Venditoris: Beware of Scams

This is more like it. We are back into the traditional YANL Spam Scam type of letter.

Funny how it seems refreshing to know that merely old spam hands are at the keyboard sending these out to unwitting email readers instead of slick, Internet-savvy Europeans who are more obvious in their pitches and seem at first look to be almost real.

IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE REAL, IT AIN”T!!

They hope you will reply, of course.

Let the sheer volume of letters we have collected here as samples of this long standing scam provide the evidence for you to label all these and similar sounding emails as SPAM. That’s what they are.

If you reply, you are then getting into the second stage where it becomes a pure SCAM!

Date: Sat, 3 June 2008 20:00:00
To:
From: “Mr Jim Peter” mrjimpeter_1@myway.com
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

From Desk Of Mr Jim Peter.
Bill And Exchange Manager
Bank Of Africa. (B.O.A).
Email Address; mrjimpeter_12@yahoo.fr

Dear Sir/Madam,

Compliment of the season,

I am Mr Jim Peter, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance Department of (BANK OF AFRICA. (B.O.A) I am writing to seek your intrest over a transaction. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $15.6m(Fifteen Million Six Hundred Thousand United State of America Dollar) .In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash on the 26th of Dec.2003. Since we got information about his Death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind
for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Benin Indigine cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.We agree that 30 % of this money
will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.

There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, Upon receipt of your
response to this mail indicating your willingnes towards this venture, I will send to you by fax or email the space-man copy of the application as the first step toward this deal which you will use to apply to our
bank as the next of kin to the decsaese.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter with my Altenative Email Address below; mrjimpeter_12@yahoo.fr for more explanations.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Jim Peter.