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We all regularly get emails from Nigeria and Benin of the 411 fraud type.

Please copy and paste them below so we can see the varieties going round.

I have a request.

I want as many of us to reply to them, let us have some fun with these idiots.

If anyone has a dummy phone number and/or address we can all use then we can lead them on a wild goose chase.

Here are two I got today:



[email protected]
FROM THE DESK OF MR CONOMBO
THE AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

MY GOOD FRIEND,

I HOPE THAT YOU WILL NOT EXPOSE OR BETRAY THIS TRUST AND CONFIDENT THAT I
AM ABOUT TO IMPOSE ON YOU FOR THE MATUAL BENEFIT OF OUR FAMILIES.

I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSFERRING THE SUM OF (USD$8.6 M) MILLION TO YOUR ACCOUNT WITHIN SEVEN BANKING DAYS.

THIS MONEY HAS BEEN DORMANT FOR YEARS IN OUR BANK WITHOUT ANY BODY CLAIMING THE FUND.

I WANT THE BANK TO RELEASE THE MONEY TO YOU AS THE NEAREST PERSON TO OUR DECEASED CUSTOMER (THE OWNER OF THE ACCOUNT) BELONGS TO ONE OF OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMER (MR. RICHARD BURSON) WHO DIED ALONGWITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY ON NOVEMBER 1999 IN A PLANE CRASH.

IN SUBSEQUENT DISBURSEMENT OF THE MONEY,WE AGREE THAT 35% OF THIS MONEY WILL BE FOR YOU INRESPECT OF THE PROVISION YOU MADE BY STANDING IN THE CLAIM AS NEXT OF KIN,10% WILL BE SET ASIDE FOR EXPENSES INCURE DURING THE TRASACTION ON TAXES THAT WILL ARISE AND 55%WOULD BE FOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES.

I DON'T WANT THE MONEY TO GO INTO OUR BANK ACCOUNT AS AN ABANDONED FUND.

SO THIS IS THE REASON WHY I CONTACTED YOU SO THAT THE BANK CAN RELEASE THE MONEY TO YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED CUSTOMER.

I WILL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS PROJECT.CONTACT:([email protected])

TILL I HEAR FROM YOU.
HAVE A GREAT DAY.
1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. ADDRESS:.......................................
3. NATIONALITY:....................................
4. AGE:.............................................
5. SEX..............................................
6. OCCUPATION:.......................................
7. MARITAL STATUS:...................................
8. PHONE............................................
9. FAX:.............................................
BEST REGARD,
MR CONOMBO

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The Desk of Mr NIABBA KAMBU
Audit/Remittance Department of
African Development Bank (ADB)
Auagadougou Burkina Faso
phone: 00226-70 642 10

Dear Friend,
(CONFIDENTIAL)
I know that this email will be a big surprise to you, but i want you to calm down and read very carefully.

I have a business which will be beneficial to both of us. the amount of money involved is ($5,700:000:00 five million seven hundred thousand us dollars) which i want to transfer out of the country to your bank account, all to my financial benefit and yours too. and also to take my wife abroad for treatment of liver damage.

This money is owned by a man called JIN SUN, a business commercialist in west-african regions. he has been dead since six years ago and since then, no claim has been placed on his bank account balance.

I want to transfer this money out of the country but such fund cannot be transferred without a next of kin attached to the fund. the fund could be transferred in these way; you shall present yourself as a business associate to the deceased person[JIN SUN) as details shall be that you are the care- taker business associate to mr. jin sun and his properties.

I shall make available to you materials and information with which a successful claim shall be placed on the fund. i shall also be your guidiance and instructor throughout the duration of this transaction so as to ensure a swift and sure transfer of the fund to your bank account. as to your benefits,you shall be entitled to 40% of this fund for your co-operation in this transaction while 5% will be set aside for expences incured during the course of this transaction.

So if you are interested, send a reply to me immediately and in your reply please include your [private phone and your fax numbers] urgency has to be implied and this business must strictly be a deal between both of us.

Waiting for your urgent response so that i can move ahead and give you the indept details concerning this transaction and also the steps to take for a smooth transfer of the fund into your bank account.

Best Regards,
Mr.NIABBA KAMBU

Just got an answer from our friend Mr Conombo Arouna, to whom I wrote of my interest in his transaction offer. ([email protected]).

Have posted it below, his number is 0022678863006

If someone wants to call him and arrange a transaction, would be a lot of fun!

DEAR FRIEND ,

I AM GRATEFUL FOR YOUR RESPOND AND I would like you to understand that this transaction is a huge one and it requires our truth and honesty to get what we want, I would be happy if you follow my instruction and send to me your personal identities so that i can know you better and it would help us to build more trust to ourselves, Please I would like you to understand with me the important of this transaction
I NEED YOU FOR THIS TRANSACTION, Because there is a need of a foreign partner who will stick to the laid down instructions with my capacity as an employee of this institution, if we could put confidence to ourselves and work with one mind and keep the secret to ourselves alone, in 14 working days the money will be in your account and we will share it accordingly, you know that the account of the deceased have been dormant for quite some years now.
However I am once again happy for you to understand with me in this transaction, you will be standing as the next of kin to deceased man,standing as associate partner to him with the little documents I will provide for this, without wasting time, I would like to reassure you once again that all arrangements regarding the smooth transfer of this inheritance fund into your nominated bank has been made. All that is required of you is stand firmly as the next of kin to the deceased customer.

I have been in charge of this particular account for over 5years, the owner of this account was a great industrialist before his death, I strongly believe that it was due to his position in his country that made him make the dealings of this account secret, he diverted this funds for his personal use here, it is also interesting to know that for past many years nobody has come up to ask of this account and this is what made me to plan for this deal. I will provide you with available document at my reach when demanded by the bank.

I know very well that you might be weary of the fact that you are not in any way related to the deceased man but according to the laws of inheritance in Burkina Faso one must not be a relative to the deceased in order to be able to apply for inheritance, having taken note of this laws, I have decided to present you to my bank as a business associate to him which you know that somebody's business associate can come from any part of the world so it doesn't matter where you are. This will certainly rule out all your fears.

Please you have to assure me of the following before sending to you the text of application;
1) that you have a bank account that will accommodate this fund.

2) That you will not seat on the money when it is transferred into your account.

3) That you accept that we are going to work on this project with one mind, hence total trust and loyalty to this project must be guaranteed.

(4) my position in the bank must always be protected, therefore you must assure me of maintaining the confidentiality of this transaction.

(5) That you must not let anybody to know abount this transaction.
Here is my proposal:
35% of the total money goes to you.
10% set aside to share for the expenses after the transfer.
55% for me.

I will like to inform your that this transaction will requires our financial capability as it will cost us some expenses which both of us are going to share equally at the end of the transaction,this transaction is a secret between me and you, then you have to maintain it very well in order to protect my position here.

If this is OK by you, inform me immediately, Then I will inform you on how to start off immediately in order to facility you in the letter you will write to the Bank, informing the Bank of your intention to have the said sum transferred into your account as his next of kin. Including the FULL BANK ADDRESS.

MR. CONOMBO AROUNA
Tell: 0022678863006

You going to give him some hooky details then Quartz?

Dear Quartzgooner.
I am trusting your good intention's and honesty to share with me your good fortune. I being a very honest man will spend this money on an experienced central midfielder to give a bit of steel to my midfield. I know that you will keep this between me and you.

A Wenger

Yes Corkbarry, it will all be on a need to know basis.

I replied to the emails and then I get a reply today where one has promised to send me a family photo, to prove his integrity!

Will keep you posted.

I WROTE THE FOLLOWING TO HIM, DECIDING TO INVENT AN ENTIRELY FICTITIOUS AREA OF INDUSTRY:

Dear Sir,

I am instigating the application for a new banking account.

This will enable the smooth and speedy transacation to occur.

It will keep all funds safe and easily identifiable so that we can both communicate well. It will also maximise interest earned on the funds.

Good areas of investment in the UK are varied.

Property is not now so good because of stagnation in the mortgage market, but there are other interests.

Particularly viable is the new growth area of fractural aggregates.

These in combination with microchips can produce computation speeds exceeding current industry norms.

Values are beginning to grow at exponential rates and I am instructing my staff to prepare an investment portfolio of this potentialy lucrative, but as yet under-invested, market.

Together we can work to a good conclusion of this lucrative and interesting business opportunity.

Yours most faithfully.

THEN I GOT THIS REPLY:

I am only a civil servant and not a business man, all this investment propositions you mentioned now, i don't have any knowledge of them, i will beg you to be my head when we start the investment so that i will not make mistake.

I welcome the idea of opening a new account for this transaction, but bear mind that we cannot wait much longer, that's why i'm sending you a text of application which you will fill and send to my bank for unwad process.

Just fill the account gap with any account, even if the account is not functionable, use it and send to the bank before the new account will be ready.

I believe you will not disappoint me when the bank transfer this fund to your account, pls call me 00226 70 64 24 10.

As i told you before that I will be working round the clock to ensure that the fund is approved and transfered into your account in less than 10 bank working days.

There will never be any risky or trouble from any angle, i assure you that.

I have arranged a text of application that you are to fill with your correct details and send it to me first for my perusal before finally sending it to my bank's email Id and fax respectively.

reply me immediately you fill and send this application so that i will follow it up.

Regards
NIABBA KAMBU
00226-70-64-24-10

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ATTN: MR. DANIEL EBO
THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DIVISION
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO
PHONE : (00226) 78 01 47 27
FAX 00226)50-42-00-31
EMAIL:[email protected]
Email: [email protected]

Dear Sir,

APPLICATION AS NEXT OF KIN TO ACCOUNT HOLDER N0 :$ 746-947382. ROUTING
N0: 9372820

I. ..................… of ........................humbly apply to your bank as next of kin to your deceased customer, Mr. Jin Sun of Peoples republic of china a Chinese nationality ,holder of Account no:$746-947382, Routing no:9372820 ,who died on July 30th 2000 in a Ghastly motor accident.

I humbly apply and put claim over his balance with the bank, which is valued at $ 5,700,000.00 (FIVE MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLARS ONLY) , left in his account still unclaimed, Until his sudden death , we have been business associates in exportation and importing goods.

The funds were transferred into his account through ( BOB) BANK of BURKINA, Bobo- Diolasso, Burkina-Faso. Payment for supplied hospital equipments- building Materials.

I wish to be intimated on the processes involved in having this fund transferred to my bank account as stated below:

Account Name:.................................
Bank Name:........................................
Bank address: .....................................
Fax N0:..........................................
Swift N0: .......................................
Account N0:.......................................
Amount:............................................
Receiving Country:............................
My private phone no:..............................
My private mail address:......................
My private fax no:...............................
Occupation........................................
Age.................................................

Wishing my application will be given an urgent attention, as I wish the balance be released, and transferred into my account .
Accept my apology for the late application, it was due to some logistic problems, which has been just settled.
Thanking you for your anticipated co-operation .
Yours Sincerely

I THINK I SHALL WRITE IN A FEW DAYS ASKING FOR FURTHER PROOF OF HIS SINCERITY, SUCH AS PHOTOS, WHICH I WILL HOPE TO POST ON HERE.

I always used to read these wind up threads on f365. Some of them are quality. SHOE ON HEAD!!!

I sent this offering today, together with my photo, which in fact was one of former PM Edward Heath!

Hello Mr Kambu,

The account application has now been submitted to the main bank.

The process of administration takes ten days, and then we will have the vital numbers fo the account.

My business partners in Asia are very happy to proceed with the plan.

The main financial officer has expressed his gratitude for your scheme.

Whilst we wait fro the all important account information to be sent from the bank, I enclose my photo, so that you can see I am a man of integrity and elevated standing.

I will contact you once the information arrives from the bank,

Yours Sincerely.

I got one Quartz"y.


FROM LINDA ARAH‏
From: from linda ([email protected])
Sent: Mon 12/22/08 9:51 AM
To: [email protected] NOT ME
Dearest One,

I am Linda Arah, the only Daughter of late Mrs ARAH.My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip . My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on febuary 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of four million,five hundred thousand United State Dollars. USD $4.5m that deposite in a security company here in Abidjan ,that he used my name as his only Daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this
wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management .

Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To help me pay the clearance charges
(2) To provide a good bank account into which this money would be transferred into .
(3) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 22years.
(4) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country. Moreover, dear, i am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas. Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within seven (7) days you
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
remain bless,
Yours Faithfully,
Linda Arah

SWLGooner wrote:My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip .

"I blame Eboue!"



For the record, I replied to my 411 scammer with bank details of an imaginary bank in Kenya, and called them too to express my hurry in getting the money from them.

My call was itemised on my bill as to a mobile in Burkina Faso.

The scammers have lost interest in me now , after I sent them dud details.