Another '419'

[661-Pete]

They don't come my way anything like so often these days. I miss them....
This one is surprisingly literate. I'm intrigued by the 'alluvial gold dust'

From: Mr. David Akoto
International Commercial Bank.
Koforidua Branch.

Attn: Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. David Akoto. I am the regional manager of International Commercial Bank Koforidua branch, Ghana. I got your information on a recent bank conference with other West African countries held in Lome the capital city of Togo in West Africa. I write you this proposal in good faith; I am 42 years old married with two lovely kids.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the regional manager of the Standard Chartered Bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business year. On the course of the last year 2008 business report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Five million, two hundred United States dollars($5,200,000.00) which my head office is not aware of and will never be aware of. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary. As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as commission.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank to bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much, if you think we can work together so that we can go over the details.

There is also included a 158kilos deposit of Alluvial gold dust should in case you are interested in precious stones.

Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.

Yours truly,
Mr. David Akoto.

 

[Joe24]

Id take him up on his offer, sounds good to me!!!

 

[Globalti]

Write back and tell him that while he has managed to avoid most of the classic Nigerian-isms in his letter, you are not some mugu white man and you happen to be well connected in Nigeria so you have asked a big Madame from Ogbomosho to put a juju on him, which is activated when he opens and reads your email. The effect will be that his skin will go white like Michael Jackson and his penis will shrink to nothing.

Even educated Nigerians believe in juju and penis shrinking so it will prey on his mind.

 

[PaulB]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0e-pPfITts

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I don't get any of that stuff now I am with o2, they manage to filter it all out. It's a shame really, they used to be good for a chuckle before deleting them. That one sounds a bit long winded and the grammar is nearly as bad as mine is, he doesn't sound like a bank manager at all.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Write back and tell him that while he has managed to avoid most of the classic Nigerian-isms in his letter, you are not some mugu white man and you happen to be well connected in Nigeria so you have asked a big Madame from Ogbomosho to put a juju on him, which is activated when he opens and reads your email. The effect will be that his skin will go white like Michael Jackson and his penis will shrink to nothing.

Even educated Nigerians believe in juju and penis shrinking so it will prey on his mind.

Nice one!

 

[longers]

There must be quite a few folk who do fall for them or they'd have given up trying by now wouldn't they?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

There must be quite a few folk who do fall for them or they'd have given up trying by now wouldn't they?

How do you mean 'fall for it' - I've just dropped him a line!!

 

[ComedyPilot]

I don't get any of that stuff now I am with o2, they manage to filter it all out. It's a shame really, they used to be good for a chuckle before deleting them. That one sounds a bit long winded and the grammar is nearly as bad as mine is, he doesn't sound like a bank manager at all.

It could be Joe24 sending letters out?

 

[Joe24]

Nope, not me. I dont have that much gold dust
Im still collecting it though! Im filing off the edges of pound coins to get it!

 

[domd1979]

http://www.419eater.com/

 

[PaulB]

There must be quite a few folk who do fall for them or they'd have given up trying by now wouldn't they?

One team of them are responsible for the third biggest con in history when they took an official at a Japanese bank for over £50 million!

 

[661-Pete]

I don't get any of that stuff now I am with o2, they manage to filter it all out. It's a shame really, they used to be good for a chuckle before deleting them.

I believe the thing to do is google the word "mugu" and then sign (with an ad-hoc webmail of course!) any guestbooks you hit upon. Then they start pouring in. Not me! I'll leave that clever stuff to other mugus.

That one sounds a bit long winded and the grammar is nearly as bad as mine is, he doesn't sound like a bank manager at all.

Damn sight better spelling than the last one I had, whatever the grammar!

 

[MajorMantra]

There must be quite a few folk who do fall for them or they'd have given up trying by now wouldn't they?

Thing is it costs basically nothing to send millions of emails so even if only 1 in a million people falls for it then it can be profitable.

Matthew

 

[Globalti]

But if everybody with an email address has had hundreds of the damned messages, you'd have thought this particular vein of gold would have been exhausted by now, wouldn't you?