mattstant

Just received this pathetic email and would love some help spamming and or stringing this to***er along

probably one for the the muppets ???
any suggestions.




Subj: Your Urgent Attention Is Needed.
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 6:40:02 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: "Martin E Onyeukwu" <martin_onyeukwu@37.com>
To: martin_onyeukwu@37.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)




Dear,Mr.Stanton
I am Barrister Martin Onyeukwu (SAN) personal attorney to Mr.Mark Stanton,a national of your country, who used to work with Shell Development Company here in Nigeria herein after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 2000, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a ghastly motor accident along
Warri-Sagbama Express road.Unfortunately, all occupants of the vehicle lost their lives as thevehicle caught fire after the crash.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his lastname over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged particularly, the CITI TRUST BANK where the deceased had an account valued at about US$18.7 Million dollars. The bank had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name/surname so that the
proceeds of this account valued at US$18.7 million dollars can be paid to you and then we can share the money afterwards. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us in seeing this deal through.


I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me by my email address above or my telephone number234-80-37186338 to enable us discuss further.

Best regards,

BARRISTER Martin Onyeukwu.(SAN)

MattW

How about a reply saying that your brother Mark has been missing in Nigeria for over 2 years. You are a legitimate relation, and would like his help in returning ALL of the money.

astraboy

I get these all the time. I usually reply saying I'm not interested in the money but if they've got "5 magic beans" they'd like to sell me then I would be interested
astraboy.

12LEE

send him a paypal request for $18.7m and see what happens...

...even better, reverse the scam. Send the paypal request and say that you'll help upon receipt of a 10% paypal advance.



[Edited by 12LEE - 9/18/2002 6:36:45 PM]

mattstant

LOL at astraboy
I saw a brilliant thread somewhere else where stringing them along for ages and deliberatley wasting there time i was hoping to do something similair.

keep em coming

GaryK

thats a valid email address is it?

make sure everyone on here see's it and then go to www.no-id.com and click the link for anonymous remailer and lets all bombard the c**t with junk

Gary

mattstant

thats the general idea gary and yes i assume it is a real email address as i have cut and copied the whole message

ricardo

The thread where someone strings the Nigerian guy along is at:
http://www.savannahsays.com/kizombe.htm

(how do I make that clickable ?)

TonyG

You may need some false names to help out for fictional legal representatives - how about...

Hugh Janus
Boothby Graffoe (a village in Lincolnshire, but it has a nice legal ring to it)
Rhonda Valley
Crispin Dry

The possibilities are endless

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

I've had this one already but I got a slightly more disturbing one today.

It was in arabic? and from a middle eastern chap in Scotland (who worked at a power facility?). It looked religious and all the other names on the list looked middle eastern too - Osama this and Ahamed that, at addresses like @Islam.net

My name stood out like a sore thumb and I can only imagine that I was on the list by mistake (I hope).

I sent it to the IT manager to investigate, I don't want anybody, good or bad, knocking on my door....

F

Dark Blue Mark

Send it to the rozzers.

That Kizombe link above is class!

MB

EvilBevel

Must click indeed :http://www.savannahsays.com/kizombe.htm

Absolutely brilliant.

Brun

Why don't you register his email address with loads of **** sites, ticking the box which allows them to share the email address with 3rd parties, and before you know it he will be getting loads of emails every day.
I would like to point out i know nothing about internet ****.

SJ_Skyline

Go along with the scam and when they ask for your phone number, set up on that is £50 / minute, recored the engaged tone and have that on continuous playback.

astraboy

With regard to funny names:
I'm sorry I'm not interested but my friend, Mike Hunt, might be...
Think about it...
astraboy.

skipjack

mattstant & anyone else who gets one of these:

it's called advance fee fraud - called 419 - and has already netted $billions for the criminals who conduct it.

i got one recently and reported it to my local police fraud squad, marked for the attention of the UK NCIS West African Organised Crime Section plus copied the info to the 419 Coalition in washington dc. all the info you need is at:

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

it recommends not replying to any emails you might receive.

mattstant

ok here goes the first reply :

Dear Martin Onyeukwu

I have just received youre email and offer my condolences regarding youre friend Mr Mark Stanton.
Although i know i have no immediate relatives by that name i do have a distant Uncle who had several children of which the names escape me, but he did have an adventurous life style and worked in many different countries so there is a slim (very) possibility that he was indeed a relative especially as the name Stanton is quite rare in this country and local to the county of Derbyshire .
did he ever mention any links to Derybshire in youre dealings with him ?.
18.7 million dollars is indeed a very large sum and my property company is in dire need of new funding so even if Mark Stanton is not a relative I,m sue we could come to some arrangment suitable to both parties.



will post the reply when it comes

skipjack

my reply was bounced back as undeliverable - you may find the same.

mattstant

have just checked Skipjack and no bounce back yet
I hear you on the no reply front but i certainly dont intend giving him anything remotely useful and he already has my email address

this site is hilarious and hs given me a few ideas
http://www.waronspam.com/

skipjack

well be careful in what you do - this scam is apparently run by the nigerian mafia according to the bizzies.

Figment

I got another one of these this morning

mattstant

ok round two only just got this email so i have not written a reply yet any suggestions ???


Subj: NEW MAILBOX
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:23:25 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: "martin chambers" <martin@onyeukwu.chambers.vg>
To: <MatthewStanton@aol.com>
Sent from the Internet (Details)


Attn:Mr.Matthew Stanton
Thanks for your sincer mail, I am happy that you understand the importance of the mail i sent to you, i do not have much knowledge about mr. Mark's origin eccept that i know that he is from America. This is because i work for him on principal basis, but this is the brief information of this transaction because i have tried for the past two years for a closest chance of getting a relation of his but to no avail.


If your ok with 40-60%, then this the information’s this is the information of this transaction. Mr Mark died with all his family and as his personal lawyer i have all the document of his will and since there is nobody as nest of kin that is why i contacted you.

This is a situation in which I must act fast to stop the bank officials from confiscating this fund, that is why I have decided to contact you, as I am the personal attorney of Mr. Mark Stanton , and I prepared his will myself and I am only contacting you to enable me fill in your name as the next of kin to my client, so that you can claim this fund in you favor for us to share it since there's no other person, I will be in position to give you all the guidelines as soon as I receive the confirmation of your willingness to execute this deal with me.


I am the only person who can verify for the next of kin of Mr. Mark Stanton , that is why I contacted you. These are following information required from you.


1 your full names and address/age
2 your profession, place of work and address.
3 your telephone and fax numbers.

As soon as I receive this information, I will send to you a letter of claim, which you will send to the bank for the claim. I will be giving you all the information and advise as things progresses.

FROM NOW ALWAYS REPLY ME ON MY PRIVATE MAILBOX:martin@onyeukwu.chambers.vg
and you can reach me on my private line:234-80-37186338.

REGARDS

ONYEUKWU {SAN}

RichB

I wonder if the two are friends, this is todays request to me:


CHIEF RAYMOND OKAFOR.
EMAIL:raymondokafor3@lycos.co.uk
FAX: 234-1-7597267

Sir,


URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP


First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,
which is of mutual benefit. This is by virtue of it's nature
of being utterly confidential.I am sure and have confidence
of your ability, and reliability to prosecute a transaction
of this great magnitude.

We are top Officials of the Federal Government Contract
review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into
our country with funds which are presently trapped in
Nigeria. In order to commence this business,we need your
assistance to enable us transfer funds into your
account. As members of the Contract Review Panel set up by
the Government of Nigeria to review all contracts from 1983
to the present,we have identified a lot of inflated contract
funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of
Nigeria ready for payment.

By virtue of our position as Civil Servants and members of
this Panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names, in
this regard I have been delegated by my colleagues of the
review Panel to look for an overseas partner into whose
account we would transfer the sum of US$21,320,000.00 (
Twenty -One Million, Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand
United States Dollars) hence we take the liberty to write
you.


The money will be shared as follows:-
1. 20% for you the account owner
2. 70% for us (The Officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and
foreign expenses.

Please note that this whole process will take between 7 to 10
working days from the date of receipt of the following
information by Fax :234-1-7597267,Your individual/Company's
signed and stamped letterhead with a transcribed"Text" which
we would send to you upon receipt of your reply with a letter
of interest. The above information will enable us write
letter of claim, and Job description by using your
individual/Company name to apply for payment for the above
stated amount. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter
using the above Fax number.


Detailed information of this pending business transaction
will be sent to you as soon as I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,


CHIEF RAYMOND OKAFOR

Black Cat

Don't get involved in this scam

Either Prima or Essentials Magazine (yes girl mags) rang an article in either the September or October issue regarding this, sadly I left the magazines in France - it basically said that anyone receiving these e-mails should report them immediately, and if you get involved you run a very high risk of getting charges brought against you as well.

I am sure if you contacted the magazines they would be happy to provide you with the article, I meant to bring the damn thing home cause we've been getting them here at work as well but totally forgot.

Not helpful I know - but helpful enough to say don't get involved!
P

mattstant

all due respect to you black cat but how can taking the **** out of him constitute a criminal act ????
I reiterate that NO useful information of any nature will be divulged to this pillock

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

mattstant

Here's what the police have to say about these types of fraud.

Why not give this nobber your address & phone number as being:

Wellington House, 67-73 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6BE

+44 (0) 20 7230 1220

which is the home of the Specialist Crime OCU Fraud Squad

Contact: web www.met.police.uk/fraudalert
e-mail fraud.alert@met.police.uk

Sal

mattstant

Nice idea Scooby chick was thinking on the lines of chat line numbers or wind up lines but this is probably even better

scooby nutter

10,000 mails sent to his addy last night

No wonder he wants to use a different email addy now!!!

onto the new addy

how many do you sugest this time??


LOL



SN

ustolemyname??stevieturbo

iTrader: (1)

Or just give the scamsters details to each other, and they can scam each other, phone each other and fax each other.
I think the £50 per min sounds good though, if they do actually phone you.

KAIBO

i seem to get these all the time from diffrent people i just end up blocking there addresses.