A variation on a theme.

This time it is Dutch. However, they still want my bank details; and need me to travel to Holland.

All rather implausible.


BEETO NETHERLANDS SWEEEPSTAKE LOTTERY NL
AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.

FROM:THE DESK OF THE LOTTERYCOORDINATOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REF:HWS/200319348/02
BATCH:12/204/JXS

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of Email Lottery Winners
International programs held on the 12th November, 2003. Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number 2756-5211 with serial number 3067-501 drew lucky
numbers 4-39-31-45 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of $1,000,000.00(ONE US MILLION
DOLLARS)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money
Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol To avoid double claiming
and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over
20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from All over
the world. we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year
10 millions Euro international lottery. You are therefore requested to come to
the NETHERLANDS to file for your claim, please contact our fiducial agent MR
EDMOND KEN of the,BEETO TRUST AGENCY NL for further informations

TEL:

Email:


YOU ARE HOWEVER REQUIRED TO MAKE AVIALABLE THE FOLLOWING;

1.A LEGITIMATE IDENTITY FOR IDENTIFICATION PROOF
2.YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DATA'S FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR CLAIM.


And please do remember, all winning must be claimed not later than FIRST OF
JENUARY 2004, After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next
stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please
remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any
change of address or appointment, do inform us as soon as possible in order for
us to make an alternative arrangement for you. Congratulations once more from
our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.


Note: Anybody BELOW the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Sincerely yours,

Mrs. ROSEMARY BAKER
Lottery Coordinator.

This plonker sent me this three times today, not exactly the way to endear himself to me!

From:Mr John Mboma.

To: President/Director.

Dear Sir/Madam.

With due respect and understanding i seek your utmost trust and honesty
in this transaction.

Furthermore, I have decided to contact you in search of foreign partner,
whom I can transact Business with, without tensions and fears of been scammed.
I want you to bear this in mind that a dishonest person is not entitled
to render assistance to me.

I am Mr. John Mboma the only surviving son of a Late minister Dr Patrick
Mboma. during the reign of mobutu seseko, My father was a minister in Democratic
Republic of Congo during the reign of Late President Mobutu. Our father
was killed during the rebel attack and our house was burnt and all our
belongings
including our oil refinary in congo. We manage to escape to West Africa
with my aged Grand mother and two of my sisters where we are now taking
refuge in the refugee camp in West Africa. Before the death of my father
he deposited US$35 MILLION, with a Finance security Firm in Europe.Which
he had wanted to use for the renovation of our oil refinary in Congo.

All the documents with which the money was deposited is with my family
attorney.Upon
your reply my attorney will furnish you with more useful information that
will help understand this transaction better so as to aid a successful transfer
of this money into your nominated bank account, also sharing terms of the
money will be discuss between you and my attorney on receipt of mail.

Hoping to hear from you soon. Please contact me on this Email Address:


Kindly include your personal telephone number and fax numbers in your reply
to enhance easy communication between you and our family attorney

My Regards to your family, Thanks and God Bless.

I Remain.

Mr John Mboma.

I received this finely crafted message three times today; twice from Hassan and once from a John Hilary.

They have a bank account with $7M, the owner died in 1990, no one knows about it blah, blah blah...they need a foreigner (that's me!).

Risk free, of course, and the hand of God; what could be better?

This is actually an example of the double bluff; by appearing to be totally stupid and incompetent, they lull the greedy and stupid into a false sense of superiority.

Dear Sir,
I am Mr Mustapha Hassan
An eastern district senior Staff of City Credit Bank of Abidjan Branch (CCB).
There is an account opened in this bank in 1985 and since 1990 nobody has
operated on this account again. After going through some old files in the
records I discovered
that if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account was Mr. James Maurice Smith a foreigner, and the
manager of Petrol-Technical Support Services Inc., a chemical engineer by
profession and he died since 1990. No other person knows about this account or
any thing concerning it, t
he account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that this company does not know anything about this account and the amount
involved is (usd7.3million dollars).

I want to transfer this money into a safe foreigner’s account abroad but I
don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
money cannot be approved to a local bank here, but can only be approved to any
foreign account becau
se the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the account, Mr. James
Maurice Smith, is a foreigner too. I know that this project will come to you as
a surprise as we do not know ourselves before, but be sure that it is real and a
genuine and risk
-free.

I only got your contact address through internet, with belief in God that you
will never let me down in this project. You are the only person that I have
contacted in this project, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you
the next step to take
urgently. Send your private telephone and fax numbers including the full details
of the account to be used for the deposit.

I want us to meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us together
so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any account of your
choice where the fund will be safe. And I will fly to your country for
withdrawal and sharing
and other investments.
I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with foreign
account as a foreign beneficiary. I need your full co-operation to make this
project fine.

Thanks.
And best regards,.
Mr Mustapha Hassan

I read an amusing article in a newspaper yesterday. It seems that all is not well in "Scam Land".

The newspaper inerviewed one of the "scallywags" behind the Nigerian letters. He was complaining that people seem to be wising up to the fact that the letters are con tricks.

In the good old days "our boy" could make a decent living off the stupid and greedy. He claimed that he was able to run a Mercedes, several girlfriends and owned a large house.

Now, sadly, he doesn't know where his next $5000 is coming from!

Well, my heart bleeds for him and his cronies.

No doubt they will be putting their minds to developing other ways to fleece the greedy and stupid; so watch out.

I received a very prompt response from my "dear friend" van Oosten today.

It seems, funnily enough, that he is unable to send me £1000. Yet he kindly notes that my proposition is as good as his.

I feel mine was better, as I would have been in profit by £1000; rather than having my bank account raided by this crook.

Sir,

Your proposition is as good as mine but I don't have access to the said safe unless somebody like you can come forward for its claim as next of kin to the deceased fellow.

Thanks again for your precious time.

I remain,

Van Oosten

This "scallywag" claims to have a safe containing over $5M.

If his story is to be believed the owner has had some unfortunate mishap in a boat.

I dropped him a line pointing out that I don't conduct business with strangers, unless they advance me £1000 up front.

I eagerly await the cash dropping through my mailbox!

Dear sir,

Best compliments.I am Van der Oosten, chief operating officer finance,saving and security homes based in Europe duely registered under the companies registration and allied matters, also licensed by European securities and stock exchange.

In the early part of 2001 the organization received a family safe valued at $5.8M to its vault for security reasons from AHMAD ABDALLAH, an Egyptian national expartriate based in Europe for period of two yrs. that lapsed on March,2003 after this long expiration period of safe keeping, we decided to locate him through the contact with us but learn't of his sudden death in the Meditteranean boat mishap of June,2002 off the Alexander's coast.

Keeping with the business ethic and standard,efforts were strengthen to locate the family for the clearance of their safe but all to no avail,hence,motivates me to contact you for possible clearance of the safe to your custody with no risk involved.
If the proposal is in your best interest,do not hesitate to contact me by my email:

Thanks in anticipating your reply and Godbless.

I remain,

VAN OOSTEN

This character writes to me asking for my assistant. I didn't know I had one!

She then goes on to say that she has "stashed" his money in a bank, defintely a high quality individual.

Naturally her husband was head of state, there seems to be a lot of these around. I assume Saddam will be writing to me soon.

From Mrs.Jewel Taylor
personal email:
First let me introduce myself,my name is Jewel Taylor,the third wife of the
ex-president of Liberia who just voluntarily stepped aside for the installment
of a new goverment in my country .
At present I and my husband have been exiled out of our country and we are
seeking refuge in a neighbouring country,where things are not really going on
fine for us.Before my husband relinquished his position as head of state,I had
just concluded a contract supply contract with the aid of a London based firm
to
supply and install computer ans electronics equipment to the tune of
$45,000,000usd to the office of the presidency.
This sum though was over-inflated and after full supply and installation,I made
a personal profit of $18,000,000 usd,which I have stashed with a security firm
in Europe.
What I require from you,is that you urgently assist me in receiving this funds
in your account as one of the contracted firms,and as such guide away interest
and attention from this money,that it belongs to me or any of my family
members.

At present all of me and my family's properties confisticated and accounts have
been frozen in Liberia,and are even still out to lay there hands on any funds
that they can trace.
Bearing this in mind,I need that you receive this funds on my behalf,after
which
I shall reinvest,a bulk of this funds in a viable business in your country and
this you shall advise upon and also run and manage on my behalf,with experience
on your side and after which I and my family
would have relocated to your country,with your assistance.
I await your response with confirmation of willigness to assist.
Thanks
J.Taylor

I would like to thank Scott (from the USA) for sending me this fine example of "scamming".

Here, as is often the case, we have a couple of dead bodies. Gold is the bait this time, as opposed to diamonds.

I am impressed that the writer had the energy to prepare such a fine "story", given the fact that she has been fasting fro seven days; must be feeling a little peckish and tired I would have thought.

However, there is only $5M on offer; not worth me raising a finger to type a response for.

I am fascinated by the use of block capitals for certain words, such as BANK.

Also, I wonder precisely what she has in mind with regard to her desire to discuss "modalities".

ZAINAB UBA AND BROTHER
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
WEST AFRICA.


DEAR,

It is my pleasure to write you after my seven days fasting and prayers and much
consideration since I can not be able to see you face to face at first.

Being the first and the only Daughter of my father, late ALHAJI KALWA UBA from
BETE in Republic of COTE D´IVOIRE Africa I am 21years of age. My father was
limited liability cocoa and gold merchant in ABIDJAN before his untimely death
after his business trip to SWITZERLAND, to negotiate on a cocoa business. A
week after he came back from SWISS, he was assassinated with my mother by
unknown assassins.

Which my mother died, instantly, but my father died after five days in hospital,
on that faithful afternoon. I didn´t know that my father was going to leave me
after I had lost my mother. But before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he
knew he was going to die. my father, (may his soul rest in perfect peace) he
disclose to me that he deposited the sum of $5 million U.S dollars in a PRIVATE
BANK here in ABIDJAN. That the money was meant for his cocoa business he wanted
to invest in Abidjan - Côte d´Ivoire. Though, according to my father he
deposited the money in his own name .

He single handed me over the document and logging and verifying informations ,
and instructed me to seek for a life time investment partner abroad.

Now I have succeeded in locating the BANK in here and also confirmed the fund is
in there , most honest and confidentiality. Now I am soliciting for your
assistance to help me lift this money out from The BANK to your account abroad
so that we should invest it in any lucrative business in your country.

I am Waiting anxiously to hear from you so that we can discuss the modalities of
this transaction,

Thanks for your kind attention and mutual
understanding.

Best regards

ZAINAB UBA.

Here's a very friendly note, enquiring after my health etc; and offering me a share of a very large sum (over $255M to be precise).

I think that this is the largest amount I have had offered so far; anyone reading this, who has been offered more, please feel free to drop me a line.

Naturally there are a few dead bodies, membership of UNITA and of course some blood diamonds.

The letter even offers a web address (hosted by the BBC), where I can look up details of this chap's father.

I will take a wild guess here, and assume that the writer of this letter is in fact not who he claims to be.

I don't think I will be taking him up on his kind offer!

Greetings,

How are you? And hope all is well?

You might be surprise to receive this mail but I will like you to go through
it carefully before responding, I hope at end it will find you and your business
in the best of interest. Let me quickly introduce myself and the purpose of my
contacting you. My name is Samuel Savimbi, son of the late UNITA leader Jonas
Savimbi. My father was killed on the 22nd of February, 2002 while my mother
CATERINA has been placed under house restriction and presently in a Government
Hospital in LUENA, Capital of Mexico province in Angola and we the children are
desperately looking for a trust worthy person to assist us in this confidential
business and will at this point refer you to the information archives of.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/264094.stm

To know more about my family. While my father was hero to so many, he was
Enemy to some who stood against Democracy as was evidenced when President Regan
gave my father a Red carpet welcome to the U.S.A.

The Abstract of the business is that my late father (JONAS MALHEIRO SAVIMBI)
deposited huge sum of money amounting to USD $255,600,000.00 realized from the
sale of Diamond with a security company in Europe in case of Death or the
unforeseen for the family. We are now been advised by a diplomat loyal to my
father to look for a trust worthy person who can receive the money from the
security company and invest into profitable business for the family because at
the moment Angola is tense despite the peace process going on.

At the conclusion of this business you will be given some certain percentage
of the total amount while some percentage will be for me and my family. I wish
to assure you that all logistic are in place for the successful conclusion of
this business deal, on receipt of your positive response I shall forward you
more details on the exact role which is required of you for the successful
conclusion of this transaction.
If you find this proposal of interest and you are in a position to assist me
in realizing this transaction.

I look forward to your earliest reply,

Regards,

Samuel Savimbi.

FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT MY FATHER READ FROM THE FOLLOWING SITES:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/02/24/stories/2002022400961400.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1839252.stm

Diamonds, and a 100% risk free investment; my kind of deal!

Unfortunately this letter is a con; and so there are no diamonds, or a risk free deal, on offer here.

Dear Sir or madam



ASSISTANCE



Kindly allow me the modesty of introducing myself. I am GEORGE KABILA,the son of the former head of state/ president of Congo-Kinshasha (then called Zaire) Mr. Laurent Desire Kabila.

I am contacting you in other to ask for your assistance on this confidential Business proposal with full financial benefit for both of us.

Before I go into further details please be informed that I am writing without any other person(s) pre-knowledge of my contacting you on this transaction.

Therefore I will appreciate same attitude to be maintained all through.

I have the sum of USD19.7Million from a secret sale of Diamond by my father before he was assassinated by one of his body guard (Rashid) on January 16th 2001, which I will like you to receive on my behalf due to Security reasons, as my narration below will explain.

But before I continue be well informed that your share in this transaction has been calculated as 15% of the total sum of USD$19.7M, 5% for expenses and the rest for my family and I.

My father as a real African traditionalist was a polygamist thereby having married to so many wives, and my mother being the second wife of my father, My step brother Joseph, who is currently the president of my country, is the son of the first wife and he does not have any knowledge about this deal.

Already president Joseph is using his power to colonize all the money and private property, which my late father left behind for the entire family.

Now my mother and I are left with nothing in the inheritance of my late father's wealth. Our situation is seriously critical that we need your assistance to help us receive this money overseas for proper investment.

Let me quickly assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free because the diamond sales are packaged from the unset in a pattern that shows no direct trace or linkage with us (Kabila family). At present the money is deposited and is secured with a holding company under deposit account.

I am waiting for your swift and favourable response, and in case you have any question(s), do not hesitate to contact me.

My alternative e mail address is: *****

Best Regards

George Kabila

The writer of this letter brings God into the proceedings. In fact, according to him, God directed him to contact me personally; I am truly blessed!

It turns out that our writer, a legal eagle by trade, was entrusted to dispose of the estate of a dead couple; and use the money for God's work.

However, naughty naughty, he pocketed the money himself at first. Now would you do business with this man?

He now claims to have a had a vision, of God, and is a born again Christian. He now seeks to use the money for God's work.

Naturally, he needs to use my bank account to do this. You would have thought that since he is on such good terms with the Almighty; that he would have been able to find an easier way.

Dear Beloved in Christ,

It is by the grace of God that I received Christ,
knowing the truth and the truth have set me free.
Having known the truth, I had no choice than to do
what is lawful and right in the sight of God for
eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of
God´s mercy and glory upon my life.

I have the pleasure to share my testimony with you,
having seen your contact from the Internet. I am
Barrister pepple franklin, the legal adviser to late Mr. and Mrs. Bright
Williams, a British couple that lived in my Country Nigeria for 25 years before
they both died in the plane crash late last year. These couples were good
Christians, they so dedicated to God but they had no child till they died.
Throughout their
stay in my country, they acquired a lot of properties
like lands, house properties, etc.

As their legal adviser, before their death, the
husband Mr. Bright Williams instructed me to write his
WILL. Because they had no child, they dedicated their
wealth to God. According to the WILL, the properties
have to be sold and the money be given out to a
ministry for the work of God. As their legal adviser,
all the documents for the properties were in my care.
He gave me the authority to sell the properties and
give out the fund to the Ministries for the work of
God.

In short, I sold all the properties after their death,
as instructed by Mr. Bright Williams before his death.
And as matter of fact, after I sold all their
properties, I realized more than $20,000,000.00 (twenty
million US dollars plus), and what supposed to be the
percentage interest of my right legal fee was firstly
deducted by me out of the total amount realized from
the sold properties, this was base on the initial
agreement between me and the owner of the properties
before his death. Therefore the total amount left to
be invested into God's work as instructed by the
owner, is $20,000,000.00 (twenty million US dollars)
only. But Instead of giving the main fund out for the
work of God as instructed to me by the owner before
his death. I converted the fund to myself with the
intention of investing the fund abroad for my personal
use. I was afraid of putting the fund in the Bank,
because I have to give account to the bank on how I
got the money. I then packaged the fund in
consignments and deposited the consignments with a
security company. I did not want the management of the
Security Company to know the content of the
consignments, therefore I registered the content of
the consignments as Gold Bars. Now, the security
company believes that what I deposited with them was
Gold Bars.

I had encounter with Christ when Pastor Benny Hinn was
preaching on television concerning Ananias and Saphira
in Acts 5:1-11. After hearing the word of God, I gave
my life to Christ and became a born again Christian.
As a born again Christian, I started reading my bible
and one day, the Lord opened my eyes to Ezekiel 33: 18
and 19 where the word of God says: "When the righteous
truth from his righteousness, and committee iniquity,
he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from
his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right,
he shall live thereby". From the scripture, I
discovered that the only way I could have peace in my
life is to do what is lawful and right by giving out
the fund as instructed for the work of God by the
owner before his death.

I have asked God for forgiveness and I know that God
have forgiven me. But I have to do what is lawful and
right in the sight of God by giving out the fund to
the chosen ministry for the purpose of God's wok as
instructed by the owner before his death.

After my fasting and prayers, I asked God to make his
choice and direct me to a honest Christian or the
chosen ministry that deserves this fund by his Grace.
I then came across your address on the Internet as I
was browsing through a Christian site, and as a matter
of fact, it is not only you or your ministry that I
picked on the Christian site initially, but after my
fervent prayer over it, then you were nominated to me
through divine revelation from God, so these are how I
received such a divine revelation from the Lord, how I
got your contact information, and I then decided to
contact you for the fund to be used wisely for things
that will glorify the name of God.

I have notified the Security Company where I deposited
the consignments that contained the fund, that I am
moving the consignment abroad and the security company
has since been waiting for my authority for the
consignment to leave my country and move to abroad.

So if you know that you will use this fund honestly
and wisely for things that will glorify God's name,
then do contact me back first through this my email
address ****

You should also forward to me your telephone and fax
number for easy communication and to fax you the
documents concerning the consignments.

Your prompt response will be highly appreciated.

Yours in Christ.

Barrister pepple franklin

Somebody calling himself Norbert has penned me this fine missive today.

The usual squalid tale of blood and guts, a good old fashioned "bodice ripper" of a yarn!

This chap wants me to stand as his next of kin; I don't think that I could possibly allow my family name to be mixed up with a "Norbert".

I do wish someone would teach these guys to spell!

Maybe, they could use their ill gotten gains to invest in "Teach yourself English" course.

FROM : Norbert

Dear,

Please don't be offended but Permit me to inform you my aims of writting to you.

Though we know not each other but my desire of going into relationship with
you.I know you might be surprised on recieving this mail .

By brief introduction , I am by name Norbert a Medical student in theuniversity
of Cocody-Cote d´ivoire and the senior Son of late Mr. and Mrs. Ben Silva Oulai
. My late parents was killed by the rebels in our residence town of Vavoua at
110km to the second Economic Capital of Cote d´ivoire during the recent
political Crisis /war of 19th september 2002.

My father as a Cocoa Merchant and president of BCC( bourse de cafe and cacao
bouake chapter ) before he was kidnapped together with my mother by the rebels
from our house and were torchured to death.

My parents death was due to the BCC.ci (The farmers association which my father
was my town zonal president) Financial support to the government to fight rebels
who attacked our country and town on this fate of 19 sept 2002 as what the Civil
Society calls here éffort de paix).My parents was kidnapped and took away but i
only met my father in a terrible condition with the red cross officials to whom
he was handed half alive.Talking of my mother,my father confirmed that she could
not bear her bullets for only 15 minutes and she gave up.

He my father, was hospitalized for some days before his death in a private
hospital in yammoussokro , But before his death,he secretly disclosed to me of
his transfer budget of US$10.5 million dollars which he deposited in one of the
well known bank here in Abidjan-Cote d´Ivoire on behalf of his foriegn business
partner for foreign investments and directed me where to get all his documents
concerning this transfer which i did and also has gone for verification and it
was confirmed that this said amount was deposited actually by my late father the
said bank by its director general.

The bank manager advised me to try and lift this money out from this country for
my betterment because he has no confident on this our country any more as the
african developement bank (ADB)has left our country.My father also disclose to
me that he was sensing this war that is why he wanted to invest his fortune in
europe or else where abroad.

My father also told me his intension to invest his money in Allocation of oil
business with companies in werstern countries he may chose but his death cut off
his dreams.

Now Dear, We are honourably seeking your assistance to stand as my Next of Kin
and foreign partner of late father and to act as beneficiary of this money for a
possible transfer to your bank account this US$10.5 million dollars. I choose
you to assist me invest the money in oil business in any of this
western countries or where ever you felt will be the best place. I will also
like you to make arrangement for me and my sister to further our Education in
your country. I opte for your decision on what we have to offer you as
compensation after the transfer is made into your account and you will serve as
guardian to the company that you will esterblish for us.

Please get back to me through the above email address with your bank account
detail informations to enable me send you the deposit documents of the money for
you to contact the bank before the transfer of the money into your account.

Finally , We need your urgent attention to transfer this money to your account
overseas and our coming to your country for stay. Rebels has occupied our town
Bouake and were in position of our late parents properties but we have no other
home until this money is transferred into your account.

Expecting to hear from you.

Best Regard and God Bless.

Norbert