The time I got a scam email
Jul. 19th, 2007 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluebear_74OMG I have official received my first scam email.
Dear Friend,
I am a staff of one of the leading banks in South Africa I am writing asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds, which we want to keep under your supervision. The Funds totaling ($7,400,000). I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local Bank here in South Africa, because the funds are in US Dollars and the owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American, and he died since 2000 in an air crash along with his wife & Daughter on 31/01/2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board. You can confirm from this website http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Please, I am proposing 30% for you for your assistance while my colleagues and I receive 60% and 10% earmarked for purposes of taxation in your country and mine after at the conclusion of this venture. Please if you are interested kindly forward to me the following informations stated below:
(1) Your direct telephone number and fax number
(2) Your occupation
(3) Your full Names
(4) Your age
(5) Your contact address
All that is require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Your reply should indicate your willingness in assisting us. And I will send you all the detailed information and the deceased biodata that you will need to process an application for the claims of the funds.
I look forward towards a good business relationship with you.
Regards.
Mr.Patrick Radebe.
So tempted to reply to it. Thought that is a shocking "cover story", and shocking English to go with it. But congratulations to them in knowing how to pull some names off a website, probably found via google, because it's such a big confirmation.
Dear Friend,
I am a staff of one of the leading banks in South Africa I am writing asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds, which we want to keep under your supervision. The Funds totaling ($7,400,000). I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot be approved to a local Bank here in South Africa, because the funds are in US Dollars and the owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson an American, and he died since 2000 in an air crash along with his wife & Daughter on 31/01/2000 in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board. You can confirm from this website http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Please, I am proposing 30% for you for your assistance while my colleagues and I receive 60% and 10% earmarked for purposes of taxation in your country and mine after at the conclusion of this venture. Please if you are interested kindly forward to me the following informations stated below:
(1) Your direct telephone number and fax number
(2) Your occupation
(3) Your full Names
(4) Your age
(5) Your contact address
All that is require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Your reply should indicate your willingness in assisting us. And I will send you all the detailed information and the deceased biodata that you will need to process an application for the claims of the funds.
I look forward towards a good business relationship with you.
Regards.
Mr.Patrick Radebe.
So tempted to reply to it. Thought that is a shocking "cover story", and shocking English to go with it. But congratulations to them in knowing how to pull some names off a website, probably found via google, because it's such a big confirmation.
