FROM:STAN LEO
TEL:(225)03-06-61-42
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIR
ATTN:RESPECTFUL ONE
Compliment of the season,
REQUEST FOR INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into
business relationship with you. I know this mail may
come to you as a surprise, since we have not known or
written before.
Our Mother died long ago when she was about to
delivered my most junior sister CHANTAL, she is 10
years old as of today, based that we lost our mother
so early our father took us so special, we are only
three from my mother's side, I and the two girls.
Introducing myself , I am STANLEY LEO 18
years of age the only son of the late Chief and Mrs
Robert Leo, My father was a gold and cocoa merchant
based in Accra, Ghana and Abidjan ( Ivory Coast ) , he
was poisoned to death by his business associates on
one of their business trips.
Before the death of my father on 27th February 2001
in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly
called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum
of USD$12.5M ( Twelve Million five hundred thousand
U.S), deposited in Bank in ( Abidjan Cote D’ Ivoire ,
that he used my name as his beloved son for the next
of
kin in depositing the fund. He also explained to me
that it was because of this wealth that he was
poisoned by his business associates, that I should
seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for
investment purpose such as expansion of his existing
cocoa business and real estate management overseas. I
have make an arrangement with the Local bank manager
here on how best to transfer this money to oversea
please, I am humbly seeeking your assistance in the
following ways.
1- To assist me in providing an account of yours
where this fund can quietly be transferred into..
2-To serve as the guardian of this fund since I am
still in the secoundary school with my junior sisters.
3)- To make arrangement for me to come over to your
country to futher my education and to help me secure a
residential permit in your country.
Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total
sum as compensation for your effort/ Input after the
successful transfer of this fund into your nominated
account overseas, while 5% will be set aside to offset
any expenses we may incure.
Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards
assisting me as I believe that this transaction would
be concluded within the shortest possible time if you
signify interest to assist me.
NB: Please contact me immediately you receive
this message through the above e-mail
address if you are interested.
josh [email] said at 12:38 AM 03-04-2002: It's a famous internet scam. One day Ben's dad told him how he was going to do it and I had to spend a long while on the phone explaining it was a scam.
neilbert said at 2:45 AM 03-04-2002: Yah, that's a pretty old scam, and it's not just an internet scam either. My favourite "scam" letter, is the "IBM, Microsoft, AOL, will pay you $263.00 for each time you forward this email to somebody"-scam.
One girl that sits next to me, forwarded that chain mail to everyone in the call center (1,200) people. Boy, were the I.T. people (at work) not happy with that one.
jpr [ url ] said at 2:54 AM 03-04-2002: Yeah, not just an Internet scam. My dad got a similar letter from Nigeria in the '80s. I've gotten a few of these through email.
sean said at 2:55 AM 03-04-2002: its a pretty easily detectable (lame) scam too: "To assist me in providing an account of yours
where this fund can quietly be transferred into.. "
while you're at it, why not send along your socialsecurity number, email password and bile lock comination, just to make sure that "we are buds"
Nathan said at 5:25 PM 03-04-2002: Someone in a similar scenario to this sent me an e-mail to sell me some gold bricks. I get so much junk email, and it's 98% obvious from the title, or from the number of numbers in the senders name. The ones that trick me are the ones with the subject "none".
