Spam Scams

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.

I have read a lot about the '419' Nigerian e-mail scams 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 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