From: Jason smith <jssmith004@live.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 5:21
Hello,
My name is Mr.Jason smith, I am the credit manager in a bank here in the
United Kingdom. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum
of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
assuring you that everything has been
taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to
contact you due to the urgency of this transaction. PROPOSITION; I am the
account officer of a foreigner named Richard Burson who died in an air
crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline
990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website
below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS. WEBSITE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for
this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident
himself and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release
the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your
permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all
documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the funds
(£7,800,000.00) seven million eight hundred thousand pounds to be
released in your favor as the beneficiary's next of kin. Because after
ten years the money will be called back to the bank
treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of
the bank. so it is on this note i decided to seek for whom his name shall
be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow
the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of
the year. It may interest
you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to
locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of
this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing
me with the following
information if you are interested.
1. A Beneficiary name..In order for me to prepare the document for
transfer of the funds in your name.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers...For our personal contact and mutual
trust in each other. (50/50)share for both party 50% comes to my account
and 50% to your account. I intend to retire after the conclusion of this
transaction.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me
immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in
you, I await your urgent mail.
Regards,
Mr.Jason smith
N.B. Please note that you will not be responsible for any financial cost
in this transaction.It will be taken care of.
Response:
Seriously?
If you're going to try and scam people, do it properly.
First, well done, this is one of the few scam emails that actually used a spellcheck. Bonus points.
But try using something other than a stock copy and paste text. If you actually read it, you claim the crash was in 1999, and after 10 years the money becomes property of the bank, hence the need for the transfer. The year is now 2010, so the money would have gone even if it had existed to start with.
Third, a bank doesn't do communications from an @live.com account. At least make a fake bank site to run an email from to make it look legit.
And finally, UK banks tell you which bank it is, rather than just generally claiming to be a UK bank.
None of these things are hard to fix, so if you really want to scam people, at least put some f*cking effort into it.
I feel like I've done something positive today.
