United Kingdom.

One of our accounts is holding a balance of £15,000,000 (fifteen million British Pounds) and has been dormant for the past 3 years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a foreigner by name of Mr. Gerald Stone who died on the 4th of January 2002 in a planecrash in Birmingham here in the UK.

Since then no one has responded in anyway in regards to claiming the funds. As far as we can tell he has no family member who are aware of the existence of either the account or the funds. Information from the National Immigration Office also states that he was single on entry into the UK.

I have confidentially discussed this issue with some of the bank officials and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with us. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin. We will process these funds from the deceased and release them toyou, after due processes have been followed.

This transaction is totally risk free as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act. Think this over and should you be interested, please let me hear from you.

Regards,

MR WILLIAMS COLE

Reply to: cole20022003@excite.co.uk
   

Tags: Africa, Dear Friend, Deceased, Dormant Account, Mail, Money, Reply, United Kingdom

This one sounds more “official”. Just the same, it’s just a scam e-mail

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From: Mineral Offers <mineral_offers0100@live.fr>
Date: 12.11.2007 14:30
Subject: GOLD DUST TO SALES 400 KGS
To:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am delighted in writing to introduce my company, a medium scale mining company with mining registration in various countries across the West African Sub-region and with the global sales/re-exportation company based in cotonou, Republic of Benin.

Presently we have in stock a total of 400kg quantity of the Gold Dust for introductory sales only with direct buyers, at introductory prices in also in consideration of LBMA pricing.

Indicate your interest by sending us an LOI or enter into correspondence with us to come to terms and we will be glad to issue you our signed FCO to start the deal.

Please be informed that only buyers are expected to respond this advert, a response from a broker or any mediator may not be given prime consideration for now.

You could reply us through the following mails
mineralsgd@yahoo.fr
mineralgd@gmail.com

Thanks and Best Wishes !

The Management.

This mail advert is for buyers ready to enter into a contract for the private purchase of alluvial aurum utalum concentrate (gold), which also is referred to in the U.S. Harmonized Schedule of Tariffs as, Gold Powder or Gold Bars.

Tags: Africa, Cotonou, Dear Sir, Madam, Mail, Reply, Republic Of Benin, West Africa, Yahoo

Vicent says his father was executed for embezzlement. That’s why he has 10.5 million US dollars he wants to transfer to my account.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MECY VICENT
Date: 03.11.2007 07:17
Subject: GOODDAY
To: undisclosed-recipients

Mecy
Block A Room 11 UN
Refugee Camp dakar senegal.
Hello Dear,
I am writing this letter in confidence believing that if it is the wish of God for you to help me and my brother, God almighty will bless and reward you abundantly and you would never regret this. Although I did not disclose my reason for enquiring for security reason.

I am from republic of Liberia refugee living here in dakar senegal, and my executed my father was the former Liberian minister of fanice. And he was executed by the rebel forces in allegation of high embezzlement in that department. He deposited $10.5million us dollars cash in a security company here in dakar senegar, which he used me as the next of kin in case of death or incapacitation.The security company appears to believed that this funds belongs to my Father and his business partner,But not withstanding .As the case may be ,I WANT YOU TO LECTURE ME ON HOW BEST WE CAN INVEST THIS MONEY OUT OF AFRICA TO YOUR CONUTRY BY HELPING MOTHERLES BABYES HOME and stand as my Father”s foreign business partner in which this fund can be release to you and me. However I have concluded to compensate you with 30% of the total sum for your assistance as long as you will handle the transaction in good faith and utmost trust .The whole original document are with me intact with my father’s will from the high court. Now I have decided to withdraw the deposit for any possible investment only abroad hence my contacting you .
Please, your quick responds will be highly appreciated as I have concluded arrangements to leave senegal for some urgent reasons soon.soon as I her from you I will send to you every other required information that will enable you to have more knowledge of this exercise, I will like you to send me your personal telephone/fax to enhence effective communication between you and me. I look forward for your immediate reply.
Thanks and God Bless you.
Best regards,
MECY VICENT

Tags: Africa, Amp, Contact, Money, Out Of Africa, Reply, Security Company, Yahoo

This one uses Hotmail to make it look as though it really does come from Microsoft. Rest assured Microsoft does not run a Lottery and Bill Gates does not sponsor them.

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From: microsoftlottery@hotmail.com
Date: Oct 30, 2007 3:27 AM
Subject: FINAL NOTICES MICROSOFT!!!!
To: undisclosed-recipients

Msn Award Team
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.
Batch: 12/25/0340
Ref:MSN-Y/101OXI/02

Hello Winner

Congratulations to you, we bring to your notice the result
of the MICROSOFT LOTTERY. We are happy to inform you that
your email address has emerged you a winner of
£1,767,607.00 Pounds sterling.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you
are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims
agent for category “A” winners.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons,
you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim
your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, you are to
contact Mr. Bihar Fasheyiky with followings details below:

Mr.bahir fasheyiky
Email:Mrbahirfasheyiky@hotmail.com

TEL: (+44) 702 403 6697
GMT 7am – 6pm

1. Your full names, telephone and fax number, contact
address and
2. Quote your Ref number in correspondences with us or our
designated Agent.

Congratulations, once more from all members and staffs of
this program.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT
DIRECTLY WITH THIS
EMAIL ADDRESS:

Sincerely,
Stella Scigau
(Zonal Coordinator)

Tags: Contact, Email, Email Address, Full Names, Mail, Money, Reply, Security Reasons, Unwarranted Abuse