Scam?

[Skiz]

That email is about as genuine as the one I just received:

DEAR FRIEND.
This business proposal to you is strictly
confidential, with due respect. Sorry at this
perceived confusion or stress may have receiving this
letter from me, Since we have not known ourselves or
met previously. Despite that, I am constrained to
write you this letter because of the urgency of it.By
way of self introduction, I am Mrs. Mary Kobe, the
wife of late Brigadier - Gen.Maxwell Kobe former
ECOMOG ARMY COMMANDER [West African peacekeeping force
in Sierra Leone] who died in the Sierra Leone civil
disturbance [War]. My three daughters and I are
trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms.
We have suffered maltreatment and untold hardship in
the hands of my late husband's family, simply because
I did not bear a male child [heir apparent] for my
late husband. By tradition, all that my late husband
had, [wealth] belongs to his brothers/family. And
myself is to be remarried by his immediate younger
brother which I vehemently refused. They have taken
all that I suffered with my husband to acquire
including treasures, houses and his bank particular
seized by them. I wanted to escape to the abroad with
my children on exile, but again
they conspired and stole my international passport and
other traveling document to further frustrate me.
Thank God, two weeks ago, I received Key Text Code
from a Security Company in EUROPE, that my late
husband deposited U.S $14.2 Million cash with this
security company in ONE OF THE EUROPEAN STATEs. It has
therefore, become very necessary and urgent to contact
someone, a foreigner like you to help me
receive/secure these funds overseas in a reliable bank
Account (presumably an empty Bank Account, if
available) and to help invest it on our behalf as
well, while we find a way of getting out to meet with
you in your country.
These funds are kept
with the Security Company in EUROPE to avoid
detection, seizure or diversion. I have had several
telephone discussions with the Director of the
security company in Europe,who has express willingness
to help me on meeting the company's demands. This is
why I have contacted you to help save my children and
I, receive these funds on our behalf. But, you would
need to give me sufficient assurance that if you help
me, you would not divert the funds.
My children and I have resolved to give you 20% of the
total sum. This is all my children and I have got to
live on.
Please, I have reposed my confidence in you and hope
you will not disappoint me. I look forward to your
urgent response, including:
-name(s) in full
-your phone/ mobile No
-and also your fax no for easier communication
-your address
NB: The secret codes (e.g Pin No., Secret Access Code)
for this fund are safely kept with me which I can give
you as soon as you express desire to help me.
Stay blessed.
MARY KOBE
NB
you may send your reply to this address: [email protected]

[sear]

It's the great writing and grammar that makes it seem so genuine. I particularly like this little gem.

My three daughters and I are
trapped in obnoxious custom and traditional norms.

[zoe68]

Heres another thing that could happen:
ur own bank will tell u its cleared after 7 days but then after ten days it will bounce and the 3,000 will be deducted from ur acount.
happened this way to someone else on another forum

[zapjb]

Heres another thing that could happen:
ur own bank will tell u its cleared after 7 days but then after ten days it will bounce and the 3,000 will be deducted from ur acount.
happened this way to someone else on another forum

I said that on page1. Can be longer than 10 days though.

[Mr JP Fugley]

What makes you chaps think this is money laundering. Laundering is the process of getting dirty money into the system and legitimizing it. This would be cash, taken from somewhere and sent via Western Union to somewhere else. It would just be stealing money from his bank account and transferring it to the thief. Hardly laundering.

On and whether it's a scam, he didn't even use the template properly, he left [Item] when he is supposed to replace that with PC, Watch, TV or whatever. To say nothing of the English and how preposterous the whole thing is.

Anyone fooled by something this transparent deserves all they get because the only way these things can get you is if you're greedy enough to accept bullshit.

[Peerzy]

But I want to give him all my monies

[lynx]

You just can't trust thieves to use standard Scam forms properly these days.

However, I think I've got a way round this.

Send me the PC, and when I get the cash I'll send you £225. That way we both make £25 and there's no risk to you.

[Mr JP Fugley]

You just can't trust thieves to use standard Scam forms properly these days.

It's appalling, wouldn't have happened back in the day.

[vidcc]

http://www.westcountrylinks.co.uk/forsale/info.htm

[bigboab]

http://www.westcountrylinks.co.uk/forsale/info.htm

I wonder what would happen to the person 'used' by this money laundering scam. Would they be guilty of any offence?

If bankers can charge you £30 or so for a letter, calling it a service charge, then surely you could be entitled to 'charge' for your services in these scams. On the assumption that you plead ignorance*.



*That plea has always worked for me.