Woo-hoo! My first scam email!

[livinginphotographs]

Got this in my in-box today:

From The Desk Of: Mr. Oluwadamilare Williams
Standard Trust Bank Plc
Plot 245 Adeolu Hope wall Street
Victoria Island Lagos-Nigeria
Private Tel: [phone]
Private Email :[e-mail]

Dear Richard,


I am Mr. Oluwadamilare Williams of Standard Trust Bank Plc I am the Personal Account Officer/Manager to Mr. Anderson Stephens a foreigner, who was a consultant to oil companies in Nigeria. On the 21st of April1999, Mr. Anderson Stephens, his wife and children were involved in a car accident. And unfortunately al occupants of the vehicle lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to see if I can locate any of Mr. Anderson extended relative to come forward and clam this money, but this has all the while proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in receiving the money left behind by Mr. Anderson Stephens before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by our bank, Standard Trust Bank Plc Mr. Anderson Stephens when he was alive lodged some huge deposits, valued at 6 million dollars. With our bank and now the bank have mandated me as his Account Officer/Manager to provide his next of kin or they will have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 4 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to Mr. Anderson Stephens, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $6 million USD can be paid to you, and then you and I can share the money.60% to me and 40% to you.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my email or call my cell no:<234-802-826-5098>to enable us discuss extensively on this deal.

Note : You are to contact me with my private email address : [e-mail] .

Best regards,
Mr. Oluwadamilare Williams

Should I contact him?

[redqueen]

1. I got a scam fax the other day

Isn't everyone already aware of this by now?

[eyesroll]

2. Wow! How long have you had an e-mail account?

I probably received my first scam e-mail not long after I got my first e-mail account. You got a steel spam filter on that thing or something? ;-)

[livinginphotographs]

3. Just yahoo. They're pretty good.

I've heard about this scam for years, but I'd never actually received my own.

I've received phisher emails for Ebay and Paypal, but this was the holy grail of all scams. :wipes a tear from eye:

[eyesroll]

4. The best is when I get them through my employer!

Dear <nameofourwebsite>,
Blah blah blah. Your relative, Mr. Nameofourwebsite, died. Can I send you money?

I should add -- our website isn't a word that could be mistaken as a name.

[JackDragna]

5. Sure, contact him!

Set him up, pretend to be a famous person, or crazy, etc, then send it in to www.scamorama.com. By far, the funniest site on the internet.

[sui generis]

6. of course!

tell him you are unable to speak to him by phone however, as your tongue was cut out while on missionary in the Congo to bring the light and peace of our Epi Lady of the Breck Holy Mother of God Charity to the lost savages of that region.

However, you are interested. Ask him to send copies of the death certificates, because you want to be sure that they are really and truly dead.

Then tell them that purely by coincidence you actually really are teh next of kin, however you are very happy they are dead, because they were actually very highly placed in organized crime and the human sex slave trade as well as an illegal gem trade and they had been sending monthly parcels of rough diamonds to you for the past year, however recently the parcels had become less valuable and now were only worth one or two million, which is hardly worth your time to even open.

Insist on speaking to his account manager, however, have your account manager speak to his account manager via a spoof email. Set up some long winded bizarre story that requires that you get photos from them, or even get them to meet you in a foreign country (not really, just trick them into buying the ticket and going).

Along the way you could change religion, die and be replaced by a greedy relative or house servant, have a sex change operation, have another sex change operation - sell all twelve of your children into sexual bondage by accident, whatever. The best ones are if you can email them something and get them to take a pic with a printout of it - that's the prize in these games, with the ultimate prize getting these greedy crooks to actually send you money -- even if it's only five dollars.

Go to scam-o-rama.com and do some research!

[livinginphotographs]

8. Eh, sounds like a lot of work.

me <-----lazy bastard

:goes to take a nap:

[mrboba1]

7. You're first?

Did you just get an email account?
I've gotten about 150 of this one (diff names, obviously...)

[daddybear]

9. Welcome to cyberspace!

I get 1-5 a week!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.....