Wtf?

rosebud · November 24, 2003, 18:38

I had this Private Message:

Quote:

Dear friend,
Dear friend,
(STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL)

I am Mr.Alfred Kojo, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Union Togolaise De Banque Lome-Togo in West Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the
transaction .

During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on November1st 1999 in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this
development.

Although personally, I keep this information secret within myself and partners to enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution. The said amount was U.S $15M (Fifteen million United States dollars). As it may interest you
to know.

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon
as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity.

In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant(A Banker),we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my
side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank. This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the Bank and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank
where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 10% will be set aside to
take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 60% will be for me and my partners. Please, you have been advised to keep "top secret" as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account and ask us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages
previously indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in. All other necessary vital information will be sent to you when I hear from you.

I suggest you get back to me as soon as possible stating your wish in this deal.
I look forward to receive your mail ASAP through my private email address alfred_kojo1@hotmail.com

Yours faithfully,

MR.Alfred Kojo.

Any explanations?

DrSpike · November 24, 2003, 19:39

That's a standard piece of email spam.........Mark will probably be interested to know that spam PM's are being received.

atawa · November 24, 2003, 19:48

Do people actualy fall for this kind of nonsense?

Bloody Monk · November 24, 2003, 19:49

Not just spam but scam. Ten foot pole and all that.

Monk

Six Thousand Year Old Man · November 25, 2003, 01:22

Spam post to report a spam message

Unless this is the beginning of a campaign to rename the forum Civ2-General/Help/Nigerian Email Scams.

rjmatsleepers · November 25, 2003, 02:20

Actually, this is a variation of one of the oldest running scams. I first met it in the 1980s when it was delivered by Telex. (Does anyone remember Telex?) The bank is usually in Nigeria, and the amount of money has grown a bit over the years.

Does anyone fall for it? I've never heard of anyone taking the bait, but you don't need a very high success rate to meet the low costs of setting it up.

Interesting, but not surprising that it should be tried using PM. I wonder if anyone's had it as a mobile text message yet?

RJM at Sleeper's

Scouse Gits · November 25, 2003, 04:34

Apparently the take-up is about 0.1% although this drops off once they ask for your bank details etc -- but over the years I guess they have made a 'living'...

Now why rosebud with 3 posts should get this whilst we with a combined 10,000 or so don't ...

duke o' york · November 25, 2003, 05:18

Perhaps the number of posts shows that you're net-savvy and whoever sent this was hoping that a relative newbie might fall for one of the oldest in the book....

I know it's really mean because we were all newbies once, but I am very tempted to.....
:danc :dance....., no, shouldn't!

DrSpike · November 25, 2003, 07:02

Hehe I also noticed the settler and was suspicious. But that's a bit unfair, so I waited for someone else to say it first.

rah · November 25, 2003, 10:31

And why is a settler posting it here?

Toast.

rah · November 25, 2003, 10:43

And he appears to be a DL. what a surprise.