I don't know if it counts as a new scam, but I got a variation of the Nigerian scam, with an e-mail supposedly from the widow of Mobutu Sese Seko. She, of course, just needed a few thousand dollars of mine to help her unlock the billions her husband had raped from Zaire.

I found this particularly obnoxious, since even if it was on the up and up, I would have no desire to help the widow of the man responsible for more misery than just about any other in the last 50 years, through his ruthless bankrupting of the Congo, leading to the civil war still festering there.

I guess they were going for the market of folks who were greedy, stupid, and evil.

According to Amy Langfield, some Nigerian spammers were actually arrested recently: http://amylangfield.com/.

BTW, dude, to turn on HTML in comments, go to MT's Blog config , and then to preferences. It's toward the bottom.

Bennett is correct; here is the email notice of the arrests we got here at Calvin College:

Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:51:47 -0400
From: "Bob Doornbos"
Subject: Nigerian Fraud Scheme

In the past Campus Safety has received requests asking about the legitimacy of a
letter or email received from Nigerians requesting help in depositing funds.
Below is a synopsis of the most recent developments in the fraud scheme and a
description of the scheme for those not familiar with it.

Six people were arrested in South Africa over the weekend on suspicion of being
involved in the infamous "Nigerian" e-mail and letter fraud. Police in South Africa believe that the six are part of an international fraud and drug-dealing cartel, sending out thousands of e-mails and letters in an attempt to defraud.
Police seized a large amount of drugs, as well as computer equipment and false
identification papers.

The arrests could mark an important breakthrough in the battle against the
international scam, which is thought to have defrauded hundreds of millions of dollars from victims. The fraud is also known as the "West African advanced fee fraud" or the "419 fraud" -- 419 being the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code.

Potential victims receive a letter -- or, more recently, an e-mail --telling them that the sender is trying to move a large sum of money and offering them a substantial percentage of the cash in return for letting it be deposited into their bank account. Often the perpetrators claim that the Nigerian government is paying out this money in return for a completed
contract, while other versions claim to involve insurance payouts after airplane crashes. People who express an interest are then told that they must first hand over an amount of money to cover expenses such as banking fees and administrative costs. These "advanced fees" often cost a bundle; there are cases where U.S. victims have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Nigerian
government has set up a unit in London to fight the fraud, but many people are still being taken in. One problem is that many victims don't report that they have been defrauded, either through embarrassment or because they aren't sure whom to contact. Those who have fallen victim to the fraud are encouraged to contact the Specialist Crime OCU Fraud Squad by e-mail at
419@spring39.demon.co.uk.

From the Desk of:
Barrister Bassey Okon Chambers {Solicitor & Advocate]
Victoria Island Lagos.

Sir,

I am Barrister Bassey Okon, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr. Morie Lecuyer, a national of your country, possibly could be your brother, who used to work with shell Development Company in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 2000, my client, his wife and their two Children were involved in a plane crash in a remote village called Kuru near Jos in Plateau State. All occupants of the plane unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy here in lagos to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated, frozen or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Eco Bank International where the deceased had an account valued at about Seventeen Million United States Dollars (US$17,000,000:00). The management has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account frozen within the next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at $17,000,000:00 can be paid to you and thenyou and me can share the money. 60% to me and 40% to you I have all the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.

And this I must do to make sure that this fund is not
wasted or end up in the wrong hands. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Reply true my e-mail: bassokon@go.com

Sincerely,

Barrister Bassey Okon Esq.
Principal Attorney, Okon's chambers.

____________________________________________
another scam?

There's actually a well known scam that often goes by the name "The Inspector" specifically intented to rip off victims of previous con games. The way it works is the con artist approaches someone who was a victim of a previous con, claiming to be a police officer/private investigator/government agent investigating the scam, and needing access to the victim's accounts to set up a sting operation.

It should be fairly obvious where things go from there.

If the number of suckers hooked by the Nigerians starts to drop off, you're going to start seeing variants of "The Inspector" show up in your mailbox.

DEAR SIR, I AM BEING INSPECTOR LESTRADE OF THE LAGOS POLICE FRAUD SQUAD. I AM INVESTIGATING AN INCIDENT...

The new variation of the scam is the LOTTO winner.
It is amazing to see London, Amsterdam etc addresses and the authorities not doing much about it.

i am respondind to the comment that Francis Lecuyer posted i was contacted in October that a Richard C. Bennett had died in Nigeria and i got just about the same email as in your post.

i just received the same letter about the plane crash in kuru as mary bennett did the only thing changed is of course the last name to match mine.

Hello everyone, i have just recived a bunch of those letters all from Nigeria, that Bassey guy had a different story this time. He said that some guy died and left me 1 million US dollars, all i need to do is to send is a copy of my passport. Know im thinking...How did this guy leave me 1 million Dollars and to a 16 year old? I knew it was a scam because i also recieved another email for a "Miss Geneieve Bogete" stating that he late husband died and she needed to Tranfer a sum of money into an account. Dont these people have lives? I mean get a job or something and stop sending stupid emails to people!

ps: i am very sorry for those of you who fell for it!

I just thought I would share this email if it is any help to anyone. It's a load of crap so don't fall for it. I received it today December 15th 2003. Hope it can help

PETER OKON CO& CHAMBERS
Solicitors & Advocates
(Notary Public)
Of The Supreme Court of Nigeria
MOBILE NUMBER +234-8033232542
Our Ref: TOB/AT LAW/1717/2003
ADDRESS: N0 35 saint street aguda lagos nigeria
ALT-E-MAIL barristerpeterokon58@yahoo.com

DEAR Amanda Jane

RE: Notification of Bequest
With gratitude to God to a life well spent and on behalf of my late
client Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO, I write to notify you that my late client made
you a beneficiary to the bequest sum of SIX Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (USD 600,000.00) in the last codicil to
his last WILL and testament of the year 2002.
Late Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO died of high blood pressure on the 2nd
February2003. Until his death, late Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO was a regional
director in Nigeria with United Nations Refugees and humanitarian commission.
A renowned PHILANTHROPIST, who has widely travelled and very good
Christian of the Christian fellowship of Nigeria. A non denominational society.
According to him he is giving you this amount because of your active
involvement in the upliftment of Christian activities with its
ministries and making better the world’s situation for the acceptance of Christian
religion in Christ Jesus as the son of God.
We the executors and trustees of this WILL wish to inform you that the
WILL was read at the High Court probate Division on the 5th June
2003 as the law provides in section (52) sub-section 3&4 of the Nigeria
constitution and is ready for execution.You are therefore required by this notification to confirm your ownership to this legacy by forwarding to us immediately via e-mail, your current telephone, e-mail and fax number (private) for easy communication and
prompt payment without delay. Your contact address (private) is also
required for verification and authentication of the WILL as the law
stipulated. A photocopy of your international passport number or drivers licence if available shall be required from you on the day of your payment. This is to avoid
paying to a wrong beneficiary.We shall detail you on the procedure involved in executing this will upon the receipt of your prompt e-mail response.
We are sorry for not notifying you by posted mail due to the urgency
required in this matter and also your e-mail contact was given to us
by the wife of my late client.
Thanks and God bless.
HON.BARRISTER PETER OKON
Head of Chamber.

I recieve the same e-mail. My family try convicing me to go for it(JA,JA,JA! I'm glad it was me and that my family. They would have been convice in a minutes!). But I knew that this was a scam. I am glad that I follow my guts and not my family. I responded to the letter to see what other information they gave me. The second letter they gave me a telephone number. Remeber if its sound to good to be true well it not true.
This is what the letter look like, hopefully no one will fall for it!!!

FROM THE DESK OF;
YAKASI GAMBO CHAMBERS {SOLICITOR & ADVOCATE]
VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS.
Alternative Email:saveme12@indiatimes.com

Dear Romo

I am Mr Yakasi.Gambo, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney
to Mr. Morie Romo a national of your country,possibly could
be your brother, who used to work with shell Development Company in
Nigeria.

Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of
April 1999,my client, his wife and their two Children were involved
in a plane crash in a remote village called Kuru near Jos in Plateau
State.
All occupants of the plane unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy here in
lagos to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also
proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided
to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of
his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist
in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client
before they get confiscated, frozen or declared unservic eable by
the bank where these huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the Eco Bank International where the deceased had
an account valued at about Five million,Five hundred thousand United
States Dollars (US$11.500,000:00). The management has issued me
a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
frozen within the next ten official working days. Since I have been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since
you have the same last name so that the proceeds
of this account valued at $11.500,000:00 can be paid to you and
then you and me can share the money. 60% to me and 40% to you I
have all the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claimwe may make.

And this I must do to make sure that this fund is not wasted or
end up in the wrong hands. All I require is your honest co-operation
to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be
executed under
a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.

Best regards,
Mr Yakasi.Gambo (esq).

I got this e-mail today, January 24, 2004 from this spam expert, and i hope that you can help crack this case, this guy is a sick man.

PETER OKON CO& CHAMBERS
Solicitors & Advocates
(Notary Public)
Of The Supreme Court of Nigeria
MOBILE NUMBER +234-8033232542
Our Ref: TOB/AT LAW/1717/2004
ADDRESS: N0 35 saint street aguda lagos nigeria
ALT-E-MAIL barristerpeterokon27@yahoo.com

DEAR Clarise

RE: Notification of Bequest
With gratitude to God to a life well spent and on behalf of my late
client Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO, I write to notify you that my late client made
you a beneficiary to the bequest sum of SIX Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (USD 600,000.00) in the last codicil to
his last WILL and testament of the year 2002.
Late Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO died of high blood pressure on the 2nd
February2003. Until his death, late Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO was a regional
director in Nigeria with United Nations Refugees and humanitarian commission.
A renowned PHILANTHROPIST, who has widely travelled and very good
Christian of the Christian fellowship of Nigeria. A non denominational society.
According to him he is giving you this amount because of your active
involvement in the upliftment of Christian activities with its
ministries and making better the world’s situation for the acceptance of Christian
religion in Christ Jesus as the son of God.
We the executors and trustees of this WILL wish to inform you that the
WILL was read at the High Court probate Division on the 5th June
2003 as the law provides in section (52) sub-section 3&4 of the Nigeria
constitution and is ready for execution.You are therefore required by this notification to confirm your ownership to this legacy by forwarding to us immediately via e-mail, your current telephone, e-mail and fax number (private) for easy communication and
prompt payment without delay. Your contact address (private) is also
required for verification and authentication of the WILL as the law
stipulated. A photocopy of your international passport number or drivers licence if available shall be required from you on the day of your payment. This is to avoid
paying to a wrong beneficiary.We shall detail you on the procedure involved in executing this will upon the receipt of your prompt e-mail response.
We are sorry for not notifying you by posted mail due to the urgency
required in this matter and also your e-mail contact was given to us
by the wife of my late client.
Thanks and God bless.
HON.BARRISTER PETER OKON
Head of Chamber.

I got this e-mail today, February 16, 2004 from this spam expert, and i hope that you can help crack this case:
FROM THE DESK OF MR. YAKASI GAMBO UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC TEL:234-80-37121964 re:to this email:yakasi_info@indiatimes.com Dear , I am sending this mail to you with the intension that you are in the best position to assist. I have an unfortunate situation, which if everything that is intended is accomplished, would eventually be ablessing in disguise. In my place of work, I am a high ranked staff, one of the Chief Acountant of this bank, Union Bank Plc. We have this particular Philippines who has banked with us for a long period of time he used to work for dezengof before he resigned to establish his private business. But unfortunately when he traveled to his native home to pay his family a visit he was brutally murdered with the use of bomb with his wife and their only daughter by Abu Sayar terrorist movement. It was after thorough investigation on the side of the bank that we got to know about his death through his former office. And we have since tried to contact and relative of his but all has been to no avail. All I request of you is to accept to help claim his right in the bank. The late Philippines has about USD28 million dollars. All you need do is to claim to be his cousin or relative. All necessary document and procedure to effect the payment has been laid down and would be sent to you. I would have used a native of my country but my bank would detect. I just want you to help me claim the money and it would be shared reasonably. This help I am requesting from you in based on trust because if the claim is granted the money would bewired to you in your country. The reason why I choose you is because I believe you would be able to help me to direct me how to invest it properly. I am already in my retirement stage. Finally before I introduce myself I would like you to give me your word on your trust and your sincerity and promise not to cheat or be dubious because we have seen cases of this nature that such has happened to. I am MR. YAKASI GAMBO, I am a national of Nigeria. I would be expecting your mail through this address email:yakasi_info@indiatimes.com soonest. Thanks you and God bless. Yours faithfully, MR. YAKASI GAMBO, Union Bank Plc

This is the e-mail that I have recieved twice at two different e-mail accounts! It appears that others have received the same e-mail.

MARTIN EGOBIA & CHAMBERS
Solicitors & Advocates
(Notary Public)
Of The Supreme Court of Nigeria
Our Ref: TOB/AT LAW/1717/2004
ADDRESS: N0 35 saint street aguda lagos nigeria
ALT-E-MAIL barristermartinegobia9@webmail.co.za

DEAR BENEFICIARY

RE: Notification of Bequest
With gratitude to God to a life well spent and on behalf of my late
client Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO, I write to notify you that my late client made
you a beneficiary to the bequest sum of SIX Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars (USD 600,000.00) in the last codicil to
his last WILL and testament of the year 2002.
Late Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO died of high blood pressure on the 2nd
February2003. Until his death, late Rev. Dr. JOHN OKONKWO was a regional
director in Nigeria with United Nations Refugees and humanitarian commission.
A renowned PHILANTHROPIST, who has widely travelled and very good
Christian of the Christian fellowship of Nigeria. A non denominational society.
According to him he is giving you this amount because of your active
involvement in the upliftment of Christian activities with its
ministries and making better the world’s situation for the acceptance of Christian
religion in Christ Jesus as the son of God.
We the executors and trustees of this WILL wish to inform you that the
WILL was read at the High Court probate Division on the 5th June
2003 as the law provides in section (52) sub-section 3&4 of the Nigeria
constitution and is ready for execution.You are therefore required by this notification to confirm your ownership to this legacy by forwarding to us immediately via e-mail, your current telephone, e-mail and fax number (private) for easy communication and
prompt payment without delay. Your contact address (private) is also
required for verification and authentication of the WILL as the law
stipulated. A photocopy of your international passport number or drivers licence if available shall be required from you on the day of your payment. This is to avoid
paying to a wrong beneficiary.We shall detail you on the procedure involved in executing this will upon the receipt of your prompt e-mail response.
We are sorry for not notifying you by posted mail due to the urgency
required in this matter and also your e-mail contact was given to us
by the wife of my late client.
Thanks and God bless.
HON.BARRISTER MARTIN EGOBIA
Head of Chamber.

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Here is the one I just got. What are these people, terrorist?

CHIEF FREDERICK A. WILLIAMS (BL, LLB-HONS.)
C/O WILLIAMS & CO.
393 OLD OJO ROAD, AMUWO ODOFIN
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
EMAIL: frederickwilliams_consultant@yahoo.com

Dear , -------- PLS RE-CONFIRM TO ME ON EMAIL frederickwilliams_consultant@yahoo.com

Let the love and peace of God be with you and your family. I am Barrister Frederick
Williams, a solicitor at law. I am the Personal Attorney to Engr. Peter Foster,
a National of Chile, who has lived in my country for the past twenty years, and
who hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.

In April 2001, my client was involved in an Air Crash in a remote village called
Kuru near Jos in Plateau State. All occupants of the Aircraft unfortunately lost
their lives; my client was one of them. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating
most especially, the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly,
the Hallmark Bank Plc where the deceased had an account valued at about USD4, 150,000.00
(Four million, one hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars only) has issued
me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated. The request
of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner.

I therefore seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at 4.150 million dollars can be paid
to you, as my client's Next of Kin, so that you and me can share the amount on a
mutual agreed percentage. All legal documents to back up your claim, as the deceased
Next of Kin will be provided All I require is your honest cooperation to enable
us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Note that it does
not necessarily matter, whether you are biologically related to the deceased or
not. The fact that your name has something to do with his, is an express ticket
to your assuming the kinship to the deceased. As you can bear with me, a next of
kin to one, may be a Parent, Sister, Brother, Close Relative, Associate, Friend
or even a Well-wisher. So, whether you are related to him or not is never a barrier
to your kinship in the transaction.

PLS RE-CONFIRM TO ME ON EMAIL frederickwilliams_consultant@yahoo.com

I await your most urgent response so as to enable us discuss further about this
transaction and your entitlement on the transaction.

Best regards,
FREDERICK WILLIAMS (Esq.)
PLS RE-CONFIRM TO ME ON EMAIL frederickwilliams_consultant@yahoo.com

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I received the same e-mail as many people on this site. Stateing that someone related to me had died in a plane crash with his wife and two kids. He changed the names around of course.

This is a total SCAM.........

AAAwww Come oooon! You mean this stuff isn't REAL??? I just got one from a guy who said if I didn't help out with the transfers, the money would go to a crooked arms dealer or something.
Soooo... to keep ak47's and RPG's out of the hands of poor little Nigerian kids and their friends, welllll... Silly me... I am trying my best to get the guy to send me the 8 million bucks. If He does that- well... somehow the outbound transfer BACK to him will never materialize. (yeah I know... SillyMe. never try to scam a scammer.) :^)

Thanks for doing us the service of SCAMBUSTER! With all the poor, broken Nigerian widows that want to be right with God and giving our ministry money I could build five schools, fifteen hospitals, etc.

But as it is being an honest Christian worker I have a hard time paying my monthly rent, have a hernia that I need an operation for, have no medical insurance and keep serving the LORD in spite of it all.

Again, keep up the good work of alerting others to the snares that trap good people who want to believe that others want to help.

Shame on those who lie to God. They will pay for it before the judgement seat of God, if He even bothers with these scam artists and just sends them directly to the fiery pit where all of them sit around in the lake of fire telling each other, Oh I have a husband who died and he will sell you a way out of here. LIE, LIE , LIE. Awful.
They should remember what God did to Ananias and Saphira when they lied to the HOLY SPIRIT.

The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our LORD.

I know there are many good Nigerian Christians who have been through much persecution, so as usual it is a few rotten apples that spoil the barrel.

Praying for Worldwide Revival. Then maybe there will be real givers who repent as Matthew the Taxcollector.

Keep up the good work. Blessings on you and your family!!

JSNarnia@aol.com

I got the letter about the Christian philanthropist who died and left me $600,000!

The guy who put this one out needs to realize that God is going to pay him his just rewards in a way he doesn't want one day!

Hey! Did anyone see that lightning bolt go down just then!

>>>>I started to fall for this and I hope it doesn't make me look completely foolish. This person even called my home and left a message for me to check my email. I am going to report the spam to the correct authorities. Here is what was sent to me:

CHIEF CHARLES MARK (BL, LLB-HONS.)
C/O CHARLES MARK CHAMBERS.
393 OLD OJO ROAD, AMUWO ODOFIN
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
FROM:BARRISTER CHARLES MARK
EMAIL;charlesmark44@latinmail.com

Dear **********,

May the love and peace of God be with you and your family. I am
Barrister Charles Mark, a solicitor at law. I am the Personal Attorney to Engr
David
Boxer, a National of your country, who has lived in my country for the
past twenty years, and who hereinafter shall be referred to as my
client.In
April 2001, my client was involved in an Air Crash in a remote village
called Kuru near Jos in Plateau State. All occupants of the Aircraft
unfortunately
lost their lives.

my client was one of them. I have contacted you to assist in
repatriating most especially, the money left behind by my client before they get
confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were
lodged.

Particularly, the Citizen Bank Plc where the deceased had an account
valued at about USD25.000.000 (Teenty Five Milliont United States Dollars
only)has issued me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the
account confiscated.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner.therefore seek your
consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased so that the
proceeds of this account valued at US 25 million dollars can be paid to
you, as my client's
Next of Kin, so that you and me can share the amount on a mutual agreed
percentage. All legal documents to back up your claim, as the deceased
Next of Kin will be provided.All I require is your honest cooperation
to enable us see this deal through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law. Note that it does not
necessarily matter, whether you are biologically related to the
deceased or not.

The fact that your name has something to do with his, is an express
ticket to your assuming the kinship to the deceased. As you can bear with
me, a next of kin to one, may be a Parent, Sister, Brother, Close
Relative, Associate,Friend or even a Well-wisher. So, whether you are
related to him or not is never a barrier to your kinship in the transaction.

Base on that you are to furnish me with the below information.1)Your
full name and contact address
2)Your telephone and fax number for communication purpose.

3)Your Ocupation, Age and Position

Please direct your reply strictly to: charlesmark44@latinmail.com

I await your most urgent response so as to enable us discuss further
about this transaction and your entitlement on the transaction.

Best regards,
Barrister Charles Mark(Esq.)

>>>Then he sent a series of touchbase, get more info, and finally sending me a notice on the "fees"; see for yourself:

Dear **********,

With many thanks for your prompt email message, which
the contents and the information therein are carefully
noted.

My dear, I wish to let you know that I have forwarded
your information to bank as the Next of Kin to the
deceased, this is for their immediate approval
documentation of the inheritance funds into your
favor. However, copy of your information has also been
forwarded to court for an issuance of legal back up
documents in your name, such as an Affidavit of Claim
& a Letter of administration in your name, so to
enable you have a legal claim over the inheritance
funds.

My dear,if you guarantee me of your maximum suport and
co-operation in this transaction, I assure you that we
shall conclude the transfer of the inheritance funds
into your acount within the next 7 banking days,
starting from today,but the most important aspect of
the transaction is for us to procure theaforementioned
back up documents from court,once we can afford to
procure the paper works anytime soon, be rest assured
that we shall conclude the transfer into your account
wihin the shortest possible time. I will keep you
posted as soon as court gets every documentation done
in your name. First thing tomorrow morning our local
time, I will be in our high court to attestify that
you're the Next of Kin to my late client, so that
court can proceed on documenting the back up documents
in your favor.

Bear in mind that bank might get in contact with you
any time any day, whenever you hear from bank, don't
hesitate to keep me informed as to enable me guide you
on what to do. Immediately I arrive from court
tomorrow, I will update you on my outcome.
Thanks for your time, understanding and co-operation.
I expect to hear from you soon. Call me on 011+2348035829042
Yours faithfully,
Barrister Charles Mark
NB:In your next response, please send me your photograph for identification purpose.Thanks.

>>And yes I sent my picture - fortunately not a good one............

Dear *********,

How are you and your family? Hope fine.

I sent you a mail few days ago,but yet to hear from you.Hope you recieved it? Please try to keep me posted, so to enable me know my next line of action.

I expect your reply soon.

Yours faithfully,
Barrister Charles Mark

>Now is this guy lonely or what? And the punch line was - this is time sensitive? I am not an attorney but I believe these things take a bit more time than a week....

My Dear ********,

I recieved your prompt message and the attached picture as well noted.Alicia! you're such a pretty woman and I must say that your husband must be very lucky to have you as a wife. I do hope and pray that one day I will have such a pretty woman like you under my roof as a wife.

Yes, I went to court the next day for the attestation on your behalf and all went fine as planned. Now court is still working on the documentation process of the legal back up documents in your name.From the information I gattered from court today, the legal documents will be ready for issuance first thing tomorrow morning our local time. As a matter of fact, court charged a total sum of US$2,850.00 as documentation fee. My dear, this bogus charge was as a result of your not being present here in court. According to your question, I want to let you know that I can not afford to offset the court's charge alone, what I have in my position as of this point in time is only the sum of US$1,200. So you can see that I require your assistance to obtain the legal documents from court.

This afternoon,I communicated with the foreing operation director of Citizen bank as to know the position of things as regards to the approval of the inheritance funds in your favor. However,he made me to understand that every process of the approval of the funds in your favor is in good shape, he further stated that they will soon be in contact with you concerning the release of the funds into your bank account.At this jucture, I must say that we're at the conclusive stage of the transfer, but the only thing that will delay the transfer is the legal documents from court. If we can afford to secure the said documents between now and the end of this week, I assure you that the transaction will be concluded latest ny tuesday next week. I suppose you understand my explanation properly, please feel free to contact me on direct phone 2348035829042, if you have any question.

Thanks a lot for your time and concern in this project. I expect to hear from you soon.

Yours faithfully,
Barrister Charles Mark

>>>>All I can says is thank goodness this website - I might have been taken for a ride..

I got the same letter except everyone died in a car crash.

they tryed to get me and it almost work. then i saw your website,thanks alot.

Ah, I'm so glad I desided to look it up.... They keep sending me emails about how some distant member of my gene pool died in an explosian or something like that...Oh my...and now they gave me another one about how a diamond dealer was killed in the war in Congo... so they wanted to try and hit me twice? Maybe the first time, but never again. How many times can something like that happen?