Looks like I am going to be rich

[Dave Martin]

I received the following e mail a few days ago,

 

Attorney at law, Barrister&Solicitor

Head office: 21rd, g, close, house 18,

Festac town Lagos Nigeria

Private email: [email protected]

Tel:: +234-808-134-8919

 

Attention:

 

Before I start, I must first apologize for this mail to you. I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship, but as time goes on you will realize the need for my action. My name is Barrister Morgan ibekweoru, a solicitor and the personal attorney to a citizen of your country, who owns a construction company in Nigeria. Here in referred to as my client, on the 26th of December 2004, my client, his wife and their two children were involved in the tsunami Asia disaster. My client and his entire family unfortunately lost their lives in the disaster.

 

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, which has proved abortive after these several unsuccessful attempts. my main reason for contacting you is to assist me in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they are confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where the funds redeposited/lodged particularly, the Gulf Bank of (Nig) Plc.

 

Where the deceased has an account with an approximate sum of eighteen million (US) dollars. The said bank has issued me a final notice to provide the next of kin of my client or they will be left with no other choice than to confiscate his funds, a copy of the said notice i will fax to you on getting your reply.

 

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating my client's relatives, now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of my client to the bank, going by the fact that both of you has the same nationality, so that the said funds as stated above can be paid to you instead of leaving it for Gulf Bank of (Nig) Plc. we can take part of it and leave the rest to charity.

 

I have the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this arrangement through I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

 

Please kindly reply through this private email address: [email protected] Finally kindly give me your confidential Phone/Fax numbers so that I can fax to you all the correspondence between the bank and me.

 

Best Regards,

Barrister Morgan ibekweoru (Esq.)

E-mail: [email protected]

 

Do you think I should also give him my Bank and credit card details to speed up the transfer

[Steve Bullman]

i get at least one of them a day...some of them are quite amusing! You gotta wonder what sort of person would actually fall for it.

[Rob D]

I get about 2 of these a day mainly because my e-mail address is on the website.

 

 

There's a website 419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!

It's called scam baiting.... you lead the scammer on in order to waste their time...

 

 

Not sure if it's a good idea or not really when you can just hit the delete button....

[Mark Bolam]

You lot are idiots.

$18 million is a lot of money.

[easy-lift guy]

P.T Barnum said it best "that there is a sucker born every minute".

easy-lift guy

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

when this fella empties your bank account do give us the oportunity to say told you so!

[Tommy_B]

I can't believe you lot are so cynical.

 

Dave, I'm going to get £3467 for the accident that I am entitled to but don't remember having. We can send that nice Barrister £3000 and he might send us the whole $18m. Sound like a plan?

[s.varty]

Most of us know that these are scams and delete , but sometimes they get lucky, when i was contracting for british waterways they had a yardman who had shall we say "learning difficulties", but not a bad lad and always happy to do the jobs that the other lads didnt want to do. They made him redundant in 2006 and he recieved £24,000 in redundancy, within 6 months he had lost the lot to one of these scams.

[Treewolf]

I get about 2 of these a day mainly because my e-mail address is on the website.

 

 

There's a website 419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!

It's called scam baiting.... you lead the scammer on in order to waste their time...

 

 

Not sure if it's a good idea or not really when you can just hit the delete button....

 

If you want a laugh, visit 419eater and look for the Nigerian version of the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch; you've never seen anything quite like it!

[felixthelogchopper]

I can't believe you lot are so cynical.

 

Dave, I'm going to get £3467 for the accident that I am entitled to but don't remember having. We can send that nice Barrister £3000 and he might send us the whole $18m. Sound like a plan?

 

When the accident people contacted me, I asked them if I should sue myself as I am self-employed. Still waiting for the answer