is it spam or real?
@simplyman2006 (1706)
India
March 14, 2008 8:50am CST
Attention please,
I am Mrs Grace Compaore the bank manager of BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) BURKINA
FASOWEST AFRICA BRANCH.
I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that you will keep this as top secret and don't be scared or surprised, i am the manager of BANK OF AFRICA and i have an opportunity to transfer sum of US$10.5MILLION (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATE DOLLARS) I have the courage to look for a reliable and Honest Person who will be capable for this important business Transaction, believing that you will never let me down either now or in Future.
The owner of this account is MR RON MORRIS, foreigner and he is the Manager Of petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by Proffession.He died with his entire family were among the victims of December 25, 2003 Air-Crash Incident in Benin , The bank has made series of efforts to contact any of the relatives to claim this money but without success, you can confirm through this website:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/ and my Investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything About this account. I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but I Don't know any foreigner,I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know ourselves before,but be sure that it is real And A Genuine business. hope that you will never let me down in this transaction, at the conclusion of this business,you will be giving 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for me and 10% for ang expenses that may comes up.
I look forward to your earliest reply by email for more details
Thanks.
Best regards,
Mrs Grace Compaore
i wanna knew is ity spam or not
i wanna knew is ity spam or not6 people like this
37 responses
@CRiley27 (983)
• United States
14 Mar 08
I am sure you have heard of the saying "If It Sounds Too Good To Be True"
What will happen if you fall into the email, you will give them your info, and they just might deposit money or mail you money, when you try to cash the check, it will seem ok, then after a few days, your bank will notify you that it was a fraud and you will be responsible for every penny. Plus out of the money you will have already mailed the scammer. This is a very common scam. I beg of you, do not buy into the email.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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14 Mar 08
This is definately a spam, scam, rip off, or whatever you want to call it, we have had quite a few of these types of emails over the last couple of weeks, they will ask you for your bank details and personal info and then they will clean you out. These people are so cheeky, it doesnt even make any sense, they just hope people will see the amount and get greedy and fall for it.
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@simplyman2006 (1706)
• India
15 Mar 08
thanxs for it. now i will not provide any details to them
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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15 Mar 08
I am really glad to hear that, it worries me when I think people are going to get ripped off.
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@mbs730 (2147)
• Canada
15 Mar 08
Just to let you know I get these almost all the time. It's a spam and scam, as soon as you see it throw it away and don't look back. Some people truly have no lives if they do that but they also hope to find someone gullible enough to buy into it.
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
15 Mar 08
I can assure you that this is really a SPAM and I have even other proposterous ones like Microsoft Lottery, Yahoo Lottery and many more.
But one thing you can be sure to find is the reply to email address being different from the sent out address. Also, the phrasing used is nearly like those African accounts, where you get in at point A and come out from Point (God knows where). So will your money if you know what I mean.
Somehow, I just wished that the laws for these mails could get tougher as not only do I find them a nuisance but the potential threat to the young and green netizens.
Anyway, we just need to wait and be wary for now. Hope you will take care of other new netizens too yourself.
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@bongkarpasang (1377)
• Indonesia
15 Mar 08
my friend and I had gotten similar emails with that one you mentioned above. exactly the name Ron Morris. and the Mrs was also Mrs Grace but the rest was forgotten since I have deleted the emails.
just ignore this email. they are fake. I have one email address which had always been spammed with these kinda hoaxes most of times. I don't know where they collected my email address but when I checked the IPs, seemed like they were from the same sender, different names, but some of them still used same names.
the best thing we can do is to report this kinda email to our email provider and let them take care of it. it is a non-sense to transfer any million dollars to a completely stranger like we are, logically think.
you haven't got any email claimed from Arafat's wife, have you? :P
my friend in a yahoogroups got it, and the whole group just LOL about it. she sent a reply telling the sender (who claimed as Arafat's wife) that she worked for FBI. and later, she never got any kinda this email anymore.
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@carolscash (9492)
• United States
1 Apr 08
I get emails like this all the time and let me tell you that there is no way that it is that easy to get money. This is a scam and whatever you do don't fall for it.
@alcazar (761)
• India
5 Apr 08
dude...trust me ...i have got atleast 20 mails regarding the same subject and from different individuals....i ll tell you the next step....
so they want some basic information about u and then in the next mail u ll get a fee particular of about 500$ which includes his consultation charges and sending of the cheque at your place...
i dont think i have to explain more about this...
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@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
5 Apr 08
I got the same email but deleted it was screaming spam at me
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@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
9 Apr 08
It is definetly spam and I receive at least one of these types of emails every week. Most of them are from some where in Africa, just like the one you received. It seems that Africa has a lot of this thing going on and I have heard about some of them getting caught and being prosecuted. There was a show about it on W5 which is a Canadian news show. They showed someone scamming people out of their money and they taped it secretly and the people got busted and went to jail. I have notified the police when I first got one of these, and followed up on it till they asked for money from me, but there was nothing the police could do about it and they didn't even pursue it. I don't even bother reading them anymore when I get them, I just automatically delete them now.
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@Alfie1970 (257)
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1 Apr 08
These been going round for 10 years or more, next they'll want your bank details, give it to them and watch it empty. ITS A SCAM SPAM :)
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@Tehgamer (274)
• Trinidad And Tobago
14 Mar 08
This, of course, is spam. DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR CREDIT CARD OR BANK INFORMATION!! Think about it, why in the whole world, would they choose you? Do you even own a bank account with them? Why don't they give one of their bank members? If they really did background checks, etc, why didn't they contact you via phone? Why does she want to give it away? Wouldn't they rather keep it in the bank? If they don't want it, why not use it for charity... Africa can use it, there are many destitute people there...
The bottom line, don't give yyour credit card information... You will regret it...
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@gettysburg (108)
• United States
6 Apr 08
The oldest and lamest trick in the book. Total garbage.
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@onesiobhan (1327)
• Canada
22 Mar 08
I get a couple of these a day.
You can report them. The FBI has a department that deals with mail fraud as does the RCMP. Pass the info along for investigation.
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@simplyman2006 (1706)
• India
1 Apr 08
thanxs for it. but i want to knew that i am belongs to india . so , i was wondering that will FBI take my case or not.
@buwald (271)
• Netherlands
1 Apr 08
spam.
when recieving offers, try using these rules:
1. if you dont know the person, be cautious
2. if money is needed in advance, even more so
3. if it seems to good to be true, it probualy is.
4. try thinking about whether you would do such a thing, if not, its probualy fake.
if you use these, and common sense, you should be allright. (most of these mails are fake, only a very small amount are real, none that i know of)
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@renaud_tan (416)
• Philippines
1 Apr 08
well, its really hard to tell... :P
it might not be a spam or you might get rich as fast as a snap of my fingers, which you won't hear or see btw.. ^_^
well, it's up to you to decide whether it's a scam or not cause there might be 99% of those kinds of things are spams but there's also a 1% chance that it isn't a spam.. ^_^
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