mick2me 3,033 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 Heres a new one! Received this morning... Dear Friend We are team ( THREE IN NUMBER) of American troops writing from Baghdad, Iraq. Please can you help us retrive the money we captured here in Baghdad abandoned in one of Saddam Hussein's hiden treasury. We deposited the money in a vault of security company in Africa for safe keeping to avoid any trace now or in future. We are going to compensate you 25 percentage of the total money if you are willing to help us retrive the fund from deposit company in Africa because we are not allowed to own a foriegn bank account.We intend to invest the money in your country with your assistance. Waiting for your favourable response Best regards, Sgt Dennis Wilkins TEAM LEADER IRAQ _________________________________________________________________ Testez Windows Llive Mail Beta ! http://www.msn.fr/newhotmail/Default.asp?Ath=f Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pemberton 15 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 Eh Mick, thats better than the one where some of my long lost relatives have been killed in an automobile acident, unfortunately they had no next of kin - so would I like the money! I didn't know I had that many relatives with that much dosh, if I'd answered them I'd be worth trillions of pounds by now, or maybe not, maybe I'd be skint owing to them emptying my bank account. Do these people realle think that we are stupid! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Craig Strongman 13 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 The use of words is good too isnt it, even for an American....25 percentage......hmmm.....yep....all Yanks say that dont they.must be a genuine e mail, just like the one i got recently from the Coca Cola company advising me id won a fortune..........hey, as soon as i get it im gonna buy 12 million cans of diet coke.............................. !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1fatbloke 1 Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Pemberton, Unfortunately there are people that are thick/naive/greedy enough to fall for these things. Scams like these defraud millions upon millions of pounds every year. This one is fortunately fairly obvious but some of the others a re a lot more subtle. The subtlety of the fraud is unfortunately no consolation when you lose your life savings. I once had one with some pictures of starving children, supposedly from a priest trying to set up a mission in Darfur. Very convincing apart from the fact that is was to an e-mail address i had set up to collect these kinds of thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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