Has someone offered you a huge sum of money or a valuable consignment? It's a 419 or advance fee fraud - find out how they work, and what to do to be safe.
by Chris Fuller Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:36 pm
Note the 'to' address: this rather foolish scammer sent his scam straight here!

From: Jacobs Salami <[email protected]>
Reply-To [email protected]
Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2010
Subject: PRIVATE MESSAGE
To: [email protected]

MR JACOBS SALAMI
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,
WEST AFRICA.


Dear Friend,

Greeting to you!!!



I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met
before. I am the Director in charge of Auditing in Bank of Africa
(B.O.A), I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and
confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of
our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the
sum of Twenty Two Million and Five Hundred Thousand united state
dollars ($22.500 000mUSD) Immediately to your account.


The fund has been dormant (in-active) for 11 years in our Bank here
without any body coming for it. I want to release the fund to you as
the nearest person to our deceased customer (the owner of the account)
who died a long with his supposed next of kin in air crash since on
February 16, 1998. I don't want the fund to go into our Bank treasury
as an abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted you, so
that my Bank will release the fund to you as the nearest person to the
deceased
customer.


Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and
delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will send you the application form you will fill and send to the bank
for transfer of the fund into your bank account and also note that you
will have 40% of the above mentioned amount if you agree to help me
execute this business.And also 10% had been mapped out for you for the
expense you will make in this transaction and 50% is for me. I need
your informations so that Iwill send you the application form.


YOUR FULL INFORMATIONS

Your Name.........
Your Home Addresses.. ....
City.. ......
Country.. ......
Home Telephone.. .....
Private Telephone.. ......
Fax No.. ......
Marital Status.. ......
Age.. ......
Occupation.. .......
Religion.. .........

Awaiting for your urgent response so that we will proceed immediately.

Best Regards,
MR JACOBS SALAMI
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