mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 29/11/04 at 09:06 PM |
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Scam artists are at it again
This time the scum is working out of South Africa. This unlucky sod has emailed one of his ex countryman.......This is gonna be fun first send his
email address some mp3 files to fill it up then some choice Xhosa words to tell him to get ******* and forward the email to the met.
http://www.potifos.com/fraud/2002-06-18b.html
CAPITAL INVESTMENT
Email Add: felixguma@workmail.co.za
Dear Sir,
I am Felix Guma, a Native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an
Executive Accountant with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural
Resources. First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach
you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due
to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.
Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export Promotion Council
(SAEPC) who was at the Government delegation to your country during a
trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me. I
have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution
of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope
you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this
transaction.
Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as an
director and with the cooperation of four other top officials, we have
in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Ninteen Million,
One Hundred Thousand united states dollars (US$19,100,000.00)
which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and co-operation
of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf
into a reliable company/individual account depending on your
convenience.
More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa
Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore
account hence your importance the whole transaction.This amount (US$19.1m)
represents the balance of the total contract value executed
on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the
officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost
have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the
tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to
remit by Key Tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank
account you will provide by filing in an application through the Justice
Ministry here in South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges
of the former contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you
be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum will
be 25% of the US$19.1 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and
miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100% safe, on your part
provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also your
area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of
this transaction.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not
disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately through my secured email
address:-felixguma@workmail.co.za whether or not you are interested in this
deal. If you are not, it will enable me contact other foreign partner
with recommendation to carry out this deal. I want to assure you that
myself and my partners are in a position to make the payment of this
claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and
guarantee that our share will be secured and Please remember to treat this
matter as very confidential matter because we will not comprehend with any
form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service and
remember once again that time is of the essence in this business.
Kindly establish your response directly by email. We wait in
anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Felix Guma. (Mr)
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Cita
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| posted on 29/11/04 at 09:14 PM |
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I think Felix just screwed the wrong guy
[Edited on 29/11/04 by Cita]
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tadltd
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| posted on 29/11/04 at 10:15 PM |
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I get these all the time - wanna take care of 'em for me?!
Latest one was from Zimbabwe...
Best Regards,
Steve.
www.turnerautosport.com
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krlthms
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 06:09 AM |
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How do you know he/she is South African and black (Xhosa speaker)? Nothing else in message is true, so why should believe his alias?
Most of these e-mails supposedly originate from Nigeria, and they rely on our naivete, greed, and a corrupt banking system and ISP industry. I get
lots of these and they are laways good for a laugh. The important thing is not to reply to them, because they send thousands of these messages blind,
they have no idea that your e-mail is "alive" unless you reply to them. If you do, then exepect a lot more spam.
Cheers
krlthms
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James
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 09:19 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by krlthms
The important thing is not to reply to them,
No, the important thing is to meet up with them and then beat them till they bleed. Then tie them to a chair and take a electric drill and spade bit
to their kneecaps.
Followed (a few agonising days later) by removal of finger and eyes by wire cutters to prevent further PC usage.
Some may think that's a bit extreme but hey, works for me!
James
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Cita
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 10:03 AM |
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krlthms,what makes you think that only black/colored people speak Xhosa?
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krlthms
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 07:17 PM |
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Cita,
Fair point friend, I hmbley stand correctd
James,
Dude, what an imagination, what talent. Uncle Sam could really use you in a "correctional" facility west of Baghdad!
What I was trying to say is that the e-mail could have come from anywhere. According to the BBC more than three quarters of spams come from five
e-mail addresses in western Miami. The internet service providers (ISPs) know who these people are and are perfectly capable of shutting them down,
but they'd rather take the money the spammers pay.
Similarly, the majority of frauds are transacted through western banks, but the banks prefer to take their commission and look the other way, as they
do with drug money, war diamonds etc.
Finally, amazing as it may sound, these spammers do this because they actually make money, a lot of it, because there are a lot of people out there
who fall in for these schemes. These people are guilty of terminal stupidity, maybe we should James on them
H.L. Menken once wrote: no body ever lost any money underestimating the intelligence of the common man. The circus man Barnum said: there is a
suckker born every minute.
Cheers
krlthms
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Noodle
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 09:14 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by krlthms
Cita,
Fair point friend, I hmbley stand correctd
James,
Dude, what an imagination, what talent. Uncle Sam could really use you in a "correctional" facility west of Baghdad!
Political correctness isn't funny. It's a great way of killing a joke or suppressing an atmosphere. James was being amusing. I don't
suppose for one moment that he really intends to follow those actions.
Well, I was amused anyway and no, I wouldn't do it either.
Cheers,
Neil.
Your sort make me sick
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krlthms
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 10:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Noodle
quote:
Originally posted by krlthms
Cita,
Fair point friend, I hmbley stand correctd
James,
Dude, what an imagination, what talent. Uncle Sam could really use you in a "correctional" facility west of Baghdad!
Political correctness isn't funny. It's a great way of killing a joke or suppressing an atmosphere. James was being amusing. I don't
suppose for one moment that he really intends to follow those actions.
Well, I was amused anyway and no, I wouldn't do it either.
Cheers,
Neil.
Neil,
Maybe, but being patronizing must come a close second.
As Con Rod would say: Frankley, I don't give a monkey's
Cheers
KT
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macspeedy
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 10:48 PM |
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quote:
No, the important thing is to meet up with them and then beat them till they bleed. Then tie them to a chair and take a electric drill and spade bit
to their kneecaps.
just what i was going to say
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