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Looks like I'm 18 Million USD Richer

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benCKa
post #1
21 June 2006, 19:21 UTC#1
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yakuba oseni ([email address redacted]) +Add contact
To:
Subject: PLEASE I NEEN YOU URGENT REPLY


Dear Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise.I am the bill and exchange manager in Bank of Africa.

I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($18000.000.00.Million United States Dollars) Eightheen Million United States Dollars immediately to your account.The money has been dormant for years in our Bank here without any body coming for it.

I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer(the owner of the account)who died a long with his supposed next of kin in an air crash since July 2000.

I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund,so this is the reason why I contacted you,so that we will can release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased cutomer.

Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if you are not interested.Upon receipt of your reply,I will send you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 25% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to transact the business with us.

Thank's Your's yakuba oseni


Aren't I lucky lol :biggrin:

Dunno if the rest of you have got similar e-mails but I find the whole text about a person who I was the nearest person to died in a plane crash amusing.
Well I'm going to reply to this because I don't wanna be rude to "The Bank of Africa". I'll keep you updated :)
DEX
post #2
21 June 2006, 19:23 UTC#2
lol hahaha
neKa
post #3
21 June 2006, 19:23 UTC#3
You'll be suprised at the amount of people that fall for those.
made
post #4
21 June 2006, 19:24 UTC#4
Lol at the fact that they want to give you only 25% of the 18 mill!
yatesex
post #5
21 June 2006, 19:26 UTC#5
what if it was true, thatd be awesome.
Liam
post #7
21 June 2006, 19:35 UTC#7
A friend of my dad's got something like this. It said that her name had been selected from a database and she'd won an all-expenses paid trip to a Caribbean resort. All they needed was a credit card number and her name to confirm that she was the winner they had picked.

Of course, like the gullible bitch she is, she handed over her details and they robbed her blind.
benCKa
post #8
21 June 2006, 19:35 UTC#8
How can you even question that?
I got an e-mail from the 'bill and exchange manager in Bank of Africa' Yakuba Oseni himself and you still won't believe that there even is a bank like that :biggrin:
Mono
post #9
21 June 2006, 19:36 UTC#9
My dad got an email almost identical to that about a year ago. It's such a retarded story.
WEAK
post #10
21 June 2006, 19:37 UTC#10
Thats called the 419 scam. It's been around since the birth of the internet. As of 1996, this was a 5 billion dollar industry. It almost always comes out of Nigeria, where scamming is one of the largest industries of their country.
Mono
post #11
21 June 2006, 19:39 UTC#11
QUOTE(WEAK @ Jun 21 2006, 08:37 PM) [snapback]351035[/snapback]

It almost always comes out of Nigeria, where scamming is one of the largest industries of their country.

HAHAHAHA.
benCKa
post #12
21 June 2006, 19:45 UTC#12
Hahaahha
I don't wanna call the Nigerians stupid but they could've come up with a more reasonable story than relating me to Indiana Jones' lost twin brother :P
Mr Safety Professional Idiot
post #13
21 June 2006, 19:53 UTC#13
WTF??? My friend Yakuba Oseni has been telling you the same thing?!?!?.. That 18 Million is MINE!!!

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WEAK
post #14
21 June 2006, 19:56 UTC#14
QUOTE(benCKa @ Jun 21 2006, 07:45 PM) [snapback]351051[/snapback]

Hahaahha
I don't wanna call the Nigerians stupid but they could've come up with a more reasonable story than relating me to Indiana Jones' lost twin brother :P


Who's more dumb, the people who write it or the people who fall for it?
benCKa
post #15
21 June 2006, 19:58 UTC#15
I don't know, maybe it's just a common thing for people with fat bank accounts in the Bank of Africa to die in plane crashes :smile:

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Who's more dumb, the people who write it or the people who fall for it?

Well they could make a more realistic story and make dumb people fall for that too instead of just superdumb people. So both I guess
AP Steve
post #16
21 June 2006, 20:27 UTC#16
I get about 50 of those a day and they are all filtered into my junk mail now.. some pretty amusing stories about how some prince of some country ive never heard of died and shit like that
WEAK
post #17
21 June 2006, 21:33 UTC#17
QUOTE(benCKa @ Jun 21 2006, 07:58 PM) [snapback]351085[/snapback]

I don't know, maybe it's just a common thing for people with fat bank accounts in the Bank of Africa to die in plane crashes :smile:

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Who's more dumb, the people who write it or the people who fall for it?

Well they could make a more realistic story and make dumb people fall for that too instead of just superdumb people. So both I guess


Yeah true.

Just to let you know, its not the initial email that gets people hooked. What happens is people respond to these emails just to humor themselves and see what other bullshit the guy has to say.

Then the guy asks for your bank account number to transfer the money too. Since no harm can be done by giving out your account number really, people do so thinking "eh whats the worse that can happen, wake up a millionaire lol"

Then the guy sends pictures of the check trying to show that its legit and shit. They'll even talk to you over the phone.

People get blinded by the ridiculous amount of money being offered and they slowly get sucked it.

Then the guy asks for you to wire him a small amount of money to cover the transaction fees. Most people stop there but some people go forward with it. In their eyes...its little to lose and a lot to gain.

Well, then the Nigerian keeps asking for the victim to wire more and more money.
benCKa
post #18
22 June 2006, 08:53 UTC#18
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Just to let you know, its not the initial email that gets people hooked. What happens is people respond to these emails just to humor themselves and see what other bullshit the guy has to say.

lol I already did that. I gotta stop myself before the joke's on me and I'm one bank account poorer :)
cIRca
post #19
22 June 2006, 11:04 UTC#19
How do they get the money from you?
Shaun C-A
post #20
22 June 2006, 11:41 UTC#20
Nothing to be hyped by at all.

Like weak said, it's all a scam.

I get literally about 20 a day of similar type emails, most of them are filtered through to my junk mail but some still manage to seep through every now and again.

Some will talk about you winning a 'randomly selected' lottery over the internet, others may even use your name they've grabbed somehow, but its all fake.
cIRca
post #21
22 June 2006, 11:42 UTC#21
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Subject: PLEASE I NEEN YOU URGENT REPLY

lol
benCKa
post #22
22 June 2006, 14:25 UTC#22
QUOTE(Shaun C-A @ Jun 22 2006, 02:41 PM) [snapback]351395[/snapback]

Nothing to be hyped by at all.

Like weak said, it's all a scam.

Well duh
gman
post #23
22 June 2006, 14:36 UTC#23
I get the most ridiculous scam e-mails these days. Just got this:

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Dear MidAmerica Bank customer,

This is your official notification from MidAmerica Bank that the service(s) listed below will be deactivated and deleted if not renewed immediately. Previous notifications have been sent to the Billing Contact assigned to this account. As the Primary Contact, you must renew the service(s) listed below or it will be deactivated and deleted.

Renew Now your MidAmerica Bank Bill Pay and Services.

If you are not enrolled at Web Banking, please enter your username,
and your account password and follow the steps.

SERVICE : MidAmerica Bank with Bill Pay.


Thank you, sincerely,

Customer Service


========================================
IMPORTANT CUSTOMER SUPPORT INFORMATION
========================================

Document Reference: (48051).

TM 2006 MidAmerica Bank Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.


* Please do not reply to this message. For any inquiries, contact Customer Service.


Why is this ridiculous? I don't even use of know of "Midbank America", furthermore how many people are going to have subscriptions?

Secondly, they've used terrible grammar (obviously some fat rich arab). Now the hilarious thing about the URL they've used for their scam, is they havn't even bothered covering it up. The last section of the URL goes to /sql-db/ (SQL database) which clearly is used to collect databases of credit card numbers for fraudulent use.

I fucking hate scammers, if I ever met one in real life I'd seriously murder him on the spot.
tomm
post #24
22 June 2006, 14:41 UTC#24
I always put my creditcard number into these.

I love getting scammed.

Some people are fucking stupid
CustomScarJUSTIN
post #25
22 June 2006, 16:02 UTC#25
QUOTE(Mr Safety Professional Idiot @ Jun 21 2006, 07:53 PM) [snapback]351074[/snapback]

WTF??? My friend Yakuba Oseni has been telling you the same thing?!?!?.. That 18 Million is MINE!!!

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Karl
post #26
22 June 2006, 16:15 UTC#26
lol @ nigerian spammers