I've won over 2.5 million. :)

bigbazza · Jul 17, 2011

Received today from "OFFICE OF BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION"
[GSN Suspected Spam] Re: Ref: Official Notice From The Office of British High Commissioner.

Investigations of the panel set up to locate such victims indicates that you were defrauded because your email address confirm so as listed by the FBI and Scotland Yard through email scam by fraudsters either as contract payment, Next of kin claims, lottery and game wins etc; by citizens of either Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea and the entire ECOWAS region.

Since your email has been submitted by the panel set up to carry out investigation as a fraud victim, a total of two million four hundred anf fifty thousand US dollars ($2,450.000.00) has been allocated to you by Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS).
Since this project is a US and UK brain child this commission; The British High commission Benin Republic has been vested with the responsibility of monitoring the transaction until you are paid. Other security agencies like the FBI and Scotland yard also oversees the transparent conclusion of the transaction.

Your current phone number/contact address should be made available to this Embassy in acknowledgement of this notice to effect the processing and release of your fund by the nominated bank. You can as well contact the Director in charge of the payment / CEO of HSBC Bank London for further details with the information below.

H.S.B.C
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xxxx Canada Square Canary Wharf.
London
Phone: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Contact: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Be advised that further communication between you and fraudsters should be discontinued as such will result to the total cancellation of the release of the stated fund to you.
You are requested to acknowledge the receipt of this mail for proper update of the file created for you in this regard.

Yours faithfully.
Mrs. Pauline Collins for.
Mr. Robert (Bob} Dewar
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The British School of Cotonou,
Haie Vive, 08 BP 0352,
Cotonou, Benin.
Email:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sir,

REF:FRAUD VICTIM,

The Government of the West African Countries (ECOWAS) under the African Union (AU) have recompensed you following the meeting held with the Government of the various African Union / ECOWAS countries' Ambassadors with the ECOWAS chairman, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

This is part of his new administrative initiative of a country he inherited at the demise of the former president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of the Northern dominating region.
Coming from the minority oil producing South of the country (Niger Delta); he needs the support of the US and UK to run a successful administration hence the requirement by vested interests for him to compensate people defrauded by citizens of the ECOWAS region which he heads as their chairman.
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My note: Can't wait to reply. :-D :major

Bazza

augiedoggie · Jul 17, 2011

The spelling's getting better!:-D

silas · Jul 18, 2011

Wow Africas been so nice in so many years with trying to help people out with money. Oh wait thats scam! Very cool :major hope you get a response as well:-D

BILLMCC66 · Jul 18, 2011

Sorry Bazza but my 4.5$ million trumps your 2.5$ mil

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Dear Beneficiary,

We have been Directed by the presidential committee on foreign payment matters in the presidency to release and off -set all long over due approved Fund from
Nigeria.
I wish to officially notify you that all aspects of your payment claim is being harmonized, enabling payment to be released to you as urgently as you act on the
instructions of this mail. Consequently, we have been directed by to off set these outstanding debts, using any of the followings,ATM Swift Card payment
arrangement, BANK TO BANK payment. Already, a total amount of USD500 Million has been provided for this purpose and it is on first come first serve. In paying
this amount (USD4.5M) to you, please note that it is without prejudice to your original inheritance sum. Rather, it is a stop-gap payment arrangement put in
place by the Government to ensure that you receive part of your fund, While on the other hand ensure that the process is smooth and without any form of stress
whatsoever.
You are to send your details where your fund will be paid into, reconfirm your name, Address and your identification,as we are waiting for your reply today
We Believe this arrangement will suit your condition and expectations, you are hereby advised to contact the bank via: Tony Afolabi Email address:
(ibanking@unionbankngplc.com)
Faithfully Yours,
Rev.Pius Tinubu
Fed.Min.of Finance

paramonks · Jul 18, 2011

You Guys are so lucky, :duck
I'll swap with you for a while. I'm so over receiving messages from Max Gentleman and his chemist specials. LOL

Nedlamar · Jul 18, 2011

Hey join the club, not 5 minutes ago I got a phone call saying "My name is Laura, I have an important incomming call for you, please hold"
So I held thinking it could be a collect call from my boy or maybe from someone in England and then I hear a Fog Horn, yes the low pitched horn from a ship, then this voice says "Hi, I'm Bill, your Captain and I would like to let you know you may have won 2 tickets for a ...." thats when I hung up lol

Wenchie · Jul 18, 2011

Wow.. that's new. Scammers telling you you have money coming because you've been defrauded by other scammers. Nice!

bigbazza · Jul 18, 2011

To all who have responded.
roflmao

Bazza

bigbazza · Jul 19, 2011

Max Gentleman emailed me today, also. First time. :-D
@ paramonks, just out of curiosity, do you use gmx.com?

Bazza

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paramonks said: ↑

You Guys are so lucky, :duck
I'll swap with you for a while. I'm so over receiving messages from Max Gentleman and his chemist specials. LOL
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paramonks · Jul 19, 2011

bigbazza said: ↑

Max Gentleman emailed me today, also. First time. :-D
@ paramonks, just out of curiosity, do you use gmx.com?

Bazza

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Bazza,

I had to google gmx.com. Not heard of it before. Primarily I use gmail. and have rare issues with spam.
My ISP provider however is a different story, their spam filters are pathetic, unless you pay for it, to which my usual reply is :kissmy, they charge enough already for their service and have the nerve to expect more to stop the miscreants who think spamming people is "Fun".

Oh, BTW - enjoy Max - I'm fed up with him. :neener

BILLMCC66 · Jul 19, 2011

My bank balance just gets bigger and bigger.
Hotmail must be one of the most hacked sites on the planet. i have the account just for those times when i do not want my real E-mail address out there.

Dear Friend,

It is my pleasure to let you know about my success in getting those fund
transffered under the cooperation of a new partner from Japan. I didn't
forget your past efforts to assit me in transfering those funds.

Now contact my secretary Mr James Godwin on his email (agent_james_godwin@yahoo.com)
ask him to send you the total $2,500,000.00 cheque which i raised for your
compensation .so feel free and get intouched with him and give him your address
where to send the cheque:

(1) FULL NAME :..........................................
(2) HOME ADDRESS: .........................
(3) COUNTRY: ............................
(4) PRIVATE TEL: ...............................
(5) PRIVATE FAX:..........................

Do Let me know immediately you receive it okay so feel free to get in touch
with him.

Best regards,

Mrs. Rose Johnson

CatT · Jul 19, 2011

sori to boast, but while you guys have been WASTING your LIVES chasing the almighty naira, i am quietly being wed to an AFRICAN PRINCESS!!!!

just another "thank you" for saving her father's kingdom....

DavidGP · Jul 22, 2011

Did you reply and cash you cheque?

These scams while many new users to the internet may not know them, I'm pretty sure you do and to delete them on receipt?

paramonks · Jul 22, 2011

Dave, the voice of logic, again.
Whilst we all joke about winning huge sums of money and the odd special medicinal items we get offered via e-mail. I always automatically delete the message without reading it. Right you are that new persons to the www might misunderstand our jesting about these messages.

The only message here should always be, good things like this won't happen to you or me via an e-mail message, so don't open the mail, (not even a peek), delete it immediately. Save yourself from a whole lot of unnecessary grief and angst. :wave

bigbazza · Jul 22, 2011

Sadly I did not receive the cheque :cry.
I did not reply, either.
I actually collect these scams as examples of what "they" are trying in a special Folder to show noobies that I meet.

Bazza

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DavidGP said: ↑

Did you reply and cash you cheque?

These scams while many new users to the internet may not know them, I'm pretty sure you do and to delete them on receipt?
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CatT · Jul 23, 2011

i've received offers to "double your penis size" at least 2ce a week for some time now.

by my calculations, i can now reach Albuquerque....

DavidGP · Jul 23, 2011

paramonks said: ↑

Whilst we all joke about winning huge sums of money and the odd special medicinal items we get offered via e-mail. I always automatically delete the message without reading it. Right you are that new persons to the www might misunderstand our jesting about these messages.

The only message here should always be, good things like this won't happen to you or me via an e-mail message, so don't open the mail, (not even a peek), delete it immediately. Save yourself from a whole lot of unnecessary grief and angst. :wave
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I totally agree and great post. I partly am torn on two sides to this in that should we keep posing these types of threads as we are giving the scammers free advertising and thus may make them think its worth continuing or to highlight them to aid in other internet users being aware of the scams and not to trust them.

Torn because, we or the core users of MGs know not to reply or trust emails like this as the majority of PC users that fall for these types of scams do not frequent forums or social media on the internet, they are casual surfers and not hardcore geeks.

its a tricky topic to get the message across with if the ones falling for the scams are not listening!

BILLMCC66 · Jul 23, 2011

I get 2 or 3 per week in one of my e-mail accounts and as you say we may just be giving the nigerian idiots a bit of kudos but if just one of our readers learns not to get involved with this type of scam we have done a good service.

oma · Jul 23, 2011

Since it irked me to see all spam in the spam folder, I've set up my webmail to delete all spam immediately so I don't even see them. It's taking the risk of a genuine email being lost that way but so far it hasn't happened that I'm aware of. The occasional one creeps through in my inbox though.

CatT · Jul 23, 2011

It's taking the risk of a genuine email being lost that way but so far it hasn't happened that I'm aware of.
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the term "ham" never really did catch on, did it?

and i would say that spam filters are the least of the problem. since everyone real uses arbitrary ("phony") webmail addys these days -- coupled by the frequent use of sarcastic subject lines -- i get a lot of legitimate email from friends, etc., masquerading as 419.

"ALERT: You have been awarded 25 million dollars!" followed by a real msg about a test, today's meeting, what to pick up at the supermarket, etc. etc.

don't u guys experience this?

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