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Lumberg

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I got the following email on Dec. 24th, 2004:

Dear Jonathan Crane,

I am Barrister Dan Soglo, a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Engr.P.B.Crane, a national Of your country,who used to be a contractor and importer here in Lome Togo. Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 2000, my client,his wife and their only daughter were involved in a ghasty motor accident along Nouvissi express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients extended family relatives, this is to no avail.

After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the fund
valued at US$12 million left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount were deposited.

The said Security Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days.

Since I have been unsuccesful in locating the relatives for over 2years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.Therefore, on receipt of your
positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.
I guarantee that this attract no risk at all for it will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

On the receipt of your response i will furnish you with detailed clarification as it relates to this mutual benefit transaction.

Best Regards.
Dan Soglo Esq
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I dicked around with him for a couple of emails before he pretty much gave up.

Then, this A.M., what do I find but THIS email:

From Mr Chris Collins

Head Of Archives/Reconciliation

Btci Bank Togo.

West Africa,

Private E-mail Contact:

lumberdo_collins02@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: 00228 9290332

Dear Jonathan Crane,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential.


I am Mr Chris Collins of BTCI Bank lome Togo,the personal account manager of Mr. Patrick Crane(Snr.)a national of your country, who used to work with shell development company here in Togo. On the 21st April 2003,our customer, his wife And their three children were involved in a car accident along sagbama express road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.


Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.


I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by our customer before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by our bank where he deposited sum of US$18,000,000 million dollars in our bank the Btci Bank Togo the banking guidelines of BTCI Bank Togo stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed for over a period of time 2 years and few months, with the account unserviceable the money will be confiscated and this will happen after the next ten days if nobody comes for the money Since we have not seen any body for the money and his property for the last two years and our bank has been notifying the Rotary club for the past one year, now I seek your consent to present yourself as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$18,000,000 dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please, I like to have your phone and fax number for easy communication.

Since you are interested contact me through my private E-mail:lumberdo_collins02@yahoo.co.uk

Best Regards,

Mr Chris Collins

TELL: 00228 9290332
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Feel free to contact Mr. Collins....

Who knew there were so many Cranes in Togo, and that two families woudl suffer such similar tragedies!
 
Hell, go get a free checking account and let them transfer the money to you, LOL.
 
i swear i get about one of these a month. it makes me think that there are actually some people who buy into this scam or else i wouldnt get them all the time.
 
Interesting.

Back in '98 Volvo Customer Care called me to ask how I liked my new car that I purchased from a dealership in FT. Worth. ??? My response was I don't live in Texas nor have I ever purchased a Volvo. ??? They had the correct spelling, address and of course phone number. When I corrected the rep she cut the conversation short and told me to enjoy the car. I did a quick internet search and found another me in Ft. Worth that can no longer be found. Fortunate for me nothing about this purchase was/is on my credit :whistling:

I am still waiting for my car from Volvo though. :laugh:

edit: Forgot to add that I even contacted the dealership and after explaining the situation the confirmed the sale. ???
 
Noooo, scams in West Africa?! I am shocked! I mean, with all of those upstanding politicians, who'd have ever thought that there would be crooks there? :laugh:
 
I just thought it was funny that two families with the same last names died in similar manners EXACTLY 3 years apart.

Anyway I sent back a response. Will keep y'all updated.
 
Oh yeah the first guy actually sent me pictures. Maybe I will ask for pics from the second guy and see if they are the same ones.
 
i got the same one Lum.,...and then i put his email addy into every nasty porn site i could find and told him to F(*^k off and die...bunch of scumbags..
 
I've had lots of Nigerian letters, and I can't understand how someone can be fooled by them ???
 
mrjinglesusa said:
Check this site out, it's hilarious.  They actually bait the scammers and get THEM to send them money for fees, etc.   :thumbs:

http://www.419eater.com/
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Damn you, Dr. J - I was gonna mention that site. It is friggen hilarious!!! Check on the "Church of the Red Breast" scam... (Especially if you like the TV Show Frazier)

Hey, Lum... Now that you screwed with them - they know you have an active e-mail account. They will flood you with e-mails now...

I actually set up a e-mail address specifically for them - nigerianscamcentral at yahoo dot com. That's the e-mail address I use to send the goofs responses. Some of them have gotten downright nasty with me!!! :laugh:
 
Lemon said:
I've had lots of Nigerian letters, and I can't understand how someone can be fooled by them ???
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You'd be surprised.... And you'd also be surprised at WHO is buying in to these idiots - people I thought were smarter than that... The sad part is they will continue to scam people as long as people can be scammed. They wouoldn't be sending tons of e-mails out if they weren't hooking people...

I had one guy, who is a computer programmer doing simulation software for the military, deposit a $35,000.00 counterfeit check he received after responding to the emails. He said he was cautious, figuring it might have been a scam, and refused to send them any money. So he made them send HIM a check. After depositing the check, he promptly wire transferred back about $10,000. He believed the check was legit because (and I quote), "the bank took it so it must have been legit." He couldn't believe he was stuck with the loss (the bank refused to re-imburse)... BTW - this same guy did tell me that there are legitimate things on the internet that people think are scams - such as the Russian mail order bride websites he was participating in... OKAY.... :whistling:

The bad news is that the Nigerians, while doing the e-mail scams, also are eating into the banking industry by obtaining account information. Sometimes through people who respond to the e-mails, but most times they place people inside of the banks to feed the information out. Once they have the routing codes and account numbers they go to town - wire transferring funds, writing counterfeit checks, balance transfers, etc. In general, wreaking havoc. And, unfortunately in most cases, they are untouchable because they're in Nigeria...

If you've not been the victim of these morons, you don't appreciate what POS's they are... That's why I really like the 419 eater website. I'm hoping that the Nigerians will not know who is and who is not legit when the send the e-mails out. Maybe someday they'll quit...
 
I've had similar letters from Nigerian scammers. I was going to mention 419eater, and its many counterparts. But, 419eater is the best. It gave me even more motivation to screw around with these people than I already had. I started sending tons upon tons of MASSIVE jpeg files to them, with long, extremely verbose responses, all in the hopes that some jackass was sitting in Cyber-Cafe paying by the minute. In any case, it's fun to screw with them and lead them on further.

As an attorney, I get the Florida Bar Journal here in Florida. A month or so ago there was a story about some female attorney who took roughly $300,000 of her client's money, and gave it to a scammer. She thought she'd get $20 million and be able to replace it before they knew. She's now facing disbarment. Brilliant, wouldn't you say? :)
 
MiamiCubano said:
I've had similar letters from Nigerian scammers. I was going to mention 419eater, and its many counterparts. But, 419eater is the best. It gave me even more motivation to screw around with these people than I already had. I started sending tons upon tons of MASSIVE jpeg files to them, with long, extremely verbose responses, all in the hopes that some jackass was sitting in Cyber-Cafe paying by the minute. In any case, it's fun to screw with them and lead them on further.

As an attorney, I get the Florida Bar Journal here in Florida. A month or so ago there was a story about some female attorney who took roughly $300,000 of her client's money, and gave it to a scammer. She thought she'd get $20 million and be able to replace it before they knew. She's now facing disbarment. Brilliant, wouldn't you say? :)
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Wow. An attorney.

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