thanks for yr assistance

And now today's third posting. This one is also a scam. The guy pretends he's already had contact with you. His hope is that you'll think to yourself, "Hmm...this is obviously a mistake that he sent it to me, but that's a big sum of money he's talking about, so I'll pretend I know what he's talking about, and see if I can get the money."

Irony of ironies...the only people who get scammed by this one are people who are willing to do a little scamming themselves. I do find that a bit...poetic.

Dear Friend,
I'm happy to inform you about our success in getting the fund transferred under the cooperation of a new partnerfrom Paraguay. Presently I'm in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist us in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how. Now contact my secretaray, his name is MR CHIJIOKE OKORO and his email address is (okoro_05@sify.com) TEL: 234-8063116746 ask him to send you the total $800.000.00,(EIGHT HUNDERED THOUSAND DOLLARS) draft which I kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist us in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much So feel free and get in touched with my secretary MR CHIJIOKE OKORO and instruct him where to send the money to you. Kindly confirm to him your full name and address to send it to.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the suffer ness at that time. In the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and I are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with MR CHIJIOKE OKORO and he will send the amount to you without any delay. Note that other people may be contacting you in respect of the same fund, as it is still in Central Bank vetting computer.

Best Regards
Usman

Relative Concerns - Next Of Kin Scam

This is another "Next Of Kin" scam. These people are just trying to get your money. Don't get involved. If you did respond, contact the FBI immediately!

I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer, and an investment he placed under our banks management 11 years ago, He signed up for a 10 years investment package.

The client, now deceased made a deposit of 16 million British pounds. I was assigned to manage this account and turn over same over various investments. I followed his instructions and invested his funds in high yield areas and have been monitoring the investment. At Maturity of the investment, I made attempts to reach him and get his go ahead to turn over the investments but got no response.

I made intense but futile efforts to locate him. I consequently passed the task of locating him to the internal investigations department which soon confirmed that my client had passed on. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to come forward to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes. In his bio-data form, he listed no next of kin.

In the field of private banking, opening an account with us means no one will know of its existence, accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers and codes to make the accounts anonymous. This bank even gives the choice to depositors of having their mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin. Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case; our now deceased client died without leaving a will. We immediately instituted our own investigations in good faith to determine who should have right to claim the estate. This investigation has for the past months been unfruitful.

We have scanned every continent and used our private investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem. It is this investigation that resulted in my being furnished with your details as a possible relative of the deceased. My official capacity dictates that I am the only party to supervise the investigation and the only party to receive the results of the investigation. It is quite clear now that our client died with no known or identifiable family members. This leaves me as the only person with the full picture of what the prevailing situation is in relation to the deposit of the deceased client.

According to normal practice, by bank will by the end of this year broadcast a request for statements of claim. Failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the deposit to the Government.

I am prepared to put you forward as next of kin and approve same with a view to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in the ratio of 70/30 in my favor.

This will not be too difficult, counting on the fact that I will be on hand to guarantee the funds are released to you, using my official position. This can be done with your cooperation in a few working days.

At your request, I will provide further information. It is of paramount importance that you do not contact me via the bank mailing system or switchboard telephones about this project as all official lines are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our total Quality Management Policy. I will therefore be inclined to feign ignorance if this happens.

Sincerely,

David Wilson

Send Prayer

It has been a while since I've posted anything on this site, but I've got three unsolicited emails to post this morning, all of which came in yesterday, or overnight.

The first is from a website called "Send Prayer". Now, before I post the email, I'd like to point out that it is possible that some friend of mine really did visit this website and ask them to "send me a prayer". It's possible. Not likely, since the email came in on an address very few of my friends use. But still possible. So I won't definitively call this one spam. But there is something I'd like to point out, after you look at the email.

sendPRAYER.com Bless People with Prayer in 3 Easy Steps!

Hello,

Someone that cares about you has sent you a prayer from sendPRAYER.com. As responsible Internet citizens, sendPRAYER.com requires that you opt-in to this e-mail request to receive your prayer. Please click on the following link to receive your blessing:

A Prayer of Prosperity

Or click the following link to not receive your blessing:

No Thank You

May God bless you!


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The thing that caught my attention was that you have to "opt-in" to receive your "blessing". What does "opt-in" mean? It means that you agree to receive emails from them. In other words, an anonymous friend sent me a prefab prayer, and if I want to receive it, I have to agree to get on their mailing list.

I don't think I'm going to do that.