NationStates Jolt Archive

I love getting these e-mails I do.

From: omio9@hotmail.fr (isn't fr France?)

Mr.Moise Nacoulma
Audit & Accountancy Dept.
BANK OF AFRICA BOA
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

( READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET)

Greeting, and how are you doing? I hope fine.Please let this my message do not be a surprise to you because i got your information and lay trust in you before i contacted you.I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT of our bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand US
dollars($10,500,000.00).This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank foreign customers who died along with his completely family on 25th oct,2002 in a plane crash disaster.

I was very fortune to came acroos the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2003-2004 in other to submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes.It is clearly stated in our BANKING FOREIGN POLICY and signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed by the NEXT OF KIN till the period of SIX(6) years starting from the date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund.Besides,it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO to make the claim of the fund.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.When the fund is transferred into your account,FOURTY PERCENT(40%) will be for you in an assistance and in provision of the bank account,while SIXTY PERCENT (60%) will be for me. If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and confidentiality,reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call me as you so that i will let you know the steps to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.I will be waiting for your urgent reply.

My. regards to you and your family,

Mr.Moise Nacoulma

My bet is that they'll want my SS #, my bank account # and pin #.

Do people actually fall for this crap, I mean it's pretty wide known that people send out bogus e-mail to try to scam people into giving up their bank information so that they can drain their money away. The only people I can see falling for this are senile people and well....idiots.

Sadly they do, to the tune of millions of dollars per year out of the US alone.

People want to believe that they can get something for nothing, it's how casinos work after all.

READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET
Great, now you went and soured the whole deal.

Great, now you went and soured the whole deal.
Have you every played around with these guys? It's rather a lot of fun. :D

Sadly they do, to the tune of millions of dollars per year out of the US alone.

People want to believe that they can get something for nothing, it's how casinos work after all.

At least casinos have the decency of giving you pretty flashing lights, liquor, and waitresses in tights...

Sadly they do, to the tune of millions of dollars per year out of the US alone.

People want to believe that they can get something for nothing, it's how casinos work after all.

Don't forget Lotteries.

Have you every played around with these guys? It's rather a lot of fun. :D

Ok, that sounds like you have a story to tell, so tell it!

It's good to know they've had $10.5 million just lying around for over five years and finally decided to send it your way.

It's good to know they've had $10.5 million just lying around for over five years and finally decided to send it your way.

I know, right! I mean I never thought I could get 40% of $10.5 Million and not feel really really dirty afterwards and not able to live with myself and basically end up committing suicide. :D

Yay dark humor!

...it's how casinos work after all.

Indeed, suppressing the fear of risk for the the slight chance of gain is a universal habit of living organisms, especially in desperate circumstances.

For example, though it may seem tangential, when the body is under stress, it throws out more genetic mutations than normal - it runs the risk of death for the hope of a chance to live.

This wouldn't work if it was just 1 person, but among an entire population, it only takes one to hit the jackpot for the entire species to survive.

There's something at the very core of life that makes us susceptible to overriding logic and taking a risk when necessary.

Most of those people who fall for this scam are desperate for money, that desperation overrides their logic - even where they know of the scam already.

Ok, that sounds like you have a story to tell, so tell it!
Not nearly as creative as the spoofing sites, but I've strung a few out for a few weeks, constantly getting them to make more and more elaborate claims about their scam, and then finally, sadly, concluded that since I don't have a bank account that I couldn't really help them. However, I DO have a friend of impeachable reputation who DOES and would probably be more than happy to help with an introduction from me. Which I kindly wrote for them, copy and pasted the whole kit and caboodle, and then had them email everything to Mr. Brian Sandoval, then the AG of Nevada's email account. I'm sure he was more than happy to deal with them.

I know, right! I mean I never thought I could get 40% of $10.5 Million and not feel really really dirty afterwards and not able to live with myself and basically end up committing suicide. :D

Yay dark humor!

You know what's really ironic?

Moïse Nacoulma is actually a real person, thanks to a quick Google search of the name. He is apparently a first year student at a missionary-run religious school in Burkina Faso. For some reason, I think we may have a good idea as to the real identity of Mr. Nacoulma...

www.fonejacker.tv

Any of the clips that say "monies".

"GHUUUUD EVENIIING, I AM CALLINK FROM YOUR BAAANK!"

Priceless.

I get these every other day. Some of the luckier scammers make over $6,000 a month from this - not bad, considering how many unfortunate people there earn less than a dollar a day.

You sure it wasn't send by George Abdgdgwngo? "All I require from you, is your bank account details and sort code, and we can wire you the monies."

Just realised Moonshine beat me to it!

Give Horace Von Khute a call.

Wow!
You'd be crazy not to fall for this! I mean, it sounds absurdly believable. You're going to do it, right? I would.

Given that these scams sometimes work, what kind of a person would you have to be to buy into this crap?

I love getting these e-mails I do.



My bet is that they'll want my SS #, my bank account # and pin #.

Do people actually fall for this crap, I mean it's pretty wide known that people send out bogus e-mail to try to scam people into giving up their bank information so that they can drain their money away. The only people I can see falling for this are senile people and well....idiots.

Well if you're not going to take advantage of such an incredible opportunity, can you at least forward it on to me that I can? :p

Give Horace Von Khute a call.

From the telephone fraud prevention agency, in Zimbabwe?


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