Fraud for sure

I recieved an email today...check it out. I thought all of you should see this. Anyone else recieved mail like this?

\"Your Dear Friend From Dubai-UAE,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day
that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am Mr. Ateeq
Rahman KHAN,
currently Head of Corporate affairs with a reputable bank here in Dubai -U. A.
E. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am
about to reveal to you.\" (yeah right)

\"I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On
November 6, 2000, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the CHEVRON
PETROLEUM
CORPORATION, MR. KHALIL AL NASSER made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar
months, valued at US$17,500,000.00 (Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand
Dollars
only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer before I was moved to
my present position recently. Upon maturity in 2003, as his account officer and
as well the bank
manger, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but the letter was returned
undelivered.

After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was again returned and
finally I discovered from his contract employers, Chevron Petroleum Corporation
that Mr. Khalil Al Nasser
died as a result of torture in the hand of Saddam Hussein (former Iraqi
President) during one of his trips to his country Iraq, as he was accused of
leaking information to the Americans.

On further investigation, I discovered that Mr. Al Nasser\'s family wife and two
sons died during the Gulf War in Iraq and was the reason why he did not declare
any next of kin or
relation in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in
my Bank and did not leave any WILL. This sum of US$17,500,000.00 have been
floating and placed under
dormant/unserviceable account by my bank management since no one have heard
from the owner since 2003. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I
have made so far, my
bank management is not aware of it, I am the only one that have the information.

With the recent change of government in my country and with their efforts to
support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in the U. A. E. By end
of this year, the government
will pass a new financial control law which will give the government authority
to interrogate account owners of above $5,000,000.00 to explain the source of
the funds, making sure it is
not for terrorism support. If I do not move this money out of the country
immediately, by end of the year the government will definitely confiscate the
money, because my bank cannot
provide the account owner to explain the source of the money.

I cannot directly transfer out this money without the help of a foreigner and
that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the Account Officer to
late Al Nasser, coupled with my
present position and status in the bank as Head of Retail Banking Group, I have
the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up
as the next of kin to the
account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall
give you. All documents to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked
out and there is practically no risk
involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of law, beside U. A. E is porous and anything
goes.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. If you are
interested, contact me as soon as you
receive this message so we can go over the details. Thanking you in advance and
may God bless you. Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I shall send you
copy of the deposit
certificate issued to Al Nasser when the deposit was made for your perusal. I
wait your urgent reply through my private email address\"

What do you reckon. :) I could be a millionare overnight oh...... and thrown into prison long enough to not see my son grow up. :)...sack that. :)
 

Modderrhu

New member
A common sort of letter. The scheme will require you to deposit money into an account to handle \'administration fees\' and similar. More and more will be required. More issues requiring \'urgent\' money will rise, and you will be expected to foot the bill. If you get tired of this and start to complain, you will eventually be told to buy a plane ticket to go and collect your money. The suitcase will be filled with paper alright, but not the kind you are expecting.
 

No Such Agency

New member
Google \"Nigerian scam\" or \"419 scam\" (named after the Fraud section of Nigeria\'s penal code). The official term is \"advance fee fraud\".

The suitcase will be filled with paper alright, but not the kind you are expecting.

Or it will be filled with \"overseas criminals shoot you in the face\".
 
LOL.. yup thats the good ol Nigerian Bank Scam email.. the sad part is people still fall for it all the time. The number one country in the world responsible for idenity theft is Nigeria.
 

supervike

Super Moderator
Yeah...whats the deal with that anyhow?

I remember seeing a Tax Refund Fraud here in the states and 95% of the \'frauders\' were Nigerians...

Do they give courses on how to be scam artists over there?
 

Naukhel

Active member
It\'s amazing how such a large amount of money generates interest in such amounts that there are so many zeroes, and no loose change.
17,500,000,000.00 exactly.

And it\'s similarly amazing that this bank manager / estate manager has gotten your email address from some un-named friend/contact.

Yes, you have to be incredibly thick to fall for this.

I always thought lawyers and bank managers and such could afford to have a spell-checker in their computers...
 

Shawn R. L.

New member
The \'three card monte\' of the internet. All they need is a couple of people to fall for it and they hit the jackpot. Pathetic.:flame:
 

Hieronymus

Member
I worked at a travel store in downtown Chicago that got a hard copy of the Nigerian scam sent to them through international mail. This was in the early 90\'s, before internet fraud was a major industry. We kept the letter as a prized possesion.
 

Sand Rat

New member
I\'ll be damned - the UAE Scam.

Hmm, guess he got the email from me since I go through the UAE all the time!!lollol

Really though, these are sad. Kinda in the way that Pratchett discusses hope in \"Going Postal\" sad.
 
I\'ve got a few more since then, all with different stories. Its starting to get on my tits (not that i have any) :) All from different email addresses so theres no point blocking them. Is there a way of stopping them sending me this crap?
 

Brokenblade

New member
Is this from ebay (or thought to be from ebay somewhere) or is it just a general e-mail, if it is ebay it is best to email them with the address you got it from, and this helps to shut them down (i think there is a special section in ebay called anti-fraud or something that deals with this, i\'ve been getting them for years now and can now usually spot them before i read the e-mail, i hear last week the first arrest for \"phishing\" was made and he got something like 4 years in prison, so it must have some effect.

Put them all in jail is what i say.
 
Its just my emails. Started up about a week ago. They must be stupid. If i don\'t reply to the first story what makes them think i will fall for the second or third???
 
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