How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: JOEFREY AND SISTER

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

JOEFREY AND SISTER

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr joefrey otama [mailto:joefrey10@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 April 2009 10:39
Subject: FROM : JOEFREY AND SISTER

Greetings.

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. I am in my search for a reliable and God
fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and pains taking efforts via
searching I made on the internet on my bed side undergoing treatment for Oesophagi Cancer .

Though its a sad and long story but I will cut it short for your quick and easy understanding. I
am Mrs vivian Danga , widow to Late Mr.Edward Danga, former Defence attachee to Benin Embassy in
Greece. My husband was murdered alonside our only son Elvis by those who are envious of his
position in the same office.

Before his death he made a vow to use his wealth for the down trodden,orphanages and the less
privileged in the society. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to an
individual or better still a God fearing person who will utilize this money the way I am going to
instruct here in. I want an individual that will use this fund and provide succor to poor and
indigent persons,orphanages,widows and for the propagating peace.

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband
relatives are not inclined to helping poor persons and I do not want my husband's hard earned
money to be misused or spent in the manner in which my late husband did not specify. I do not want
a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner.

What is required of you is your honesty, trust and sincerity. Any delay in your reply will give me
room in sourcing for another individual for this same purpose. May God Almighty bless you.
Mrs vivian Danga.

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What is advance-fee fraud?

According to Wikipedia advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer, the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.

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The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter, fax, or Telex. The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software made the cost of sending scam letters through the Internet low. In the 2000s, the 419 scam has spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and, more recently, from North America, Western Europe (mainly UK), and Australia.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code (part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating") dealing with fraud. The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
The advance-fee fraud is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner scam in which the trickster would tell the scam victim that a (fictitious) rich prisoner had promised to share (non-existent) treasure with the victim if the latter would send money to bribe the prison guards.
Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."