Gangsta Smurf

Received a message from someone called Prince Marthins who said he obtained my details from Scoobynet.

Basic jist is that he wants to use my bank account to transfer £17,500,000 and I get a cut from it. This is a bogus message, and your account will be wiped of all funds if you take it any further!

Has anybody else on here had the message??

Please do not move this thread Scoobynet Admin

LB4

Not had the email but thanks for the heads up ... do people really fall for this kind of thing though?

Gary

scoobchrissy

iTrader: (1)

There's too many Bogus ****'s out there [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

johnfelstead

yep, this is posted in NSR

Sheepsplitter

Sounds like a right old story.
How exactly do they wipe your funds?
Even if they have your account number and sort code it's pretty useless without a cheque book or card.
Can you give more details?

pugoetru

apparently i worked in south africa for 2 years and didnt get payed but funds are now available and they want my bank details so that i can get my money which is long overdue !!!


i also won £10,000,000 on a lottery that i entered with my email address havent claimed it yet

Sheepsplitter

I did a bit of research and found out for myself.
Apparently they get your sort code and account number and your name and make up their own bank card, then they just draw your $$$ out! Simple really. Easy if you know how and have access to counterfeit cards I guess.

Gangsta Smurf

Sheep ... exactly right mate, they create a cloned copy of your card. A few months down the line you'll find your account has been emptied, enough time for you to have forgotten about the original emails!

Sheepsplitter

It's a funny old world.
Sometimes you have to admire the ingenuity of these crooks :-)

Gangsta Smurf

BTTT for this ... incase anyone is falling for it

OllyK

This is actually a variation on a scam that has been about since the middle ages. The way it works is that they get your details from you and then say there has been a problem, the person concerned has been imprisoned or some other tale and that to get your cut they need you to send £X to bribe guards to get them out. Problems keep occuring and they keep asking you to hand over money. In some cases people even go out to Africa etc to try and help at which point the people running the scam often hold them and demand yet more money. OK, you have to be pretty dumb to get suckered but as I said it has been going on for years. Have a look at any of the Urban Legends and Mail Scam websites for fuller details.

Remember - there's no such thing as a free lunch. If an offer looks too good to be true then that's probably because it is!!

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

I got this email last night too [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] I reckon it's the mods making cash on the side

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

For those who haven't seen it

From Prince Marthins
TELE/00225-07883340
Email/marthisp_2003@yahoo.com

ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVORIE WEST AFRICA
confidentiality of this transaction
Dearest,
Although we have not met, I got your contact through
the internet wed (www.scoobynet.co.uk) and decided to
contact you for assistance. I was, until recently, a
2rdyear engineering student of the University of Ivory
Coast, West Africa.
Early in January 2002 year, the rebels in my country
struck our township and killed my parents in one of
their attacks. My late Father, King George Marthins,
being the King of the Town was a prime target.
Fortunately for me, I was in school when the attack
took place. I equally lost my only sister to the
rebels. When I got home for the remains of my Family
and the subsequent burial that followed, I discovered
a document indicating that my late Father had
deposited some $17.5M.United States Dollars (17.5 M.US
dollars) with one of the security company here in
abidjan cote d'ivorie. This money, according to the
docement, was meant for the building of an Auto repair
company by my late Father.
Upon the discovery of this document, I try to Locate
the concerned security company and to make claims for
the said money as the only surviving next of kin to my
Father .
I have succeded in making the people at the Security
Company believe that I am the next of Kin and all the
documents related are now with me. I do not know what
to do with it but I have decided to contact you to
seek your assistance in helping me to retrived it out
from the security company and transfer it to your
account and help me to come to your country to
continue my education and so that you will help me to
get the money invested until such a time that I will
be ready to begin to use it. I am really desperate as
I am left alone now in the world. Let me know what you
want as compensation for helping me to solve this my
problem. Most importantly,I seriously appeal that you
maintain high level of secrecy and confidentiality in
the whole thing. I remain yours sincerely,
Prince Anderson Marthins
(marthisp_2003@yahoo.com )









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