The email adress is on the bottom, feel free to tell these scammers off!

Dear Friend

I am Barrister James Chude, a Solicitor and the Personal Attorney to
Mr.Tandy
Neel,a national of your country, who used to work with shell
Development
Company in Nigeria. On the 2nd of May 2002, my client, his wife and
their
three children were involved in a car accident along Sagamu Express
Road.
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then, I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any
of
my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives
over
the Internet, so to locate any member of his family but to no avail,
hence I
contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money
that
belong to my client before they get confiscated or declared as
unserviceable
by the bank where this huge deposit were lodged.

Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at
about $10
Million Dollars, has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have
the account confiscated within the next ten official working days.
Since I
have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now.
Therefore, I have decided to seek your consent to present you as
the"Next
Kin" of the deceased since you are from the same Country and bear the
same
last name, so that the proceeds of this account valued at $10 Million
Dollars, can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money.
55% to
me and 40% to you, while 5% will be mapped out for any expenses during
the
process or Tax as your Government may require, I have the Certificaten
of
deposit that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I
require is
your honest Cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that
will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with
me
strictly via this emailjames_chude001@yahoo.com)to enable us
discussfurther.

Best regards,

Barr. James Chude

 

I know somebody at my work who got the same scam email.. .

 

^^^ I just responded to your email from lat night


Ya it sucks, all these damn scammers. I wonder if any body really falls for these things......

 

at least its better than the ebay spoof asking for my passwords all the time.

 

Thanks!

 

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal recently about the internet scam industry in Nigeria. It is apparently rampant there, and some people are getting very rich, mostly off Americans. The "bosses" that run the operations are well known to the authorities, but essentially buy immunity from prosecution.

 

I'm changing my last name!!!!

 

Nigerian scams have been around for awhile. Check out http://www.419eater.com for a good laugh.

 

I love their song they sing.

 

There is a guy who has a site devoted to messing aroung with these people. I wish I could remember but it is funny as hell. He requests that these people take photos holding company letterhead to prove they are real. He supplies letterhead with the name "Iamadic" or something simillar to that and these people are posing with the hillarious captions. Great stuff.