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From: Mrs Beatrice Solagah.

This mail may be a surprise to you because you did not give me the permission to do so and neither do you know me but before I tell you about myself I want you to please forgive me for sending this mail without your permission. I am writing this letter in confidence believing that if it is the will of God for you to help me and my family, God almighty will bless and reward you abundantly. I need an honest and trust worthy person like you to entrust this huge transfer project unto.

My name is Mrs Beatrice Solagah, The Branch Manager of a Financial Institution. I am a Ghanaian married with 3 kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of US$7,500,000.00 Dollars. This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit last year (i.e. 2011 financial year). I have already submitted an annual report for that year to my head office in Accra-Ghana as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this excess. I have since, placed this amount of US$7,500,000.00 Dollars on an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary (Anonymous) to avoid trace.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, and 60% would be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer.

All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund so that the fund can be transferred to your account. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response to me. This is why and only reason why I contacted you, I am willing to go into partnership investment with you owing to your wealth of experience, So please if you are interested to assist on this venture kindly contact me back with this email (beatricesolagah at y,a,h,o,o, dot com) for a brief discussion on how to proceed.

Best regards,
Mrs Solagah
 
They've PM'd just over 100 names very quickly, using two different user names, both now banned.

Board is temporarily closed to new registrations.

Can't imagine anyone falling for this one, sheesh!
 
You've got to wonder who would follow that sort of logic - "I'm a thief who just stole millions of dollars, and I'm sure you'll help because you're so honest..."

The ones I get the biggest charge out of are the messages from "barristers in the UK" who need me to stand in as "next of kin" to someone who just died, because they couldn't find anyone else in their country with my surname - Brown.

No Browns in England, you say? That sounds believable. Why, of course I'll help you loot the estate...
 
We get letters like this all of the time addressed to the shop. Hopefully no one is gulible enough to fall for it. We just found a long lost relative of yours who died without family -------, help I have 14 kids and need assistance. Always somesort of con artist out there.
 
Some of these might actually be people genuinely in need of assistance. Desperation causes them to invent random situations, because they think they're more likely to get help that way. Like me, I really need help right now, and I think this is a good opportunity for you all to pm me your bank info. ;)


Anyway, me being random :p I especially liked this bit: 'I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer.'

Yes....but which way is the transfer going?
 
Wait... this wasn't real?! Oi I just sent them all of my information!

*please note this post is full of sarcasm*
 
I got an email [unrelated to RO] that had a different take: this woman was dying of cancer, didn't want her family to get the money, but somehow wanted me to have it. Contact her lawyer, blah, blah, blah. SURE. But at least it was her money to give away as she wished, lol. Once I get the money I'll give half of it to RO in MY will.
 
LOL!!!! It's amazing to think that someone, somewhere, might actually fall for this. The good news is, if they do, then they probably don't have a lot of cash in their account anyway. LOL
 
My mom actually went to work with a woman who fell into one of these over seas scams. The one where you send money to get the rest of it out from some prince or whatever.

She was an older woman who believed this email and even sold her car and sent them over all the money from selling the car, and then lost her job since he had no way to get to and from work. Lost everything.

Poor woman, and scammers are such scum bags.
 
Gizmodo had an interesting article this week on "Why Nigerian Scammers say they're from Nigeria", explaining why those messages are so essentially unbelievable.

Read it for yourself, but the short version is: sending messages is nearly free, but it takes time to work the scam once they've hooked someone. Contrary to common belief, they're not trying to get your bank account number to pull money out - if that were true, you'd be robbed by everyone you mail a check to - they make their money by convincing marks to send them money allegedly to pay bank fees or bribes or whatever. They need to find gullible people who might believe that nonsense, so the more unbelievable the message, the better it is as a filter to select for people who are clueless enough to fall for it.
 

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