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Must be the week for strange email...
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Caterpillar
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 		Must be the week for strange email...
Well, I've noticed a few people getting some wacky email lately....here's mine:

Mr. Barry Young,
Zenith Bank Ltd
Lagos-Nigeria,
TEL-234-803-3218165
FAX-234-9-2721535
Email: bbarryyoung1SPLATamuro.net

Dear Sir,

I am Mr.Barry Young, Bank Manager of Zennith Bank, Lagos,
Nigeria. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.
On June 6, 1997, a Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr.Evans Kelly
made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar
months, valued at US$45,500,000.00 (Forty- five Million
Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch. Upon
maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address but got no reply.
After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we discovered
from his contract employers, the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Evans Kelly died from an
automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out
that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to
trace his next of kin was fruitless.I therefore made
further investigation and discovered that Mr. Evans Kelly
did not declare any kin or relations in all his official
documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$45,500,000.00 has carefully been moved out
of my bank to a security company for safe-keeping. No one
will ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian
Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will
revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if
nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as an
Foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money I deposited
it in a security company in two trunk boxes though the
security company does not know the contents of the boxes as
I tagged them to be photographic materials for export.
I am writing you because I as a public servant can not
operate a foreign account or have an account that is more
than $1m.I want to present you as the owner of the boxes in
the security company so you can be able to claim them
with the help of my attorney.All these are to make sure
that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into
the hands of some corrupt government officials.
This is simple. I will like you to provide immediately your
full names and address so that the Attorney will prepare
the necessary documents which will put you in place as the
as the owner of the boxes.
The money will be moved out for us to share in the ratio of
60% for me and 35% for you and 5% will take care of all
expenses.There is no risk at all as all
the paperwork for this transaction will be done by me and
this will guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.
If you are interested, please reply immediately via my
email address. upon your response, I shall then provide you
with more details and relevant documents that will help you
understand the transaction.
Please observe with utmost confidentiality, and be rest
Assured that This Transaction would be most profitable for
both of us because I shall Require Your assistance to
invest my share in your country.
Please Respond through 234-803-3218165 or Fax 234-9-2721535.
All reply mails should be addressed to
bbarryyoung1SPLATamuro.net

Thanks and regards.
Mr. Barry Young

PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 7:36 pm
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jamesi
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 		'dis be spam. 'dis be spam. 'dis be spam.

i think we had it over at jawbreak Y! group too? I know i't smade the curcuit over here with many of us. odd thing is, i'm the king of hook, line and sinker, yet i have gotten no email like this ever.

'dis be spam.
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Caterpillar
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 		http://www.snopes.com/index.html

Yeah...lol...just been over to Snopes reading under scams...it's there. I never had spam...lol....besides the kind that promises to add inches anywhere you want it...lol

Should I just delete the post?

~cem

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SpaceBass
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 		This is what is commonly referred to as a 419 or Nigerian Money Scam. There are several variations on the theme, but all of them have the same basic premise: there is secret money that you can have some of if you help this person get it out of their country or whatever. If you fall for it, they just get you to give them enough personal information to use in forging passports or credit accounts, and lots of times suck your bank account dry either through you or through the information you provided. Check snopes for more details.

There's some saying like "you can't con an honest man." All of these scams convince the victims to do something illicit in order to get BIG REWARDS but they just end up getting BIG RECTAL INTRUSION instead (figuratively speaking, of course).
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 		Obviously I spent way too much time writing this post. Let's leave the thread up to discourage future posts on the subject tho.
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Caterpillar
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 		Yeah...I usually do check snopes (not that I'd need to in order to tell me it's hoaxy)....but I've never received anything strange spam before, and seeing how others have been getting weird mail...well I posted before I checked.

By weird email I'm not referring to L3, that's just positively cool email, but was referring to some of the weird stuff I've seen/heard about (mostly noahboddians I think).

~cem

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