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MIKEBUCHAN · Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Russia

I can see that you have been there! I got that one just today too!

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

It amazes me that these things are still around... and updated to modern technology. I first saw one of the letters (as they used to be) in my first job in 1970. It was addressed to the boss, and he sent it to the accounting department with the note that this should cure our cash flow problems.

The only answer is that people still fall for it. Sad how ignorant some people are... greed trumps logic or sense...

VS

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

The whole "419" business works because people are greedy and stupid - a dangerous combination. (419 is from the article in the Nigerian Criminal Code that criminalises this activity.)

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

I get letters like this all the time.

Another one I get, addressed to my business email, is one that says they need someone in a foreign country to help them transfer brazillions of USD out of their own revolution/war/famine/flood/drought/etc afflicted country into a foreign bank account. They offer similar vast rewards. All they require in return is for me to travel to Thailand/Nigeria/wherever to meet with them to discuss the whole project.

I could see myself walking into a backstreet in Lagos or Chiangmai, and being attacked, robbed, and beaten to death all for the (very limited Sad

) Visa card in my pocket and my 22.50 in euro plus another quid in local "currency". Or maybe put up in a hotel with a hidden camera in the room where they would have the intention of drugging me and then getting a local hooker to pose with me in lewd positions for pics to be forwarded directly to Mrs. Bebsi.

Maybe even some of them DO have scrillions to stash away, and they want someone in a (reputable, I would add) real-estate investment business such as mine to facilitate their lodging of said scrillions in Romania, all to be followed in due course by Bebsi appearing on Romanian TV while being escorted along the corridors of a courthouse by a bevy of heavily-armed balaclava-ed special forces, with a caption flashing across the screen saying "Bebsi O'Crook, the infamous Irish criminal, starts 257 year sentence for money laundering in Ceausescu-era Aiud prison".

I think I will stick with EFL contracts and houses. Dammit, I will even pay my taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Happy