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Date Posted: 15:53:18 12/22/01 Sat
Author: Fenja
Subject: What is this?

I got something in my e-mail today I was hoping you could help me with! It's in the reply. The person who sent it to me knows my e-mail addy and my real name! I've never heard of him before! I'm not going to reply to him, but I'm very nervous right now.

fenja

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[> Re: What is this? -- fenja, 15:55:15 12/22/01 Sat

Dear Monica,

Compliments of the season to you.
My name is Martins Ibekwe, the Eastern District
Manager of United Bank for Africa Plc. (UBA). There
is
a dormiciliary account opened in the bank in
September, 1980 in the name of Mr. Charles B. Smith,
an expatriate who then was the manager of Petro
Technical Support services. The account was operated
for about 1 year and 6 months after which it became
dormant and remained dormant for about 81/2 years.
Mr.
Smith died in June 1990 in an auto crash.

After going through some old files, I observed that
the account owner's next of kin is his wife who died
with him in the auto crash. This has then made it
impossible for anyone to lay claims to the funds
deposited in the account. The top echelons of the
bank
are also unaware of the details of this account
because of its length of dormancy. The amount left in
the account is US$18,372,000.00. I have observed that
if I do not transfer this money out of the country,
it
would be forfeited.

I therefore want to transfer this money into a
foreign
account of an individual or corporate body for save
keeping and investments. Since the funds belongs to a
foreigner, it is then necessary that only a foreigner
can lay claims to it and with my position and
knowledge of the history of the account, the
transaction must be a huge success.

I propose a meeting between us as soon as you
indicate
your willingness to co-operate with me in this
transaction and a sharing formula of 60% for me, 30%
for you and 10% to reimburse incidental expenses in
the course of the transaction, and the transfer of
the
money to your mandated account will take 72 hours.

I look forward to your response by e-mail and include
your private telephone and fax numbers for more
confidential discussion.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Martins Ibekwe.


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[> [> This scam is the cyberspace version of the old "pigeon drop" (r) -- Dick Tracy, 01:26:16 12/23/01 Sun

which is usually perpetrated against elderly people. It often goes unreported because the victims are embarassed that they let their greedy side fall for the act.

Read more about it at www.aarp.org/confacts/money/pigeondrop.html


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[> [> [> Why, thank-you Dick Tracy! ;-) -- Susan W, 23:53:40 12/25/01 Tue


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[> [> [> [> My pleasure, ma'am. -- D.T., 00:57:04 12/26/01 Wed


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[> THROW OUT THIS EMAIL! Do not, I repeat, do not! reply to it!! This is a variation on a scam that's been running out of various countries in Africa for a few years. When you agree to help, they'll claim some extenuating circumstance that requires you to pay transaction fees before they can transfer money ... but the money never comes. Folks have lost BIG bucks in this scam ... and you don't want to be one of them! -- Cygnet, 00:35:51 12/23/01 Sun


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[> Time for the occasional reminder to check things out with the Mining Co. urban legend/hoax site: http://urbanlegends.about.com/ My personal rule of thumb: If it's too good to be true -- it isn't. -- Zzoo, 15:19:55 12/24/01 Mon


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[> Thanx! :-) -- fenja, 08:31:31 12/30/01 Sun


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