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jack the lad

Well-Known Member
If you send me a PM with your full name, address, d-o-b, mother's maiden name and bank account number, I'll send you a leaflet on how to avoid falling for scams.
 

goo_mason

Champion barbed-wire hurdler
Location
Leith, Edinburgh
Got a good laugh at this scam email I received today, especially the bits I've highlighted:

FROM THE DESK OF
MR. DANIEL BOATENG
BRANCH MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.

Hello Dear ,

My name is Daniel Boateng, I am the branch manager of the International Commercial Bank Kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet and i know this may com to you as a sock. I am 46years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a Man of peace and I don't want problem, but I do not know how you will feel about this because you may have double mind. But I am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can assist each other. But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it and I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city (Accra-Ghana) at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2007 end of last year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [3, 750.000.00] which my head office is not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this fund, so this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that you can assist and receive this fund into your bank account for us to SHARE. Mean While you will have 35% of the total fund, Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much as soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully.please i will like to get back to me on my personal email address;danielboateng@live.com.

Best Regards
Mr. Daniel Boateng​
 

Mortiroloboy

New Member
notthebuzzard said:
Blackandblue, I work for Cycling Plus so drop me a private message with as much info as you have and I'll look into it for you. We don't run many compos in the mag – the last one was when we redesigned as far as I can remember, and I really should know!


Oi! Don't you have BikeRadar? Or is it sooo bad there now that even employees of C+ have decided to seek refuge in this happy place!?:blush:;):biggrin:
 

Mortiroloboy

New Member
goo_mason said:
Got a good laugh at this scam email I received today, especially the bits I've highlighted:

FROM THE DESK OF
MR. DANIEL BOATENG
BRANCH MANAGER
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK
KUMASI BRANCH GHANA.

Hello Dear ,

My name is Daniel Boateng, I am the branch manager of the International Commercial Bank Kumasi branch Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet and i know this may com to you as a sock. I am 46years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a Man of peace and I don't want problem, but I do not know how you will feel about this because you may have double mind. But I am telling you that this is real and you are not going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope that we can assist each other. But if you don't want this business offer kindly forget it and I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city (Accra-Ghana) at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2007 end of last year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar [3, 750.000.00] which my head office is not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this fund, so this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that you can assist and receive this fund into your bank account for us to SHARE. Mean While you will have 35% of the total fund, Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much as soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how we can achieve it successfully.please i will like to get back to me on my personal email address;danielboateng@live.com.

Best Regards
Mr. Daniel Boateng​

I'm sure this guy wrote to me last week, making me aware that he had just found a rather large diamond down his mine, that apparently belonged to me. He wanted to make sure I got it back, all I needed to do was provide him with my bank details etc etc and he would ship the diamond straight away.

Hmm, now let me think about that for half a nano second...DELETE!
 

DJ

Formerly known as djtheglove
I remember way back when I was about 19. Fosters Lager was a new beer in this country and they where doing a huge promotion push. I filled out my details on the back of a beer mat and the landlord sent them all off.

About 2 weeks later I got a phone call (on a friday evening) from a lady who told me I had won a car, a Ford Escort XR3i, remember them?

I could'nt believe it, decided it was one of my mates doing a wind up and put the phone down!

Later down the pub I sheepishly enquired (doubt was already setting in) amongst my mates wether they had set the call up!

Of course The answer was.....................You guessed it NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:blush:
 

Angelfishsolo

A Velocipedian
If in doubt don't.

Blackandblue said:
I had a call yesterday on my mobile from someone claiming to be with Cycling Plus magazine and wanting my address because I had recently entered a competition by text and all they had was my mobile number. I asked when I had entered this competition and was told it was about 6 weeks ago. This is untrue. I did enter a competition over a year ago. I was then asked if I read the magazine - I said yes and also confirmed I was not a subscriber. I was asked again for my address and when I asked why was told it was so they could contact me if I won the competition! I told them I wasn't about to hand out my address over the phone to someone in respect of information which was not true.
 
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