I may be getting $18 Million!!!.....well....... (1 Viewer)

[MarkHastings]

I'm sure many of you have already gotten this spam email, but I think it is absolutely hysterical

Dear Friend,

I am Dr.Anthony Kamala. I am a Medical Doctor, A Kenyan man by
Nationality,but I work here in Nigeria as a Specialist Medical
Doctor to the Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria.

I am the Senior Doctor to (G.S.H.O.N) the Government Specialist
Hospital
of Nigeria.

I have a case of a Man who had an accident and was rushed to the
Hospital by some good Samaritans. My self and some other
Specialist Doctors working
under me tried all we could, but unfortunately the Man died. Before he
died I discovered a small box with him, I opened the box
and found out so many Documents in it, I then realize that he is a
German Man who only
came into Nigeria for business, but unfortunately he died.

The other documents inside his box are documents with which he used in
depositing the sum of US$18Million Dollars to with a
Security Company Here in Nigeria,including the picture of the money in
the box with which it was used to be deposited with the
Diplomatic Security Company. but unfortunately he died
and left all these.

I have tried all I could to reach any of his family members, but I
couldn't get any one from his family,he is single and not
married,so his status really made it difficult for me to get any of his
relatives.

With my position as the Specialist Doctor to the Governor, and as the
Senior Doctor in the (G.S.H.O.N).Government Specialist
Hospital Of Nigeria.
I wont be able to act as the next of kin to the consignment and clear
the consignment(THE FUND).

This is why I here by solicit your assistance to act as the next of kin
in the collection of this FUND from the Security Company. I
shall provide you with the necessary documents for the collection of
the FUND. If
you can assist in this transaction, I shall give you 15% of the Fund as
your share and for your assistance in this transaction.
80% of the FUND shall be mine, and We (You and me) shall both invest
the remaining
5% for the settlement of any expenditure that was been made during this
transaction.

If you are interested and can assist in this transaction, Please reply
immediately, so that we can move forward in this
Transaction. Please it is very, very Confidential.

Best Regards,

Dr. Anthony Kamala

N:Blease Do reply to my private email address:[email protected]
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I wonder just how stupid you'd have to be in order to believe this? Well, it's sad that there are people out there that would. :frowning: Hopefully nobody sends any important information in response to this scam.

I wonder how much longer it will be before spam emails stop with the "tricks" and become completely honest:

"Dear Person I've never met,

I am the laziest son-of-a-bitch you'd ever want to meet. I have no ambitions and my conscience is a dark, dark, place, void of life. My dream is to make it rich by asking people for money so I don't have to go out and get a job. Will you help me out by sending me as much money as you possibly can?

Thanks!"

I wonder if it would work?

 

[alan halvorson]

Unfortunately, this scam, and similar ones, has worked to the tune of several hundred millions of dollars. Truly sad that anyone is duped by it, but there it is.

Why don't you try your little blurb? I'm darned certain that if you send it to enough people, you'll get something in return.

 

[DaveF]

I first received the "Nigerian General with $18M" email about three years ago, before it was widely known about. It kinda freaked me out at first, thinking it was a real email. I reported it to the University security, and then figured out it was a SPAM/scam email.

 

[MickeS]

I get several of these "Nigerian scam" emails a month. According to Snopes' webpage about it, http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm , this scam has been around since the 1920's, but was called "The Spanish prisoner" back then.


This funny article from Salon.com does an analysis of the language in the e-mails: http://www.salon.com/people/feature/...ams/print.html



I've seen websites by people who do just this: "I'm too lazy to work, just send me some money". Amazingly, people HAVE sent them money.

 

[David Susilo]

Well, I once sold this on eBay:

"White coloured four-pronged plastic fork. FEEL THE THRILL AND EXCITEMENT OF DISPLAYING YOUR VERY OWN PLASTIC FORK! only limited number ever produced!*

* the number of these plastic forks produced is finite, hence the term "limited". "thrill" and "excitement" may vary depending on intelligence, age, sex, species, relative position to the solar system, food you may or may not have for breakfast. This disclaimer may or may not disclaims any claim claimed by the claimer to the claimee. void where fun is prohibited by law."

I got US$20 for it!

 

[Edwin-S]

Please it is very, very Confidential.
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..........that is why I'm only spreading it to millions of people in the internut...err...internet community.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

They only offered you $18 million? My solicitations always come from phony Nigerian government officials, as opposed to phony Nigerian doctors, and they usually offer me $60 or $80 million. Not only are your scammers crooks, they're cheap bastards, as well.

And certainly people have fallen for it, even lost their life savings. However, that isn't the worst result of this scam, which can lead to things that are definitely not funny.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Larry Eshleman]

This is what is known as the "419" scam, and used to be conducted via fax to unwitting businesses and individuals. Since the rise of e-mail, it has unfortunately taken on a whole new life.

Wasting the time of, or even counter-scamming, some of these scam artists is becoming a common pastime on the web. Some interesting exchanges are in the following pages:

Scam-O-Rama
The Spam Letters
The Chaos Project

 

[Andrew Chong]

Once upon a time, I received a similar email scam promising disbursements of money from a person claiming to be an African government official.

Recognizing this for what it was, I notified his e-mail provider's abuse address, included a copy of the message and the message's complete header information. Within days I received an email stating that thanks to my notification, the e-mail provider had taken appropriate action against the individual in question (I rule!).

 

[Chris Lockwood]

I've gotten a bunch of these over the years, in various formats (not just copies of the same letter). Interesting how it's always Africa, never another part of the world.

Is this a variation of the old con game where they ask people to deposit money into an account to show their good faith before supposedly rewarding them with the big payoff?

 

[Carl Johnson]

I would suspect that they ask for your account # promising to make a deposit and tomorrow morning rather than being $18,000,000 richer you'll be minus whatever cash was already in the account.

 

[MarkHastings]

My solicitations always come from phony Nigerian government officials, as opposed to phony Nigerian doctors, and they usually offer me $60 or $80 million.

DAMN! Send me that email, I want in on that action!

 

[MickeS]

That's not how this scam works. They milk the victim for money over a long period of time, by asking for money for bribes of Nigerian officials, expenses and so on. They always have a reason why they can't do it themselves, and they always make sure to keep mentioning what a small price it is to pay, say, $10K since you will be receiving "shortly" milions of dollars. After a while, the victim has spent so much money that they've crossed the point of no return, and the money are always supposed to be transferred "very shortly". What's another $5K when you've already spent $100K, especially since you'll be receiving $20M in just a week or so...

/Mike

 

[Leila Dougan]

What I want to know is if the "doctor" can't fake the next of kin, how on earth would a random stranger across the world fake one?

 

[Jay H]

Did anybody see the MSNBC article about the guy in the Czech Republic who actually fell for this scam, lost his savings and proceded to drive to the local Nigerian embassey and then shot to death two Nigerian embassy employees or diplomats???

I was sent this link at work but I don't remember it now, but it was on MSNBC.

[edit] Oops, I see Joseph DeMartino has posted it at ZDNet... I saw a similar article..

I get tons of those emails except not all of them are from "nigeria" and simply laugh.

Jay

 

[MarkHastings]

I see Joseph DeMartino has posted it at ZDNet... I saw a similar article.

The link off that site to silicon.com has a funny story about someone busting on the spammers.
http://www.silicon.com/news/500019-500001/1/2928.html