Have any of you been sent an email like this? I know it's a scam, but how does it work?

>>>>FROM THE DESK OF Owo Wiliams CHAMBERS
PLEASE MY DEAR, IT IS VERY
VERY IMPORTANT YOU REPLY
THIS ALTERNATIVE EMAIL owowilliams3@myway.com
(owowilliams3@myway.com)
FOR SECURITY REASONS

Dear Wren
I am sorry for the embarrassment this mail might cause you, as we have not met before. I am Barrister Owo Wiliams, a solicitor at law, I am the personal attorney to Engineer Edward Wren, a national of your Country,who used to work with Mobil oil Nigeria plc. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.

On the 21st of April 2002, my client, his wife and their children were involved in a car accident along Kano - Sokoto express Road while arriving from Easter Holiday to Warri Delta State. All occupant of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives, since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has been unsuccessful.

I came across your name and contact, while I was searching for Edward's relations, since my search did not yield the desired result, I had to contact you for this project.

I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money and properties left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the finance house where these funds were deposited. Particularly, the finance house where the deceased has an account valued $USD18 million Dollars, last year issued me a 12 months notice to provide the Next of Kin or have the fund consignment confiscated, and this altimatum expires by next month.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over two years now, I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD18 Million Dollars can be released to you and then you and I can share the money, 50% for me 45% for you, and the remaining 5% will be for expenses and tax.

Please,find,picture of the funds as was taken by my client before it was deposited at the bank, because he made the money in one of the Oil deals he had with our Oil Minister. Also is the family picture of Engr. Edward.This is just to proof to you that my proposal is genuine. I also have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this business through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

(a)Full name and address,
(b)Your private telephone and fax number,
(c)Age and sex.

With these informations from you,we will proceed with this transaction as the next of kin to late Mr Edward.Contact me immediately through my private mail(owowilliams3@myway.com) for details of the business.

Sincerely yours,
Barrister Owo Wiliams (ESQ)

 

Dude, if you fall for that....I have some land in Florida I'd like to sell you....and a few bridges too.

 

I get them quite a bit, delete and ignore. They try and get you to send them money inorder to get a "greater sum on of money" released from some bank, they offer you a cut of $$$ millions, which of course does not exist. However, you have given them money to an untraceable account overseas and the gov. can do nothing to help you.

Between this and the ***** enlargement, I'm not sure which is more annoying, maybe a poll is in order?

Deebo

 

Big Time Scam - hard to believe that folks still fall for stuff like this.

They send e-mails to eny address they can get their hands on - if they get a return reply then they startto lay the ground work to eventually get you to give them your bank account number and other private info under the guise that they are spiriting the frozen assets out of their country and deposting the millions of dollars into your account. They they tell you that you will be given a percentage of the money since you were so helpful. Yea - RIIIIGGHT...
The millions never show up and all that happens is that they siphon your account of all of its funds. They are very good at hiding the funds too by sending it immediately overseas and they bouncing it around in a couple of different accounts until the trail gets so convoluted that you give up or can't find it.
I can't believe all the people who have fallen for this scam - hoping to get millions in fees for helping.
I do remember one website where this guy responds to these folks and actually got one of the scammers to send him $50 for fees - it was hilarious. I think it was called something like "Church of the red circle" and he'd have them join the church and they had to send a pic of themselves and paint two red circles on their chest and hold a fish on top of their head. In the end he was scamming them. I laughed pretty hard reading what he had done to them. /// There was another fellow who responded to the scammers e-mail and posed as a priest (called himself Niles Frazer) and strung this scammer on and on and actually got him to send the priest $50 so that the priest could use the money to pay fees to get to the churchs funds. If anyone ever finds that one they should post the link - the story was funny.Short version- Priest wants to help needy children with funds, can't access funds without paying $50 fee, scammer sends fee, priest disappears for a while from e-mail, pops up in two weeks saying that he was weak and took all the church funds and blew it gambling, drinking and with loose women... the story goes on from there with the priest joining the circus ... it was funny.

 

AHA, so after you contact them, they try to skin some funds from you and you give them your bank account number, etc. I see. Nah, I know it's a scam, I just didn't know how it worked.

 

im to lazy to read them if i dont know who sent the email it gets deleted

 

They had a pretty convincing one once, they called to say there was a check which got sent from Canada and customs was holding it because of the amount. Something about import or duty taxes or whatever. they said I signed up for some contest while in Vegas and I actually won. Now, I had just been in Vegas and to be honest I couldn't remember if I signed up for anything or not so it was indeed at least *possible*. The scam was wanting me to western union money to I forget where and then they could get the duty fees taken care of. They gave all kinda of U.S. customs addresses, phone numbers, bank addresses etc. I did serious research and of course found that all this info was bunk.

Honestly, I could see how that one really could have gotten someone - it was very convincing.

btw, ***** enlargement is a serious matter - some of us..... well...... some of you may need a little help

 

It is called the west african scam after Nigeria complained about it being called the Nigeria scam the UK has a whole police section devoted to getting these fraudsters, also if they have you bank details they can use them to gain credit as well...

 

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...p;in_page_id=2

A small ***** could be worse, see above link! I can't imagine that ever happening.

 

Why, I must confess, I find your lack of faith in your fellow man disturbing ! This is obviously a legitimate financial transaction.

Now, if you will excuse me, I must take what I have been assuredwill bean enhancedand orenlarged ***** and wait for my Nigerian check to arrive.

Good day.