How many of them are out there

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Submitted by Yasir Ashfaque Khan on Wed, 2006-10-11 04:49. :: Humor

DEAREST ONEI AM MISS MATILDA KOFFI FROM IVORY COAST AND I AM CONTACTING YOU BECAUSE I NEED YOUR HELP IN THE MANAGEMENT OF A SUM OF MONEY THAT MY DEAD FATHER LEFT FOR ME BEFORE HE DIED.THIS MONEY IS USD 2.5 MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS AND THE MONEY IS IN A BANK HERE IN ABIDJAN. MY FATHER WAS A VERY RICH COCOA FARMER AND HE WAS POISONED BY HIS BUSINESS COLLEAGUES AND NOW I WANT YOU TO STAND AS MY GUIDIAN AND APPOINTED BENEFICIARY AND RECEIVE THE MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY SINCE I AM ONLY 19YEARS AND WITHOUT PARENTS. PLEASE I WILL LIKE YOU TO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL SO THAT I WILL TELL YOU ALL THE INFORMATION SO THAT THIS MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO YOU ACCOUNT SO THAT YOU WILL GET ME PAPERS TO TRAVEL TO YOUR COUNTRY TO CONTINUE MY EDUCATION THERE.MATILDATHANKSIAM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

I get this type of mail in my inbox every other day. If I have helped them all no wonder I would have been the richest person in the world. But I can't keep ignoring. What's this business, I don't understand. They say that they are very dangerous people. Would someone explain it to me.

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The world is full of guiles
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Submitted by Yasir Ashfaque Khan on Fri, 2006-10-13 07:56.

The world is full of guiles & intrigues indeed. We ought to be very careful!

Thanks chuck!

you are such a dear,

you made that clear.


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ChuckNugent
This is a scam
Submitted by ChuckNugent on Thu, 2006-10-12 20:08.

This is a variation of a letter that has been sent to people via email for the last 5 or 6 years at least. 

There is no unclaimed bank account with $2.5 million.  When you send them the information about your bank account they will use it to access your account and empty it.  Instead of the millions they promise to put in, they will steal everything in the account.

This is actually a very old scam that predates the internet.  In the past (and the practice still continues today) these characters would call people and claim to be working with the police to capture a criminal. They then ask the people to give them information about their bank accounts after which the crooks steal the money from the account.

An even older version of the scam, which is often found in old movies, is for a person to claim they have found a large sum of money which they offer to share with some sucker.  But they ask for a good faith gesture by the sucker in the form of bringing a $1,000 or so to mix with the fortune (or deposit into a bank account which the scam artist has access to).  When the person does this the scam artist makes a quick change and leaves the sucker with a bag full of old news papers or similar thing.

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