E-mail scam

[BobMorr]

This is the e-mail scam I got today! What a joke. Think people would actually fall for this? Never trust anyone with the first name Karl!!


From Auditor.Karl Horsburgh
15 A Louis Botha Avenue,
Fellside Cape Town,
Republic of South Africa.
Tell: 874-763-427980
Fax: [phone]

{KEEP THIS BUSINESS WITHIN YOURSELF FOR SECURITY
REASONS}

Dear Sir/Madam,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 36,000.000.00 USD)
THIRTY SIX million United States Dollars) from the
BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA , I want to ask you to quietly
look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing Bank
Account or to set up a new Bank A/C immediately to
receive this money, even an Empty A/C can serve, as
long as you will remain honest to me till the end for
this important business trusting in you and believing
in God that you will never let me down either now or
in future.

I am Auditor.Karl Horsburgh,the Auditor General of
the Bank of South Africa, during the course of our
Auditing I discovered a floating fund in an Account
opened in the Bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has
operated on this Account again, after going through
some old files in the records I discovered that the
owner of the account died without a hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.The owner of
this account is Mr.Eshed.B.Willey, a foreigner, and a
sailor, and he died, since 1993. and no other person
knows about this account or anything concerning it,
the Account has no other Beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that
Mr.Eshed.B.Willey until his death was the Manager of
Oriental Diamond Company,in South Africa.


We will start the first transfer with SIX Million
<$6,000.000> upon successful transaction without any
disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the
payment of the remaining rest amount to your account,
The Amount involved is (USD36M)THIRTY SIX million
United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer
$6,000.000 Money into a safe foreigners Account abroad before the
rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money can
not be approved to a local person here, without valid
international foreign Passport, but can only be
Approved to any foreigner with valid International
Passport or Drivers license and foreign A/C because
the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the
A/C Mr.Eshed.B.Willey is a foreigner too, and the
money can only be Approved into a foreign A/C.

However, we will sign a binding Agreement, to bind us
together,I got your email through my Personal
Secretary through the internet,She did not know you
before neither do I know you she only got it when I
told her that I needed an email Address where I can
send a Confidential Proposal to,though I did not tell
her what the content of my mail was,It only God that
brought us together to do this business and I am
revealing this to you with believe in God that you
will never let me down in this business, you are the
first and the only person that I am contacting for
this business,so please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also
your private Telephone and fax number including the
full details of the Account to be used for the deposit
of first Transfer.
Beneficiary Name:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Account Number:
Swift Code:
I want us to meet face to face to build Confidence and
to Sign a binding Agreement that will bind us together
before Transferring the money to any Account of your
choice where the fund will be safe before we fly to
your country for withdrawal, sharing and investments.I
need your full co-operation to make this work fine
because the management is ready to Approve this
Payment to any Foreigner who has correct information
of this account, which I will give to you, upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are
capable and will meet up with instruction of a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business. I need your strong assurance that you will
never,never let me down. With my influence and the
position of the Bank official we can Transfer this
Money to any foreigner's reliable Account which you
can provide with assurance that this money will be
intact pending our physical arrival in your country
for sharing.The Bank official will destroy all
Documents of transaction Immediately we receive this
money leaving no trace to any place and to build
confidence, you can come immediately to discuss with
me face to face after which I will make this
remittance in your presence and three of us will fly
to your country at least two days ahead of the money
going into the account. I will apply for annual leave
to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are
ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I
will use my position and influence to obtain all legal
Approvals for onward transfer of this money to your
account with apropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments.The
onlything I needs from you now is to keep this
business within yourself untill I instruct you to
spread the Good news to anyone OK.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
25% of the total Amount, 70% will be for me while 5%
will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during this process.

I look forward to your earliest reply through
telephone,Fax or through my email address

Yours,

Auditor.Karl Horsburgh

[Deja Q]

1. There's a key phrase that's consistent with these scams:

"South Africa"

Of course, any long winded message asking for money should be a tip that it's a con job.

[Taxloss]

2. The ones I get are all from Nigeria

And Nigeria has a bit of a rep for this sort of thing.

[McKenzie]

3. go to 419eater.com

the people on that site scam them back. you'll be pissing yourself laughing.

[Warpy]

4. "Help me rip off a dead guy"

That's a comeon I haven't heard before.

The sad thing is that this long winded, semiliterate scam will sucker more than one person, probably Bush voters.

[oldlady]

5. I get several of these each week

usually from Nigeria -- I thought it might be because I know people from Nigeria...glad to know it's just common. I know a young man who DID fall for this, however. Just barely 18...let's say he proudly owned a brand new Jeep for 24 hours...no charges filed, no doubt the humiliation his friends must have heaped on him was enough. *geesh*

peace