A nice chap in Africa wants to give me money...

prowla

I received the following email:

Dear Friend,

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose I make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me.
My name is Ali Musa from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO, West Africa. Presently i work in the Bank as telex manager. I have been searching for your contact since you left our country some years ago .I do not know whether this is your correct email address or not because I only used your name initials to search for your contact in the internet .In case you are not the person I am supposed to contact , please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top secret.

I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger . You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life.

It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to Launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent.

Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.

I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They laundered over $5b(five billion)united states Dollars during the process .As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert more than One Hundred Million Dollars ($150m) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who is the beneficiary to the funds because they have made a lot of profits with the funds.

It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The ($150m) Million Dollars has been lying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you .

There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything.I only want you to assist me by providing a bank account where the funds can be transferred. You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you a detailed information on what to do.
For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face any problems. This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one in the bank knows about the funds.

Please supply me the following:
Your current contact address and Telephone Numbers..
I shall intimate you on what to do when I get your confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.
Waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,
Ali Musa

What a nice chap - I am just making plans on spending all that money.

(Whaddya mean it's a scam???!!!!?)

peter_the_piper

Reply back on a throwway account and give the contact details of you favourite clamping company. They would make good bedfellows.

barbiedoll

Of course it's not a scam.........I do hope you are keeping it secret though?
You don't want any "leakages"

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

RHYSDAD

See here....

Very funny!

cajef

prowla wrote: »

.In case you are not the person I am supposed to contact , please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top secret.

You don't think he will still want to give you the money now you have betrayed his trust, I imagine he will be really upset it was confidential and top secret.:rotfl:

mrs-stressed

You need to read Paul Varjaks thread on this on MSE Arms. He is hilarious and you will know then how to respond to these guys

mrs-stressed

Its called a Diplomat has package for me (thread title). Read and laugh..

chippy2u

So he steals $150m and puts it in your account and then expects you to be honest enough to give him 60%!!! Yeah right!! Let him sue you for his share!!

shaun_from_Africa

This is my all time favourite from the 419 site.

http://www.419eater.com/html/ojukwu_damisa.htm

mrs-stressed

I read it and it made me want to weep with utter disbelief and joy!!!!! The fact that he wrote that letter with all that billsh1t amazes me! And then the photos!
It is a brilliant site to while away the time....knowing that these scummy people do sometimes get their just deserts. What is truly awful though is that sme people fall for it.......

paddedjohn

Hahaha i beat you all to it, im gonna be rich rich rich, ive i emailed him all my bank details and he said im gonna get a nice surprise in the next few days. Yippeeeee £50million for boystoys..........