This scammer claims to be the resident of a refugee camp, and writing from a nearby cyber cafe. Somewhat unlikely, wouldn't you think?

Hello Friend,

I know that this letter might be a surprise to you but do consider it as an emergency, i got your contact in reliable database.

I am Mr Paul Kagame 28 years old single and my late father was finance minister from Kigali Rwanda . I am here in Senegal with some legal documents that covering amount of money $5.5million USD under my name as the next of Kin that my late beloved father deposited in Bank in Europe.

I need your assistance for the transfer of the money to your position. I want to live the rest of my life in your country and invest with this money under your proper manage and care legally.If i join you i will further my Education then you will be investing with the money. I am presently in Dakar Senegal under UN in the Refugee Camp, i am sending this mail to you from near by Cyber Cafe.

Am waiting for your urgent reply so that we can proceed .

Mr Paul Kagame.

Introducing "Jim Simbo" crook, con man and poor master of the English language.

Suffice to say, if you are stupid and greedy enough to fall for this tripe you really need to take a good look at your life!

Dear,
CONFIDENTIAL
Compliment of the day!
With the good reference made of your esteemed personal/office by the Chamber of commerce here in Dakar Senegal, I hereby wish to commence
talks with you on a high confidential level. I am Mr. Jim Simbo presently a political refugee in Dakar Senegal the son of the former MINISTER OF FINANCE of SIERRA LEONE, Mr. Mike Simbo a Gold dealer.

During the recent crisis in my country, my late father was captured and Killed by the rebels who accused him of miss-appropriation of funds and Embezzlement. Shortly after his death, I and the rest of the family escaped to Senegal West Africa region for safety.

He [my late father] left some document with me indicating consignment of money deposit here in Senegal before his death, which the content
US $10.5Million United States Dollars}.I and my family are soliciting for your personal assistance with top arrange and to receive this money
on behalf of my family and ensure that the money is utilized wisely in a country of stable Economy like your Country.

The purpose of the money will be for a viable investment after we have collected the money from the Company here. The money was deposited for
safe-keeping and your assistance is required because our status as political refugee does not permit us to handle large sum of money here, and you will also be accepted to provide us with information on investment opportunities in your country. We do not wish to contact any of my late father's business comrades/partner because we do not know who exactly caused his death.

I and my family reason of contacting you is for your co-operation for you to assist the family in the removing of the fund out of the Company inyour favour and ours as well. Moreover, to help us use the Fund carefully for investment. The entire necessary document is at my reach. With confidence in you as A trust-worthy person to act in good faith! I will introduce you to an attorney as my father's foreign partner who will assist you with legal proceedings.

Since your particulars will appear on every vital document as the owner of the fund this transaction will attract 30% for the assist you are rendering. Please reply to s

I look forward to your reply.

Best regards,

Mr Jim Simbo.

What a load of tosh!

Suffice to say, it has been consigned to my trash can.

Attn/ Please

Good day to you and your lovely family. I am Mr. Yassan Ali-Fayadh, the son of Late Dhari Ali al-Fayadh (Prominent Iraq's House of Assembly Member) who was killed along with three of his bodyguards and my Bother in a suicide bomb attack in the neighborhood of Rashdiya Northern Baghdad. Please view the news website below for detail Story of how I lost my Father and My Bother.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.main/
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1119953467273_37/?hub=World
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-06-28-us-offensive_x.htm?csp=34


My late Father deposited a huge amount with Company here in Dakar Senegal. I got your contact detail from a friend in the neighbor and have so much in trust in you. All I need from you is an assistance to transfer the fund my late Father deposited to your country for investment until I regain my freedom. I will give you 32% of the total sum but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction and will not want you to betray me, and I also want you to know that is a legitimate transaction and which is total risk free and we both will benefit from it. Please all correspondence should be directed to my private email: yassanal@yahoo.fr as await your reply soon.

Yours sincerely,


Mr. Yassan Al-Fayadh

Another pathetic attempt to con me out of money landed in my mail box today.

Needless to say it has been consigned to the dustbin.

I do wish that these guys would learn to spell!

I AM MR.PAUL CHEMBERLIN, WORKING WITH DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN OPERATIONS, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE,DAKAR,SENEGAL.I GOT YOUR CONTACT THROUGH AN ASSOCIATE WHO WORKS WITH THE SENEGALAISE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE (FOREIGN TRADE DIVISION).THIS TRANSACTION REQUIRES MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING,TRANSPARENCY AND ABSOLUTE TRUST.ONE MR. PAKIR KUBANI FROM INDIA EXECUTED A CONTRACT WITH THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF AVIATION HERE IN SENEGAL. THE CONTRACT WORTH IS TWENTY MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$20,500,000.00), BUT DURING THE PROCESS OF TRANSFERRING THE MONEY TO HIM, HE DIED IN
AN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER THAT OCCURED IN INDIA.

MEANWHILE THIS FUND IS PRESENTLY SITTING IN A FERERATION ACCOUNT WITH THE BANK OF AFRICA,DAKAR,SENEGAL. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON EXCEPT TWOOF MY COLLEAGUES AND I. THIS IS THE INFORMATION OF THE CONTRACT EXECUTED BY MR. PAKIR KUBANI:CONTRACT NUMBER: FMA/SLE/BIR/99CONTRACT SUM:US$20,500,000.00. YOU WILL STAND AS THE PARTNER TO MR.PAKIR KUBANI AS THE SOLE BENEFICIARY OF THIS FUND.

I WILL SEND TO YOU ALL THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED IN THIS TRANSACTION IMMEDIATELY YOU ACCEPT TO CO-OPERATE WITH ME FOR YOUR VERIFICATION AND CONFIRMATION BEFORE WE PROCEED. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE AND NEEDS UTMOST SINCERERITY FROM ALL THE PARTIES INVOLVED. I WILL BE GOING FOR MY RETIREMENT VERY SOON, SO I NEED THIS MONEY TO TAKE CARE OF MY FAMILY IN FUTURE

I AWAIT YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

REGARDS.
MR.PAUL CHEMBERLIN,

This scam email arrived in my mailbox today.

It follows the usual format, someone claims to have a large sum of money which they want to get out of Africa and "invest" in a safe country.

As with all the other scam mails, there is no money.

Bin it!

Hello Dearest One,

I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Senegal. My
sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence. It is my
pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to est-
ablish in your country, though I have not met with you before but I
believe one has to risk confiding in success sometimes in life. I am
Sully Malick,the daughter of the former minister for defence .There
is this amount of US$6.8million (Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand
United state Dollars)which my late father kept for me in Bank here in
senegal dakar beforehe was piosioned to death by his business
associate.


Now I want to invest these money in your country or anywhere save en-
ough outside Africa for security and political reasons.I want you to
help me claim and retrieved these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders
and Transfer it into your personal account in your country for inves-
tment purposes on profitable ventures. If you can be of an assistance
to me,we will pleased to offer you 20% of the total fund.while 10% of
the total fund will go for any expenses incur by you during the process.
I await your soon response through my private mailbox:


N.B. Upon your interest, I will need your personal contact as following
for easy communication on this project.

Your house Addres........................
Your Phone Number .......................
Your Fax Number .........................

I will also forward to you the security company contact immediately .

Respectfully yours,
Sully Malick.

Another pathetic attempt to con me out of my money arrived in my mail box today.

I am afraid that these guys really need to change their story.

I have lost count as to how many times I have read this one, it is more repetitive than a TV reality show.

Attn: Please,


I am Mr Yousf Ahmed from Cote-Ivory Abijan.I am 25years old and presently
residing in Dakar-Senegal because of the political crisis in my Country. I got
your contact in strict confidence through Senegal Chamber of Commerce.


I would Honestly want to seek for an immediate assistance from you, I have $12.5
Million US dollars belonging to my late Father Mr MUSA AHMED, who was held
bondage by the Rebels during the crisis and was letter killed.


I ran to Senegal refugee Camp when I Discovered danger to my life and that of my
only sister.My late father has deposited the above mentioned Amount as a
consignment with a FINANCE COMPANY for safe keeping before his death
and i have every Documents regards the transaction I have contacted the FINANCE
COMPANY and confirmed the safety of the money/ inheritance.


As it is, I have the intention of investing the money oversees and however
needed a Foreigner who is capable of giving adequate assistance to me by the way
of clearing the money from the FINANCE COMPANY and the reafter
forwarding it to your Account for investments.


I have map out 35% percentage of the fund for you.My Althernative EMAIL:
) If Necessary, Please do feel free to ask me questions on
this as I wait for your reply soonest.

Thanks.

Mr Yousf Ahmed.

This scammer tells me that I am trustworthy, well that is correct.

Unfortunately, he is not.

He claims that he has $5M inherited from his father, who was poisoned by his business associate.

Why do I find that strangely unreassuring?

He wants me to help him get his hands on the money.

A nice plan, with one minor flaw; there is no money!

If you receive one of these emails, don't fall for it.

It is a scam.

Dear Friend,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship
with you. I beleive you are a reputable and responsible trustworthy
person I can do business with, as a matter of trust, I must not hesitate
to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

I am the only child of my late parents, Dr.& Mrs. Jean Williams. My
father was a very wealthy Gold Merchant based in Darka-Senegal,
My father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of
their outings to discuss a business deal.

Before the death of my father in a Private Hospital in Senegal,
he secretly Told me that he has some money with a security company
in Europe which amounts to the sum of($5.5m) Five Million
five hundred thousand United States Dollars deposited as
"Photographic Materials"with a Security Trust Company in Europe
with my name as the Next of kin,which he deposited on the the 24th Nov 2003

Also his last words, was that I should make sure that i look for some
one who will help me collect this money for me immediately after his
burial so that his enemies will not know my where about, then from
there that I should find a possible way of moving out of Africa and
naturalize in a foreign country where I can put up solid investment
with with the money. Right now, am staying here with a Teacher and
his family of 4.Although they are very poor, but they are also very
caring.According to my dad, it was because of his wealth that he
was poisoned my his business associates.

Therefore, I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for Investment purposes
specifically,he advised that I should invest in Real Estate.

I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways;

1. To serve as the guardian/Next of Kin of this fund.
2. To assist me in putting this sum of money in safe keeping by
accepting to recieve it from the Security company with a letter of
Authorization from me.
3. To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further
my education and,
4. To secure residential permit for me in your country.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you a percentage that you will not refuse
from the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after the
successful completion of the transaction.

The details of the Security Company, the Certificate of Deposit and
the Deposit's Pin Code (DPC) as well as the depositor's reference
number will be released to you as soon as we established a cordial
relationship and have the full Identity of each other. You will agree
with me that it will be unimaginable doing a transaction of this
magnitude without prior knowing each other, I will need you to send to
me your Telephone and Fax Numbers for further communication.If you
are not Interested, Please do not reply to this mail, delete it from your
system.
Thank you while expecting to hear from you soon.please me.

Mark Williams

Aside from the fact that the author of this email is a spammer, and should therefore be shot for being scum of the earth; his willful destruction of the English language should also not go unpunished.

Goodday sir
15TH MARCH 2005 This letter was bound out of my desire to establish a business mutual relationship with you. I got your contact through the International Trade and Chamber of Commerce (ITCC) in Senegal Dakar.When am seeking for investment and relable partnership.

My name is John Agaufu , the son of Mr Mark Agaufu ( the former Deputy Minister of Finance under the austed Civilian Government), who was killed and mutilated by military junta lead by major Paul Koroma, after over- throwing the elected Government of President Tijan Kabba in Sierra Leone.
I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events and disturbances/civil war in Sierra Leone .

But by the pressure of the civil war, my mother and I escaped out of Sierra Leone into exile in senigal dakar, where we have been living under political asylum for TWO years.
Sadly, my mother died of cancer- three months ago and was buried in Senigal Dakar . Prior to her death, she handed me over some secriet deposit documents, which my father made in a finance firm in Europe..The deposit that is worth ($10,5 Million ) United
States Dollars, was money paid to his corporation by it's overseas customers in the heat of the conflict.
He made the deposit in his name with the hope of converting the fund to his personal use at the end of the war but he was killed- when the conflict intensified as a result of his opposition to the
rebel forces.
I have contacted the finance firm Coporate office in europe to confirm the deposit and establish ownership.
Due to the death of my mother, and the prolonged return of peace in Sierra Leone I have decided to solicit for the participation of an honest and trust worthy person or company, that will assist in the transfer and business re-investment of this money.
I cannot do it alone due to my present social status as an asylum seeker and my total ignorance of the business world. You will be given a negotiable percentage of the money at the end of transaction.
If you are interested in the above proposal,please contact me immediately through my E-mail address indicated above for more details.
You must maintain absolute confidence to ensure success. Thanks in anticipation of you favorable reply Please your fax and phone number is also needed for easy contact.
Please been using this private E-mail:
() for security reasons.
Yours faithfully.
John Agaufu

How to recognise a Nigerian scam:

1 You receive an email from a stranger

2 The writer claims to be involved with an African bank

3 There is a large sum of money

4 There is a dead person

5 The writer wants you to commit fraud

6 The transaction is risk free

7 The writer can't spell

Oh look, here's one:

FROM THE DESK OF MR PAUL DOLL
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
DAKAR-SENEGAL. Branch.
PLS: REPLY TO

Dear Friend,

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone through your remarkable profile on the Internet. Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of communication. However, this correspondence is purely Private, and it should be treated as such.I am the AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in DAKAR-SENEGAL. Branch. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$6.5m dollars (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELOW;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Since we got information about his death, we have been e
xpecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transfered into the
bank treasury as unclaimed fund.nobody applies to claim the fund .Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER so that the fruit of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt Government officials. This is simple, The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a SENEGAL cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account ,10% should be for expenses, tax as your government may require. and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore,to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, as this transaction is 100% risk free. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,

MR PAUL DOLL. (B.O.A)
TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL
PLS: REPLY TO

"Dr Okon" from Nigeria wrote to me today. Now that should set the alarm bells ringing!

He claims that he has $10M in a bank account, which of course he doesn't, which belonged to some chap who died.

Funnily enough the dead person left no will.

Now I ask you, how likely is that? Anyone with that kind of money would of course leave a will.

Dr Okon then goes on to ask me to commit fraud, how nice of him, and impersonate the next of kin of the dead man.

That way I can steal the money, and split it with Dr Okon.

As the good doctor, says "there is no risk whatsoever". Quite, that is because I am not stupid or dishonest enough to fall for your scam Dr Okon.

DR.THOMAS OKON

GULF BANK LTD, LAGOS NIGERIA TEL:

Email:

Dear Friend,
I am DR.THOMAS OKON.The Manager Gulf Bank, Lagos,
Nigeria. I have urgent and-ery confidential business
proposition for you. On April 6, 1996, a Foreign Oil
consultant/contractor with the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Mr.james smith made a numbered time (Fixed)
Deposit for some months, valued at S$10,500,000.00 (Ten
Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch.
Upon maturity,I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After a month,we sent
a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract
employers,

the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that Mr. james
smith on 1 February 1997 died in a plane crash on air
senegal on aircraft Name Hawker Siddeley HS-748. This
crash happened in Tambacoumba, Senegal, Africa and the
registration number of the aircraft is 6AV-AEO, and since
his untimely death the funds has been dormant in his
account with my Bank without any claim of the fund On
further investigation, I found out that he died without
making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin
was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and
discovered that Mr. james smith did not declare any kin or
relations in all his official documents, including his
Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of
US$10,500,000.00 has carefully been moved out of my bank
to a security company for safe-keeping.No one will ever
come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Law,at the
expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money will revert to
the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies
to claim the fund.Consequently, my proposal is that I will
like you as a Foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to
the late mr.james smith as to cla im the money I deposited
with the security company in two trunk boxes though the
security company does not know the real contents of t he
boxes as I tagged them to be photographic materials for
export.am writing you because as a public servant, we can
not operate a foreign account or have an account that is
more than $1m.I want to present you as the owner of the
boxes in the security company so you can be able to claim
them with the help of my attorney.All these are to make
sure that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get
into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This
is simple.I will like you to provide immediately your full
names and address so that the Attorney will prepare the
necessary documents which will put you in place as the
owner of the boxes. The money will be moved out for us to
share in the ratio of 70% for me and 25% for you and 5%
will take care of all expenses incure on both side.There
is no risk a t all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the Attorney and this will
guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. if
you are interested, pleas e reply immediately via my email
address/phone upon your response, I shall then provide you
with more details and relevant documents that will help
you understand the transaction.

Please observe with utmost confidentiality, and be rest
assured that this transaction would be most profitable for
both of us because I shall require your assistance to
invest my share in your country. Please reply to my
private mail box
Hoping to hear from you.

REGARDS, DR.THOMAS OKON.