Wild Imaginations

[Maya]

I have been blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime. Before I reply to this person, I wanted to get your input on what would be the ideal response. You know, so I don't mess up my chance. They even used "God's name."

--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Novell Frances <[e-mail]> wrote:


From: Novell Frances <[e-mail]>
Subject: My Wish
To:
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 9:48 AM


Here writes Lady Novell Frances, suffering from cancerous ailment. I am
married to Sir David Novell an Englishman who is dead.When my late husband
was alive he deposited the sum of 2 Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling
which were derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market
with his bank here in UK.

Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the
cancerous problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate this fund
to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort
to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans,destitute, the
down-trodden,physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who
prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.

I took this decision because I do not have any child and my husband
relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons.I do not want my
husband's hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill perceived
ventures hence the reason for taking this bold decision.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Bank
in UK. I will also issue you a Letter of Authority that will empower you
as the original beneficiary of this fund. My happiness is that I lived a
life worthy of emulation. Please assure me that you will act just as I
have stated herein.

Hope to hear from you soon.

You can contact me through my personal email address:
[e-mail]

Madam Novell Frances


Dear Friend,



How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this
mail meets you in a perfect condition. I am using this opportunity to
thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of fund into
your account due to one reason or the other best known to you.But I want
to inform you that I have successfully transferred the fund out of my
bank to someone else account who was capable of assisting me in this
great venture through the help of the diplomat i told you about.Due to
your effort, sincerity,courage and trustworthiness' you showed at the
course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show my gratitude
to you with the sum of $750,000,00.



I have authorized my new secretary who is now also my legal adviser to
issue you international certified bank cheque cashable at your bank. My
dear friend I will like you to contact my secretary for the collection of
this international certified bank cheque.



The name and contact of my secretary is as follows:



CONTACT PERSON : MR SHOLA DANIELS
PHONE: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]



At the moment, I'm very busy here because of the investment projects which
I and my new partner are having at hand in London Uk.Finally, remember
that I have forwarded instruction to him on your behalf to send the bank
cheque to you as soon as you contact him without delay.Please I will like
you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my
heart.



Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.


Femi Martins
** ( YOUR COMPENSATION FUND ) **

[The Late Mitchell Warren]

OMG I got the same message! I feel so betrayed, Femi Martins and Madam Novell Frances!

I thought we had a deal!

[Thomas Littlechief]

maya,mitchell;

That's my money.

Seriously though, sounds like a great way to catch an Administrative and/or Legislative felony charge.

That's ok tho...., Y'all know a lawyer.

[karlsie]

Hey, send the check to my post office box and i'll deliver it to my bank. Once it's been assured the money is deposited in my account, i'll transfer it to yours. Do you believe me? ;D

[grainnerhuad]

It's weird, the increase in these letter's. They have been slipping through my spam guard on a regualar basis as well and I have gotten many this year although it would seem to me most of us know by now it's a shill.

[Maya]

Thinking about Grainne's comment, I decided to do a little investigating and found that although these scams have been around since 2001 and earlier, people are still falling for them. It is a shame how gullible victims can be. Initially it was difficult to find stories about actual victims, most of the links had warnings explaining what victims have endured, however after doing an extensive search I was able to allocate some information on persons that have fallen prey to such fraudulent schemes.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17713446

They say that some of these people are pretty smart and hold or held prominent positions. Some examples would be Treasury and Psychotherapy. It's a strange phenomenon. I guess regardless of intellect, there are situations where people want to believe and happen to let their guard down by dismissing all warning signs.

[karlsie]

My son had a friend who, at age seventeen, was gullible enough to fall for one of these Internet scams. The person who approached him told him if he opened a bank account, a certain amount would be deposited into it on a weekly basis. The person explained that he was from Nigeria and wasn't able to set up an account in the United States, but that he needed to transfer funds as the government there was trying to liquidate his assets. He told my son's friend he could spend half the money in the account, and the other half would be transferred if he chose to help him. The content of the e-mail was one of those sob stories we're all familiar with, and didn't break down as transparently as i presented it. The upshot is, being a gullible seventeen year old, he accepted the proposition. For several months, he was receiving four and five hundred dollars a week through this account; then the federal investigators came to question him. As a juvenile offender with no real comprehension of what he was doing, they took the testimony of his e-mail as evidence and instructed him to pay back the monies he had spent on an illegal transaction. It took him several years and the loss of a couple of his permanent fund dividends to do this, but he learned a valuable lesson in honesty.

[grainnerhuad]

Treasury and Psychotherapy?? Why am I not surprised? Sounds like the two areas where the most mental unsound make their homes.