Someone is offering me $1,295,000 US for a few minutes work!

[AHA7]

Hello,

I've got this via email:

From: The Manager,
International Commercial Bank Ghana
First Light Branch
Accra, Ghana.
Attnn
I know you will be surprise to receive this mail. I got your contact through the net when I was searching a reliable person who will assist me
Ahmed Kufour is my name and I am the manager of the International Commercial Bank Ghana, First Light Branch. I am a Ghanaian married with two kids.

I write to solicit your kind assistance in a fund transfer deal of US$3,700.000.00. This fund is the excess of the profit made by this branch during the year 2005. As the manager of the bank, I have already submitted an approved End of the Year report for the year 2005 to my Head Office here in Accra-Ghana and they will never know of this Excess. This amount 3,700,000.00 is presently
held on a Sundry Account where I am have placed it without a beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account. I intend to part 35% of this fund to you while 65% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk
involved in this. It's going to be a simple bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund.

If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response, as I have meticulously planned a swift transfer of the fund to any account you will nominate. pleases kindly reply to this email *********
your earliest response would be appreciated.
With regards,
Ahmed Kufour

Should I take it?! :lol:

 

[ahtum]

Yeah and you also belive that Santa exists right :p ?

check here http://www.theviewnewspapers.com/printarticle.asp?article=8184

 

[antman]

I was offered by the King of Nigeria once, but I had a dentist appointment on the same day so couldn't do it for him. Maybe he'll e-mail me another day and I won't be busy that day! :hehe:

and no, don't take it

 

[G_C]

Hmmmm.... I remember receiving an offer from a daughter of Saddam Hussein... Something about her dad being the former dictator of a country in the Middle East...

Nah...

EDIT: Be sure to check http://www.419eater.com if you haven't already. Those guys are great, and some of things they make scammers do are brilliant.

 

[xd3vilx]

I recently got a email by younger son of a rich rich business man in London. Too bad while replying him, I accidentally deleted his email. Darn. Easy money just fly out so easily. Hehe...

 

[antman]

Here's a good read about an eBay scam where the scam backfired! :hehe:

 

[Datalife]

If they gave me a small advancement,...I'll take their offer much more seriously.

Just a small one will do......

 

[dnb8]

this is called Nigerian Fraud

 

[kev]

Here's a good read about an eBay scam where the scam backfired! :hehe:

that was a great story.....

well worth the read

 

[dnb8]

that was a great story.....

well worth the read

hehe long but nice

 

[Sabre]

:lol:

Great read, almost backfired but worked out in the end.

All i can say is.. someone needs a hobby! :D

 

[G_C]

I still want to know what happened to that guy... Ominously, he hasn't been heard from since...

 

[Old Pizza]

I got something like this a while ago, the guy linked to a BBC article of a guy that died 2 years ago or something and after 2 years the money in the bank was given to the government by law or something, and he thought I was related to the guy. I ignored it. :P

The guy will ask you to deposit $100 in his account or something "for it to work" and then take the money. Dont do it. :o

 

[B33R]

Should I take it?! :lol:

If you decide not to, please give him my email address - [email protected]

:tu:

 

[praxis]

Should I take it?! :lol:

Certainly.. and if you would like to invest your forthecoming fortune, it just so happens that I have for sale the Swiss Alps in their entirety. Just think of it, a few years from now (it will take awhile for the paperwork to go through) you could be enjoying the view of your very own mountain range from a cozy mountain top chalet. Every turn yielding a plethora of splendor to amaze and dazzle the senses. Frolic in alpine meadows. Enjoy the finest white powder recreation.. and I don't mean cocaine. Live your very own version of "The Sound of Music". Simply PM me for my anonymous Swiss bank account number, immediately wire the money, and soon it will all be yours! Act now, and I will even throw in all the Swiss Miss you can handle.. and let me tell you she is HOT!!! Don't have your 35% of of US$3,700.000.00 yet? Send me your personal savings, your checking account numbers, your credit card numbers, your first-born child, sign over your pension, your internal organs, and bequeath your estate to me. I'll hold the Alps for you, because after doing an internet search for honest people.. I know your good for the rest...

 

[G_C]

Certainly.. and if you would like to invest your forthecoming fortune, it just so happens that I have for sale the Swiss Alps in their entirety. Just think of it, a few years from now (it will take awhile for the paperwork to go through) you could be enjoying the view of your very own mountain range from a cozy mountain top chalet. Every turn yielding a plethora of splendor to amaze and dazzle the senses. Frolic in alpine meadows. Enjoy the finest white powder recreation.. and I don't mean cocaine. Live your very own version of "The Sound of Music". Simply PM me for my anonymous Swiss bank account number, immediately wire the money, and soon it will all be yours! Act now, and I will even throw in all the Swiss Miss you can handle.. and let me tell you she is HOT!!! Don't have your 35% of of US$3,700.000.00 yet? Send me your personal savings, your checking account numbers, your credit card numbers, your first-born child, sign over your pension, your internal organs, and bequeath your estate to me. I'll hold the Alps for you, because after doing an internet search for honest people.. I know your good for the rest...

SOLD!

 

[stscac]

Yeah and you also belive that Santa exists right :p ?

Are you trying to tell me that Santa doesn't exist?

-Steve

 

[iggysick]

Ask at least 1,300,000$ and not a cent less than that! :D

 

[LeetPCUser]

Tell him if you are going to wire him money you want 50%. See how he responds to that.

How do people fall for this stuff? I can see the Paypal and EBay ones, but really, would you buy this!?

 

[iggysick]

Tell him if you are going to wire him money you want 50%. See how he responds to that.

How do people fall for this stuff? I can see the Paypal and EBay ones, but really, would you buy this!?

There's simple answer for this kind of emails: greed