Do y'all ever get email like this?

[Wingman]

Goodness knows if they only knew how I sucked at managing money!!! I get about 1 of this kind of email a week.

Wingman
ISAIAH 40:31

I am Mr. Bennard Wuchichi the current director
incharge of auditing and accounting section of Union
Togolaise De Banque Lome-Togo 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 november 1997 in a plane
crash and the fund 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 keep this information secret
within myself to enable the whole plans and idea to be
profitable and successful during the time of
execution.The said amount was the sum of u.s
$14.5m(Fourteen million five hundred thousand United
State Dollars).

As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive
information through my good friends who works with
chamber of commerce on foreign business relations here
in Lome-Togo.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 arrangements to put claim over this fund as the
bonafide NEXT OF KIN to the deceased, get the required
approvals and transfer this money to a foreign account
has been put in place and directives and all needed
informations will be relayed to you as soon as you
indicate your interest and willingness to assist me
and also benefit yourself to this great business
opportunity.

Infact, I could have done this deal alone but because
of my position in this country as a civil servant,I am
not allowed to operate a foreign bank account.They
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 with affidavit of trust of oath to the bank and
also present a foreign bank account number 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 designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is
100% risk free and 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 expenses that may arise during the time
of transfer and also telephone/fax bills, and 60% will
be for me. Please you have been adviced to keep top
secret as i am still in service and intend to retire
from service after i conclude this deal with you.I
will be monitoring the whole situation here in this
bank untill you confirm the money in your account and
ask me to come down to your country for subsequent
sharing of the fund according to percentages
previously indicated.All other necessary informations
will be sent to you when I hear from you including my
complete personnal information for proper guarantee.

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

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Ben Wuchichi.

[Wildfowler]

Sad thing is that those foreigners are probably making a pile of money.

That scam has been around forever. I received a letter in the mail from Nigeria one time. They presented the same type of scenario in my letter. They took every penny that I deposited in that account.

Just kidding... I quickly threw it away.

[Micah]

That scam has been around for a while. I get a few emails like that every now and then.

[QUACKADDICT]

Don't do it man!!! What you are receiving is one form of an ongoing Nigerian flim flam. If you procede, the flim flammer will ask you to give him your bank acct. info and will then procede to drain you dry!!! I REPEAT, DO NOT CONTACT THESE PEOPLE!
In case you are wondering how I would know about these people, look at my profile. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

[GulfCoast]

I used to get letters like that all the time. We even got one addressed to the kiwanis club once where they asked us to send them our bank account data and some blank official club stationary! I always send that stuff to the fraud division of the MS Secretary of States office.

[Wingman]

HAHA! I think it's the biggest load of crap there ever was. Although I fell off the turnip truck, it wasn't yesterday [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
As far as draining my account dry...they obviously haven't researched my account...it needs a rain bigtime.

Wingman
ISAIAH 40:31

[ August 01, 2002: Message edited by: Wingman ]

[RB]

Wingman.... You're right...if they saw my account they would feel sorry for me and make a deposit instead of a withdrawal.

[judge jb]

the last time my account was audited, someone made a 10 dollar anonamous deposit...

judge jb

[duckhuntalot]

You are correct about it being a spin off of the Nigerian scam which began years ago.

My time working in the bank security department has introduced me to them numerous times.

The average loss to people who fall for the scam is $6,542 and is the third highest loss scam on the Internet.

[mallardchaser]

I got one one time..I replied to the guy did he think I was some kind of dumb a. He sent back that I was missing out on millions. I later read that your supposed to send those to the atty generals office.

[RB]

If you can believe it, some people actually do think it's real and respond to it like the email asks them to do. They prey on the elderly and people down on their luck in an effort to solicit these funds from the victims. There will always be people or organizations out there that will try to get money out of you illegally. EVERYBODY BEWARE!

[ August 01, 2002: Message edited by: RB ]