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The KSB

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I just got this email and I was seriously considering it, but with my health getting better and the new ice cream maker I just ordered I figure I've got enough good fortune to last me a while but if any of you want to take up the offer you're all welcome to it. Just tell Mr. Musa your a friend of mine.

Mr ABDUL MUSA
The Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
address removed
( READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET)
Greeting, and how are you doing?I hope fine.Please let this my message
do not be a surprise to you because i got your information and lay
trust in you before i contacted you.I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY
DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial
transaction worth the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22,300,000.00).This is an abandoned fund that
belongs to the one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his
completely family on 25th oct,2002 in a plane crash disaster.
I was very fortune to came acroos the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2003-2004 in other to submit
to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes.It is
clearly stated in our BANKING FOREIGN POLICY and signed lawfully that if
such fund remains unclaimed by the NEXT OF KIN till the period of
SIX(6) years starting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money
will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.Besides,it
is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA
FASO to make the claim of the fund.
So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the
claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as
the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.When the fund is transferred into your
account,FOURTY PERCENT(40%) will be for you in an assistance and in
provision of the bank account,while SIXTY PERCENT (60%) will be for me.
If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and
confidentiality,reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call me as
you so that i will let you know the steps to follow in order to finalize
this transaction immediately.I will be waiting for your urgent reply.
My regards to you and your family,
Mr.ABDUL MUSA.
 
If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and
confidentiality,reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call me as
you so that i will let you know the steps to follow in order to finalize
this transaction immediately.I will be waiting for your urgent reply.
My regards to you and your family,
Mr.ABDUL MUSA.


So I just got off the phone with Mr. Abdul Musa. Everything he promises in the e-mail seems on the up-and-up. I can usually sniff out a scam, but he seems like a very trustworthy guy. I can understand everyone being very skeptical, but get this.....

He even posts here!!!!!!


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I love it when some dumb TV show like Dateline will interview some random moron (usually a geezer) who is crying about losing all their money falling for one of these scams.

Yeah, I really feel sorry for stupid people.
 
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cincibuck said:
Just Google "Abdul Musa"

I have a brother in law whose 90+ year old parents are steady contributors of "Love Gifts." Tell me televanglilists aren't con artists. Amazing what you can get away with if you invoke the name of Jesus.
I dontate strictly to the Human Fund

Money For People.
 
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No thanks KSB. That doesn't sound very ligit to me. I have a 75KG box of money on the way. Mine can't be a scam....it's from a Reverend:


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My Email said:
OFFICE OF REVD.FR MARK PHILLIPSDIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES, UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATIONIN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDWORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICELONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.TEL: + 447040113347FAX: + 448709121776EMAIL: [email protected]ATTN: THE BENEFICIARY,I am Revd. Fr. Mark Phillips, a senior staff with the World Bank fact finding & special duties office. I am writing you this letter based on the fact that cool penny is better than millions of dollars means,it's better for one to live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one.I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this organisation have arranged with an officer in the computer section in person of Engineer Peter Cliff to bring out part of your total pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371) amounting to US$10 million. Why we did this is because according to information gathered from the bank’s/security computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive this payment without success. As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment. The problem we feel you are having is that of interest groups. A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive different kinds of untrue fax and phone messages from different people everyday. Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do not do away with those officers. For security reasons you do not have to tell anybody that your have your payment on the way until the payment gets to you.The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. In order to get this box shipped to you I and the (CSO) Yesterday went to this four courier companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by courier, but to no avail the above courier companies all made us to understand that they will have to open the box for inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because this box is been padded with synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the pad before you will meet the button that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again because it was padded with machine. We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and when open will spoil the materials. <N: B> we did not declare money because courier does not carry money.Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to me that there is a security courier service company that is specialised in sending diplomatic materials and information from one country to another, which also has diplomatic immunity and consignment such as this cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I have therefore met the official of the security courier service and concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as I have your go ahead order. The diplomat who will be bring in this consignment to you is an expact and has been in this line of work for many years now so we have Notting to worry about. After all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organisation I designate as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for the donation along with your address where you will like the box to be delivered to by courier. Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if found out that we are using this way to help you. You are advised not inform anyone about this until you received your money. Am helping you on this because something in me is tells me that you are an honest person. When you conclude this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you.May God be with you as i await for your response either Via Fax or Email: [email protected] Feel free to call me if you will like us to discuses more on this TEL: + 447040113347, FAX: + 448709121776Yours FaithfullyRevd. Fr. Mark PhillipsDirector, Special Duties. UNO/WBF
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I love it when some dumb TV show like Dateline will interview some random moron (usually a geezer) who is crying about losing all their money falling for one of these scams.

Yeah, I really feel sorry for stupid people.

Why wouldn't you? I can see having contempt for people who choose to be ignorant and not use what brains they have, but stupidity isn't a choice.
 
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A year or so ago I came across a website/blog where some guy was contacting email scammers, much like Mr. Musa, and leading them along. He'd try and get them to ship him something and have to make some out-of-pocket expense, or take a picture or something to prove they were legit. There were some hilareous exchanges/pics on that blog. I may have seen the link here on BP, but I don't remember.

Anyway, it was good to see someone sticking it to the scammers.

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Here's one blogger who led one of these guys along. hehe

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/01/playing-along-with-email-scams

edit #2:

Okay, looks like it's called 'scambaiting'. Some hilareous stuff here:

http://www.419eater.com/index.htm
 
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their customer died along with his completely family? thats so sad :( while i can't speak for anyone else, i for one did not let this their message do not surprise to me.

BURKINA FASO eh? isn't that just northwest of east boofu? i have a friend that goes scuba diving in the vega system and im pretty sure they catch a connecting flight in burkina faso on their way there. nice place they tell me...
 
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