Hello,
How are you doing. I am mailing you to bring you a proposal concerning my company and i hope this finds you in good peice.
My company deals in sales an just recently in the exportation of African Arts and Fashion, we growing and expanding, we have branches and offices in 16 countries in Africa and we just opened and outlet in luxemburg U.K. from where we make our international correspondence.
The purpose of my mail today is to bring you a proposal that will mutually benefit both our company and our representatives abroad which i would like to propose to you as.
Crrently we do not have representatives in your country where our market seems to have a promising growth, in the last 3 month we have recorded a 70 percent increase in sales and according to demands we are expecting 150 percent increase by the end of this year.
There is one of many few important factors causing setbacks to our organisation to which we have been looking into possible ways of solution and that is why i am contacting you today. Most of our customer would like to pay with their American cashiers check, Money order or wire transfer but our organisations have serious problem accepting this form of payment and this is what has limited our sales and patronage to the statistics as given above. It is estimated that we have a multiple of the recorded statistics if we can accept such customers willing to have such payments as it is recorded now that we have more demands than supply.
We are in desperate need of representatives in the United States who will be able to recieve cash on our behalf and will at the end of the week send accumulated cash to our depository account in the United Kingdom. And this is my proposal to you, i would like to offer you an opportunity to represent us and you will be a beneficiary of a whoping sum as cash flows in.
We have to options depending on how you wish to be paid.
1.You could earn monthly, for which we will be paying you a fixed sum of 10,000 USD
or
2.You could be earning as cash comes in, that is you will have a percentage from every money that comes in, we will pay you 5 percent of the total cash you send into our account at the end of ever week or forthnight as you choose to remit payment. for informational purpose we rake in between
15,000-125,000 weekly on the average provided our products and works get to our customers according to schedule and this is expected to increase in the next few months.
I would like to know if my proposal is accepted by you and if you would like to take part so i could let you know how we are going to go about this and i would tell you what to do.
We anticipate openning a branch in your country come 2007, this could give you an opportunity to be part of our expanding network if you will, and we expansion.
Let me have you phone number, Full name and Address if you would like to be part of us.
I hope to hear from you soon. Regards.
You really have to admire the courage these people show in trying to scam you in a second language. I just wish I knew the Nigerian phrase for “you and the horse you rode in on” so I could respond properly to most.
Meanwhile, it looks like my E-bay days are over as I’ve failed to respond to repeated “PayPal” requests to give them my debit card number and password in order to meet their new security requirements.
Jeez, is anybody dumb enough to fall for this stuff and, if so, how can they afford to have a computer, an ISP and a checking account???
Brad,
I thought the same thing…if you are dumb enough to fall for this crap, I think you deserve the consequences! The really sad part is that, obviously, there ARE people who DO buy this stuff.
Mike
I have a buddy who collects “South Africa Scam Checks”. He always gives them a halarious phoney name and his PO Box and gets huge sums of “money” in the form of uncashable checks from these Scam Artists…
Rich
Some years ago, when I lived in Singapore, there were a couple of recorded cases where the “victims” actually replied to the letter scam (electronic mail was just in it’s infancy in Singapore back then). In any case, one guy was burned for several hundred thousand dollars - an amazing testimony of greed at it’s finest. Another guy was burned for over 50,000.
As Oldfrat and Ohiotuber say, there are some reall dumb folks out there. Remember PT Barnum’s statement, “There’s a sucker born every minute”. Was it Ben Franklin who said, “a fool and his money are soon parted”? Or was that Confucious?
Snow on the roof but with fire still in the hearth
419 is great stuff.
My favourite is the series from “the Captain”
I get a few every month, here is one I saved that still makes me laugh.
DuFf
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This scam is an old one, but still effective. It is a lot like a woolly bugger!!
I had several Nigerian friends when I lived in Houston. Houston has more Nigerians per capita than any other U.S. city. There are many more highly sophisticated Nigerian scams out there that involve cell phones, identity theft, ATM cards, foods stamps and etc. There is a large and highly organized Nigerian criminal element with in the U.S. They are sort of like Africa’s version of mafia, without the blood.
I can recall having watched, a few months ago, “60 minutes” and they showed a complete operation involving the Scotland Yard, FBI and Interpol, they managed to catch a group of this rats that were stupid enought to try and scam a diplomat living in the UK. To make a long story short they said that if you were reached no matter how (email, on your phone, etc.) you could contact any agency like FBI or scotland yard and help in the effort to stop this guys.