NIGERIAN SCAM LETTER FROM
DAVID O. MASARAH
From: David Masarah <masarah3d@epatra.com>
Date: Monday, August 26, 2002 7:04 PM
To: fraudaid@fraudaid.com <fraudaid@fraudaid.com> << Note addressee
Subject: business
masarah
david O.
#20 Louis BOTHA CRESENT,
SANTON, SOUTH AFRICA.
Let me start by introducing myself to you properly. I am an external
auditor with the African Bank Ltd in South Africa. I came to know about
you in my private search for a reliable person to handle a confidential
transaction on behalf of my colleagues and myself. As a matter of fact your
contact was given to me by a close friend of mine Mr Hasan Alasa who works
with your country's embassy here in South Africa.
My proposition:
Mr. Fernando Carlos, a foreigner, was a miner and a geologist by
profession and was working at Kruger gold company.Unfortunately he died in
December 1990 in a motor accident.Before his death he was banking
with the African Bank, and had a closing balance of Eighteen Million five
hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$18.5m) before his death.He must
have been involved in illegal sale of gold and that is why he did not name
anybody as his next of kin. Even his residential address is fake. The bank
now expects these funds to be claimed by his next of kin . If nobody comes
for it,the funds will be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and
ammunition at a military war college here in South Africa.
Fervent efforts made by the Bank to get in touch with any of his relatives
has proved abortive. It is because of the impossibility of locating his
next of kin that made the management of the bank to decide that an
arrangement be made for the funds to be declared "Unclaimed" and to be
donated to the trust fund for arms and ammunition to further enhance the cause
of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, my friends in the bank have
mandated me to seek your permission to have you stand as the next-of-kin , so
that the funds USD18.5m would be released to you .The bank can only
release the money to a foreigner and not to a native like me. All
documents and proofs that will enable you to get this fund will be carefully
worked out since there is an insider arrangement.You do not need to visit my
country for this purpose. And moreso, I am assuring you of 100% percent
risk free. My group is willing to offer you 20% of the funds as commission
for your assistance.
If this offer is acceptable to you ,please send me a bank account where the
funds will be transfered to.You may open a new account for the deal.But do not
disclose the purpose to your bankers as every document that will enable you
to pick the money will be sent to you as soon as the funds hit your account.
I look forward to hear from you.
Best regards,
masarah david O.
masarah30d@yahoo.com
masarah3d@epatra.com
Reprinted with written permission of recipient.
REPLY:
Dear David:
Well, I see you have been included in the form letter clique. That makes you an official member of the Nigerian Scam Letter Club. I'm trying to count how many of these letters I have received with only the names changed - nope, too many to count.
Since what you are suggesting is completely illegal, your so-called confession has been posted at
http://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpeak/Nigerian/419samplescharts.htm
under Alleged Bank Officers.
______________________________________
Annie McGuire
Anti-Fraud Consultant
http://www.fraudaid.com
Fraud victims are not helpless.
They're just made to feel that way.