Always trying a new game

Dear Beneficiary,


You are enjoined to read this letter to the finish line in your own interest.


Following the newly revised international regulatory policy by the United
Nation (U.N), a mandate was given that all undelivered & Seized
Consignment funds, Cheque, Bond, Securities, Bank draft and ATM card
should be returned to the Ministry of Finance in Nigeria for confiscation
due to none compliance.


After these funds got to the Ministry of Finance, in order to maintain
international relationship and ensure equity, the ministry of finace has
carried out an intensive investigation which proved that you have never at
anytime recieved any of your funds and the Secretary did not notify you
before the return of all prizes. In view of this, the Ministry of Finance
set up a committe to verify names for compensation and you have been
enlisted as one of the ten (10) people to be compensated with the sum of
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($500,000.00).


An interswift ATM CARD with available balance deposit of $500,000 has been
issued in your favour. Your ATM CARD has been packaged and forwarded to
the official courier for onward delivery to you at your advised address.


Be informed that the delivery fee has been paid to the courier company
before they accepted your parcel which contains your atm card. All you
have to pay now is just a fee of $125 being fee for the courier's safe
keeping fee otherwise known as demurage on your parcel. This is because,
immediately after the announcement, the Minister of Finance (Remi
Babalola) ordered that all ATM cards should be forwarded to the courier
firm for registration for delivery to the respective beneficiaries in
order to avoid misappropriation and the delivery fee was paid immediately
pending when you contact the agent in charge. So, the $125 is a fee the
courier will require for the safe keeping of your ATM CARD in order to
avoid misappropriation of your ATM CARD by insecured security measures.


You are to contact the agent in charge with your details for immediate
delivery, but, do not forget to quote your five (5) digit security numbers
(90011).


AGENT: Mr. Steven Jones
EMAIL: steven_jones80@rogers.com
PHONE: +234-703-007-9287


You are advised to send the courier company's security keeping fee of $125
to the name of account officer below and then send the money transfer
control numbers to him together with a reconfirmation of the following
details for identification of your ATM CARD:


YOUR FULL NAMES:...
DELIVERY ADDRESS:..
DIRECT PHONE:......
SECURITY CODE:.....(90011)
AMOUNT SENT:......$125
RECIEVER'S NAME:....Dele Charles
LOCATION:...........70 int'l airport rd., MAFOLUKU LAGOS-NIGERIA
QUESTION:........ Envelop COLOR?
ANSWER:.......... Yellow
M.T.C.N:.........


After sending the $125 Safe keeping fee, confirm the ten digit money
transfer control numbers to the agent above with your details and your
parcel shall be delivered immediately to you.


Thank you for your understanding and appreciation.


Yours faithfuly,
Farouk Yola
PERMANET SECRETARY
MINISTRY OF FINANCE.

 

I get one a week in my hotmail account, here are my latest 2 both have attachments that i have not dared to open.

FROM, MICKELSON MOSOLA SIMMENS.
TEL : +27-73-361-0954.
SOUTH AFRICAN, JOHANNESBURG
DATE: 03/07/2009.

Dear Sir/Ma,

Compliments of the day to you and your family. How are you? I know you may be surprised to receive this letter, please consider this letter as a request I am Mickelson Simmens the son of Late Frank Ivan Simmens who was murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe. I got your contact information's through the South African Trade and Business Information services and I assure you that nobody knows about this transaction except me.

Before the death of my Father he took me to Johannesburg to deposit the sum of US$24.8M (TWENTY FOUR MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in a private Security & Finance Company here in South Africa, when He foresees the looming danger in Zimbabwe. This money was deposited as family valuables to avoid much demurrage cost from the Security Company. This amount was meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the farms and also for the establishment of a new farm in Swaziland . The land disputes started when Zimbabwean President Mr. Robert Mugabe introduced a new Land Act reform, which wholly affected the rich white farmers and some few black farmers. This resulted too many killings by Zimbabwe war veterans and some lunatics in the society. In fact, a lot of people were killed because of this land reformed Act for which my father was one of the victims. It is on this background that I am currently staying in South Africa as refugee decided to transfer my father's money to a foreign country since the laws of South Africa prohibits refugees from opening any bank account or to be involved in any financial transaction throughout the territorial zones of South Africa.

Please, I need your assistance to transfer this fund to your trusted overseas bank account. For your efforts and assistance, I have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum, while 5% is mapped out to re-imbues all the expenses incurred in the course of this transaction and 70% will be for my family investment in your country. Note that this transaction is 100% clear and Risk-Free, as I have made every necessary arrangement for a successful deal. The only thing I solicit for is your total assistance to transfer this money, complete trust and assurance that my own part of money will be safe when transferred to your account. Kindly keep this business proposal highly confidential for security reasons.

If you are interested in assisting me, send your reply through Email Address I will respond to you immediately with this information on how the transfer of this fund can be made to your country upon acceptance.

I look forward to hearing from you immediately you receive this mail.

Best regards,
Mickelson Simmens
(For the family).

Dear Beneficiary,

Congratulations you have been seleted by the Ecowas Charity Donations
Organization,for the some payout of ($850,000.00) for this year 2009
Ecowas Donations. Contact your payment officer.
payment-release-order-form,
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
SEX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
Valid ID Card:
Name: Mr.Mathew Cole
E-mail:ecowasdonation45@hotmail.com
http://www.ecowas.int

 

Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many people actually fall for this 'con,' and ones similar to it? You'd think that with all the technology available today, the 'powers that be' could put an end to these predators, regardless of what country they hail from. I guess until people can get educated, and realize that if something is too good to be true....well, you know the rest!

 

i almost never get the long ones like you just posted, i usually get the short ones, and about 2 or 3 per day (below was the most recent):

they all go in my junk folder anyways so i dont really care.

EDIT: just found a longer one (the "from" address was obviously not real, it was a @aoll.com email and aoll.com is a parked website roflmao)

 

Hehehe Speculant, I sometimes answer these types, when I'm totally bored, with bogus info berating their masculinity and their intelligence, monkeys on a typewriter. (Can't repeat most of them here.):-D

 

ive done that a couple of times, but i never seem to get responses.

 

Those are really wild... I got my first one in my private e-mail acct., and it went straight to the spam folder, but I too wonder who actually believes this stuff? I mean, back years ago, it was the "Chain-Letter" (kinda on the ponzi scheme, I think!) and now this.... Obviously someone is sending $$$ because if they weren't , they wouldn't still be doing it ... I guess e-mail is cheaper than Reg. mail, tho.....they sure do have an imagination, don't they? Must also have more time than money..... rolleyes

 

Those kind go to my Spam mail. What's gotten worse is the mail from my bank and other accounts along with Logo's warnings the works. I've gotten to where I don't respond to anything in my email but go to the site directly.
Anything that asks for personal info in you mail has to be questionable.