scam?

[Road Hog]

Dear Friend,

I am Ken Hastrup,A former government official of Liberia. Following the exit of president Charles Taylor of Liberia from power under a West African brokered peace agreement, led by Nigerian President Yar Adua he was granted asylum by the Nigerian Government. In my position as the Financial Secretary to the President and close confidant, I left for Nigeria in his Encourage.

My country has been engulfed in Protracted Civil war with rebels controlling some parts of the country. During the war, President Taylor disbursed large sums of Monies to buy the loyalty of the entire cabinet,and I can say with all modesty that I was one of the Chief Beneficiaries of this disbursement.

This is aside from monies I used my official position to acquire while in office.Since we relocated to Calabar, Southern Nigeria all has been well, but with the recent indictment of former President Taylor by the war crime tribunal sitting in Sierra Leone and confirmed reports of a dedicated fund by the American Government to capture him in order to face war crime charges have now decided to leave the country.

Presently I have funds totaling $15,000,000. (Fifteen Million USDollars) Which I intend to move oversea for investment and spend the rest of my life there with my family.
This transaction is risk-free as all local arrangement has been made. If you are prepared to assist to work with me I require the following:

Your Full Name:
Postal Address:
Your Private Telephone:
Fax Number :
private Email Address:

As Compensation for your assistance you will retain 15% of the Total sum, While 5% will be mapped out for local andInternational expenses.
Though we are not known to each other, I strongly believe that through this transaction we would be able to forge a mutually beneficial relationship between us, now and in the future.

Finally, the success of this transaction will depend to a great extent on mutual trust, secrecy and Confidentiality
from you.

I await your response to this email;[e-mail]

Best Regards,
Ken Hastrup

[dougc]

Nope. Absolutely legit - go for it!!

[esselte]

You have to ask?

[ViperScot]

If you don't do it, I will... But seriously, are you joking?

[robinhood21]

esselte said:

You have to ask?

I was wondering why the question-mark.

[Adenauer]

I had that last year, it's legitimate, I'm now 1,5 million dollars richer

If you're the lucky one, go for it I'd say

Edited by Adenauer on Tuesday 10th February 12:53

[benoli]

'nuff said !

[Sheriff JWPepper]

robinhood21 said:

esselte said:

You have to ask?

I was wondering why the question-mark.

I was pondering why no question mark?

[robinhood21]

Sheriff JWPepper said:

robinhood21 said:

esselte said:

You have to ask?

I was wondering why the question-mark.

I was pondering why no question mark?

Got me!

[esselte]

robinhood21 said:

esselte said:

You have to ask?

I was wondering why the question-mark.

Because it's a question to the OP as in "You have to ask if it's a scam? get a grip man, of course it is"

[Road Hog]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

any one else got same e-mail,

thought it such a poor attempt at a scam ,made it worthy of being an amusing post

[Dolf]

Road Hog said:

Your Full Name:
Postal Address:
Your Private Telephone:
Fax Number :
private Email Address:

Oh - I see what the problem is: you should also include your bank details!

[robinhood21]

esselte said:

robinhood21 said:

esselte said:

You have to ask?

I was wondering why the question-mark.

Because it's a question to the OP as in "You have to ask if it's a scam? get a grip man, of course it is"

Sorry, should have made it clearer. I was questioning the ? in the thread title - Scam?

[MaxAndRuby]

I'd ignore this mate, fell for it myself last year with dreams of $15M being transferred into my account. When the transfer FINALLY(!!!) arrived it was a few pence over $86K. Bullstters.

[munky]

Road Hog said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

any one else got same e-mail,

thought it such a poor attempt at a scam ,made it worthy of being an amusing post

I get on average 3 of these per day, so of course I must be extremely lucky. Good job I don't start a thread each time though!

Forward the email, including the email headers (how to do that will depend on what email system you're using), to [e-mail] and they will close his account.

[Road Hog]

munky said:

Road Hog said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

any one else got same e-mail,

thought it such a poor attempt at a scam ,made it worthy of being an amusing post

I get on average 3 of these per day, so of course I must be extremely lucky. Good job I don't start a thread each time though!

Forward the email, including the email headers (how to do that will depend on what email system you're using), to [e-mail] and they will close his account.

sarcasm ,not one of your strong points then.

[Mattygooner]

Seriously? Monies?

I am surprised he did not ask you if he could iron your monies for you.

[Maxf]

Please can someone set up a wiki of posters who have created threads asking if some kind of scam email is a scam?

This could then be cross-referenced when reading posts so as to not take them seriously.

FFS... is this a scam?

[Dolf]

MaxAndRuby said:

I'd ignore this mate, fell for it myself last year with dreams of $15M being transferred into my account. When the transfer FINALLY(!!!) arrived it was a few pence over $86K. Bullstters.

[FourWheelDrift]

robinhood21 said:

esselte said:

You have to ask?

I was wondering why the question-mark.

I was wondering why everyone has to post them all the time, do they think no one in the entire world has ever seen one before.