FRAUD E-mails

lusy's picture
Submitted by lusy on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 20:36

I haven't checked my e-mail for a while, and when I open it , there are many strange English E-mails. I seldom receives English E-mails except for those from NEC, so I read those foreign e-mails carefully at first. Then I knew they were fraud messages. 

I don't think there will be such a beneficial thing, gaining 4 million dollars by doing almost nothing? Maybe that man really have that amount of money and he is a money launderer hoping to launder the money to foreign countries.  I don't know where they get my E-mail address, and I hate receiving these JUNK MAILS. 

Here is one of these junk e-mails I have received, in case you will be tricked, be careful~

Mr. FRANCIS KABORE
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO
WEST AFRICA

Dear Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise.

I am auditor director in Bank Burkina Faso (Bank).I Hoped that you will not expose or Betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the Mutual benefit of our both families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring sum of ($10.5Million united state dollars) Immediately to your account. The money has been dormant for years in our Bank Here with out any body coming for it.

I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased Customer (the owner of the account) died on the July 2003 in a plane crash with his wife and only child without any registered next of kin.

I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund.So This is the reason why i contacted you,so that we can release the money To you as the nearest person to the deceased cutomer.

Please we would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if You are not interested.

Upon receipt of your reply, i will send you full details on how the business Will be executed and also note that you will have 40% of the above mentioned Sum if you agree to transact the business with us.

Waiting for your urgent response so that we will start immediately.

Best Regards,
Mr Francis Kabore.

 

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Comments

Zakumi's picture
Assistant Administrator
Zakumi
Wed, 01/11/2012 - 12:20

Yes, be careful with those emails, Lusy! Most of us have received at least one of those emails at some stage and the best to treat those is to hit the delete button! The African countries are quite infamous for those shams and all they want the victims to do, is to give them their bank details. And if you have any money in the bank, that may suddenly disappear mysteriously! Nobody in this world today gives money away for free ... so, obviously that must be phony! Good to treat them with care as you'd done. :)

Star's picture
Site Administrator
Star
Wed, 01/11/2012 - 16:32

I agree with Zakumi but...

If you have a little extra time, it's fun to play around with those guys a bit. Express interest, string them along, and then finally come out and write them an email and tell them that you're going to report them to the FBI or something.

I've done it before...:)

Just don't give them ANY personal information.

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lusy
Wed, 01/11/2012 - 12:38

yeah, I totally agree with you. No one will give you such great amount of money for free. Once I gave them my details of my bank account, my money in my account would disappear. I've constantly received these kind of e-mails recently, almost two or three per day!