What do they get out of it?

PeteRoy

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Obviously it a scam but I want to know what can be gained for whoever is doing this? How can they profit from it?

Session Start (roy_p73:marina_kone04): Thu Feb 23 13:01:44 2006
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[13:02] roy_p73: hello
[13:02] marina_kone04: HI
[13:02] roy_p73: what brings you to add me?
[13:03] marina_kone04: i saw ur profile and i decided to add u
[13:03] roy_p73: that's fantastic
[13:03] marina_kone04: pls i need to kno u
[13:04] marina_kone04: my name is marina kone
[13:04] marina_kone04: and u
[13:04] roy_p73: my name is Roy
[13:05] marina_kone04: i am from cote di voire west africa
[13:05] marina_kone04: and u
[13:05] marina_kone04: thanks
[13:06] marina_kone04: i am a student
[13:06] marina_kone04: pls wht do u do for a living
[13:06] marina_kone04: pls dont be offended by all the quetions
[13:06] roy_p73: im a student also
[13:07] marina_kone04: ok
[13:08] marina_kone04: i am in abijan capital of cote di voire
[13:08] marina_kone04: i am alone
[13:09] marina_kone04: because of my problems tht i am passing through
[13:09] marina_kone04: thats why i am asking who are u
[13:09] marina_kone04: so that i can be able to no u
[13:10] marina_kone04: befor i tell u my problems
[13:10] roy_p73: ok
[13:11] marina_kone04: i lost my parents
[13:11] roy_p73: im sorry to hear that
[13:14] marina_kone04: please wait
[13:16] marina_kone04: i am very glad to comunicat with you now i know it will suprise you
[13:16] marina_kone04: pls wht i am trying to tell u now
[13:17] marina_kone04: you are going to keep it comfidential
[13:17] roy_p73: ok
[13:18] roy_p73: im not sure u should tell me something that can danger you
[13:18] marina_kone04: i was born on the 1of january 1983.to the family of Kone.and my father name is Joseph he is a very wealthy gold and cocoa merchant who based in ACCRA and ABIDJAN respectively, and I am there only child.
[13:20] marina_kone04: are u there
[13:20] roy_p73: yes
[13:20] marina_kone04: well when i was a kid i went to a private schools and things were going on well for me and my parents till when i was in high school when my mother died on the 21ST october 1994 , My father took me so special because i am motherless
[13:22] marina_kone04: are u through
[13:22] roy_p73: yes im here
[13:22] marina_kone04: and he shower all his love on me and promised me that he will never have another woman because he did not want me for any problem.but has fate his my father got dead last year.but before the death of my father on the 12th November 2005 in a private hospital here in Abidjan , he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sumof $10.500 000 (ten million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire. meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.
[13:24] roy_p73: ok
[13:25] marina_kone04: He also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that i should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, such as ;real estate investment or stock market investment. Plesae, i am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.
[13:25] roy_p73: im sorry i cant help you with that
[13:25] roy_p73: im only 21 and i cant be involved with foriegn money
[13:26] marina_kone04: all i am asking is for u to help in this is 1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transfered into. 2) To serve as the guardian of these fund ,since i am 22years old. 3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.
[13:27] roy_p73: im sorry im not able to do these things
[13:27] roy_p73: im not knowledgeable in these kind of business
[13:28] marina_kone04: please why i am trying to transfer this money to a forign country is bcos of the advis my father gave to me when he was alife
[13:28] roy_p73: with that kind of money u could open an account urself maybe
[13:28] roy_p73: contact american banks and ask them for help
[13:29] marina_kone04: that i should seek a realable person that can not betray me or seat on this money because is my only hope
[13:31] marina_kone04: pls even though u can give me a favour to provide a person a God fearing person that have an account it will allso be nise
 

Zolty

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If you provide the banking information they can run a negative balance and you owe your bank money.
 

kranky

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Scammer will say they need your bank information (account number, routing number, etc. ) so they can transfer the money to you. And once they have that information, they'll try to take money out of your account.
 

alimoalem

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now we have your AIM pete ;)

i've been solicited via ebay MANY times and once through gmail (and i thought gmail was supposed to cut down on the spammers ;) ) and for some reason all these people are from south africa....idk it's weird. i'm not sure how one would go about getting money with just an account number but who knows, maybe it can happen