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david_e

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I have just received the following email, anyone else got it? Fancy sending this to Yorkshire:))

Mr. Andrew Yubimaye,
First Mercantile Finance Limited,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Tel: +27 73 2668535.

Dear Sir,
I am Andrew Yubimaye, Accounts Executive of First
Mercantile Finance Limited, Johannesburg-South Africa.
I write in strict confidence concerning a matter of
great importance. Hopefully, we can work together.
I am privy to a matured fixed cash deposit, made with
my bank by Dr Kenneth Harrison of Harrison Exploration
Limited, Ontario-Canada on the 15th of April 1998.
The above-mentioned is deceased and I have an
arrangement with his Attorney to negotiate with
somebody of reliable standing to assist us in a
working collaboration to pay out the deposit specified
above, now valued at US$14.23M, for our private
purposes as the Sum was not quoted in the late
Geologist’s Will. The remainder of his Estate has
since been disbursed to his family and only an
individual with the backing of the Attorney can claim
the Deposit presently with my Bank.
The Deposit matured on the 15th of April 2001.
According to South African Monetary Law, barring the
presentation of a claim of ownership, at the
expiration of two Calendar years after the date of
maturity of a fixed Deposit, an unclaimed
interest-yielding account automatically reverts to the
ownership of the South African Government, with a 10%
percent Commission for the holding Bank.
We intend to appropriate the Deposit for ourselves and
I am soliciting your assistance in this endeavor in
return for 20% of the payment when the transaction is
concluded.
I have the full backing of the Attorney of the
original Depositor and it is my fervent wish that you
add your cooperation to make this project a success.
Kindly, inform me of your decision through my
telephone number, as specified above or by email.
I await your response while thanking you for your
time.
Respectfully,
A. Yubimaye.



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Re: Now that was silly!

You included his contact details. Now everyone is going to be contacting him, and you might lose out on all that nice free cash

If you get anymore, could you pm me and we can do a deal without everyone else getting in on the act

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Re: Now that was silly!

Woops what a faux pas, must remember not to do that again. Now, if you PM your personal bank details, including log on and password, I will ensure you get your cut:)

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Re: Now that was silly!

Tell you what, pm me your details and I'll organise a transfer of 10,000 pounds to show my good intent ;)

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There is another one as well ...

the incredible win on the lottery ........

Dear Sir,
I am writing as Director of the Fred Bloggs Spanish Lotto to inform that you have been selected from ........ winning 5.3 million US Dollars .... etc. etc.

Boy I get sick of receiving this c--p ....... trouble is it is getting increasingly difficult to filter it out as the filter ID changes so often now !

I can send you Mrs. Mbongo of the Rwanda Govt., Mrs xxxxx of the late Nigerian Oil Development Minister, Mr. Kenneth xxxx Chief Finance Officer of the Fred Swindles Bank of Lagos .......

Surely no-one gets caught by this c--p anymore ??????


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old nigerian scam

heard of a guy who tried to sue the police when they prevented him giving money to one of these scams.



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Re: NHS IT depts

...are massive. They all have decent puters with 19" screens. Though everything is free, they pay people from somewhere else, and all the statistics are made up, so erm not sure what they do...

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Re: There is another one as well ...

Currently McAfee spam killer is doing a really god job for me at the moment.

It purges Exchange, POP3 and hotmail accounts with remarkably good accuracy.

What I like is that I can leave it running on one machine, looking at all my mail accounts - then when I log on using another machine (or via the www) my accounts are nice and clean. I've purchased at least 5 different spamkillers over the last 12 months and McAfee and IHateSpam are then only ones still giving useful service.

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Mcafee / No Pop-ups / Firewall

Macfee ..... wouldn't use any other A/V software .... tried Norton - UGH !, Dr. Solomons was good but hogged space, Kasperski - good but got zapped !, AVG - reasonable but lost its cred after I had to re-format out a bunch of crap !, F-secure - good but didn't trust it with some of the stupid messages I got ....

Spam killer .... yep - I have to have another look as I'm inundated with all sorts including these bloody Bank transfer s--t every day literally ......


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Bilge Keelers get up further ! I only came - cos they said there was FREE Guinness !
 

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Re: Mcafee / No Pop-ups / Firewall

I have to say we use Sophos at work - but that is a big price solution, and not for the average end user. We then use MimeSweeper to sanitise email as a separate check. We've never had a virus propagate around our network, but we will one day despite our endeavours.

I also gave up with NAV, despite it being given away with every Dell we buy....

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Re: There is another one as well ...

No, amazingly, people are still being caught.
After all if it never worked the crims would not try it.
The scam continues to evolve, there is now a varient where you are informed of a big win on a US web-site (genuine) and asked to instruct an attourney (false) and send funds to process your claim.

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There\'s a whole web-site dedicted to

informing about these scams ..... the lottery one is quoting a myriad of countrys .. including Holland, Spain etc. etc.

<hr width=100% size=1>Nigel ...
Bilge Keelers get up further ! I only came - cos they said there was FREE Guinness !
 
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Re: Mcafee / No Pop-ups / Firewall

They have to give away NAV ..... no sensible IT guy would ever buy it !!

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Bilge Keelers get up further ! I only came - cos they said there was FREE Guinness !
 

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We have been told to forward the mail to the service provider they are using (I got one from a Yahoo account last week and sent it to Abuse@Yahoo - see their web site) and they claim to kill the accounts. No for long I suspect, but may save some poor nitwit getting stung.

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Re: Dear David.

FROM MY DISTANT COUSIN


I have an infallible way of making money.

I know those sailing in wales are a parsimonious and astute bunch of sailors and always have an eye for a good deal.

It has come to my person a GUARANTEED method of making more than enough money to fulfill your dreams.

All you have to do is gather together witha thousand firends and thousand pounds each. Meet my colleague at the Oyster stand with the cash at LIBS 2004 and here he will divest my secret on handing over the cash.

Donot be ARAF as i have many interested parties in this enterprise yours in faith


El SailbadSinnnerMaktoum
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Umm Quasr

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