Page 1 of E-mail after my cash and yours!!!

Got this E-mail the other day seen and heard about them on countless consumer programes TV/Radio over the years.
Some people have lost their life savings to these con artists,how can they be so thick,or pheraps greed is something to do with it.


Dear Sir,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into
business relationship with you. I got your name in my search for a
God fearing person whom i can trust for this transaction. I prayed
over it and selected your name
among other names due to it´s esteeming nature and
therecommendations given to me as a reputable and
trustworthy person that I can do business with asper
the recommendations. I must not hesitate to confinedin you for this simple and sincere business.

I am Sekou Kourouma, the only son of late Mr.andMrs.
Moustapha Kouroumma. My father was a very wealthy
Cocoa Merchant in conakry the Economic Capitalof
the Guinea West Africa, my father was poisoned to deathby
his business associates on one of their outings on abusiness trip.My mother died when I was a baby and since then my
father took me so special. Before the death of my
father on November,2000 in a private hospital herein
Abidjan. He secretly called me to his bedside andtold
me that he has the sum of US$7.4(Seven million
four hundred thousand dollars) left in a
deposit/suspense account in one of the prime banks ,
that he used my name as his only son for the next of
kin in the depositing the fund. He also explained to
me that it was because of this wealth that he was
poisoned by his business associates. That I should
seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for
investment in a viable venture.

Sir, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the
following ways :
1. to provide a bank account into which this money
would be transferred
2. to serve as a guardian of this fund since I am
only17 years
3. to make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to further my education and to secure
Residence permit in your county.

Moreover, sir, I am willing to offer you 15% of the
total sum as compensation for your effort after
the successful transfer of this fund into your
nominated account overseas. Further more, youindicate
your option towards assisting me as I believe that
this transaction could be concluded within
fourteen(14) working days.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.I am waiting for
your urgent reply.

Thanks and God bless you..
Sekou Kourouma

PS ..I told him to F*** OFF!

This item was edited on Saturday, 15th March 2003, 23:47

Got a similar E-mail about a Nigerian trying to get shot of diamonds, offering a percentage profit.

Just binned it.

How the hell do they trawl through the internet to get your E-mail number. Thats what I would like to know?

Grunt boy (or one of guises) gave it to them.

"If a guest orders a 3 minute egg give it him in 2 minutes. If he orders a 2 minute egg give it him in one minute. If he orders a one minute egg give him a chicken and let him work it out for himself"

Just another type of spam, it cost very little to send out hundreds of thousands of these and only needs less than a single percent uptake for
for poor old Sekou to be a very happy Cocoa millionaire.
Unfortunately the gullable are out there and use the net. ( See E-bay :-buyers of Elvis Presley`s last worn pair of (( unwashed since he died ))socks )
;-)) P.

I`ve said it before and I`ll say it again :

http://www.mailwasher.net

Why even waste time downloading rubbish like this onto your PC - delete it from your ISP`s server before it even hits your inbox :-)

Here`s some more info about the scam :

http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

There`s plenty of other sources of information : just type in "Nigerian scam" into Google and you`ll see what I mean :-)

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Clayts
Moderator
DVD Reviewer

NEVER reply to spam email, and NEVER click on those "click here to unsubscribe me" links in spam - it only let`s the senders know that your email address is in fact active, so they can send you more, and sell your email address onto others who spam.

Most email addresses used by spamers are either collected by spiders which harvest them from the internet (working much like Google`s indexing bot, except they collect email addresses from pages as opposed to the pages themselves), or created by programs which produce random addresses from combinations of keywords, peoples` names and numbers.

Hodge

http://www.hodges-soapbox.org.uk

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"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have
names and addresses"

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True, those `click here to unsubscribe me` buttons do just the opposite. My email starts with ztnats[at].... but I`ve received e-mails sent to stan, stand, stanley, samman.... If i was to click these buttons, i`d actually be confirming my e-mail address and a tidal wave of s***e would issue forth into my inbox..

Do a search for Nigerian e-mail scams, there`s hundreds of examples out there. I suppose if you`re gullible enough to be taken in by that crap, you deserve to lose your bank details. Would anyone actually believe that some total stranger from half way around the world would beg them to allow a transaction of $20million into their account to hold for a while?