chrishansenhome

The name sounds so very Saudi, doesn't it. And, his father was "assinated". This sounds particularly gruesome…

Hello,

I need your help. I got your email address from a guest book of business people all over the world. I am Bill Fazzina from Saudi Arabia and from a royal family. My father owns so many football clubs in Brazil before he was assinated by his political partners.

I want my father funds to be in your care. This $12,500,000.00 Million will be invested with your care. I need your trust as people around me can't be trusted anymore.

Please reply and help me. I will come with my bank manager to meet with you to start up the investment.

Don't be afraid because you will see me soon and we will start up this investment.

Regards,
Bill Fazzina

Current Mood: laughing
Current Location: London, in my study

I got a SPAM[tm] email today headlined: "Treat as Urgent". In this email, a "Sir Richard Lane" says:

Please note that I have in the past few weeks written you of this intention of allowing me to advice Citibank of United Kingdom to wire the sum of US$16,800,000 into your account. And I feel like reminding you once again.

I'm glad that Sir Richard feels like reminding me once again. I'd feel like answering him except that I've got the hiccups.

Current Mood: laughing
Current Location: London, in my study

Has anyone else been getting a raft of new scame from the 419ers? I have, and two today were quite funny, unintentionally.

X-Apparently-To: chrishansenhome at btinternet dot com
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:23:08 +0000
Authentication-Results: mta815.mail.ukl.yahoo.com from=myway.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Cc: recipient list not shown:
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:23:06 -0700
From: "Mr. Shamsudeen Usman" ;shamsudeen_usman1876XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $3,000,000.00
X-Sender: gordankkXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
User-Agent: Web-Based Email 4.12.22
X-Originating-IP: 220.231.124.5

Dr. Shamsudeen Usman
The Honourable Minister of Finance,
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
DIRECTOR SCAMMED VICTIM/$3,000,000.00
BENEFICIARIES.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $3,000,000.00.
Attn: Sir
Dear

UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meeting on the loss of funds by various individuals to the Nigerian scam artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.

In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators $3,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the Minister of Finance of Nigeria, the corresponding paying bank is UNION TRUST BANK PLC LONDON , ENGLAND

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to pay 150 scam victims $3,000,000.00 (THREE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.

You are listed andapproved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $3,000,000.00 compensations funds.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid,half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $3,000,000.00 each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who! have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your compensation payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS. I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

We await your urgent response.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Shamsudeen Usman
Minister of Finance.

SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $3,000,000.00

What a racket this is! I also got this:

YOUR INHERITANCE PAYMENT FROM UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS (WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-A NEW YORK NY
10017WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNITED NATIONS
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027
ATTN: Beneficiary,

UNITED NATIONS (WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
The UNITED NATIONS in conjunction with the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION and also the METRO POLICE OF LONDON, held a meeting last month concerning some of the foreign contractors and also lottery winners whose payment is due both in the foreign and local level that has not been able to claim there payment with the rightful office due to the fact that they have been contacting the wrong office just to claim there payment and at the end, they end up not getting there payment.

On going through contractors file yesterday, we discovered that your file was dumped untreated, so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment and please stop communicating with any Office now and attention to the appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly.

The UNITED NATIONS OFFICE have actually been authorized by the presidency Republic of Nigeria and the governing board of central bank of Nigeria and the government of England to investigate the unnecessary delay of your payment, Recommended and approve your claims for payment if certified as Genuine.

During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily Delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank who are Trying to divert your money into their private accounts, to forest all this, security for your funds Was organized in the form of your personal Identification number (PIN) and your transfer access Code(T.A.C), this will enable only you have direct Control over this fund, we have also agreed with the Presidency and the government of ENGLAND that we
will handle this payment ourselves to avoid the hopeless situation created by the Officials of the central bank of Nigeria and all bodies involve.

The UNITED NATIONS OFFICE obtained payment guarantee on your Payment from the presidency and the Government of England we are happy to inform you that based on our recommendation/instructions; your Entire Inheritances fund has been credited in your favor through our overseas paying bank. You are therefore advice send to contact Dr. DICK LUGAR International Audit unit, United Nations Liaison Office London.

Contact Person:

Name: Dr. DICK LUGAR
(Director of International Audit unit, United
Nations Liaison Office London)
Email Address:
(info-unitednationdept04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Direct Phone contact: +0044-xxxxxxxxxx

You are to contact him as immediately you receive this notice to collect your original payment slip with your pin and transfer access code. As soon as you submit these codes and your payment slip to your bank they will credit your account without delay.

NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming calls and emails, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those fraudsters that have been frustrating you for years, The authority shall stop and cancel your payment immediately. YOU ARE ADVICED TO FURNISH Dr. DICK LUGAR WITH YOUR CORRECT:

*CONTACT ADDRESS $ PHONE NUMBER#
*BANKING DETAILS OR OPTION ON HOW YOU WANT YOUR INHERITANCE PAYMENT#
THIS HAS TO BE DONE IN ORDER TO AVOID TRANSFER OF THIS FUND INTO A WRONG ACCOUNT.

We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively..

CONGRATULATIONS.

CAPT. JAMES C. WILLIAMS
UNITED NATIONS, New York

Current Mood: faintly amused
Current Location: London, in my study

I normally delete these things unread, but something said I should read this one. For those who are not UK-based or Anglophile, Sir Terry Wogan (who is said to be their "Foreign Service Manager") is a television sportscaster and general TV and radio factotum here in the United Kingdom.

I wonder how many gullible people who received this email will send off their details and get fleeced by the 419ers who are behind this.

FROM THE DESK OF E-MAIL
PROMOTIONS MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM.
Reference No:MSW-L/327015002/06
BATCH NO: 2006JULY#414

WINNER NO: 17

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM

Dear Winner,

Microsoft Co-operation Management Worldwide are pleased to inform you today of 2nd May, 2007 that you are a winner of our annual MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY conducted in Africa being the host of the event for this present year MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAM held on the 25th January, 2007.

Your email address was attached to ticket number 214-056-278 with serial number s/n-01025 and drew the lucky numbers 724-595-62-07-45 and consequently won in the 3rd category.

As a result of this , you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of US$1,000,000:00 (One million united states dollars) payable in cash credited to file Reference No:MSW-L/327015002/06 .

This is from total prize money of US$50,000,000 (Fifty million united states dollars) shared among thirty lucky international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system drawn from a collation of frequent internet users all over the world from America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia, as part of International Email Promotions Program, which is conducted annually to encourage the use of internet and computers worldwide.
Your fund (Cashier's cheque) has been insured with your Reference No: MSW-L/327015002/06 and will be ready for delivery but in order for your cheque to be issued and insured in your name and for you to begin your claim you are urgently required to provide the following information through email to SIR TERRY WOGAN, Foreign Service Manager, London United Kingdom, {wogan_terry@hotmail.co.uk}

1) Your full names
2)Your full home / office address
3)Nationality
4)Direct Land/Mobilephone/fax numbers
5) Occupation / Age
6) Sex
7) Next of kin
8) Amount won
9) Lottery date

Please note that above detailed information will be absolutely neccessary for the processing of your payment cheques,drafts or wire transfers.

Also this winning is valid for THREE WEEKS and failure to issue claims after this period will automatically void your
payment. Remember to quote your ticket number, serial number and lucky number in your future correspondence and most importantly as part of our security protocol you are to quote this security code MSW/JUN/SS06 to the Foreign Service Manager, this is to prevent scam.

Congratulations once again from the entire management and staff of Microsoft Corporation to all our lucky winners this year and thank you for being part of this Promotional lottery Program. Our special thanks and gratitude goes to Bill Gates of Microsoft and all his associates for alleviating poverty around the world through this promotion.
SINCERELY,
(Photograph)
Mrs.Olivia Ahmed Malik
(PROMOTIONS MANAGER).
LOTTERY SPONSORS : CHIEF SPONSORS;
MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA .
Past winners.

One of the logos of Microsoft Windows, the Company's best-known product.

Current Mood: cheered

Today's spam haul included the following. Please note the paragraphs bolded and italicised:

BANK OF AMERICA (ASIA)LTD.
17/F DEVCON HOUSE
979 KING'S ROAD
HONG KONG.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Graham R.Layton, credit officer of Bank of America (Asia) Ltd, Hong Kong. I am an Australian by nationality working with the Bank of America Asian Branch.

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

On october 6, 2002, an American Engineer/Consultant with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr. Steinmetz Horst made a (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$40,500,000.00 (Forty Million Five Hundred thousand United State Dollars only) in my branch.

Upon maturity,I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Hong Kong Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Steinmetz Horst died from a recurrent heart disease.

On further investigation,I found out that he died without making a will, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Steinmetz Horst did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$40,500,000.00 is still lingering in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it.

According to the Hong Kong Law, under china's foreign and defense affairs, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, such funds will revert to the ownership of the chinese Government for financing military operations, such as purchasing of arms and ammunitions for the military.

In order to avert this negative development, i will like to seek for your permission as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Steinmetz Horst so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not be use for financing weapons which will further enhance the courses of war in the world in general.

The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 30% for you and 10% for expenses incurred in the course of the transaction. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this project will be done by my attorney and with my position as the credit officer guarantees the successful execution of this project. If you are interested, please reply immediately.

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details that will help you understand the transaction.

You should observe utmost confidentiality,and rest assured that this project would be most profitable for both parties because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Thanks and regards.
Mr.Graham R.Layton

(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)

So we should be scammed in order to prevent this "money" being used to fund Chinese military operations! What a world, what a world!

Current Mood: am(us/az)ed

In my inbox today I discovered the following letter. The email address is deleted in case someone feels so moved by this that they want to contact Ms. Minoff. I especially like the fact that she is dying of "cancer of the lever". I wasn't aware that levers were either part of human anatomy or susceptible to cancer. Her husband died after a "Cadiac Arteries operation". Ms. Minoff's spelling is so atrocious I can only say that if she was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the schools there must not be very good.

From Joy Minoff.

Dearest,

With Due Respect And Humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a humanitarian ground.
My name is Joy Minoff. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, I am married to Mr.Jean Claude Dramane director J.C Industries Cote d'Ivoire.We were married for 36 years without a child. He died after a Cadiac Arteries Operation.
And Recently, My Doctor told me that I would not last for the next six months due to my cancer problem (cancer of the lever and stroke).
Before my husband died last year there is this sum $2.8 Million Dollars that he deposited with a Private Finance Company here In Ivory Coast. Presently this money is still in the Vault of the Company.
Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to any good God fearing brother or sister that will utilize this fund the way I am going to instruct herein.
I want somebody that will use this fund according to the desire of my late.husband to help Lessprivilaged people, orphanages,widows and propagating the word of God.
I took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this fund, And I don’t want in away where this money will be used in an unGodly way. This is why I am taking this decision to hand you over this Fund.
I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going.I want you to always remember me in your daily prayers because of my up coming Cancer Surgery.
Write back as soon as possible any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another person for this same purpose, Hoping to read from you asap.
God bless you as you listing to the voice of reasoning,
Joy Minoff.