NAC: Nigerian Scam

[Mihnea Cotet]

Hey, guess what, I just received that with the "REPLY ASAP" subject line!
Where the heck are they getting our email addresses from?????


Mihnea





At 11:31 25/07/2003 -0400, Eric_R_Kissell at whirlpool.com wrote:
>I just received the following Nigerian money scam spam note:
>
>RE: TRANSFER OF US$10,500,000.00 AMERICAN DOLLARS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT
>
>From: richardogbaru at tiscali.co.uk
>Dr. Richard Ogbaru
>Abuja - Lagos.
>
>They offer me 20% of the $10.5M for letting them use my account for the
>transfer.
>
>How does one of these scams work with $10.5M?  If I was stupid enough to
>play along and allowed the transfer of said amount into my account, would
>my bank actually not raise an eyebrowe.  If not when the tranfer came in,
>surely they would say something when I tried to pull such a large amount
>back out of my account?  I can see them overlooking $1000, but $10.5
>million - my bank would have to balk.
>
>Just curious.
>
>MAC: 20% of $10.5M is enough to buy several parts cars to support my Type
>44's and build a nice air conditioned garage for them while I took an
>extended vacation in Mexico.
>
>Eric Kissell