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Geek Culture / A fairly new scam???

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Michael S
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 17:53
any suggestions on replying to this one?

Quote: "
Greetings,

I must say it my pleasure to send you this email, Please pardon me if I have introduced on your privacy, how are you doing, I hope you are Doing fine, if so glory be to God,I am Marian and my Brother name is Terry we are the children of the late Mr. Joseph Kalabi of Sierra Leone, our parents was shot dead on April 17th 2003. In a cold Bloody Coup,He was betrayed by his business partners because of his wealth.so me and my Brother Terry where young then.

After our parent was killed, the only chance we heard was to run to Sudan where we have lived all this years, it all came to an existence That we could not feed so we decided to come down to the refugee camp Here in Ghana to enable us mix up with the refugees to make us live Like brothers and sisters.

Since we came to the camp the Ghana Government has been doing a very Great work by sending the refugees items to feed on, that is how we Have been surviving here in the camp.

While the Ghana Government sent The Executive Member of Attorney Income Movement of Ghana (AIM) to the refugee camp on assignment, so fortunately I saw my late father lawyer among them and he told me that they Came to the camp to search for the next of kin which their parent Deposited money in banks here in Ghana , my late fathers name was among The list of people that deposited money in one of these banks in Ghana

He said I should look for someone genuine and reliable person that Can stand as a father and as my late father foreign beneficiary so that Money can be transferred to him, because our parent said the money Should be kept for safekeeping and onward transfer. The lawyer also told me that in the time of the deposit of the funds my late father sign a contract bond with the bank not to release the funds to any of his family member without a foreign beneficiary that is the reason why I and my Brother needed your assistance.

That is reason I have sent you this mail to ask you to stand in that Chances for us to enable (me and my Brother) get our late father money Out of the security company (Bank).

Please the lawyer said I should not include the following;
1, The name of the security company (Bank)
2, The Amount involved.
3. Our camp ID cards
4. Lawyers contact.


The reason he said I should not include them is because of unGodly act that has Been carried out by those Fraudsters on internet because they may likely
Use them for their unGodly acts.

Please I want you to stand in this chance so you can help us get this
Money out of this bank, so you have to get back to me so that I can send
You the (4) items not included in my mail to you for further
Information and for good understanding.

N.B, you can write me via email:
It's important.
I hope to hear from you soon,

Regards,
Marian Kalabi

Please I will like you to keep my email address confidential, this Is because of security reason.


Ahora también puedes acceder a tu correo Terra desde el móvil.
Infórmate pinchando aquí."



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RUCCUS
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Location: Canada
Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 17:57
Dont?

Why do people always feel the need to reply to scams?

Matt Rock
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Location: Binghamton NY USA
Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 18:07
This one is far from new. Usually it's a Nigerian diplomat or bank owner (well, someone pretending to be one anyway). This scam's been floating around since the late 1990's at least. The worst ones are the emails claiming they have cancer and need a donation from you to live... they can get really sickening at times.

Insanity Complex
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 19:01
Quote: "Please pardon me if I have introduced on your privacy"


I lol'd. It's hard to take someone seriously when the email looks like this one does o.O

(Oh, and I've gotten about 3-4 emails like this in the past year...laaaame)


Tom J
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Location: Essex, England
Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 19:30
Quote: "Dont?"


Indeed, replying to that will just tell the spammers that they have come across an active email address.

RUCCUS
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 19:44 Edited at: 23rd Dec 2007 19:45
In fact, send them an email back saying the email could not be successfully delivered due to an inactive email address. Spoof it from a hotmail bot even.

Oolite
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Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 19:50
i get loads of them, its not new, by any means.

james hardy
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Location: Good Old Britain
Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 21:30
I must be lucky then i never get any,
And i have registered to thousands of things
Mr Z
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 14:15
Seems like james hardy and I have something encommon. We both never get these things, and we are both registered in a lot of places. Womder why some people get it and some don´t. Luck? Anyone knows?

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Grandma
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Posted: 24th Dec 2007 14:52
Quote: "Anyone knows?"


Probably because some sites aren't very friendly as they apparently hand out your E-mail adresses to third parties.

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