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I found this little "proposition" in my inbox today...:hysterical:

From The Office of The Director of International Relation,Access Bank Plc 22 Marina Street,Marina Lagos-Nigeria Dear, Please permit me to introduce my humble self to you. I am Mr.Harrison Ken the Director of International Relation with Access Bank of Nigeria Limited. I 'm 47yrs old and I got your email address on the Chambers of Commerce address list and my confidence reposed on you to contact you. I hope you read this message Carefully and reply me immediately,although we have not met before but I suggest that this transaction will bring us together. My dear, we have a customer from a your country but base here in Nigeria since over a decade now, his name is Mr. Hamilton Creek from Atlanta Georgia United State of America but reside here with his wife and his two children. Mr. Hamilton Has being banking with our bank for the past 4yrs some time October 2002. On 12th of August 2003 Mr. Hamilton was on his way to his house and unfortunately he ran into a Trailer truck load of Groundnut Oil and died immediately. Their car got burnt and Mr. Hamilton Creek and His entire family was confirmed died which no single soul was saved. The Board of Directors and the Management of Access Bank has mandated and Instructed me to look for Mr. Hamilton Creek relatives/his Next of Kin to come and claim Mr.Hamilton's Fund. Since August 2003 till date I have been looking for Mr. Hamilton Creek Relatives/Next of Kin to come and claim Mr. Hamilton's Fund which he Deposited with our bank. I have made a frantic effort to contact the American Embassy and after 3days the Ambassador told me that Mr. Hamilton Creek has no relation and no next of Kin.The Ambassador also told me that Mr. Hamilton used his first son as His next of kin but it is quite unfortunate that Mr. Hamilton Creek died with all his family members. The reason why I contacted you is this, Mr. Hamilton is dead and his only son whom supposed to inherit his properties and money also died With him. As at this moment, nobody or person is coming to claim this Money from our bank. The board directors and management of our bank has told me that if nobody or person apply for the claim of Mr. Hamilton's Fund, the bank will decleared Mr. Hamilton's Fund as unclaimed and it will send into the Federal Government of Nigeria Reserve Account, In order to avert this, I want you to stand as the Relation/relative of Late Mr. Hamilton Creek and to act as the Hamilton's relative so that late Mr. Hamilton Creek money which he deposited with our bank will be release to you. It might interest you to know that Mr. Hamilton has a Domiciliary Bank Account with our Bank and he has a total sum of US$52Million (Fifty two Million United States Dollars) and it is the exact amount which late Mr. Hamilton Creek has in his domiciliary Account and this money is still in his account as unclaimed money. This transaction is very easy and simple and it is 100% risk free. I'm the Director of International Relations with Access Bank of Nigeria Limited and the management/Board of Directors of the Bank are waiting for me to present to them the Relation or next of Kin to late Mr. Hamilton Creek, which I told them that I am still searching the next of kin to the deceased. Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will present you to the bank as the only next of kin to late Mr, Hamilton Creek and I will let the bank to know that you are the only right person to inherit Late Mr. Hamilton Funds and properties, and his Money US$52M(fIifty two Million United States Dollars) will be transferred into Your Own Account as late Mr. Hamilton Creek next of kin. Please if you are interested, Just email me on my direct private and secured Email Address for immediate commencement so that late Mr. Hamilton Funds will be credited Into your Account and all his Properties will be released to you either Through Courier Services or the Bank will Cargo all his properties to You in any were you want it. So reply me immediately and let me know what your decision and also feel free to ask any questions. Meanwhile we will share Late Mr. Hamilton Creek Funds 50-50 which you will take 50% of the US$52M. which is amounting to US$26M, (Twenty Six Million United States Dollars, while the Balance of the same amount will be mine. I will be waiting for your Immediate response, Thanks and have a nice day. Friendly Regards Mr.Harrison ken. NB.ENDAVOUR TO SEND YOUR DIRECT PHONE NUMBER FOR EASY REACH.
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Guess what Pred there were plenty that got carried away and lost heaps of money. Some even were pushed to bankruptcy. There was coverage on the Aussie TV the other day and boy was I surprised to see hundreds screwed up in this scam.

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Guess what Pred there were plenty that got carried away and lost heaps of money. Some even were pushed to bankruptcy. There was coverage on the Aussie TV the other day and boy was I surprised to see hundreds screwed up in this scam.
People actually bought into this ?
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This mong could have tried a little harder to convince me - ie; by changing the way Mr Hamilton died;

On 12th of August 2003 Mr. Hamilton was on his way to his house and unfortunately he ran into a Trailer truck load of Groundnut Oil and died immediately. Their car got burnt and Mr. Hamilton Creek and His entire family was confirmed died which no single soul was saved.
So his ENTIRE family (incl. nieces, nephews, grandparents, brother/sister/parent in laws, etc) was with him in the car when he crashed into the "Trailer truck load of Groundnut Oil" ? LMFAO :hysterical:
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Maybe Mr. Hamilton was a Filipino tuk-tuk driver. If you see one of those in action in Phillipines, i am sure you'd agree that it is possible to fit in your entire vansh in one tuk-tuk. :haha:

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This mong could have tried a little harder to convince me - ie; by changing the way Mr Hamilton died; So his ENTIRE family (incl. nieces, nephews, grandparents, brother/sister/parent in laws, etc) was with him in the car when he crashed into the "Trailer truck load of Groundnut Oil" ? LMFAO :hysterical:
:haha::haha::haha:
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People actually bought into this ?
Here we go Pred... http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/garyhughes/index.php/theaustralian/comments/a_sucker_born_every_minute A sucker born every minute Monday, May 14, 2007 Gotcha with Gary Hughes

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How do you save someone from themselves? More than three-quarters of the Queenslanders who were told by police they were caught up in the infamous Nigerian scam continued sending money overseas. According to fraud investigators, the victims simply refused to believe that their get rich quick schemes were nothing more than a con. And we are not talking about people lacking in education or experience. Victims identified as part of Queensland Police’s Operation Echo Track, set up last year to monitor funds being transferred to Nigeria, included doctors, lawyers engineers and professors. Greed, it seems, is the great equaliser. Operation Echo Track identified 134 victims of investment scams, the vast majority of them caught up in some variation of the Nigerian scam. Total losses were at least $18million, with an average of $500,000 continuing to be lost every month. The Queensland fraud and corporate crime group’s Acting Superintendent Brian Hay said only 24 per cent of the people contacted by police and told they were participating in this scam believed it. “So, 76 per cent continued to send millions of dollars after we told them they were participating in a scam,” he said. The Queensland figures were estimated to be one-fifth of the national loss to such scams. None of the victims had received any money in return. You can read in detail about how the Nigerian scam works on the Queensland police website at www.police.qld.gov.au/nigerianscams Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes inteviewed one of the Queensland victims, businessman Graham Schoenfisch, who claims he has been financially wiped out after chasing instant riches through a Nigerian scam. At one point he received a Chase Manhattan Bank cheque for $31.5 million after paying the required “advanced fees”. It was counterfeit. In the United States the treasurer for a county in the state of Michigan was arrested earlier this year and charged with embezzling US$1.2 million to plough into the Nigerian scam. According to Holland’s Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations, which monitors Nigerian scams – or “419” scams as they are known because the section of the Nigerian criminal code they breach is numbered 419 - around the world, the scams are on the increase. The scamming networks, which employ up to 250,000 Nigerians, are now using Internet chat rooms, mobile text messages, Internet gaming sites and online dating sites as well as the more traditional spam emails, faxes and snail mail to trawl for new victims. Ultrascan Advanced Global Investigations estimates that a total of US$28 billion has been lost around the world to Nigerian scams since the first emerged in the 1970s, with losses growing at 3 per cent a year. As showman P. T. Barnum said: “There’s a sucker born every minute”.

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There was recently a documentary on NBC (DateLine) about this type of scam. Apparently these scammers (most of them are from Nigeria), are educated English-speaking Nigerians. Their modus operand.i involves befriending people in wealthy countries & then conning them on a permanent basis. 1) Some scams involve use of fraudulent credit cards to order expensive merchandise from American online stores. These Nigerians pose themselves as hotchicks with fake pictures & befriend locals (frequently middle aged dumb Americans) & convince them to be partner with them in a "so-called" business. Apparently the fraudulent credit cards are used to order merchandises which are shipped to the locals & have the locals ship them back to Nigeria and other African nations. The NBC guy was in many cases only able to trace the shipment back to the local American but could never find the Nigerians. Finally they got to one Nigerian inviting him to Switzerland promising him a HUGE financial investment in his business. But due to lack of proper legislation he could not be arrested. He was just let go scott free. 2) Other scams involves email letters asking for your bank account # promising u a lottery or a loot, like the one in this thread If u really want to do something against these scamsters, write to NBC

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I wouldn’t call it stupidity. I would rather call it naivety. How many of you have been tempted by offers like cameras with subscription or 49 cents DVD offers or pyramid schemes. We all know that we are gonna lose money in them (if we purchase them separately) yet sometimes we go for it. The Nigerian scam is just on a much bigger scale. Esp. with Americans when they have a stupid generalization that all 3rd world countries are corrupt and the wealth is often horded by certain government officials. There is always a suspicion when anyone asks for our money but that is probably blinded by the greed or investment Vs return ratio. This kinda mail has probably reached atleast all the email users in the US and even if .01% took the next step, its still a substantial amount. The scam has been goin on for years and yet shows legs. How many other scams (apart from the sex related stuff) has this kinda popularity.

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