This Scam is making the email rounds

[Amelia]

[:"green"] Barrister Momomh Osagie <mo201947@shiraz.ir> to momoh_osagie

10:17 am (6 hours ago)

Dear Confidant.

I am Barrister:Momoh Osagie a senior attorney in my chamber i hereby seek your consent to intimate you about my desire to contact as the next of kin to my client Mr.George Ulrich Who used to work with Shell oil Company in Nigeria.On the 21st of April 2002,our cleint, his wife And their three children were involved in a car accident along Sagbama Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives except the driver.Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client extended relatives this has also proved abortive.

After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to source for a reliable potential foreign partner over the Internet. I have contacted you to assist me in repartrating the money and property left behind by our client before they get confisicated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount is deposited. The Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about 7.5million dollars has issued me a notice as his attorney to provide the next of kin or have the account confisicated within the next twenty official working days.

Since i have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over two years now i seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since i have all the necessary classified information of the deceased that may be required by the his bankers to qualify any body as the legitimate next of kin, so that the bank can proceeds of this account valued at 7.5million dollars to be paid into your account then both of us can share the money.for your assistance you are going to have 30% and 60%for me then the remaning 10 will be used for any expenses we many make during this transfer.

Remember that, I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this

deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed

under alegitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Please get in touch with me by this email address( []momoh_osagie@netexecutive.com)to[/] enable us

discuss further detail .

Best regards

Barrister Momoh Osagie [/]

There are so many red flags in this email yet someone, somewhere will fall for it. Dont let it be you!

[Michelle]

oh, my goodness, I get so many of these every day it's amazing. Probably at least 5 a day--this, or a variation of the same. Amazing.

M

[LynnDel]

This is weird. I am related to George Ulrich, but I don't believe he ever lived in Nigeria, and I'm pretty sure I'd know if he lost his life. Supposing this scam were about any actual person, I'd rather have them living than have all the money they might have left any lost relatives.

LD

[LynnDel]

5 e-mails like this a day, Michelle??? Wow! Time for a new e-mail address!!!

LD

[Naomi]

These scams seem to cycle, get a lot and then they drop off and for some reason they are really heavy just now.

[Michelle]

LynnDel--it started as soon as we got this account. I think it's because it's a Hong Kong ISP. My Gmail and Hotmail accounts don't get these (they just get the nasty X-rated ones), so I think it's not as much my personal address as the HK ISP. *sigh*

M

[Amelia]

This came to my gmail Michelle.

[Denise]

I get these all the time too! They try to find people who believe this, and after you respond, they ask for your address, and so on, until they want to deposit the money in your checking account, and want the checking account # to deposit the money in. The first time, they used my last name Byers, of a relative who was in a horrible car crash that had lots of money. They make it seem real. I have learned to be careful, and delete these right away. Denise

[Nan]

Last time we discussed this, Gail posted the link to www.scamorama.com. Go there to find out all you wanted - and did not want - to know about these things. There are a few instances of where the scammers were taken on at their own game and beaten.

There have been a couple of reports on the current affairs programs here in the last few months of people who have been scammed going to a TV station who have played along and then brought the police in, resulting in some arrests. From memory I think those incidents were from the UK.

[Amelia]

Which Nigerian Spammer Are You?

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/04/nigerian_quiz.php

[Peter]

There are variations of this scam. Some from South Africa others from Nigeria. The ones from Nigeria are actually crooks from that country. I read where one treasurer of a church got sucked into that scam and even met the nigerians behind the scam. They would not meet him in the USA but met him in Europe. He set up the church bank account for them to use. They drained the church bank account and he never got any money at all.

Any email that ask for your bank account number is a scam. It plays on the greed of human beings to make a fast buck. It is a very sucessful scam unfortunately. To many fall for that scam.

http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/419News.html

[Peter]

April 1, 2005

Scam alert: Beware of counterfeit postal money orders

By Ed Teachout

and KATU News

Wilsonville, Ore. - In a new twist to an old scam, foreign crooks are counterfeiting U.S. Postal money orders to steal your cash.

Brandon Goertler of Wilsonville says a man claiming to be from Nigeria sent him five U.S. Postal Service money orders totaling $5,000 in response to an ad to rent an extra room.

Goertler says he was skeptical about receiving the money orders until his bank handed him the cash.

However, after Goertler cashed the money orders, he got an e-mail from the Nigerian saying he was ill and needed $4,000 sent back to Africa to help pay bills.

"He actually asked me to send it in cash and I did," Goertler said.

That made Goertler one of the thousands of victims who have fallen prey to crooks counterfeiting postal money orders.

"Nigerians are very successful at this," says U.S. Postal Inspector Larry Dziomba. "They send out thousands and thousands of these and if they can hit dozens of people, they are making money on this."

Dziomba says in the past six months, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bogus postal money orders have been sent from overseas.

"It's a big, big problem," he says.

All postal money orders now have an embedded security strip and watermark similar to U.S. currency.

[Nan]

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Princess Agbami or something - but I do take offence at the insinuation that I cannot spell proper.

Great link Amelia <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />