Attn Moderator: Mrs.Margaret Snowe and Son David

Private message scam

Yes, I also received a PM from the same "lady" and her son.

 

Now I feel bad...

I didn't know she had diabetes and hypertension....I think I'll send her all my bank account information. I trust her now that I have seen pictures of her family.

Mike


From : Margaret Snowe <mrs_margaret_13@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent : Monday, January 2, 2006 10:33 AM
To : Mike bilge <bilgeboy1@hotmail.com>
Subject : Acknowledging your kind response and family pictures

Attachment : meandmyhusband.jpg (0.11 MB), myhusbandandmydaughters.jpg (0.12 MB), Myhusbandwithourfirstdaughter.jpg (0.10 MB), myson.jpg (0.16 MB)
Dear Mr.Micheal,

In fact I was very happy today when I returned from the hospital and saw your mail. This gave me stronger mind and happiness that I contacted the right person. Thank you for your response to our call for assistance and may God bless you for at least responding to my mail, i would have written you earlier than now but I was seriously down and had appointment with my doctors over my high blood pressure and diabetes which keep weighing me down and i was admitted and in fact this sickness kept me totally handicapped at my age.

Now i will be honest and open to you with the hope that you will not let me down. All our banks accounts and property have been frozen by the authorities and we have nothing to live on, unless you cooperate with me and let this only hope for our future survival be transferred into your safe custody for joint investment under your total management for mutual benefits for you and my family. Me and my children risk loosing this fund to the authorities after which they will force us to return to the destroyed country if we do not quickly relocate the fund from here and afterwards repatriate out of this region. This country Senegal where we have been granted asylum is too close to my country so we are still terrified and are still vulnerable. Hence i need your assistance to first secure this fund out of this place.

If you accept it, we will like to reach an agreement with you and relocate the fund into your custody for safe keeping and onward investment accordingly. I am willing to allocate 10% of the total sum to you as remuneration for your participation and assistance. The investment to be established with this fund as capital base will be owned 60 : 40 for my family and for you respectively. The fund could not be discovered by anyone because it was stashed into a trunk box with security lock and kept in the storage of a reputable firm. I have informed the director of the firm of my intention to transfer the deposited item to a foreign partner and he is ready to process the retrieval as soon as you are introduced officially to him. I will like to relinquish all ownership rights to you so that the fund will be transferred into your custody for safety so that the future of my children can be guaranteed.

Please do keep this matter quite confidential without the involvement of any third party there because i will not want anyone over there to be aware of this fund in connection to my name for our personal security and safety of this fund. Some times people you trust can be jealous and mischievous. It happened to us in the recent past so we are being very careful,

Let me stop so far till i hear from you, Also feel free any time to call me strictly on this only secured number 00221 6797440

Best regards,

Mrs. Margaret Snowe

 

Egad, these are everywhere... thank goodness for Thunderbird's uber-accurate filters or I'd be wasting half my day deleting these things....

Anyone actually got their 10% cut of the $55 million yet?

 

not me, than again, i'm faster in deleting

 

in my regular e-mail only 2 million today, better delete this crab yes?
edit: only now i read i broke confidentionality, bye bye € 2.000.000.-

 

Oh, and so close too

My (least) favorite was a Nigeria scam-spam targted at a 34' sailboat classified ad:

And another one we had to ban the whole ISP because of

 

Shipping a 34' boat by UPS, eh?
Seen a few problems lately with automated bots sending this crap out.... spider-like code that searches for email addresses on web pages, then sends a deluge of spam. I think the first one Jeff mentions in #21 is from such a bug, they're getting pretty common and are becoming more targetted lately.
Keep your virus- and spyware-scanners charged, folks....