Friday, July 1
Fraud from abroadIs it only me who is getting this loads of e-mails for transferring some millions of dollars to my account, or this is a universal fraud system that is going around these days? As a sample of such an e-mail I am posting one hereunder, taking the identities out, although they deserve to be exposed.
Although I don’t know what is their mechanism, and how can they trust a complete stranger to transfer such an amount to his bank account, but it sure sounds fishy.
I’m sure they have gotten a hold of my e-mail through my blog as much as being positive that they do read this entry.
One message I want to cross to these people; regardless of your intentions, some people do not believe in gaining money that they did not earn, for them it’s a principle and I belong to this category.
Another message to other decent people who are reading this entry; don’t be fooled by such e-mails, there is a catch in that although I don’t know it, and if anyone of you knows about it, please enlighten me.
The sample e-mail:
Hello Dear,
Please permits me to introduce myself to you. I am Mr. --------, The
Financial Controller, Nigerian ------------
My purpose of writing to you is this: There was a contract awarded to a foreign contractor, by the Contract Awarding Committee of the ------ in the year ----- and the contract has completed and commissioned. The contract amount was ------- Million United States Dollars only but the contractor was paid 50% of the total contract sum.
Now, the remnant (50%) ----- Million United States Dollars has been released since ------- by the federal ministry of finance for final settlement to the contractor. The money is presently in the suspense account of the------- Since then, the contractor has not showed up and now I had that he is dead. All the documents that was for the contract are with me.
So I will like to make a deal with you. I want to present you as a sister-company so that the------ Million United States Dollars will be transferred to your account. After the transfer of the fund, you and I will share the money, 40% for you and 60% for me.
If you are interested and can handle this offer, please contact me on this email address:---------- so we can discuss on how to proceed with this transaction.
Warm Regards,
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Name::AyyA
From::Kuwait
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10 Comments:
u really read those :) i delete anything i dont know :P
I do delete them nooni, but they keep coming and I don’t really understand how does it work, I mean how about if some one opens a new account just for that purpose, then close it after the transfer is done, that’s if there was a transfer to start with then how would these people benefit?
it's junk mail. they don't get your email just from the blog. they can get it from any site you register at.
i even receive these at work, imagine all the fuss. i open each of them just incase one was directed to the boss or something. but since this is your personal email, you'd better delete them as many contain viruses.
Oh thanks for the tip dear I didn’t know that!
omg.. i was just thinking that.. i even got a mail addressed from suha arafat;)
hehehe
even though everyone knows that it's a scam, there are retards out there who fall for it..
SillyBahrainiGirl
Suha 3arafat marra wa7da LOL
Welcome aboard dear, wi ya halla bkil hal elba7rain :)
Check out this site, telling you how you can mess with the people who send you those letters:
http://www.419eater.com
Welcome aboard Amerab, and thanks for the link, but it’s too much of a hassle, I guess just deleting them is not a bad idea after all ( phweeeeeeh)
Just visited your quarters, nice blog, I guess I’ll return the visit soon ;)
hi ayya
this is money laundering. they benefit b/c they find a way to transfer the money into an unsuspicious account and thus confuse those that are after them. they are willing to give up half of the money (to you) as a price for concealing their transfer activity from the authorities.
Luminous
I doubt if there is money to transfer in the first place, I think it has to do with your account coz that’s what they’re after; it’s a scam to trap you into providing them with your information and then somehow to rob you.
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