Can you say SCAM?

[Ms.Behavin]

I got this email today


#24 Odinga Forest Close,
Lynnwood Road
Hatfield Pretoria
Gauteng, South
Africa. 

     {INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE TRANSACTION}
{One Hundred &
Seventy Two Million Six Hundred And Fifty Four Thousand United State
Dollars}
(RE: TRANSFER OF $172,654,000.00 USD BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY/YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED}

Dear Sir/Madam!!

I sincerely
ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like a complete intrusion
to your privacy but right about now this is my option of communication.
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore
it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it a
divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.


I am aware
that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a
relationship. I am Mr Mr.Walter Muwandi, the personal account officer
to the great late diseased who has an account in one of the top banks
here in South Africa. The account was opened in 2001 and he died in
2004 without a written or oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated
on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing
and Govt. of
South Africa will confiscate the funds for their personal use which I
personally don't want such incident to happen being that this is a
great opportunity for me.


My contact is for you to please assist me
to transfer the fund ($172,654,000.00 USD) One Hundred & Seventy Two
Million Six Hundred And Fifty Four Thousand United State Dollars from a
Cooperate Bank here in South Africa to an oversea account. First, I
must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have
confidence of your ability and
reliability to prosecute a transaction
of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment.


You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up a
new Bank account immediately to receive
this money, even an empty a/c
can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to
me till the end of this important business trusting in you and
believing that you will never let me down either now or in future
because this business is my life. The owner of this account is a
foreigner and no other person knows about this account or anything
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death
he was the manager of the company. My investigation through the
National immigration department & Ministries here proved to meas well
that he was single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of
South Africa. The amount in this account is USD ($172,654,000.00 USD)
One Hundred & Seventy Two Million Six Hundred And Fifty Four Thousand
United State Dollars .


As a matter of fact, I have decided to
transfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a
foreigner is necessary because the management of the bank will welcome
any foreigner who has correct information to this account which I will
give to you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with
me. There is no risk in this business. With my position and my personal
contact with the manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to
any account you can provide with assurance that this money will be
intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. We
will start the first transfer with Fifty million [$50,000.000]. Upon
successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $122,654,000.00
Million to your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, but can
only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct information of
the account, which I will provide for you. So you should provide me
with your correct account details where you will like the fund to be
transferred to, or you can set up a new account for the transfer even
an empty account is ok. At the conclusion of the transfer you will take
45%, 6% will be for any expenses both parties incurred in the process
of this business and the remaining 49% will be for me. As soon as I
hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me
down once the fund goes into your account I will then start the
processing of the transfer of the fund to your account without further
delay. If you are interested, please forward the following information
as below:
{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank
Name:............
{3} Bank Address...
{4} Account No:.........
{5}
Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ..........
{7} Your
telephone Nos.both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and fax
Numbers...
{8}
Your Occupation
{9} Your Valid ID
Upon the receipt of the above
details, payment will be activated by the feeding of your data into
payment system, followed by a signal that will be sent to the paying
bank to remit funds into your nominated bank account within 5 official
working days of receipt of the above information. Contact me urgently
via email privately for further details: wm007@myway.com

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Mr.Walter Muwandi.
You can reply me via this email:
wm007@myway.com

So you think I should send him all my personal info?  :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :)) :))

[cranky]

remind me of a case i saw on judge judy this one lady thought it was real and the bank was now after her . lol

[harley89]

I'm surprised they still try that one.

[Luna]

That has SCAM written all over it. Sad thing about it, some poor fool out in this world probably has fallen for it already.

[swamp]

 !@#$   heyyyyyy mine was for 50 million  thats not fair i will  :{: call that guy and  (O+O) and tell them they can kiss my  :o0  !@#$ and they can have my 50 mill  :[ :)) :)) :))

[Tara]

This is going to take me all day to read... >:D   :))

[Izamin]

hate them e-mails and always laugh at em

[bluebell1us]

get those emails all the time, just delete and go  on.  but the other day I get a letter in the mail along with a  3800 dollar check.  the check said from Geico and looks very real. went to the bank, they are doing a check and are in touch with fraud investigators.  It is a shame that crooks take advantage of poor people who are always in need of money and will fall for their spill.  ;:"

[Homer]

Whatever you do...DON"T CASH THAT CHECK!!!...it very likely is a scam. I saw this on TV. You cash the check and your bank will hold you liable if it is a fraud.

[Ilovemyweims]

I get thoses all the time but who actually falls for them!!

[bluebell1us]

not cashing the check, just let the bank hold it so they can use it to see if they can find out where it came from.  Probably won't be able to trace it they said, but can use it to show others about this kind of scam.makes me so :( to think of the people who fall for this stuff.