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Now, the premise of this scam email is no different from the others. What’s different is its brevity…

Your urgent help is needed
I am Lolly Stevens and I am from Wales, United Kingdom. I need your trust and assistance to help my family and I stand as a beneficiary to claim a family consignment deposited in Holland, worth Twenty Million Dollars. You shall have seven million dollars for your assistance Please write me back through my private address lollystevens9@yahoo.com.hk I shall let you know the next step. Have a nice day.
Lolly Stevens

Here’s a scam email that I get fairly often. It’s no more believable than the Nigerian scam, but the story is a little more interesting. What I wonder is how successful this and others like it are? Somebody must be doing it if these continue so persistently.

FROM: Mr. HE Guangbei.
(VICE CHAIRMAN & EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Bank of China Limited
Hong Kong
YOUR ATTENTION
You might be apprehensive because you do not know me but I have a business proposal of mutual interest to share with you. Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr.HE Guangbei, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive with overall responsibility for the business and operations of Bank of China ( Hong Kong ) Limited (”BOCHK”). I have a Business suggestion for you.In October, 2002, my late client Ghazi Musa Hassan, an Iraqi Crude oil  merchant made a numbered fixed deposit of Thirty million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$30,500,000.00) only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war (U.S and Iraqi war), Five years ago (2003). Continued

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Another email I received today after the one I posted earlier…

Sir

I want to invite you to partner with me in a financially rewarding and expansive business transaction;this partnership and its resulting growth, will positively affect a lot of lives and empower a lot of youth,widows,sick people and orphans in the third world.

I look foward to hearing from you and especially you consent after I give you the full details of our project,Please send me your telephone contact for expedient communication.

Vincent Thabo

I post emails like these partly because they humor me and partly because they annoy me… and I always like to share those things that are humorous and/or annoying…

This mail has been sent by misszaina via Forums

From : Zaina Ishaaq ismail

Hello Dear,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before.

Afer you receive this mail kindly contact me on my private Email contact below. Introducing myself, I am Zaina Ishaaqismail , the Only Daughter of the late Ishaaq ismail

, my father was a gold and cocoa mercahnt based in accra , ghana and Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips recetly.

Before his death, He called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $6.500,000USD deposited in one of the prime bank here in abidjan ivory coast , that he used my name for the next of kin in depositing of the fund.

E-mail address above ( princesseszaina1985@rocketmail.com) Anticipating to hear from you soon.

Awaiting your urgent reply
Regards
Zaina Ishaaq ismail

Reply to my private e-mail box below: ( princesseszaina1985@rocketmail.com )

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Quite often, I reply to the private e-mail box and let them know that I would not be able to assist them with this matter, but I would forward to someone who can, the U.S. Attorney General. I know it’s probably ineffective, but it makes me feel a little better!

It’s true that there are some dumb criminals out there. But there are some that are very shrewd and very creative. In fact, I am convinced if crime was a sport, scam artists would be in the major leagues. In my lifetime, I’ve been scammed a couple of times, in my younger years. Those experiences have made me wiser, more savvy and much more skeptical.

That’s come in handy in recent years with the proliferation of email-based scams. Every year, they become more and more sophisticated, to the point that some emails are very hard to tell the difference between the real and the fake. The most notable and impressive have been scam emails that are supposed to look like they came from PayPal, eBay or your bank. Some have been so good that they caused me to pause and investigate.

Well, never ones to let an golden opportunity pass them by, scammers have taken aim at the federal stimulus rebates that our government has been distributing, as I’m sure you’ve heard on the news. I’ve already received my rebate via direct deposit, so I was amused by the email I received this morning… Continued