LOL! Con Men from Africa

[tvmann]

I get a regular flow of these letters from swindlers in Africa, they're funny! Sometimes people reply to them to get the con man excited, and post his responses on a message board, for all to see.

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Dear Sir,

(Assure Me Of Your Readiness)
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA (IBA) I am writing following the impressive information who to assist me.assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this businees opportunity.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 18.5m US dollars
(Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a fatal plane
crash in the year 1999. Since we got information about his death, we havebeen expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation to died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other official in my
department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclamed after four years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Beninnos cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted .Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer .

You should contact me immediately Through this alternative Email address ([email protected]) For confidentially attention soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

MR GEORGE AHMED.

[Dean]

hahaha dumbasses

there's somethingy on the internet somewhere that someone responds to that and they log the whole thing... its funny

[ƒORM]

I get a few of those cheesy things at least once a week.


I should respond I'd be a billionaire by now

[djmarkpaul]

Anyone who actually falls for that shit deserves to get conned, except for grandmas, poor, poor grandmas :(

[shorerider]

You know he's legit, he has a hotmail account!

[Grapes]

^ yeah, they don't just give those things away!

LOL

[AGROculture]

I once read about these things in the newspaper

I don't know about this one because they're all slightly different

But they really are Nigerian scams that take millions a year from people
Cautious people will email back and forth and before they know it they'll get a check in the mail from Nigeria for $10 000 in good faith

I'm not sure what happens after that but a lot of people lose their life savings
It made the news because one guy actually went to Nigeria to meet his people and has never returned
yikes!