Where are these bloomin e-mails coming from?????

Cullumpster

Hello all,
Had another one of these bloomin e-mails from someone on behalf of somebody that died!

Where are they getting the email addresses from ???

Ill cut and paste, it's a cracker this time!!!!!!!!!!

DR.TOBY AHMED.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT
CREDIT BANK BENIN
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC
WEST AFRICA.

MY DEAR,

I am Dr. Toby Ahmed, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Credit Bank Benin republic in West Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.

During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on 30th january 2000 on Kenya Airways with aircraft Airbus 310-304 at location Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with registration number 5Y-BEN while travelling with his
entire family, his wife, two children and a maid on a festive visit to Abidjan and since his untimely death the funds has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development.

Although personally, I kept this information secret within myself and partners to enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution. The said amount was USD$16.4M (16.4)Sixteen Million FOur Hundred Thousand united states dollars).

As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through my good friend who works with chamber of commerce on foreign business relations here in Cotonou-Benin, it is him who recommended your person to me to be viable and capable to champion a business of such magnitude without any problem.

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased and get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place, all directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us and also benefit yourself to this great business opportunity.

In fact i could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant, we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because i work in this bank.

This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin to the Bank and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank
where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designated bank account.

May i at this point emphasize that this transaction is 100% risk free as i have made all arrangements for a successful transaction as an insider of the bank before contacting you.

On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 10% will be set aside to take care of any expenses that may arise during the time of transfer like telephone bills, fax and our travel tickets to come over to your country for the sharing of the fund while 60% will be for me and my partners.

Please you have been advised to keep this a top secret as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account and ask us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment either in your country or any country you will advice us to invest in.

All other necessary information will be sent to you on your acceptance to champion this transaction with me.

I suggest you get back to me as soon as possible stating your wish in this deal.

Yours Faithfully,
DR.TOBY AHMED

NB/BELOW IS MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS
toby_ahmed@infinito.it

How stupid do they think we are ??
Mindyou i am very tempted to reply and tell them that i'm sorting it out!

Reaper

As you know this is a scam - known as the Nigerian 419 scam after the Nigerian penal code they are breaking.

You say you are tempted to reply - some people do so with the intention of wasting as much of their time as possible and seeing what daft things they can get the fraudsters to do. A few even manage to scam money out of the scammers (and give it to charity).

There are many websites dedicated to this. For example 419Eater - you might like the photo of the dim fraudster on their front page.

Naturally if you feel like joining in the baiting be careful not to use any real details!

PS I particularly like the "Church of the Painted Breast"

billa40

Hi, We get these at least 3/4 times per month, just delete it, here is a handy link to Scambusters. <a href="http://www.scambusters.org/"><b>Free Special Report on Internet Scams</b></a>: <b>"The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do Now to Avoid Getting Scammed."</b> Click here to get your <b>free</b> copy and sign up for the #1 publication on Internet fraud, <em>Internet ScamBusters.</em>

juno

I'm jealous, I've never had one of those!

I hardly ever get spam, and I use my email account for everything! Including signing up for freebies, sweetcollect etc.

flipflopnick

'Where are they getting the email addresses from.'

If your email address is posted on a web site, harvesting software will add it to a SPAM list. Forums like this are safer, as harvesters don't seam to follow links.

Next most successful method to gather email addresses, is to perform a dictionary attack. Software conjugates multiple forenames for a particular domain name. All addresses that don't get returned are targeted. Invalid addresses produce an error message.

After 5 years of no SPAM, an email address of mine has finally been got by dictionary attack. :-[

Melissa22_Mum

juno wrote:

I'm jealous, I've never had one of those!

I hardly ever get spam, and I use my email account for everything! Including signing up for freebies, sweetcollect etc.

Me too!! I sign up for loads but never get anything like this! I want to so I can reply to them and be nasty! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Vital_Spark_2

Melissa22_Mum wrote:

Me too!! I sign up for loads but never get anything like this! I want to so I can reply to them and be nasty! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hmmm, as far as I know, one should never respond in any way to such mails as they pick addresses out of a hat, when you respond you confirm that the address they used is a real one.

Vital_Spark_2

Off now to bother someone else. Bye folks. Been nice reading you. :-)

innovate

Reaper wrote:

There are many websites dedicated to this. For example 419Eater - you might like the photo of the dim fraudster on their front page.

Naturally if you feel like joining in the baiting be careful not to use any real details!

Reaper, thank you for posting this link - there's hours and hours of fun on this site! Did you listen to the Arnie Schwarzenegger spoof - hilarious!!! And the forms Shiver Metimbers makes his bait fill in simply had me in stitches.

Some of the stuff is quite scary, though - like the death threats some people get. As you say, if anyone 'plays' with those scammers, they should never ever give any personal and real information to them.

trisontana

Another very good scam-baiting site is http://www.scambuster419.co.uk/index.html

There are some wonderful exchanges of letters on there , especially the one involving the "Reverend Gilbert Murray". He even gets the scam artist to send him money!

black-saturn

When I first started using the internet (and was very niave about it all) I joined about 3 online penpal clubs to which I submitted my email address. At first I got a lot of those type of emails but now it has dwindled down to 1 a week.