[windowwashers]

Hi all,

Was laughing when I read this but thought I would post to others dont get caught out. here goes:

Dear  One
 
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or written before. I am Introducing myself, I am LINDA SANTOPRS, 23 years of age the only daugter of the lat Mr and Mrs. SANTORS. My father was a Gold and cocoa merchant based in  Accra, Ghana and Abidjan(Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their business trips.Before the death of my father on 29th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of $7.5M (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S),deposited in  a Security and finance company in (Abidjan Cte d棚voire, that he used my name as his only daugter for the next of kin in depositing the fund.
 
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as expansion of his existing cocoa business and real
estate management here on how best to transfer this money to overseas please.He told me that the fund is a trunk box as such the security does not know the contents of the box.I am humbly seeking your
assistance in the following ways:
 
1- To assist me in providing an account of yours where this fund can quietly be transferred into.
2- To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am still in the university.
3- To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to help me securea residential permit in your country.
Moreover, I am willing to offer you 20% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after thesuccessful transfer of this fund into your
nominated account overseas, while 5% will be set aside to off set any expenses we may incur. Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within the shortest possible time if you signify
interest to assist me.
 
NB : Please   contact me immediately you receive this
message through this
email address.God bless.

YOURS FAITHFULLY
 
LINDA
 

[jaykie]

I recieved that a few weeks back.

[jeff1]

I had this one a few weeks back, the trouble is, sir_peter_johnson died several years ago : Must have thought I fell out of a Banana tree
Always look to see how they start it, its never dear sir/madam and you often find they end it with God bless you or something along those lines, you often find Typo errors, as it is some Gonk in a tin shed somewhere in the Jungle, thousands of miles away.
In the case below they have added a UK mobile number and asked for a payment in US Dollors :

Greetings!

We have been waiting for you since to contact us for your Confirm Bank
Cheque,
but we did not hear from you since that time.

We received a parcel of your winning in regards to your E-mail
selection from
the Online Lottery Company containing your certified Bank Cheque,
certificate of
winning and other neccesary documents, which is to be delivered to you.

You have to contact FED EX COURIER Dispatch Director now for the
delivery of
your certified Bank Cheque with this information below:

Contact Person: Sir.Peter Johnson.
Dispatch Director.

Email Address: sir_peter_johnson@live.com.
Telephone: +447045742479

You are to make a payment of $220.00 USD for the delivery charges for
our
immediate action.

You should also let us know via email as soon as you receive your
Winning Bank
Cheque.

[tacky]

sorry lads .i hope those letters i sent u .have not upset u or yr families .now that u know its me could u just send me the cash .n save me writing any more letters. yours sincerlly . tacky up in yakki da land .ps well done wales

[Gerry Styles]

Get emails like that quite often, whatever you do donr reply or you inbox will be full every day.  Also get emails telling me I have got $300.000 loan approved and awaiting my bank details.

[Art]

I get at least 6 of these a week if not more 

[Chris Cottrell]

I just had the Sanders letter too, it got spammed real quick

[Paul Coleman]

Just a few minutes ago I received one of these which had a new twist to it (new to me anyhow)   
It had me smiling.  Apparently someone wants to compensate me for past attempts to scam me.  The hilarious bit is that they want me to pay to access the money.

Pasted below in bold:



Attn: Beneficiary

This to acknowledge you that your e-mail id was found among those that
have been scammed, and Your compensation have been approved from the
supreme high court here in Benin.
To this regard, we have been asked to contact you by the Benin president
on how to send you the (USD$2.5M) united state dollars by receive it
anyway of your choice.

So you are advice to contact the lawyer in charge of this fund and his
name is BARRISTER BENSON ADAMS so make sure you contact him with your full
Contact information such as.

Your Full Name.........
Your home address.......
Telephone number.........
Your occupation...........
Country........................
Zip code....................
With your international passport, driving licence or state I.D
Card........

For more information on how to have the money send to you because many
People complain about scamming every day from Benin and we are trying to
stop this fraudulent activities here in Benin. I am sure you that it will
stop because we are now working with internet co-operation such as
YAHOOMAIL, HOTMAIL and also the united state FBI and Benin  police with
Benin EFCC so that scam can be eradicated in this country.
I want you to remember your fund code which follow bellow, and was given
to you by the high court of Benin and the code is (Be74678FGN)

I want you to keep this code, because this code will  Alert you any day
you receive a scam e-mail from this country.

As soon as you contact BARRISTER BENSON ADAMS with your full contact
information requested, he will be forwarding everything to the Benin
presidency office to issue out your award certificate as the rightful
beneficiary

Name: Barrister Benson Adams
E-mail Address : barrbensonadams@yahoo.fr
Direct Telephone: +229-97-906-8670
CHAMBER NUMBER...189VC

Contact him in regards to the fund to be delivered to you by anyway of
your choice also beneficiaries will be responsible for the signing of
releasing paper fees so as to avoid any scam and the fees is just only
$286.00 .You will receive your fund from the high court because as soon as
you contact the lawyer in charge of your fund he will alert the your
country bureau and also your state police for the fund to be directly to
you without any restriction and problem when the fund get to you in your
location area.

Thanks.
Best Regard.
Office Of The President

What a scream.