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I recently received this email. * I have replaced my real name with heka


From The Desk Of:
Mhlabeni Inc Chambers & Associates,
17th Floor Marble Towers
Cnr. Jeppe and Von Wielligh Street
Johannesburg .South Africa
Telephone: +27781176360
E-mail: nkosiben1@yahoo.com

Attn: heka,

Greetings to you, with warm heart I offer my friendship and greetings, and I hope this mail meets you in good time.

However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past,I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and the immense benefit it will be to you.

I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity.

First and foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name is Barrister Nkosi Ben, a registered solicitor at law and a member of the attorneys Association in South Africa.

I am the personal attorney to Late Mr. David heka, a national of your country, who used to work with Airports Company South Africa. (ACSA). Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On Thursday the 30 Oct 2003 my Client, his wife and their two children were involved in a fatal bus crash disaster. My Client and his family together with other persons had boarded the ill-fated bus which smash along Laingsburg in the Karoo region about 250 kilometers northeast of Cape Town killing 21 passengers.

Click on link below to view clips of incident:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200310/s978899.htm
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/10/30/978899.htm

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over a year now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at USD6.5 Million can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money.

I have contacted you to Assist us in Repatriating the said Fund to you any were in the world. I have agreed that 40% of the money will be for you the Account owner, 5% for expenses incurred on both sides, while 55% will be for me.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me immediately at {nkosiben1@yahoo.com} in as I do not have much time in my disposal.

In furtherance, Kindly furnish me with your following details.
{A}. YOUR FULL NAME.
{B}. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS.
{C}. YOUR TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBER ....

For easy communication, and i would send to you the procedures in this
transaction.
Best Regards,
Barrister Nkosi Ben (esq).
Bangiso Mhlabeni Inc.

nigerian bank scam has come of age ROFL

The email addresses always give them away.. A barrister with a yahoo email address??

got something similar recently via snail-mail... to my wife's maiden name... we know every person in aust by that name (rare surname even in Czech)... this person didn't exist... damn scammers.

thats just so his office doesnt bust him........ c'mon joel you gotta be careful when you're a lawyer doing sodgy deals!

he should have gone for one ending in .ru

The bit I like is:



Why would he even say he would share the money? If you inherit it, why would you give any to him?!

These are also called '409 scams'.

I had to check the BM website could not see anything of this Nkosi Ben listed as an employee. Strange they list attorneys and conveyancers not barristers...do you all have barristers there in Australia or do you call them some other bad name like so many of us do??

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Attention:
How is everything going, I hope great?
Though i have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have
approached you on this issue being that the internet has been greatly abused
over the recent years and is very unsecured for informations of vital
importance.

I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been
faster and more efficient than the E-mail. I write to you irrespective of the
fact you do not know me,but please do consider this letter as a request from a
brother in dire need of assistance.
My name is George Green(Sgt)an American soldier, I am serving in the military
of the 1st Armored Division here in Iraq. As you know we are being attacked by
insurgents everyday and car bombs, it will come worst now Saddam Hussein was
executed. During one of our rescue Mission we came across a safe that contains
the total sum of $21,000,000 (Twentyone Million Us Dollars) that
belongs to the
revolutionaries, which I believe they use in buying weapons and ammunitions,
and it was agreed by all party present that the money will be shared amongst
us. You can go to this web link to read about events that took place here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Out of the total fund my share was $8,000,000 (Eight Million US Dollars). This
is no stolen money, and there are no dangers involved, the fund as been
successfully moved and deposited into a repository account in Europe through
arrangements of a UN representative based in Amsterdam. I got unpleasant
notification from the bank management stating that the money will be move into
the Government account since the account as being domant for some time and the
fund is staying more than expected in the temporary account.

I don't want to loose this money to the European Government that is why I am
seeking your assistance to move this fund ($8,000,000) to transfer
this fund in
your custody, in as much as you can assure me that my own share will be safe
in your care until I complete my service here. I shall be compensating
you with
US$2,500,000.00 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) on final
conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for me for my investment
purposes.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a
third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please
destroy this
e-mail as any leakage of this information will be too bad for me.

Please if this proposal is acceptable by you, kindly send me an e-mail
signifying your interest.

As soon as I receive your email with the information, I will furnish you with
full details of the Bank where the money was deposited.

Waiting for our urgent reply.
Best regards,
Sgt. George Green.


LOL I get these probably daily. I usually don't even read them.

i like how they are using current news to give it credibility

at a place I used to work at, the General Manager seemed to be the sole target of these emails and faxes. He would get at least one a day