--- type: Article title: Spam Scams description: I have read a lot about the 419 Nigerian email scams and have received three in the past two years but this morning I received two new scam emails in my inbox. resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2003-08-14-spam-scams/ tags: [Shorticles, Opinion, Web] timestamp: 2003-08-14 --- I have read a lot about the ['419' Nigerian e-mail scams](https://web.archive.org/web/20090421192027/http://www.silicon.com/news/500028-500001/1/3042.html) and have received three in the past two years but this morning I recived two new scam e-mails in my inbox. My head must be above the parapit because of my interview on [BBC Radio Derby ](https://web.archive.org/web/20090421192027/http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radioderby/)on Tuesday Morning! Then again... Here are the two e-mails in full. If you get them do NOT respond and certainly do not follow them up as they are scams and people have actually been murdered trying to pull one over on the scammers. Just bin them. e-mail one: Subject: TRUST IS THE KEY FROM: MRS ELISABETH AGNIME FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT. BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN ABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE Dear, With due respect and huminity, I write to you this proposal.I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of Banque Internationale du Abidjan . I am writing following the impressive information about you through my research in internet search.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$8.5m USdollars (Eight million, five hundred thousand US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in november 1997 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. According to our Banking policies and guideline here which stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will automatically be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 15 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5 % will be for reimbursement of any expenses incured during the curse of the transaction and 80 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easier and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted . Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer . You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately. Yours faithfully, FROM: MRS elisabeth_agnime BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN. * * * email number two: Subject: HELLOW FROM MRS FELICIA MBOUSOUME ABDIJAN COTE'D IVOIRE IN WEST AFRICA. ATTN ; I am MRS FELICIA MBOUSOUME the wife of, late Dr ALOYSIUS MBOUSOUME From EQUITORIA GUINEA, one time by political appointment Director of International Affaires Department of EQUITORIA GUINEA PETROL AND NATURAL GAS who died on a board meeting with the International Oil Gulf Representatives, in September 11th 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York City USA. Sorry I do not know whom you are, but I feel strong to write you concering my present predicament at stake now. i have only one son Mr Victor who is a student in Chemical Engineering At University of MALABO, EQUITORIA GUINEA, before the date of the urgly incident occurred. Presently I am in Abidjan Cote d´ Ivoire,where I am looking or seeking for someone who will assist me in transfering the sum of money my late husband left in a suspended account of a Bank here in Abidjan. The amount is Eighteen Million US Dollars ($ 12, 000.000.00). However since, I am his next of kin , I have contacted you to stand as my Late husband´s foreign parter to receive this fund into your account after which I will join you there. l am willing to offer you 5% of the total sum of amount, to you for assisting me and you will handle the investment we will go into until my son finished up his education, and eny expences you made in this transaction must be minus including your perscentage before investing the fund. In addition I humbly solicit for you kindly assistance to help me in investing this money into a good and profitable investment, really my intenssion for contacting you is not only to help me in tansfering this fund out hear but also to help me to invest the fund into an ivestment that can not involves so much tax in your cauntry,and A nice school where my son victor will finish up his education. I am assuring you that this transaction is hatch free from all indication, because all the document that was issued to my husband at the day he lodged the money are with me and the are avilable to you on your request. You will provide me with a bank account that is capable to carry this amount. Again, try to understand the fact that this is a priviledged information that should be kept secret and confidential Please understand my condition and get to me as soon as possible and please I urge you to keep this transaction confidential for my secuirty and the security of the fund.Finally, I need your urgent response to enable me commence with the procedures. Please to confirm your interest, as soon as you received this mail send me an email I will be waiting to hearing from you soonest, May God bless you. With Best Regards. MRS FELICIA MBOUSOUME AND SON [Read full article](https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2003-08-14-spam-scams/)