Oliver Aristide wrote to me today, yeah right!
Oliver claims to be the brother of the recently deposed Aristide of Haiti. Seemingly there is a bank account, containing $137M, which is in the name of a dead business associate.
All I have to do is pose as the next of kin, ie commit fraud, and pocket the money.
Dear old Aristide promises that he will use the money to help the poor.
I have to send my details, in order to complete the "modalities". Whenever you see the word "modalities" you can be sure it is a scam, our boys all seemingly went to the same grammar school.
Utter tosh!
Dear Friend,
I write you in good faith, hoping that you will treat this letter as a
desperate search for assistance.
I am Oliver Aristide, the half brother of the recently ousted president
of Haiti Rev. Aristide, who has just been granted asylum in South Africa.
Because of the hurried nature of my brother’s exit from Haiti, he left
the country with the money he could and all his life savings has remained
in Haiti while he left in a hurry in order to safeguard his dear life.
I am in possession of Deposit documents, with which my brother’s
personal business associate Scott D. Morton, Deposited the sum of USD137,500,000
(One Hundred and Thirty Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars) in
a bank on behalf of my brother. This money was fixed by his associate in
order to beat any probing eyes in the country and when my brother had to
leave hurriedly, this money remained untouched because the associate of his
died in a plane crash, with this money lying in the Bank. We now wish to
have a Next of Kin who must be a foreigner, to stand as beneficiary of this
money so we can move the money to any of the developed countries, preferably
America or Britain. My brother quickly and desprately needs to send
money to the flood victims without anyone knowing the donation is from him.This
is why we seek your assistance to stand as the beneficiary of this money.
All necessary modalities have been put in place to have the money moved
very quickly without attracting attention.
If you agree to work with us to secure this money, we will be willing
to allow you keep 20 percent, 30 percent will go towards humanitarian
relief efforts for the flood victims back home and 50 percent will be kept for
my brother until he is able to get a permanent place for his asylum, by
then all the tension will also have died down.
I can be contacted alternatively at the following Email address:
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation and assistance.
Regards,
Oliver
Avoid it like the plague, it is a con.
please help since i have been contact dozens of times as the benificary of a man who contacted me looking to carry onhis wishes as his benificary of a huge amount as i felt it was most likely a scam, the only reason i have going back and forth and then, have been playing along, is the attorney of this now deceased man, as i was made the benifciary of this man's will. the lawyer denied that his firm is one of these frauds and i am freaking out about id theft at this point. i have no funds that can be
ReplyDeleteraided what can i do now to stop id theft?? when i contacted my bank of no balance for an intermiary bank to effect a wire transfer thru citibank, they seemed to know of this ecobankcotonou-benin. citibank to effect wire transfer thru bankers trust of new york. i have been dragging this out since last august, fearing it a scam.was a will produced and that fact that i did not want to travel overseas and when 3,000 was requseted to have a uk attorney get docunents in order that was refused by me, then i was asked to travel to belgium, no can due, so now like an ass when i do not have a current passport, they said a birthcertificate and current photo would be exceptable and $250 to legalize it over there with four days to clear it with their ministry. i can't believe i didn't pay for a passport them wait the 2-3 weeks to obtain it and now my b.c is out.some there any hope of stopping id fraud or will they be able to use my id to open a bogus account and i will never see this money. they have only the old birth certificate no signature or full copies of my driver licsence i have received so many of these scam offers and all were so obviously fraud, i thought just maybe this could have been the 1 in a million that was actually real
if only 250 and 4 days is all that it takes, i may as well send it, by the grace of god this comes out ok. can some one contact me please with any info tat may be of any help
melovecats@webtv.net
This is quite obviously a scam.
ReplyDeleteGo to the police immediately and tell them what has happened.
Tell your bank.
Do not part with any money or any other id information.
Stop communicating with these people.