In days of yore, before e-mail was invented, and these crooks used
snailmail, a guy in Yverdon, Vaud, Switzerland, was naive enough to fall
for their scam. He emptied his company's bank account and mortgaged his
house to raise the $75,000 "good faith" money, which he put in a brief
case. He was arrested on landing at Lagos airport for infringing
currency regulations (the crooks were hand in glove with the customs
guys) and thrown in clink, where he languished for four months. He was
eventually released with a deportation order, minus credit cards, money,
the lot, with the police retaining his passport. He even had to sign an
IOU for the cost of his ticket back. Having been absent for months, his
enterprise had gone back to the wall and he had to ask for bankruptcy
protection. In the meanwhile, his wife had been unable to keep up with
the mortgage payments and sought shelter elsewhere with the kids. In
short, his life was in tatters. Within a few days, his body was found
with a bullet through his head and a suicide note, explaining his saga
in detail, was found (and published in a local newspaper).
So, yes, I can believe there are always pigeons for these hawks.
Brian
Mike Fenner wrote:
> Amazingly and sadly, the Metropolitan Police estimate that every week at
> least 3 London Hotel rooms are occupied by people who have fallen in with
> this sort of scam losing millions yearly (and that's not including those
> small fry that got cleaned out after giving all their account details to a
> prefect stranger on the Internet).
>
> Regards
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug Corbett
> Sent: 30 April 2004 15:42
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Strange email...possibly a virus
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>
> WOW!!! ...makes my (measly) portion of 25 million pale in comparison...any
> chance that you could pass some of the lottery winnings with the TechNet
> newbies?
>
> Doug
> (aka TechNet newbie)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack C. Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 8:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Strange email...possibly a virus
> Importance: Low
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>
> Yeah, I have been saving all those in a "retirement" folder.
> In the last 30 days, 13 incredibly wealthy people have died,
> and their relatives have chosen ME to accept the money!
>
> Wahoo!
> That adds up to $448.92 MILLION dollars in one month!
>
> (I also won two international lotteries)
>
> So why am I still working?
>
> Jack (the potentially amazingly rich guy)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Tom Gervascio [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [TN] Strange email...possibly a virus
>
>
> Haven't got that one but I keep getting offers to help people smuggle out
> monies from various third world countries- for a fee.
>
> Tom Gervascio
> Senior Process Engineer
> Sparton Electronics
> (352) 540-4040
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