fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Fraud email example:
From: "Mike Coker" <mike_coker11@msn.com>
Reply-To: m_coker11@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:36:11 +0000
Subject: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
FROM MR. MIKE COKER
THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPT,
ECOBANK {ECOWAS BANK}
Alternative email add: mikecoker@latinmail.com
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Dear friend,
I am pleased to be in touch with you. My name is Mr. Mike Coker , I am a
senior auditor with the west african bank ecowas{ECOBANK}.I am contacting
you for a business consideration that will be of mutual
benefit to both of us.
An international bussinessman cum/Arm merchant Mr. Kelvin Briggs who had a
good business reletionship with the former liberian
warload, Mr. Charles Taylor made a fixed deposit of some money and valuables
with our bank.
During our routine account auditing i discovered that he had an
abandoned sum of usd12.5million (Twelve million five hundred thousand
united states dollars) in his account.
Unfortunately Mr. Kelvin lost his life early last year on Jan. 3, 2004 in
an air crash-- An Egyptian charter plane Boeing 737 crashed into the Red Sea
early on Saturday shortly after taking off from the resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh, killing all the 135 passengers and six crew members aboard, while
on hoilday without any body or name as the next of kin and the bank have
been expecting some body to come up for the claim. This is why i am writing
you to come in as the next of kin for the bank to release the money to
you.Every document that
will be needed will be procured and submitted to the bank for that purpose.
Kindly visit these websites for more information:
www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/03/egypt.airliner
www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3364795.stm
www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/ 01/03/1072908960088.html
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this
department now decided to do business with you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety
keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and we don.t want this money to go back into Government treasury as
unclaimed bill.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, 5% for
expenses on both sides,while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I
will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages
indicated
above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and
trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me by return mail whether or not
you are willing to enter into this deal. In the event you are not
interested, I sincerely ask that you disregard this email and tell no one
about it. I am very careful on truncating my banking career should you
mention this to someone else. I hope you can be trusted in
this regard.
Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these
funds to you has been finalized. We will discuss much in
details when I do receive your response.Please in your response include your
telephone number and fax number for a better communication between us.
I expect your prompt response.
Best regards,
Mike coker
Anti-fraud resources: