Posted on 06/02/2005 7:03:33 AM PDT by Maceman
This morning I received the following Nigerian scam-type letter in my Freepmail box. It was sent by a Freeper named abi000, whose account was established May 16, 2005.
I don't know why a Freeper would be sending a message like this thru Freepmail, but since there was no way to report the abuse, I thought I'd just do it on a thread and let the moderators decide what to do.
Here is the message:
Madam Abigel Kabila
From abi000 | 06/02/2005 9:24:49 AM EDT replied
Madam Abigel Kabila
Tel:225 05-80-59-64
Introduction.
My Dear,
It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son Mack,intend to establish in your country.
Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life.
There is this huge amount of Eigtheen million U.S dollars($18,000,000.00) which my late Husband kept for us with a Security Company in Abidjan before he was assasinated by unknown persons.Now I and my son decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.We want you to help us claim and retrieve these fund from the Security company and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these areas:
1). Telecommunication
2). the transport industry
3). Five star hotel
If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 10% Of the total fund.
I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. Abigel Kabila.
abigelhotyahoo.ca
Sounds like you're going to be RICH.
Don't spend it all in one place!!!
You should give them two points for being polite scammers.
There is a way to report it.
Send a FReepmail to the mod.
Maybe ol' Scamdy is trying a NEW tactic....
BTW: Send your money to me and I will pass it on for you so you don't get any more scam mailings. :)
Freepers, please do NOT post your technical knowledge on this topic publicly, let the Admin Moderator know about it via Freepmail, thanks.
Why that two-timing, no good, rotten..............
I am going to ask for my 2 carat diamond ring back.
I got that yesterday under a different Nick. I just deleted since the FR Nick was already banned.
Please send a certified check in the amount of 1.8 million U.S. dollars to me. I will forthwith deposit it into my bank account, and when the bank confirms the funds are in fact there....then I will be of further assistance......
O.K.?
There is a way to report it. Send a FReepmail to the mod.
A better way is submitting an abuse report on any thread. To prevent confusion at this end, just specify that the matter needing attention isn't related to anything on that thread.
Thanks.
Now I know how to get rid of mine. Do you want them individually, or in a daily journal?
Never received this via freepmail, but I probably have received dozens of these over the years via other e-mail. I was amazed to learn how many people have fallen for something like this.
Could be a DU hacker. :)
Freepmail is about the ONLY place I don't receive these things.
(A FReeper with 4 friends haha)
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