[Aprill]

Cause sometimes I just wanna say "you fools, I watched you on dateline" lol

I am Mr.Frank Obi, Area bank manager, in UNION BANK OF NIG
PLC.Late engineer Tony Morozov, who was a contractor with oil
Company in Nigeria and a personal friend Died and left behind
his deposit in this bank UNION BANK OF NIG PLC) valued USD
12.5m.

I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business deal.
In my bank,I discovered an abandoned sum of USD 12.5m (Twelve
Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) only , in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who
died along with his entire family in an Auto crash that took
place in shagamu Lagos ibadan express way, the Late engineer
Tony Morozov, a citizen of Slovenia, but resident here in
Nigeria, West Africa and a physician.

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money
because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as
next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed next of
kin or relation died alongside with his family at the Auto
crash leaving nobody behind to claim the money.

therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you via your
foreign bank account as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and this money Could go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed fund after six years, the money will
be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The
request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a
foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the deceased our late customer was
a foreigner,which only a foreigner can claim this fund safely.

40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account/assistance while
60 % would be for me the genesis of this deal. There after I
will come over to your country for disbursement according to
the percentages indicated in my business proposal.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you
as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the relation or
next of kin to the deceased,indicating your claims and where
the money will be remitted into.

Upon receipt of your respose indicating your willingness to
work with me,I will send to you by fax or email the contact
information of my bank remittance department,where you will
submit the official application form and I will direct you on
how to do that.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is strictly confidential and I will use my position in this
Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund and that is to
say I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from any
breach of the law.

[KatJ]

LOL, they're so freaking see-thru. I've never gotten one before, but I've seen millllllions on tv. i dont understand how people get drawn in.

[bella1342]

i get emails like that at least once, usually twice a week. They're funny. I've never seen anything about them on dateline though... do people actually fall for them?

[-Liz-]

LOL you should email them back and screw with their head

[daer0n]

Originally Posted by -Liz-

LOL you should email them back and screw with their head

LMAO! that's what i did one time, i keep getting those still, they are just so dumb, i never really fell for them, they always made me wonder.

[laurreenn]

i've never even seen those or heard of those before.

[Anthea]

I HATE them. I get them via Email, post and fax. I get at least one or 2 per week.

[Duchess Ravenwaves]

I hate those!

[ColdDayInHell]

I've been getting them fairly regularly for years!

[La_Mari]

Whoever falls for them are idiots... sorry.

[Sirvinya]

They make me laugh. I get 3 or 4 a week sometimes.

[S. Lisa Smith]

I get them every once in a while. They are pretty funny, with the misspellings and all. I sometimes think I should pretend to go along with them for a while for some fun, but I never do.

[magosienne]

lol ! i receive some too, sometimes the same i received a few months ago, they're really funny.

[Ashley]

There are actually people who reply back and try to waste the scammer's time. I think it's called scambaiting. One person pretended to be a nun of some butterfly church and got the scammer to paint butterflies on his face. Another one got the person to copy Harry Potter by hand. I started feeling bad for the scammers....but they're cheating people out of money anyway.

Here's the link for the harry potter one. I can't seem to find pics of the butterfly scambait.
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[Jinx]

Originally Posted by Ashley

There are actually people who reply back and try to waste the scammer's time. I think it's called scambaiting. One person pretended to be a nun of some butterfly church and got the scammer to paint butterflies on his face. Another one got the person to copy Harry Potter by hand. I started feeling bad for the scammers....but they're cheating people out of money anyway.

Here's the link for the harry potter one. I can't seem to find pics of the butterfly scambait.
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That was funny, lol!!!
Good to see them getting a taste of the havoc they cause.
Like others said, I cannot understand how people actually believe these emails- they are so transparent and obvious!!!!
There is that commercial that shows how if someone came walking up to you at random and said this, you would think it was ridiculous so why is it believable in an email.

[love2482]

I feel bad for the people who fall for that. Come on!

Originally Posted by Ashley

There are actually people who reply back and try to waste the scammer's time. I think it's called scambaiting. One person pretended to be a nun of some butterfly church and got the scammer to paint butterflies on his face. Another one got the person to copy Harry Potter by hand. I started feeling bad for the scammers....but they're cheating people out of money anyway.

Here's the link for the harry potter one. I can't seem to find pics of the butterfly scambait.
Welcome to the 419 Eater

OMG I started looking at this website, soooo funny!! I think it's hillarious revenge for those nasty scammers, don't feel bad for them!!!!

[Kathy]

Yeah, I get these things too. People who do fall for them must be really naive!

[Dragonfly]

I have gotten several of these as well. And I remember getting one from someone from England.

I saw a Judge Judy episode where a women got scammed from a bad cheque she received from a Canadian scam.

So I guess it's more then Nigerians that are trying to make easy money.

[speedy]

They're funny aren't they? I've been getting a lot of them lately, I always wonder how many people they manage to suck in.

[Adrienne]

Originally Posted by Ashley

There are actually people who reply back and try to waste the scammer's time. I think it's called scambaiting. One person pretended to be a nun of some butterfly church and got the scammer to paint butterflies on his face. Another one got the person to copy Harry Potter by hand. I started feeling bad for the scammers....but they're cheating people out of money anyway.

Here's the link for the harry potter one. I can't seem to find pics of the butterfly scambait.
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