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The Most Pathetic Scam Email of all Time

I occasionally get SPAM emails leaking through from this scam:

During our investigation and auditing in this Bank, my department came 
across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our deceased
customer
who died on July 30th 2002 of a ghastly motor accident and the fund has
been
dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the fund in
our
Custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this
development.

It's a game in the office now to guess which obscure country has the fictional money (I guessed Surinam, my colleague guessed Tanzania, we were both wrong). 

I noticed at the bottom of today's scam email the idiot's signature:

Découvrez le Blog heroic Fantaisy d'Eragon! 
http://eragon-heroic-fantasy.spaces.live.com/

 



Comments

Jon Galloway said:

# January 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Vikas Kerni said:

Well this one is little innovative

Can you handle  this offer ?

Department Of Minerals And Energy,Pretoria, South Africa.

Good Day, I write asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds which we want to keep under your supervision. The Funds totaling US$18,700,000.00 (Eighteen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) have been derived over time from a project awarded a foreign firm by my department. I work with The Department of Minerals & Energy here in Pretoria,South Africa. Hence I have the authority of my partners to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, you will be highly compensated on agreed percentage by both parties. If you are interested, send your full names,addresss, telephone and fax numbers for more details.I will prefer you to reach me with my personal email address below;(joseph_mkomu@yahoo.fr) I wait your reply.

Regards,Mr.Joseph Mkomu.

# January 31, 2007 9:42 AM

John said:

How about this one, I received it today:

Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 00:42:14 +0000

From: william buthelezzi <wbt251@21cn.com>

To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;

Subject: FOREIGN PARTNER NEEDED

ATTN:

              FOREIGN PARTNER NEEDED

Goodday, I write, asking for your indulgence in re-profiling funds to tune of Twenty five Million United

States Dollars (US$25m)which we want kept safely overseas under your supervision. In other words, we would

like you to receive the said funds on our behalf. The Funds were derived over time from projects awarded to

a foreign firms by my Department, and presently the actual contract cost have been paid to the original

project executors, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principle obtained

approval to remit overseas. Kindly pardon the use of a medium as informal as this for reaching out to you

to make a request of great importance to us. Currently, I work as a Director of Projects at The Department

of Minerals & Energy here in Pretoria. I have the authority and approval of my partners involved in this

transaction to negotiate a suitable compensation for your participation and I propose 25% percent, while we

also propose that we receive 70 percent and 5% percent be earmarked for purposes of taxation. This endeavor

has a minimal risk factor on your part provided you treat it with the utmost discretion. You are advised to

reach me through email correspondence. I am available via my private email to discuss further with you. I

kindly wait to hear from you. Yours Sincerely, WILLIAM BUTTELLEZI

# May 14, 2007 1:38 PM

rolly said:

 someone e-mail me containing these letter, duh! watta scam right?!

Dr.THULANI MOLLOY.

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY,

PRETORIA,

SOUTH AFRICA.(mr.thulanimolloy@yahoo.it)

Dear Friend,

It is my great pleasure to write you this letter on behalf of my colleagues. A member of the South gave your information to me African Export Promotion Council (SAEPC) who was with the Government delegation on a trip to your country for a bilateral conference talk to encourage foreign investors. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it confidential because  of the nature of this business.

Within the Department of Minerals & Energy where I work as a Director of Audit and Project Implementation and with the co-operation of two other top officials, we have in our possession an overdue payment in US funds.The said funds represent certain percentage of the total contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced to the amount of US$16.500, 000.00 (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars). Though the actual contract cost has been paid to the original contractor, leaving the excess balance unclaimed.

Since the present elected Government is determined to pay foreign contractors all debts owed, so as to maintain good relationship with foreign governments and non-government agencies, we included our bills for approvals with the Department of Finance and the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB). We are seeking your assistance to front as beneficiary of the unclaimed funds, since we are not allowed to operate foreign accounts.

Details and change of beneficiary information upon application for claim to reflect payment and approvals will be secured on behalf of you/your Company. I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction your share as compensation Will be  (25%), while my colleagues and I receive(65%) and the balance of (10%) for taxation and miscellaneous expenses incurred.

The business is completely safe and secure, provided you treat it with Utmost confidentiality. It does not matter whether you/your Company does contract projects, as a transfer of powers will be secured in favour  of you/your Company. Also, your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint us.your urgent response at (mr.thulanimolloy@yahoo.it )

Thanks for your co-operation.

Regards,

Dr.THULANI MOLLOY.

N.B Please email your confidential Telephone and Fax numbers to enable

me contact you for further clarifications

# December 31, 2007 3:32 PM

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Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#. Check out Devlicio.us!

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