Scam Email - Let's have some fun

[methdeez]

OMG!
This is really serious, you guys gotta help me out, we could all be millionaires!

Original message:


> From: Mrs_marinalitvieneko12@yahoo.co.in
> To:
> Subject: It's important you get back to me ASAP
>
>
> Good Day Friend,
> I am Mrs.Marina Litvinenko,wife of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian
> security officer who died in a London hospital after apparently being poisoned
> with the highly-toxic metal thallium by Mr Lugovoi,a Russian Government Paid
> agent.
>
> Your can read articles about my Husband's ordeal via the websites below:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6162562.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6708103.stm
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
> in_article_id=490007&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6163502.stm
> http://new .bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6904066.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6679853.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5416238.stm
>
> Please i want you to assist me remove USD$3.5M given to my husband before his
> death by Mr Berezovsky,A Russian Billionaire Exiled in UK for exposing an
> alleged plot to assassinate him by the Russian Authority and to
> investigate the
> death of Anna Politkovskaya,a Russian Journalist believed to have equally been
> poisoned by the Kremlin for writing a book:The Putin's Russia: Life in
> a Failing
> Democracy depicted Russia as a country where human rights are routinely
> trampled.
>
> The Funds are deposited with a security firm in Europe and because of fear,i
> will beg you to assist us remove the funds for investment in your country.
>
> As soon as i receive your response,i will send you the documents of the funds.
>
> I intend releasing 15% of these funds to for your assistance.
>
> Best Regard
> Mrs.Marina Litvinenko

My first reply is below. I'm not to get too crazy at first.

The point of this game is to get the people to correspond with you as long as possible, and even to try and get them to do stuff, like send you pictures, sutff or even money (which apparently has happened)

This is incredible!

I can't believe that you contacted me. I have been following this story very closely, as you must have realized from your tracking of the internets. I did not know that merely by reading stories about poor Mr. Litvienko and downloading pictures of him to print out for my bedroom ceiling that people would be able to find my email.

I am glad that you found me, as I am more than willing to do whatever it takes to help Mr. Litvinosko. Of course I wouldn't mind making a little money myself too!

I have many resources, being a real internets wizzard, and since my 25th birthday, I am even allowed to fly by my parents.

Please let me know how I can help.

[Sgt PSN]

This thread makes me miss my African daughter.  

[methdeez]

The nappy-headed ho that she was.

[methdeez]

Nice! Got the reply:

Dear Friend,
Thanks for your response to my mail. Please before your go ahead to know if you will need to assist me in getting these funds removed from the security firm,i will want you to do an independent investigation to know if what i sent to you about my husband

I have actually been careful in picking you because i wanted some one who will be able to ask me certain questions and not one who will think the funds where stolen and the profit to be shared. I know the condition i find myself now and my son and if you are familiar with the issue of my husband before he died,You will know exactly what i am talking about. As a result of Fear, I can't even decide what to do with the funds and these made me to allow them remain with the firm for sometime now even after his poisoning.

I will require 2 things from you before we proceed:

1.Please verify the source of my fund before you decide to assist me and if you have seen someone,who has used my husband's name to solicite for help in this way,You can stop this transaction with me now because i will not want to be dragged into any controversy.

2.If you decide to assist me in getting these funds,Kindly let me
have your means of identification in case they may need it at the security firm for verification before you can sign anything on our before.

3.Even after you must have decided to assist in moving the funds out of Europe and for any reason what so ever,i will prefer you verify the funds and see them yourself before they are either transferred to your account or moved to your country.These i will want you to do because i will need to send you the Document of the funds and any other thing that may be required.

After you have carried out your verification, I would need you to
furnish me with the following information to enable us proceed with this transaction.

Your full name and your ID
Your address and phone number/fax

This would enable my Attorney to work out the legal document in your favor.

I must thank you for your kindness and willingness to help us out of this. May God bless you.

Regards,
Mrs.Marina  Litvinenko

OK, replies anyone?

[mussa]

How about:

AWESOME! This is like some James Bond shtein! How would you like me to send you my identification? I can UPS it! How about we meet? I'll fly over there and we can exchange the "goods" via some old town plaza. I'll drop off the briefcase! I'll bring this new girl I'm seeing and she'll believe that I'm some sort of SPY! dAMN i'M GETTING LAID!

[Susquehanna Birder]

You should indicate that you will be delayed because you are currently trying to squelch some naked pictures of yourself on the internet.

[4and26]

Wooohoo - I'm RICH!

FIDELITY BANK PLC
Foreign Transfer Department
Attn:
 
There is an issue with the Fidelity Bank Plc in the amount of $6 MILLION DOLLARS plus accrued interest of US$1.6MILLION directed in cash credited to file KTU/ 9023118308/03,at the Owner of this email address which has now been reverted to our External reserve a couple of hours ago as a result of  Non-response from you.
In view of several efforts already made by us to contact you for the following reasons based on the new account submitted to this office on your behalf.
(1) My Office desks have just received a sworn affidavit from Mr. Page Liberty  to re-route your payment($6 M) into a new bank account number as stated "VACAP" Federal Credit Union, 1700 Robin Hood Road, Richmond, VA 23220.Account number 32501.of Mr. Page Liberty.
(2) Please, confirm to our department if you have instructed Mr. Page Liberty to appoint an attorney/agent on your behalf thereby asking that he receive cash Remittance on your behalf.
(3) It has come to our notice that you are Being contacted by unauthorized individuals with respect to your
Compensation but unfortunately this office is not aware of your Unofficial dealings and warned that it is at your own risk.
(4) Please, also confirm if you have authorized Mr. Page Liberty to change your banking particulars to the following: particulars stated below:
VACAP Federal Credit Union, 1700 Robin Hood Road, Richmond, VA 23220. Account number 32501.
In order to resolve this problem, please call the Processing/Transfer Officer Fidelity Bank Mr. Benson Edward on +234-8036104608 or at this email:fbnigplc2008@live.com
As soon as we receive confirmation from you to proceed with the transfer of US$6 Million to Mr. Liberty's account, Fidelity Bank will act accordingly.

Call me as soon as you receive this mail.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Benson Edward.
Processing/Transfer Officer,
FRAUD VICTIMS
+234 8036104608
+234 1 6553548
FIDELITY BANK PLC.

[SD_Eagle5]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453125,00.html

Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam
Monday, November 17, 2008

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SWEET HOME, Ore.  —  An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark.

Janella Spears of Sweet Home says she simply became curious when she received an e-mail promising her $20.5 million if she would only help out a long-lost relative identified as J.B. Spears with a little money up front.

Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.

"That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"

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Spears, who is a nursing administrator and CPR teacher, said she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account.

"The retirement he was dreaming of — cruising and going around and seeing America — is pretty much gone for him right now," she said.

She estimates it will take two years to clear the debt that accumulated in the more than two years she spent sending money to con artists.

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Hackers Buy 'Obama' Google Search Results Ad Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.

The scheme is often called the "Nigerian scam" and it's familiar to many people with e-mail accounts. It still exists and it still works.

Spears first sent $100 through an untraceable wire service as directed by the scammers. Then, more multimillion dollar promises followed so long as she sent more money.

The scammers sent Spears official-looking documents and certificates from the Bank of Nigeria and the United Nations. President Bush and FBI Director Robert Mueller were also involved, the e-mails said, and needed her help.

They sent official-looking documents and certificates from the Bank of Nigeria and even from the United Nations, saying her payment was "guaranteed."

But it wasn't and now Spears is paying the price for her costly lesson.

"The hope is [other people] are not going to fall as hard as I fell," Spears said.

[Seabiscuit36]

the fact that she's probably bred is scary