Found this in my Junk mail. Totally new scam I have never hear of before.

funboy6942

Lifer
Nov 13, 2001
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Email reads as follows:


MICMILLER CHAMBERS
{Solicitor $ Advocate}
12 Norman Williams,Ikoyi,
Lagos-Nigeria.
Dear Friend,
I am Barrister Micheal Miller , I am the
Personal Attorney to the late Engr.John Smalley,a
national of Your country, who used to work with Chevron
Company in Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 2003, my client, his wife and
Their three children were involved in a car accident
Along Sagamu/Lagos Express Road. Unfortunately they
All Lost their lives in the event of the accident, since
Then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to
Locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has
also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts,
I decided to trace his Relatives over the Internet, to locate any
member of His family but to no avail, hence I
contacted you.I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money In
addition, property left behind by my client before
they get Confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank
Where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly,
the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about
US$12.5Million Dollars. Consequently, The bank issued me a notice to
provide The next of kin or have the account
confiscated The next ten official working days. Since I have been
Unsuccessful in locating the the relatives For over 1
year now I seek your consent to present You as the
next of kin of the deceased since you are From the same
country,So that the proceeds of this account valued at
US$12.5Million dollars can be paid to you and then you
and me Can share the money. 60% to me and 30% to you,
while 10% Should be for expenses or taxes your Government may
Require.I have all the necessary legal documents that
can be used to back up any claim we may make.
All I require from you is Your Telephone and Fax
Number,Home address and your bank informations where
the money will be transfered, these will be used to obtain
an Application of Claim from the bank, your honest
co-operation will be needed to enable us see this deal Through. I
guarantee that this will be executed under A legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from Any breach of
the law. Please your urgent respond is needed to this
matter, as I will advice you contact me by my Email
address to discuss further.
Best Regards,
BARR.MICHEAL MILLER (Esq)
N.B.Please send your email reply via my alternative


Original email came from a zipmail.com.br addy and his alt is a yahoo account (yahoo.co.uk)
:eek:

Almost make me want to contact him anyway and pull his chain. But it is so sad to hear about my relative that died :( RIGHT :p

Decided to mess around and sent this back

John was my brother and he has come up missing fo rthe last 40+ years. No one knew where he had gone to after he ran away from home. We hired several lawers and private detectives to find him but had to give up due to our life savings were being liquiadated in the search. 10 years ago our Mother and father both died in a plane crash in England where they had a tip where John may have been at. but after they died and all the lost leads we had on him we figured him for dead. I cant believe you actually found my brother and was able to find me. Ontop of that there is closeure finnaly. I wish there was better news that he wasnt dead but atleast you have the news of the money he has left me. SHould I contact the english government or can you tell me who I should contact over seas there so that I can collect the entire 12 million dollars and then pay you for your time and services?

I am not one for just giving out my contact information to strangers and if this is a joke its not funny messing with my feelings liek this. SO if you can give me a contact name and number that I may be able to call collect to (I am sorry but times have been hard after the entensive search for my brother then the funeral of my parrents having them brought back over to the states) I would like to talk to you in person about how I should go about collecting my brothers estate.

Thanks you for getting ahold of me. I dont know how you you did it but it trully had the hands of god on this one to make you contact me after all these years. Hope to hear back from you soon.

J. Smalley
 

funboy6942

Lifer
Nov 13, 2001
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I have never gotten one like this. I have gotten a ton of I will give you 50 bazillion trillion dollars for your $10 cd but never got one that had my last name in it saying that a lost relative had died.

Sorry never got one or read about one like this myself just heard of the wire check scams trying to buy my stuff.
 

Freejack2

Diamond Member
Dec 31, 2000
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No really it works. I responded to one of those e-mails and gave him all my information. A couple of weeks later I had 5 million dollars in my checking account.
Of course this was the same day that pigs flew and hell froze over. :D
 

compnovice

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Jun 18, 2005
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Since you replied back, they know your email is working....Be prepared to be FLOODED with spam now....
 

Toasthead

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Originally posted by: Nik
This is new? I get, like, 5897230871085730187306819359 of these every day.

seriously... I dont even check them to see what kind of scam the are anymore.
 

akubi

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Originally posted by: funboy42

Original email came from a zipmail.com.br addy and his alt is a yahoo account (yahoo.co.uk)
:eek:

"alt"... lol.
you play mmorpgs don't you :laugh:
 

funboy6942

Lifer
Nov 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: emmpee
Read closer, the email doesn't claim that he is a relative of yours.

I see that they are claiming someone with the same last name as mine has died and they want to use me as a supposed lost relations. I thought I would put the twist back at them claiming that my "Lost brother John" is really a relation of mine that was lost for 40 years. Cant wait to see what they write back to me.


As for the ALT comment no I dont I just felt lazy like now not to spell it all out :D