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Got email today from [email protected]. Obviously this is a scam. I asked them to send 5000$ to my moneybooker account and I would help them.
I am wondering, what can they do if I provide my bank account? Lots of people know it, only thing that can be done is send money to it. Here you see the mail:
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ATTN: DIRECTOR /CEO,

A CRY FOR FAMILY HELP.

I am Mr NGOMA WISE the first son of the late Mr. PETER WISE. my father had
served mr B.h. Lions who was an irish citizen and a successful farmer in
our remote village. my father served him for many years and inherited his
farm after his death.
My father became an executive member of the farmers Association in the western
mashonaland province of Zimbabwe. He also became a successful businessman,
because of the recent uprising in my country and the war veterans and farmers
clashing,my father decided that it would be safer if my younger brother
and I move to south Africa to escape the violence.

We left Zimbabwe with two boxes containing the sum of US$11.5M (Eleven Million,
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) and valuables (Diamonds)worth
US$5M. My father has instructed us to deposit it with a private security
company on our arrival.

He also instructed me not to reveal the contents of the box to anyone for
security reasons and All the documents pertaining to this deposition.

Barely two months after we moved to johannesburg,we got information that
my father's farm had been invaded and that my parent and most of his workers
had been killed. My father's property and farmland have now been taken over
by the war veterans.

I believe that this has been the work of people who did not like my father
because of white owned farms. we could not even attend the funerals of my
parents as we also now fear for our dear lives.

0ur reason for contacting you is to seek for your assistance in providing
an overseas bank account where we can transfer this fund. Have in mind that
this is a risk free business as we have conclude a modality for the transfer.
Your participation gives you 20% of the total sum, 7% for all expense in
curred during this business while 73% is for my younger brother and I.
The Diamond will be discussed at our arrival.


We do not know much about diamonds or how to invest this money so we will
also need your assistance in this regard.We have agreed to give you a share
of the money if you are willing to assit us, should this proposal meet your
utmost consideration,please do not hesitate to contact my brother or me
on the above email address.

The confidentiality of this proposal cannot be overemphasized as we believe
that you will oblige with us the needed security and attention it demands.Please
treat this proposal with the utmost regard,and the confidentiality of these
business should not be over-emphasised.

Waiting for your favourable response.
Thanks and god bless,

(From Mr Ngoma Wise).
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I am interested in your opinions.
Best regards,
Pascal Driessen
 
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This is the oldest email scam in the book. Do not fall for it.

Delete it and forget about it. I'm sure everybody has had at least a few of these since becoming apart of the internet. What aload of rubbish!
 
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I know it is a scam, but what I wanna know is how this scam works. Not that I plan on using it ;). But, if I give you my bankaccount number, what can you do? You can send me momey and that's it. Or is it?
I just replied requesting a 5000$ advance, without revealing any more info about myself. Just curious if they would respond.
 
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With the account number and account name, someone in the US can initiate an account debit against your account.

Also, there are merchant account scams where they place charges on stolen credit cards, credit your account, wait for you to remit the agreed percentage. The cops go after you for benefitting from the stolen cards.
 
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Well, they only know my hotmail address so far, so they cannot do anything. I doubt they will contact me again. Would be fun to receive the 5000$ from them though.
 
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Hotmail and Yahoo accounts seem to be the main target for emails like this. I got a few on my Hotmail accounts when I used to use them.
 
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Got one like this on my Yahoo account today. :sick:
 
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This has been going on since the 80's. Don't get involved with it. People have lost their lives trying to claim these newfound riches.

More information on 419 scams
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
 
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thats funny :P well, i guess theres sources of scams similar to that, so I guess you could just read that stuff ;)
 
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This has been on the FBI site for sometime.
They will only deposit into a checking account (which you provide the theives) then they empty it for you.

its become such a routine with me.. that I try starting a conversation with them. I like asking them to send me a check please. or i just act stupid and say.. ok how do i get started?
 
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Don't forget about the millions of other people this probably was sent to.
 
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LOL these scams are getting old
 
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This scam is usually originating from African drug dealers/drug rings...so therefore when they get the money it goes to African drug rings.

Anyways, about 15 Americans have been killed doing this! They go over to Africa to talk to the people and they take them hostage so their spouse releases all funds to them (same scam, different version).

Oh well...
 
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