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My first UK Nigerian Scam
MSE_Martin
Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
Received the following today. IT's a classic Nigerian scam email
Here you go - I think i must've had one from virtually every country now.
"Dear Friend,
My name is Patrick Anderson, I am a senior banker in a bank here in the United Kingdom.
I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any oneapprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything documents that will bring about the success of this transaction would be provided, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
The deceased person Neal Walker died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS. WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds #6,100 000 00 GBP (Six million, one hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling) which will be released in your favor as the next of kin. Because after six years the money will be called back to the bank bond treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1. Full names and address,
2. Telephone Number.
For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I shall be compensating you with 35% of the above amount on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, the balance 65% shall be for me , because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this transaction . If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent response to my private mail box below:
patrick-anderso@excite.com
(DO NOT EMAIL HIM REMEMBER THIS IS A SCAM!)
Best Regards,
Mr. Patrick Anderson
Tel +44703 1948332,
Fax- +44 8700684652
(OF COURSE THE ABOVE PHONE NUMBERS DONT WORK!)
Here you go - I think i must've had one from virtually every country now.
"Dear Friend,
My name is Patrick Anderson, I am a senior banker in a bank here in the United Kingdom.
I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any oneapprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything documents that will bring about the success of this transaction would be provided, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
The deceased person Neal Walker died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board was an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation. You can confirm his death from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS. WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make you the beneficiary to the funds #6,100 000 00 GBP (Six million, one hundred thousand Great British pounds sterling) which will be released in your favor as the next of kin. Because after six years the money will be called back to the bank bond treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year.
It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1. Full names and address,
2. Telephone Number.
For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other. I shall be compensating you with 35% of the above amount on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, the balance 65% shall be for me , because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this transaction . If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent response to my private mail box below:
patrick-anderso@excite.com
(DO NOT EMAIL HIM REMEMBER THIS IS A SCAM!)
Best Regards,
Mr. Patrick Anderson
Tel +44703 1948332,
Fax- +44 8700684652
(OF COURSE THE ABOVE PHONE NUMBERS DONT WORK!)
Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert.
Please note, answers don't constitute financial advice, it is based on generalised journalistic research. Always ensure any decision is made with regards to your own individual circumstance.
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Comments
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Martin,
I hope you sent an email to abuse@excite.com so his email gets blocked.
I've played about with these for a while... if you've got nothing better to do have a read of the Solomon story on my site. https://www.africanscam.co.uk it should fill in a lunchtime..0 -
just wondering if you tried the phone numbers to see if they work?
just for the sake of it.
'What's poignancy grandad?'
'It's the cordon bleu of emotions sonny'0 -
Probably premium rate call charges!!“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde0
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I get lots of these types of emails, the other one is internet lottery, according to these I am a multi millionair as I have one several, at least thats what the emails say lol.No Links in Signatures by Site Rules - MSE Forum Team 20
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For a good laugh at these scammers, go to the link below and see how taunting these conmen is an art form.
www.scamorama.com0 -
The classic 419 Scam baiting tale has to be The Church of the Painted Breast.
But one of the funniest things I've ever read onth'interweb (OK, so I have shall we say a diverse SOH) is this 419 scam bait *Parental Advisory Warning*0 -
Is there not a website that these messages can be forwarded onto for someone to deal with? They are a pain and we are getting a least 1 every day.
Heather from Loughton0
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