#1
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:55:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: Frank Abmail
Subject: Very Urgent
To: fr_abmail15@yahoo.co.in
Reply-To: HYPERLINK “mailto:auditor_abmail@myway.com” auditor_abmail@myway.com
From: Mr.Frank Abmail. [I don’t know Frank…the name’s already got me a little suspicious]
Box 1287 Port Shepstone
Chaka -South Africa
RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 39,500.000.00 USD) (THIRTY NINE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) [Keep talkin…]
Compliments,We want to transfer to overseas ($39,500.000.00 USD) Thirty nine million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars from a Prime Bank in Africa, I want
to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quitely. [They always pretend to be letting you in on a big secret to start things off] I am Mr.Frank Abmail, the accountant and personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr. Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend wedding in Boston. [This is the usual theme – someone with a lot of money dies suddenly in some tragic accident, leaving their assets in limbo somewhere, and YOU are the only one who can help] Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died last year [16 months ago, Frank—you should update the template] without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in South Africa which he opened in a prime bank in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003. The amount involved is (USD 39,500,000.00) Thirty Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account [then why do you say ‘we’ sometimes?], I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to first transfer $9,500.000.00 (nine million five hundred thousand USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer the remaining (30M) but I don’t know any foreigner…However, I am revealing this to you with believe in God [I suppose if this email is being sent to Americans—the most church-going people in the developed world—he’ll bring in more people than he’ll push away with this line. But his spelling of ‘believe’ might have spoiled it] that you will never let me down in this business [What are you basing this expectation on, Frank?!], you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. [You would think he would have sent me a follow-up email after I didn’t reply] Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit. [I have been tempted to send fake information several times] I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable [I thought you were already convinced, Frank] and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 50% of the total amount, 50% will be for me [That is a little strange – why does Frank get the entire other half?], we will bear the working cost together through the process of transfer to get payment approvals. I look forward to your earliest reply through my private Email address:auditor_abmail@myway.com
Sincerely,Mr.Frank Abmail.
[Please, someone email this guy.]
#2
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:18:29 -0800
From: kentas anderson
Subject: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOUR FUND
To: saretsky@Princeton.EDU, rcarpent@Princeton.EDU, mvu@Princeton.EDU, lafemina@Princeton.EDU, kycheng@Princeton.EDU, jrosenkr@Princeton.EDU
Reply-To: kentas20@yahoo.co.in
FROM THE DATABSE DEPT,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA(C.B.N)
ABUJA, HEADQUATERS.
NIGERIA,
RE- WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOUR FUND
YOUR GOOD ATTENTION,
Listen and listen good.. [This is the hook]
Keep this mail and information very confidential. [As you may have noticed, there were five other Princeton students listed in the “To:” line of this email: two Thetas, a comp sci major, and two guys in Cap] I am the current Information and Database analyst of the Treasury/Payment Investigation Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
I’m contacting you to stop you from any further contact phone or email with anybody whatsoever,be it an attorney,bank Manager or anyother person here in Nigeria. [or be it Frank Abmail!]
I was inaugurated into this post as the new databse analyst on the 10th of January,2005. [“Inaugurated”, huh?] As I was going through several out-going payment files handed over to me by the past government,I discovered a lot of undue finanacial irregularities and confusions in your payment file with treasury dept of CBN. [Do they think I will believe that I have a history with the bank?]
Your payment file is currently with CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA and no
longer in the bank where it was initially deposited. [OH!] Your file with me here
is completely mutilated by those who claimed to be helping you get your fund [“Mutilitated:” interesting word choice. I wonder, is this email supposed to be a sort of response to the other string of phony emails emanating from fake African banks, or are they all working together?] transfered to your account in your country. I really feel for you and I cannot just fold my arms and watch your fund go this way here simply because you are not here to help yourself. [Appeal to the ownership society]
Therefore, I’ve withdrawn my submission paper for conversion of the funds to CBN Treasury which I was mandated to do with immediate effect. [So this renegade is working on your side…and the five other people the email was addressed to]
Several payments files have suffered this type of financial irregularities and uptill now,the fund are rendered unservicable for the owner. [Spelling and grammar are usually pretty atrocious in these emails, but “uptill” is a new low]
I have already made up my mind to help you so long as you stop all further communicatio with everyother person and listen to me with rapt attention. [ATTENTION! – If you’ve fallen for the other scams, stop right now! Look at me!] Those you are currently dealing with have the intention of using your name to claim your fund to their own selfish interest and that is why you must completely stop dealing with them [Frank would never do that to me!] from now on otherwise you will end up loosing your legal fund.I have the whole data with me here. [And yet I have the troubling feeling you’ll be asking for my data before this email is over…]
But then,you must agree to the following terms and conditions of mine before we proceed: [Here we go…]
1.YOUR MUST TREAT MY INVOLVEMENT VERY STRICT AND
CONFIDENTIAL SO LONG AS THIS IS CONCERNED.
2.AFTER USING MY POSITION TO ENSURE THE TRANSFER OF THE FUND DIRECTLY TO YOUR ACCOUNT,YOU SHALL SUBMIT 25% OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME AS SOON AS THE TRANSFER IS MADE DIRECTLY TO YOUR ACCOUNT. [I still don’t see how anyone could be duped into this – even if they believed their money did accidentally wind up in Nigeria, couldn’t they just check to make sure it’s still in their local bank online?]
3.YOU MUST PROMISE TO BE HONEST AND FAITHFUL TO ME AND
MUST AGREE TO SUBMIT MY SHARE TO ME UPON RECIEPT OF THE FUND IN YOUR ACCOUNT. [Establishing this person as the cynic, as opposed to me, who clearly will believe anything]
If you agree with the above terms and conditions,then,rest assured that everything it takes to perfect the transfer to your account would be well catered for by me here. [Some of these sentences read like Mad Libs]
My direct phone number is:234-803-7405020. (Is that the right amount of numbers?] Do call me upon reciept of this important mail just for me to know that the rightful/intended person recieved it. [ “Except after C,” buddy!]
A stitch in time they say saves nine. [Uh huh…] This is the only reliable channel for you otherwise all other efforts MUST be in vain.
I look forward to hearing from you. I’ll attach in a seperate email my photo,work ID double faces for your reference as soon as I hear from you.
Regards
Engr.Kentas Anderson
INFORMATION TECH & DATA ANALYST TREASURY
PAYMENT INVESTIGATION DEPT
(CBN)