Beware ! Watch out for this one!

Maz

Received this patently load of old cobblers in me inbox today. You have been warned! DO NOT DIVULGE YOUR PERSONAL/BANK DETAILS !!!!!!!!

Unless anyone can prove me wrong of course, $600,000.00 would come in very handy.;)





WILLIAM MOHAMED &CO.CHAMBERS
(ATTORNEYS&COUNSELORS AT LAW)
FEDERAL HIGH COURTÂ BENIN
WHITE-HOUSE BUILDING,
14 DEGBAGO CRESCENT,
PORTO-NOVO REPUBLIC OF BENIN

My dear friend ,

I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferred under
the cooperation of a new partner from japan.Presently IÂ’m in japan for
investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I
didn't
forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring
those funds
despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my secretary, his name is Mrs Ngozi Williams and his Email
Address
(mrsngozi_201_201@yahoo.it ) ask him to send you the total $600.000.00
which i
kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to
assist me
in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so
feel free
and get in touched with my secretary Mrs Ngozi and instruct him where
to send
the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy
after all the suffer ness at that time,in the moment, i am very busy
here
because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are
having at
hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the
secretary on
your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with
Mrs Ngozi
Williams and he will send the amount to you without any delay.

with best regards

WILLIAM MOHAMED &CO.CHAMBERS

maninthestreet

It's called a '419 Advance Fee Fraud email. Been around for ages.

Maz

First time I've had one but what with all the publicity etc it's soooo obvious! (well, to me any rate!) Just thought I'd bung it on.

gyzmo

You'd think that someone from such a big company or with so much money would :
a: have something better than a yahoo! email address
b: be able to write at least one sentence without grammatical errors
c: try and work out how to use capitalisation properly.

Morglin

We gets loads of these in our junk mail - usually from Nigeria offering us untold fortunes if we'd just let them use our bank account............:rotfl:

I can't believe anyone falls for all these scams - but I was talking to my bank manager the other day, and he told me one of the customers (an elderly lady) had been in asking how to transfer a large amount of money abroad.

Luckily, as it is a village branch of the bank, the staff know the custiomers, and quizzed the old girl a bit as to what she was trying to do.

it tuned out that she'd got a letter from Lagos telling her that she had won a lot money from their government lottery, and that if she sent £5000 for them to process it, she'd get her half million back by return.:eek: :eek: :eek:

The staff explanied what was going on and she had a lucky escape - others probably fall for it.

Lin