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"In fact 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
account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the
time of transfer because I work in this bank."

"would eventually raise an eye brow on my side"



it is about deceased German man with US$ 30 million account he can not access. he wants me play next of kin, because I am foreigner.

I used to collect emails of this kind. Not any more though.

And for enetertainment you could try this: http://bbspot.com/News/2004/04/nigerian_quiz.php

do you not see the man himself raise an eyebrow?



in the e-mail were so many writting mistakes!

Oh, there always is. Very funny letters indeed.

Every now and then I enter in to discussion with such scammers, just to wind them up

Me too

but then now that your e-mail for sure works they might give to others!

I don't know if that is the case or no; I think once I've been in discussion with them, they eventually realise that I'm not going to flal for their scam, so they then leave me alone I normally Email them back pretending* to be a 'half-swhit' and just take up lots of their time asking stupid questions of them, but acting as if I'm interested but not clear on what it all means, they get quite grumpy about it after a while then I useually tell them a final Email along the lines of:::


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am depely moved to have entered in discourse with you as regards the matter of helping you facilitate the removal of £900 M from the account of your late father, the king of Nigeria. As I do only want to be honest with you, I feel it is now an oppertune moment for me to reveal how after my assistance to you, you in turn may be of able to take both a financial benifit from a mutally benifical simular transaction.
For, I am none other than the Daugheter of the disposed late primminister of Nigeria, and therefore we must be related. So as you can see I am your Sister, and you my Brother.
To this end ......


The Email from the particular scammer normally then stops

did you know BBC consumer program tried uncuver one. they even went Amsterdam, but man were suspicious and did not turn a second time. they are reporter burry the money in a park, I think!

Its alwayds funny to read them when they come in. They use a power-e-mailer that sends millions per second to something like all possible e-mail addresses that start with a vowel or something. It almost always seems to involve you giving them your bank details to transfer money. Its pretty scary, actually.

Pheloxi, I remember that one!

They claimed the money was buried in a park nearby.. when they got there, he scammer wanted his money, they claimed it was in a bank nearby.. the scammer made an excuse and left.

I still find it hard to believe that anyone would actually fall for any of the scams

money for nothing and s for free