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It’s amazing how many African banks have deceased or abandoned accounts isn’t it?

Now Joseph says he discovered the cash at his bank and now he says he has put the money in an Escrow account.

He says if I allow him to name me as the beneficiary there will be no risk. Sounds good doesn’t it? What he means is, he has absolutely no risk of being caught robbing people’s money.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: josephkm@cantv.net
Date: 17 Dec 2008 19:21
Subject: From: Mr. Joseph Kamara/I write you this proposal in good faith.
To: josephkm@cantv.net

From: Mr. Joseph Kamara.
145 Rue de commerce plataeux
Abidjan.
Cote D’Ivoire.

Dear Friend,

I write you this proposal in good faith.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and me.

I am a manager in a bank in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire.

it is my duty to send in a financial report to our head office at the end of each business year.

On the course of the last year 2007 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made USD$3,500.000 (Three million Five hundred thousand united state dollars) which our head office are not aware of and will never be aware of.

I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary.

As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as your commission.

I am also willing to invest my own part of the money into any moving business in your country after the accomplishment of this project.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank to bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that our head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.
I have finalized all plans to transfer this money out and waiting for your coperation to make it work.

I will get 70% While you take 30%.

Mail me back so that we can go over the details.

Please let us make it faster as you provide your full information below:

FULL NAME………………………..
ADDRESS………………………….. ……
AGE…………………………..
OCCUPATION…………….. ……………….
MARITAL STATUS…………………………………
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER…………………………………….

I am waiting to hear from you urgently.

Yours truly,
Mr. Joseph Kamara

With a touch of christianity and a story which has been told a thousand times (some of them are posted in our archives), this one is obviously trying to lure believers in God to part with their money for Christmas.

On an aside note, this one was obviously sent from a Yahoo website serving an eastern cyrilic language, at the same time quoting an e-mail account from yahoo.fr.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Juliet Kone
Date: 15 Dec 2008 09:38
Subject: My Dearest Beloved One In Christ,
To: juliet.kone009@yahoo.fr

My Dearest Beloved One In Christ,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I am Sister Juliet Kone from Kuwait. i am married to Mr. Henry Kone who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2005.We were married for ten years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days Before his death we were both again Christian. Since his death decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars USD$7.500 left in a storage company here in Abidjan , I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to charities through you. You may be wondering why I chose you.But someone has to be chosen. I am 43 years old and was diagnose for cancer about 2 years ago, after the death of my husband who had left me everything he worked for. I have been touched by the Lord to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to charity through you
for the good work of God, humanity, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband’s hardearned funds inappropriately to charities through you for the good work of the Lord, and to help the motherless, lessprivileged and also for the assistance of the widows.

Presently, I have informed my consultant about my decision in willing
this fund to charity through you. I wish you all the best and may the
good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and
always extend the good work to others. If you are interested in carrying out this task, I will inform you, How to arrange the release of the funds to you. I know I have never met you but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely. I decided that 30% of this money should be taken by you from the total sum upon the success release of this fund, because I am now too weak and fragile to do things myself because of my cancer
I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that “the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband’s relatives around me always. I don’t want them to know about this development.

With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the Information’s I will also issue you an authorisation letter that will prove you the present beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth.

Please always be prayerful all through your life.Contact me on my email any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another church for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein.
Hoping to receive your reply.

Remain blessed in the Lord.
From Sister
Juliet Kone

________________________________
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As soon as they talk about accepting customer payments and sending the
rest cash on to them, you just know what they are doing.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ASHLEY FURNITURE COMPANY
Date: Sep 5, 2008 1:11 AM
Subject: PART TIME JOB OFFER (work from your home)
To:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We have a job opening for the position of Accounts recievable
position. Would you like to work from your home and get paid weekly?
We are offering this position to all interested applicants. Please
carefully read through.

ASHLEY FURNITURE COMPANY is a well established Manufacturing
Firm,That delivers, delivering high quality precision furnitures
products to some of the largest and best known companies in far back
Asia ,the Regions Of America and Rest of The world for a long time.
You will find our high quality furnitures in the BEST products on the
market today.

We serve the entire United States and a growing export
market,particularly in the supplies of selected products. Superior
products including Sofas & Loveseats,Bedding Ensembles, Chairs &
Ottomans. Your primary task for now , as a representative of the
company is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the
payment process.You are not involved in any sales. Once orders are
received and sorted we deliver the product to a customer. After this
has been done the customer has to pay for the products but in most
cases we make our clients prepay for orders or items they order for.
About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through Certified
Checks or Money Orders drawn from the United State based on the amount
involved.

We have decided to open this new contract-to-hire job position for
solving this problem.
Your First Primary task(Collection of Payments):

1. Receive payment from our Customers or Clients.
2. Cash Payment at your Bank or any cashing facilities near you.
3. Deduct 10 % which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
4. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the
offices you will be contacted to send payment to, You’ll have a lot of
free time doing another job, because this job is part time, you’ll get
good income.

But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are
considering your application because you satisfy our requirements and
we are sure you will be an earnest assistant till we start running our
branch office in your state.

Get back to us with information below information , so that we can
add your mailing address to our Regional database and forward it to
our customers for them to send payments.

First name……………….

Middle name………………

Last name………………..

Address Line 1……………

Address Line 2……………

City…………………….

State…………………….

Zip/Postal code…………..

Age……………………..

Marital Status……………

Nationality………………

Home phone……………….

Cell phone……………….

YOUR PREFFERED MODE OF COMMUNICATION EITHER BY PHONE OR BY EMAIL.

Your response to this email is needed , so that we can reconfirm your
mailing address details we have in our database.We will be updating
you as soon as the payment is being sent to you and you will be
directed as to where to have the remaining 90% of the money sent to,
after the deduction of your 10% pay on any payments received and
processed by you.A swift acknowledgement of the receipt of this email
will be appreciated.
Thanks For Your Total Understanding.
Eric Petterson,
Staffing and Recruiting Dept,
Regional Manager,

ASHLEY FURNITURE COMPANY
www.ashleyfurniture.com
Email: ashleyallfurniture@hotmail.com
STATUS OF YOUR RESUME !

N.B:Note: We will never ask you for anything more than that
which we have stated above. No bank names, No bank account number,
No routing number, No credit card, No passwords, No SSN# etc. If anyone asks for
those on our behalf please do not give out this info.This is to
ensure your security and non involvement in cases of Identity theft.

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/

———- Forwarded message ———-
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.

Unfortunately, there are enough people around who believe this story too.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Acct. Donald Duke.
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:17 AM
Subject: CONTACT THE ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT OF ECOBANK BANK BENIN
To:

CONTACT THE ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT OF ECOBANK BANK BENIN Greetings Dear Beloved Friend, I want to inform you about my success in transferring your money into an ATM master card to curtail the risk of carrying huge amount of money around. The total amount has been coded into ATM master card; please contact the Bank ATM payment center for more instruction on how to make use of the ATM card to withdraw your money in any ATM machine around the globe. I will be traveling to CHINA for business project with my own share of the total money. Meanwhile, I didn’t forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring the fund despite that it failed us some how. Now you can contact the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT of ECOBANK BANK BENIN on this email(michaelkohnatmpaymaster23@live.com)pn.. +229-9704-6911 they will send you the sum of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($2.500, 000.00) which is your own share for all the sufferings at that time. That is compensation for all your past efforts I really appreciated your consistency at that time. This card center will send you an ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine around the world, the maximum withdrawal is Ten Thousand United State Dollars per day. Feel free to get in touch with the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and give them direction on where to send the ATM card to you, the only money they will request from you is the activation fee of $99.99, so contact them right away. Do not hesitate to contact the ECOBANK Benin ATM payment department center with the information i gave to you and also re-confirm the following information to them as listed below: 1. Full Name…………………… 2. Current Address……………… 3. Phone Number………………… 4. A Copy of your identity………. 5. Your Nationality…………….. 6 Your pic……………………. Forward the above information to Prof. Michael Kohn, the head department officer of ATM payment center ECOBANK Bank Benin Republic. Phone: +229-9704-6911, Email michaelkohnatmpaymaster23@live.com) Please do let me know immediately you receive the ATM card so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferings at that time. I will be very busy in CHINA for the project am going to have there with my partner. So contact the ATM center immediately, they will give you more details of the ATM service. Finally, be informed that I left instructions to the DEPARTMENT to send the ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel free to get in touch with the DEPARTMENT and they will send the CARD to you with out any delay. Best Regards, Acct. Donald Duke.

Donald Duke, 419 scam, ATM card

This kind of e-mail has been posted here so often, I don’t think it’s worth commenting.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: jamesrchardson @ yahoo. com
Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Subject: DEAR BELOVED
To:

Hello Dear,
As you read this, I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday.I am the above named person but now undergoing medical treatment now in Europe. I am Dr.James Richard,AN EXPARTRIATE ENGINEER who worked with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) AND AN oil merchant / contractor with The Federal Government of Nigeria.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer.It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts.I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone(not even myself)but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I seams to care about. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it.

Now that God has called me, I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends.I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so, I have decided to give alms to charity organizations in the United State, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the Oman,Algeria and Malaysia and here in spain. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore. I once asked my close assocaites and friends to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them.The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of eighteen million dollars Usd$18,000,000 that I have with a finance/Security Company abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatche it to charity organizations as my next of kin and benefactor of this fund.I have also set aside 20% for you and for your time and effort.Please contact me via my email address jamesrichard6408@yahoo.co.jp if you are interested.

God be with you.
Dr.James Richard

James Richard, 419 scam, terminal illness

This is another story set in the civil war in Sierra Leone. Of course, the “orphans” are now refugees in Senegal and have a pile of cash in the bank.

Ready for transfer!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: FROM MUFAZZAL IBRAHIM AND SISTER RAMATUE <mufazzalandsister13@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:57 AM
Subject: Assalaamu Alaikum
To:

Assalaamu Alaikum,
From: Mufazzal Ibrahim and sister Ramatue
Email; mufazzalandsister14@yahoo.co.uk
Goodday Please.

It is my pleasure to acquaint you with this proposal for the purpose ofinvestment in your company. I am Mufazzal Ibrahim and sister Ramatue the only son & daughter of late Chief Dr Hadam ibrahim from free town Sierra Leone.

Who before his death was the person managing the Sierra – Leone Gold and Diamond Corporation( SGDC).As a result of the political instability of Sierra-Leone, my late father came to Republic Of Dakar Senegal with the sum of Twenty Five Million United State Dollars (US$25 Million Us Dollars )

which he deposited in a Bank here in Republic of dakar senegal as a family treasure.
We are here seeking for an avenue to transfer this money to a reliable and trustworthy partner for investment programmes.

We are here as a refugee because of the political crisis in our Country Sierra Leone. Please we have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum of $25 Millionunited state dollars for your assistance.

For now, We have every information and document needed for the Collection of the deposit with the Bank and we want you to Act as the beneficiary of the deposit for easy and smooth collection to your account abroad for investment purposes.

Since our breadwinner is no more and this is the only hope we have for our future survival,Your positive response will give us the greatest joy and relief.

Please we need to transfer this money urgently because delay would not help at all and we need to relocate based on the political instability in this sub-region, to enable us continue our education in one of the best university over there in your country.

Presently we cannot go back to Sierra- Leone because of the situation there and you know that Senegal where we are now is politically unstable; we therefore wish you could help us get out of here before it become worse.

May almighty allah Bless you for your kind assistance. Reach us faster through our alternate email address for security reason.

Here is our alternate email address,  mufazzalandsister14@yahoo.co.uk

Finally I implore you to treat this transaction with secrecy and confidentiality for security reasons. Furnish us with the following requested information as soon as possible.

Full name………………………………
Home|office address…………………
Mobile telephone Number…………
Fax Numver…………………………
Occupation………………………….
Nationality…………………………….
Position Hold………………………….
Age……………………………………..
Marital Status…………………………
Country………………………………
Bank account details…………………
We are Seriously waiting for your urgent reply,

Best regard.
Yours Truly Son & Daughter.
Mufazzal Ibrahim and sister Ramatue Ibrahim.

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Mufazzal Ibrahim, Ramatue

A short message offering 24.5 million US Dollars from Hong Kong.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Patrick Chan <pchan@info.net>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Subject: Respond
To: undisclosed-recipients

I am Patrick Chan I work with HANG SENG BANK, HONG KONG.I have a Business Proposal of Twenty four million,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars for you to handle with me from my bank,if you are interested please send me your full names,privatephone/fax and current residential address and finally after that I shall provide you with more details.
Kind Regards
Patrick Chan

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Hang Seng Bank, Patrick Chan

The only interesting point about this e-mail is the e-mail address didia44@zudah.org.

There is a registered domain Zudah.org. It belongs to a woman with an address in California. The question is, how did Didia get a working e-mail address from there?

I am waiting for an answer, so we will have to wait and see if there really is an e-mail account there or not.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr Zudah Didia &lt;didia44@zudah.org&gt;
Date: Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Subject: REPLY AND CALL ME ONLY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AND READY TO BE OF THIS TRANSACTION
To: didia44@zudah.org

FROM: MR DIDIA ZUDAH.
AUDITING / ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
BURKINA-FASO, WEST AFRICA .
+226 76 18 66 18

MY DEAR, I AM CONTACTING YOU IN REGARDS TO A BUSINESS TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY FROM A DECEASED ACCOUNT. THOUGH I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED, BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU DUE TO THE URGENCY OF THIS TRANSACTION.

PROPOSITION; I DISCOVERED AN ABANDANT SUM OF $11.5M (ELEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLAS) IN AN ACCOUNT THAT BELONGS TO ONE OF OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS WHO DIED ALONG WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. SINCE HIS DEATH, NONE OF HIS NEXT-OF-KIN OR RELATIONS HAS COME FORWARD TO LAY CLAIMS TO THIS MONEY AS THE HEIR. I CANNOT RELEASE THE FUND FROM HIS ACCOUNT UNLESS SOMEONE APPLIES FOR CLAIM AS THE NEXT-OF-KIN TO THE DECEASED AS INDICATED IN OUR BANKING GUIDELINES. UPON

THIS DISCOVERY, I NOW SEEK YOUR PERMISSION TO HAVE YOU STAND AS A NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED AS ALL DOCUMENTATIONS WILL BE CAREFULLY WORKED OUT BY ME FOR THE FUNDS $11.5M ( ELEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLAS ) TO BE RELEASED IN YOUR FAVOUR AS THE BENEFICIARY’S NEXT OF KIN. IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO NOTE THAT I HAVE SECURED FROM THE PROBATE AN ORDER OF MADAMUS TO LOCATE ANY OF DECEASED BENEFICIARIES.

PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE IN ACCEPTANCE OF MY MUTUAL BUSINESS ENDEAVOUR BY FURNISHING ME WITH THE FOLLOWING;

1. YOUR FULL NAMES AND ADDRESS.

2. DIRECT TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.

THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL ENABLE ME FILE A LETTER OF CLAIM TO THE APPROPRIATE DEPARTMENTS FOR NECESSARY APPROVALS IN YOUR FAVOUR BEFORE THE TRANSFER CAN BE MADE. I SHALL BE OMPENSATING YOU WITH $4.6 MILLION DOLLARS ON FINAL CONCLUSION OF THIS PROJECT, WHILE THE REST $6.9MILLION SHALL BE FOR ME. YOUR OWN SHARE STAYS WITH YOU WHILE THE REST SHALL BE FOR ME FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES IN YOUR COUNTRY.

IF THIS PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE BY YOU, DO NOT TAKE UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF THE TRUST I HAVE BESTOWED IN YOU, I AWAIT YOUR URGENT EMAIL.

REGARDS,

YOUR;S FAITHFULLY,

MR DIDIA ZUDAH
+226 76 18 66 18

Technorati-Tags: 419 Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Didia Zudah

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

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

Dear Sir/Madam,

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

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

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

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

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

please reply me back to my private email

Thanks
Steven James

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