These e-mail scams are getting rediculous

ShadowZERO

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I just got this in my inbox from some yahoo email address:

Letter of Relationship and Establishment Aid.
From : Wilfred Coulibaly
Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire West Afri
Tel+22507924282


Attention: Respectful
Greetings and How are you Dear Friend.I am Wilfred
Coulibaly from Ivory Coast in West Africa.I would like
you to Please permit me to apply through this medium
for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to
invest and do joint relationship establishment with
you in your country. I have a substantial capital
which I honourably Inherited from my late father Chief
Coulibaly who was minister of Interior and also
have Cocao and Coffee plantation with Gold, Diamond
Mining and Trading in bouake Northern District of
Coted' Ivoire.
Before the Epmigo Rebels killed Him during this
political crisis on the mutiny rebellion upraising
that equally lead to the death of former military
junta Robert Guei.
I am contacting on you because of my need to deal with
honest person whom I can lay trust and personal
confidence on with hope that he will not let me down.
Because since the murder of my father,I have been
subjected to all sorts of harassment and intimidation
with lots of negative reports emanating from the
crises from the rebellion people caused which have
resulted to war in some part of our country Cote d'
Ivoire in West Africa since this past years.
I intend to invest this money I legitmately inherited
from my late father in profitable areas in your
country into a very lucratives business venture of
which you are to advise and execute the venture over
there for the mutual benefits of both of us.
Most especially is for you to help me come over to
your base if possible for You be able co-operate with
me to become my business partner in your country and
create ideas on how money will be invested, properly
managed and the type of investment after the money is
transferred to your custody with your assistance.
I inherited this sum from my late father whom the
rebels killed because he was not supporting their
selfish interest to topple the president Gbagbo the
present president of Cote d' Ivoire in West Africa.
Meanwhile,on indication of your willingness to handle
this transaction sincerely by protecting my Interest
and upon your acceptance of this proposal.I will
furnish you with the full details information,
procedure on how to continue.The exact amount involved
is the sum of Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Five
USD ($9.500.000.00)USD
If you accept to associate with me,both of us will
mutually agree on your percentage interest and share
holding for helping me to secure the release of the
deposit and investing the money into lucratives
profitable venture in your care.I will be glad to
reserve this respect and opportunity for you if you so
desire to relate with me with good mind and honesty.
However, I do urge you to kindly give this matter
your immediate attention and the maximum seriouness it
deserves for the smooth achievement of the aim.I want
you to be rest assured that everything is in order and
legitimate it was due to the political crisis in our
country that have resulted to war in some part of our
region which have cause everybody to find a way of
geting out from the country,for this reason I use
this medium to request for your assistance with hope
that you will not let down the confidence I have
already reposed on you.
This money is legitimately acquired by my late father
from sales of Cocoa and Coffee and Diamond dealings.If
it interests you, Please forward your reply including
your telephone number and fiscal address to my private
email address so that I can provide you with more
clarifications and details about it all.
Looking forward for your prompt response Thanks for
your understanding and future cooperations.
Sincerely
Wilfred Coulibaly
Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire

So basically, your a multi-millionaire from WEST AFRICA and you need my help? You know, I hear that they are taking the "u" out of the word gullible...

If your going to come up with an email scam, can you at least learn decent English? Spelling and grammar would be a good place to start. A better story couldn't hurt either...

Stuff like this is simply laughable to me. Sadly enough there's probably a couple that actually fall for it.

Oh, and "Most especially is for you to help me come over to
your base..."

Huh? All your base are belong to us?
 

akshatp

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Sounds legit to me! Usually people from Africa (especially Nigeria) are on the up and up. You should do business with him FO SHO
 

ShadowZERO

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"Please forward your reply including
your telephone number and fiscal address"

Sadly, it looks like I won't be able to take him up on his offer. I only have an email and a <b>physical</b> address...
 

Argo

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Man if the nigerian scammers ever learned english grammar we would be in big trouble.
 

everman

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WTF he said it was just between me and him! There's no way I'm splitting it with you too
 

Captante

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Sombody has to be falling for them or they wouldn't keep on sending them!
 

olds

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Actually, threads about email scams are getting ridiculous.
 

dug777

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Asshats who intentionally spell 'ridiculous' incorrectly deserve to lose everything they own to spammers :p
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: dug777
Asshats who intentionally spell 'ridiculous' incorrectly deserve to lose everything they own to spammers :p

When I woke up today I had some "thunder from down under" and it made me think of you, Dug.
 

revnja

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Originally posted by: ShadowZERO
If your going to come up with an email scam, can you at least learn decent English? Spelling and grammar would be a good place to start.

The ironing is delicious.
 

dug777

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: dug777
Asshats who intentionally spell 'ridiculous' incorrectly deserve to lose everything they own to spammers :p

When I woke up today I had some "thunder from down under" and it made me think of you, Dug.

As long as you haven't typed 'rediculous', or 'could care less' when you meant 'couldn't care less' today, I'm happy ;)
 

manlymatt83

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Originally posted by: ShadowZERO

If you're going to come up with an email scam, can you at least learn decent English? Spelling and grammar would be a good place to start. A better story couldn't hurt either...

Fixed. And perfect timing :)
 

Nitemare

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I have a filter that sends any email with africa, nigeria, lottery and USD to my trash bin. It eliminates about 20 of these a day