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  "description": "I have read a lot about the 419 Nigerian email scams and have received three in the past two years but this morning I received two new scam emails in my inbox.",
  "path": "/short-articles/2003-08-14-spam-scams/",
  "publishedAt": "2003-08-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:tki7vwlanxbwrz2er67eaeqa/site.standard.publication/3mp4h4md7zv2y",
  "tags": [
    "Opinion",
    "Web"
  ],
  "textContent": "I have read a lot about the '419' Nigerian e-mail scams and have received three in the past two years but this morning I recived two new scam e-mails in my inbox. My head must be above the parapit because of my interview on BBC Radio Derby on Tuesday Morning! Then again...\n\nHere are the two e-mails in full. If you get them do NOT respond and certainly do not follow them up as they are scams and people have actually been murdered trying to pull one over on the scammers. Just bin them.\n\ne-mail one:  \nSubject: TRUST IS THE KEY \n\nFROM: MRS ELISABETH AGNIME\n\nFOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.  \nBANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN  \nABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE\n\nDear,\n\nWith due respect and huminity, I write to you this  \nproposal.I am the manager of bill and exchange at the  \nforeign remittance department of Banque Internationale du  \nAbidjan . I am writing following the impressive information  \nabout you through my research in internet search.In my  \ndepartment, we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$8.5m  \nUSdollars (Eight million, five hundred thousand US  \ndollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign  \ncustomer who died along with his entire family in november   \n1997 in a plane crash.\n\nSince we got information about his death, we have been  \nexpecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his  \nmoney because we cannot release it unless somebody applies  \nfor it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as  \nindicated in our banking guidelines and policies but  \nunfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin  \nor relation died along side with him at the plane crash  \nleaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore upon  \nthis discovery that I and other officials in my department  \nnow decided to make this businness proposal to you and  \nrelease the money to you as the next of kin or relation to  \nthe deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since  \nnobody is coming forth and we dont want this money to go  \ninto the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.\n\nAccording to our Banking policies and guideline here which  \nstipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five  \nyears, the money will automatically be transfered into the   \nBank treasury as unclaimed fund.  \nThe request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is  \noccasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner  \nand a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. \n\nWe agree that 15 % of this money will be for you as foreign  \npartner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,  \n5 % will be for reimbursement of any expenses incured  \nduring the curse of the transaction and 80 % would be for  \nme and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will  \nvisit your country for disbursement according to the  \npercentages indicated.\n\nTherefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to  \nyou as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as  \nrelation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your  \nbank name, your bank account number, your private telephone  \nand fax number for easier and effective communication and  \nlocation where the money will be remitted .\n\nUpon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or  \nemail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring  \nto your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that  \nyou should not entertain any atom of  \nfear as all required arrangements have been made for the  \ntransfer . You should contact me immediately as soon as you  \nreceive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nFROM: MRS elisabeth_agnime\n\nBILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER  \nBANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN.  \n  \n\n  *\n\n  \nemail number two:\n\nSubject: HELLOW   \nFROM MRS FELICIA MBOUSOUME  \nABDIJAN COTE'D IVOIRE IN  \nWEST AFRICA.\n\nATTN ;  \nI am MRS FELICIA MBOUSOUME the wife of,  \nlate Dr ALOYSIUS MBOUSOUME From  \nEQUITORIA GUINEA, one time by political appointment  \nDirector of International Affaires Department of EQUITORIA  \nGUINEA PETROL AND NATURAL GAS who died on a board meeting  \nwith the International Oil Gulf Representatives, in  \nSeptember 11th 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York  \nCity USA.  \nSorry I do not know whom you are, but I feel strong to   \nwrite you concering my present predicament at stake now.  \ni have only one son Mr Victor who is a student in  \nChemical Engineering At University of MALABO, EQUITORIA  \nGUINEA, before the date of the urgly incident occurred.\n\nPresently I am in Abidjan Cote d´ Ivoire,where I am looking  \nor seeking for someone who will assist me in transfering  \nthe sum of money my late husband left in a suspended account of a  \nBank here in Abidjan. The amount is Eighteen Million US  \nDollars ($ 12, 000.000.00). However since, I am his next of  \nkin , I have contacted you to stand as my Late husband´s  \nforeign parter to receive this fund into your account  \nafter which I will join you there. l am willing to offer  \nyou 5% of the total sum of amount, to you for assisting  \nme and you will handle the investment we will go into until  \nmy son finished up his education, and eny expences you made in  \nthis transaction must be minus including your perscentage  \nbefore investing the fund.  \nIn addition I humbly solicit for you kindly assistance to  \nhelp me in investing this money into a good and profitable  \ninvestment, really my intenssion for contacting you is not  \nonly to help me in tansfering this fund out hear but  \nalso to help me to invest the fund into an ivestment that  \ncan not involves so much tax in your cauntry,and A nice  \nschool where my son victor will finish up his education.  \nI am assuring you that this transaction is hatch free from  \nall indication, because all the document that was issued to  \nmy husband at the day he lodged the money are with me and  \nthe are avilable to you on your request. You will provide  \nme with a bank account that is capable to carry this  \namount. Again, try to understand the fact that this is a  \npriviledged information that should be kept secret and  \nconfidential  \nPlease understand my condition and get to me as soon as  \npossible and please I urge you to keep this transaction  \nconfidential for my secuirty and the security of the  \nfund.Finally, I need your urgent response to enable me  \ncommence with the procedures. Please to confirm your  \ninterest, as soon as you received this mail send me an email\n\nI will be waiting to hearing from you soonest,  \nMay God bless you.  \nWith Best Regards.\n\nMRS FELICIA MBOUSOUME AND SON",
  "title": "Spam Scams"
}