African Scam Letters

[ScottSA]

Anyone who owns a business is used to these things popping up on a regular basis. They usually involve some rich guy with no relatives plummeting out of the sky in some airliner, although occasionally they get really creative, like the one I got from Arafat's widow asking for help in transfering his ill gotten gains out of Palestine. This particular one claims that $21 million of olympic lobbying money somehow got forgotten and that they desperately need help moving it out of South Africa, so naturally their first recourse was to contact a complete stranger on the internet, reveal the entire crime, and await my response. My response is below the letter, and if anyone gets these letters on a regular basis and would like to have a little fun, you're welcome to use it. One of these days I'll get a bite...

Someone else that has a lot of fun with these guys is http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

FROM: MR.WILLIAM MUYEKE

DESK OF CHAIRMAN

Sub-Committee on Finance

South African World Cup bid 2010

24 Steven Bikko Blvrd Pretoria,

Republic Of South Africa.

Tel : +27-78-393-0704

Email: [email protected]

Attn: Sir,

Greetings you must be aware now that my country The Republic of South Africa

won the bid to host the world cup by 2010,prior to this bid my committee was

mandated to lobby the members of board of Federation International Football

Association (FIFA) on selection of the country to host the world, the

bidding was intensive but at the end we got the hosting right. Mycommittee

was given the sum of $29 million dollars to lobby the members of the FIFA

ruling body to make sure that we win the hosting right considering the gain

that comes with the hosting right like South Africa?s economy will receive a

massive direct boost from hosting the 2010 World Cup,

financial impact report for South Africa's World Cup bid committee shows

that the 2010 World Cup will pump R21.3-billion into South Africa's economy,

and creating an estimated 159 000 new jobs.With the help the living legend

of our time 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr.Nelson Mandela who made

an emotive case for The Republic of South Africa, we got the bid without

spending all the money, I and my committee members saw this as a God sent

opportunity to secure our future and that of our family therefore was

mandated by other committee members to look for a way to move the remaining

money to a safe place with the help of a foreigner who we can trust and is

ready to assist us to move the funds considering the fact that we are still

members of the bid committee and in the eyes of the public. we have in our

possession the sum $21millon since we spent just $8million for lobbying.

We are ready to give you 20% for all your assistance then me and my

colleagues will keep 80% lf you are willing kindly reply to my letter for

further directive. we will want to invest our share into Real-estate and

air taxi business in your country with your assistance,bearing in mind that

confidentiality is of great essences so is time in this project I will

await your response.

Best Regards,

Mr.William Muyeke.

All responses should be sent to: [email protected]

Dear Mr Muckyeck:

Don't you want to succeed in life? Do you want to keep getting ignored or reported to the authorities?

What if you could get:

* 100s of replies?

* 1000s of dollars?

* 1,000,000s of respect from your partners in crime?

I mean really...who is going to believe that someone simply "forgot" about $21 million dollars and that you want to hand it out to a stranger just because? You'd be more believable if you told me the local termite hill started spewing rand notes yesterday. Do you think people on the internet are stupid? Of course they are, but not that stupid!

What would it be worth to you to be able to lick a stamp, put it on an envelope, and then sit back and wait for $1000s of dollars to roll in?

Hi, I won't tell you my name, because if you're smart enough to take me up on this incredible offer, we'll be partners in crime, but I am going to do you the biggest favor in the world! What you are reading now could change your life! I taught Dan Kennedy and all the so-called "salescopy gurus" everything they know about selling through words! My sales pages on the net sell for $1000s of dollars each! What if you could spend $1000 and have a letter that would reap you 1,000,000s? Would it be worth it?

What kind of return are you getting now? 1 out of 100? 1 out of 1000, and then even they get lost as soon as they get your next letter and find out it's a scam? Isn't it frustrating opening your email and finding...well...nothing except maybe an angry customer or two?

What if you could get 25 out of 100? That's 250 out of 1000! What if they kept coming back for more? What if they sent you money without you even asking? What if your mailbox was crammed full of huge checks from unsuspecting marks? Every single day! What would that be worth to you? $1000? $10,000?

Well, today is your lucky day! Because I like you and you're my friend, I'm going to give you the deal of your life! Not only will you get a phenomenal return on your scam letters, the respect of your peers, and new shoes, but you won't have to spend millions to do it! Not even thousands! Call me crazy, but I like you, so I'm going to share my amazing secrets with you for only $200!

That's right, you read it right! $200 for a customized form letter gauranteed to have marks pleading to send you money! Imagine what it'll be like, stashing all those American dollars away and living like a king.

And there's a bonus too! Not only will you get a phenomenal return on your scam letter, the respect of your peers, and new shoes, but once the first letters start to roll in, I'll take the worry out of your hands and handle all the correspondence for you for the same price! Each letter will cost you $200, but I guarentee 100% success or half your money back! That's right...a money back guarantee!

This is a completely risk free investment for you! Not only will you get a phenomenal return on your scam letter, the respect of your peers, and new shoes, AND have all your worries taken away, but you get back your investment back if it doesn't work! How can you lose?

[geoffrey]

I'd be a little cautious myself about offering my services to assist in fraud. But hey, I'm not a legal expert, don't listen to me.

[ScottSA]

I dunno, maybe, but offering is probably not the same as doing, and it's obviously a joke...I hope. Anyway, it would be hilarious if one of these jokers actually writes back.

[jbg]

I'd be a little cautious myself about offering my services to assist in fraud. But hey, I'm not a legal expert, don't listen to me.

I received an MSN from someone I used to trade music with, a BC retiree, who fell for one of those. We wound up on the phone, and I told her to call the RCMP immediately.

She lost only about $500.

[GostHacked]

Got Message 419 ??

MC Frontalot http://frontalot.com/index.php/content.php...rics&lyricid=19

This isn't intended for me, I don't think.

It's a missive from the edge of despair, I mean brink

of total desperation; the communication therein

says her hopes for survival are slim

and she's writing to the Front, though we've yet to meet,

with a confidential matter cause she's heard I'm discreet.

And the urgency of her request for my aid

is matched by the depth of the trust she displayed.

"Don't betray me like our oil minister did, staged a coup

and I'm about to flee Nigeria soon

but I'll never make it out," she says, with twenty million

three hundred twenty thousand US dollars that are still in

her possession. She embezzled them, I guess.

Look, I don't really know her so uh... that's none of my business.

She's the LADY MARYAM ABACHA, deposed.

These days can't even get her caps-lock key unfroze

but yo, something 'bout a widow in distress

(with 20 million dollars hidden in a metal chest)

softened up the Frontalot's heart no doubt

so I hit the reply button, tell her I can help her out.

This is from a genre of hip-hop music called Nerdcore. :)

I suggest you find the track and listen to it.

[August1991]

When it comes to scams, this was my favourite email:

BONJOUR MON AMI,

NOUS VOUS CONTACTONS PAR CETTE PRÉSENTE POUR VOUS OFFRIR UNE OPPORTUNITÉE INCONTOURNABLE ET QUI A BESOIN DE VOTRE AIDE. JE M'APPELLE SYLVAIN CHAREST, FILS DU DÉFUNT PREMIER MINISTRE DU QUÉBEC, JEAN CHAREST. DEPUIS LA GUERRE CIVILE, MOI ET MA SOEUR, JULIE CHAREST, NOUS NOUS CACHONS DANS UN HÔTEL DE LA BANLIEUE DE MONTRÉAL POUR ÉVITER LES BRIGADES DE LA MORT DES REBELLES AU POUVOIR. LORS DE SA TRISTE MORT, MON PÈRE NOUS A LÉGUÉ PLUSIEURS MILLIONS DE DOLLARS PROVENANT DES SOMMES ALLOUÉS AU GOUVERNEMENT DU QUÉBEC. CETTE SOMME TOTALISE 100 MILLIONS DE DOLLARS. PAR CONTRE, IL EST IMPOSSIBLE POUR NOUS DE POUVOIR EXTRAIRE CET ARGENT ET DE NOUS ENFUIR DE CET ENFER. C'EST POURQUOI NOUS AVONS DONC BESOIN DE VOTRE AIDE. IL NOUS FAUT UN NUMÉRO DE COMPTE ÉTRANGER POUR POUVOIR FAIRE LE TRANSFERT DES SOMMES POUR QUE MOI ET MA SOEUR PUISSENT VIVRE À NOUVEAU ET INVESTIR DANS VOTRE RÉGION. SI VOUS NOUS DONNEZ VOTRE NUMÉRO DE COMPTE, NOUS POURRONS ALORS FAIRE LE TRANSFERT ET VOUS TOUCHEREZ UNE GRANDE COMMISSION EN GUISE DE VOTRE AIDE. JE VOUS EN PRIE, AIDEZ-NOUS, MOI ET MA SOEUR, À NOUS SORTIR DE CET ENFER CAR NOUS NE SAVONS PAS SI NOUS POURRONS NOUS CACHER ENCORE UN JOUR DES ESCADRONS DE LA MORT.

NOTRE VIE DÉPEND DE VOTRE AIDE.

MERCI D'AVANCE POUR VOTRE LECTURE.

SYLVAIN ET JULIE CHAREST.

[geoffrey]

That's not for real, no way!

[ScottSA]

That's not for real, no way!

They are all for real. Some are so utterly ridiculous that you can't help laughing. Go read a few at ebolamonkeyman...they are friggin' hilarious!

[Rue]

Anyone who owns a business is used to these things popping up on a regular basis. They usually involve some rich guy with no relatives plummeting out of the sky in some airliner, although occasionally they get really creative, like the one I got from Arafat's widow asking for help in transfering his ill gotten gains out of Palestine. This particular one claims that $21 million of olympic lobbying money somehow got forgotten and that they desperately need help moving it out of South Africa, so naturally their first recourse was to contact a complete stranger on the internet, reveal the entire crime, and await my response. My response is below the letter, and if anyone gets these letters on a regular basis and would like to have a little fun, you're welcome to use it. One of these days I'll get a bite...

Someone else that has a lot of fun with these guys is http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

FROM: MR.WILLIAM MUYEKE

DESK OF CHAIRMAN

Sub-Committee on Finance

South African World Cup bid 2010

24 Steven Bikko Blvrd Pretoria,

Republic Of South Africa.

Tel : +27-78-393-0704

Email: [email protected]

Attn: Sir,

Greetings you must be aware now that my country The Republic of South Africa

won the bid to host the world cup by 2010,prior to this bid my committee was

mandated to lobby the members of board of Federation International Football

Association (FIFA) on selection of the country to host the world, the

bidding was intensive but at the end we got the hosting right. Mycommittee

was given the sum of $29 million dollars to lobby the members of the FIFA

ruling body to make sure that we win the hosting right considering the gain

that comes with the hosting right like South Africa?s economy will receive a

massive direct boost from hosting the 2010 World Cup,

financial impact report for South Africa's World Cup bid committee shows

that the 2010 World Cup will pump R21.3-billion into South Africa's economy,

and creating an estimated 159 000 new jobs.With the help the living legend

of our time 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr.Nelson Mandela who made

an emotive case for The Republic of South Africa, we got the bid without

spending all the money, I and my committee members saw this as a God sent

opportunity to secure our future and that of our family therefore was

mandated by other committee members to look for a way to move the remaining

money to a safe place with the help of a foreigner who we can trust and is

ready to assist us to move the funds considering the fact that we are still

members of the bid committee and in the eyes of the public. we have in our

possession the sum $21millon since we spent just $8million for lobbying.

We are ready to give you 20% for all your assistance then me and my

colleagues will keep 80% lf you are willing kindly reply to my letter for

further directive. we will want to invest our share into Real-estate and

air taxi business in your country with your assistance,bearing in mind that

confidentiality is of great essences so is time in this project I will

await your response.

Best Regards,

Mr.William Muyeke.

All responses should be sent to: [email protected]

Dear Mr Muckyeck:

Don't you want to succeed in life? Do you want to keep getting ignored or reported to the authorities?

What if you could get:

* 100s of replies?

* 1000s of dollars?

* 1,000,000s of respect from your partners in crime?

I mean really...who is going to believe that someone simply "forgot" about $21 million dollars and that you want to hand it out to a stranger just because? You'd be more believable if you told me the local termite hill started spewing rand notes yesterday. Do you think people on the internet are stupid? Of course they are, but not that stupid!

What would it be worth to you to be able to lick a stamp, put it on an envelope, and then sit back and wait for $1000s of dollars to roll in?

Hi, I won't tell you my name, because if you're smart enough to take me up on this incredible offer, we'll be partners in crime, but I am going to do you the biggest favor in the world! What you are reading now could change your life! I taught Dan Kennedy and all the so-called "salescopy gurus" everything they know about selling through words! My sales pages on the net sell for $1000s of dollars each! What if you could spend $1000 and have a letter that would reap you 1,000,000s? Would it be worth it?

What kind of return are you getting now? 1 out of 100? 1 out of 1000, and then even they get lost as soon as they get your next letter and find out it's a scam? Isn't it frustrating opening your email and finding...well...nothing except maybe an angry customer or two?

What if you could get 25 out of 100? That's 250 out of 1000! What if they kept coming back for more? What if they sent you money without you even asking? What if your mailbox was crammed full of huge checks from unsuspecting marks? Every single day! What would that be worth to you? $1000? $10,000?

Well, today is your lucky day! Because I like you and you're my friend, I'm going to give you the deal of your life! Not only will you get a phenomenal return on your scam letters, the respect of your peers, and new shoes, but you won't have to spend millions to do it! Not even thousands! Call me crazy, but I like you, so I'm going to share my amazing secrets with you for only $200!

That's right, you read it right! $200 for a customized form letter gauranteed to have marks pleading to send you money! Imagine what it'll be like, stashing all those American dollars away and living like a king.

And there's a bonus too! Not only will you get a phenomenal return on your scam letter, the respect of your peers, and new shoes, but once the first letters start to roll in, I'll take the worry out of your hands and handle all the correspondence for you for the same price! Each letter will cost you $200, but I guarentee 100% success or half your money back! That's right...a money back guarantee!

This is a completely risk free investment for you! Not only will you get a phenomenal return on your scam letter, the respect of your peers, and new shoes, AND have all your worries taken away, but you get back your investment back if it doesn't work! How can you lose?

Hah. Yah I am sick of them too! They met their match in you.

[M.Dancer]

Here's another site where they actually try to bust the scammers.....but before they do that they allow the scammers to make fools of themselves.

http://www.419eater.com/

http://www.419eater.com/images/tope2.jpg