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In the past week I have received 12 offers from Africa to collect many millions of dollars, such as the one here. I know this came up before on the BB - is there a Bunco Squad anywhere interested in catching these guys? Who can I turn these con artists in to?
Subject: From Prince George Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 00:34:42 -0700 From: "Prince George" <pri_george11@zwallet.com> Reply-To: pri_george12@zwallet.com To: signmike@earthlink.net
Reply to pri_george12@zwallet.com
ATTN:
Re Urgent Assistance
Kindly allow me the modesty of introducing myself. I am GEORGE KABILA, the son of the former head of state/ president of Congo-Kinshasha (then called Zaire) Mr. Laurent Desire Kabila.
I got your particulars through the South African Chamber of Commerce; However, I am contacting you in order to ask for your assistance on this confidential Business proposal with full financial benefit for both of us.
Before I go into further details please be informed that I am writing without any other person(s) pre-knowledge of my contacting you on this transaction. Therefore I will appreciate same attitude to be maintained all through.
I have the sum of USD28Million from a secret sale of Diamond by my father before he was assassinated by one of his body guard (Rashid) on January 16th 2001, which I will like you to receive on my behalf due to security reasons, as my narration below will explain. But before I continue be well informed that your share in this transaction has been calculated at 13% of the total sum of USD$28M, 5% for expenses and the rest for my family and me.
My father as a real African traditionalist was a polygamist thereby having married so many wives, and my mother being the second wife of my father, my stepbrother Joseph, who is the current president of my country, is the son of the first wife and he does not have any knowledge about this deal.
Already president Joseph is using his power to colonize all the money and private property, which my father left behind for the whole family. Now my mother and I are left with nothing in the inheritance of my late father's wealth. Our situation is seriously critical that we need your assistance to help us receive these funds overseas for proper investment.
Let me quickly assure you the 100% safe proof of this transaction because the diamond sales are packaged from the onset in a pattern that shows no direct trace or linkage with us (Kabila family). At present the money is in cash and is secured in a security company as family treasures, as I don't want to deposit the money in a financial institution for fear of the funds being confiscated
The consignment will be released within seven (7) days of my being in receipt of your reply via my email address above only for security reasons.
I am waiting for your swift and favorable response, and in case you have any question(s), do not hesitate to contact me.
Best Regards,
GEORGE KABILA.
You can also contact me through this my alternative email address pri_george12@zwallet.com or also through my phone number +233-24516981
[ June 20, 2003, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: Mike Languein ]
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Mike, why don't you just shut off your computer and forget the internet if these things bother you so. I am awaiting the cash to be deposited into my account at this moment, as I was contacted directly by President Joseph, and it only cost me twelve thousand dollars so far!
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Unfortunately, there are some people that have that much greed to take these cons up on their bait. I read the other day of a women being indicted for wire fraud and embezzelment because she had stolen 2 million dollars and had sent it to one of these guys over a period of two years. She said she was planning to pay her boss back when she received her share of the millions in Nigeria. Like P.T. Barnum said, "There's one born every minute."
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YEH ROY...Weren't you the one tryin to sell "holes"??? hahahahahahaha :)I LOVE this place!!!
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Hey Mike, if you publish your Lenny stories you'll be able to collect millions of dollars from all the Lenny fans. After the book a screenplay, then a blockbuster movie? Has to be much more fun that "Dumb and Dumberer". When I first received one of those e-mails I did a double take because I was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in Zambia just 5 miles from the Zaire border. I thought they somehow knew who I was. Phew!!!
-------------------- Dawn Ellis Signs by Dawn Long Beach, CA signsbydawn@aol.com
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Hey, these scams have been around for a Long Time. I've got an Aerogram(those blue thin paper letters) from back in 90-91, before they started putting them on the internet. It's a souvenir, same wording/bushwah as now. Coulda been 23 mil richer.... say la vee, eh!!
John Lennig / SignRider
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The Feds will step in if you can get the people making the offer into the US. Good luck!
-------------------- Mike Pulskamp Pulskamp Arts Sacramento, CA mpulskamp@earthlink.net Posts: 165 | From: Sacramento, CA | Registered: Dec 2002
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There are a lot of those things about... but on thing that I like even less, is credit card companies sending you a 'red' letter (no other markings on the envelope other than the address)... for promotional purposes, naturally. Grrr...
Here's a little secret that might **** off credit card companies and potentially get them to stop harassing you with upwards of 20 credit card applications per week. Some people have known this for years, and since a fair amount of people will read this I feel that it's my duty and obligation to share this secret with you, because based on the email I've received, I don't always get the sharpest tools in the shed reading my site (as opposed to the regular tools who read this site). For the slow: I'm saying that you're stupid and wouldn't come up with this idea on your own; pay attention.
There are two types of junk mail that everyone gets: coupons for stupid bull**** that you don't want, and credit card applications for credit to buy stupid bull**** that you don't need. Here's how to take care of all your junk mail in one fell swoop: use the postage-paid envelope that credit card companies send you with their applications to send them the OTHER junk mail you receive. It's just that simple. Imagine the frustration of credit card companies when they have to spend millions of dollars every year on first-class postage just to open up an envelope and find Pizza Hut coupons inside. The envelopes are intended to be used for "BUSINESS REPLY MAIL," and so use them for their intended purpose. You're sending them valuable money-saving coupons which could mean big savings to credit card companies, and it makes good business sense to use them. Consider it a reply to their business proposition with a business proposition of your own: 35 cents off a large, one-topping pizza. In fact, they should be thanking you for giving them these money-saving opportunities. Or how about sending them credit card applications from other credit card companies? Be creative.
Not only will you be ****ing off the credit card companies by wasting their time and money (since they have to spend time opening all your mail), but you'll also be ****ing off all the other companies that send you junk mail: Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Burger King, Papa John's and endless AT&T and AOL "free trial" offers (although I do admit that the free trial CDs make great coasters). This is of course only true if the credit card companies don't have the business sense to use your valuable coupons, and if they did then everyone would be happy.
Consider it an added bonus for your efforts to frustrate the mafia-like credit card companies. They'll do anything short of giving you head to get you to join, and I'm sure they haven't thrown out that idea entirely (Star Trek fans rejoice). Canceling is a bitch because they always try to "cross-sell" when you call in, even when you call to terminate your service. Cross-selling is when credit card or phone companies try to sell you junk in addition to what you ordered because they're greedy assholes and want to charge you as much as they can with every transaction they make. Ever call in to order something over the phone and the representative tries to sell you a service that is "free for the first three months"? That's a cross-sell. They're trying to get you to sign up for some useless service that will be billed to your credit card long after you've forgotten to cancel after your "free" three month trial period. What a crock.
What more: every time you sign up for a credit card, the credit card company gives your name to telemarketers (unless they explicitly state that they don't). Telemarketers then call to sell you a service that the credit card companies pay them to sell to you. That's not even the worst: phone companies sell you services to block telemarketers, then they bypass their own filters to have telemarketers call you to sell you more products from the same company.
So it's time to grow a pair and fight back. If you've ever been annoyed with their junk mail, send it back to them with some junk mail of your own. What can the credit card companies do? They only have two options:
1. Stop sending postage paid envelopes--unlikely since they know they'll lose a lot of applications if people are expected to pay for their own postage.
2. Stop harassing you with an endless flow of credit card applications.
They can't do anything about it because this is simply your way of telling them you're not interested, and giving them valuable coupons that could save them a lot of money, so spread the word: junk the junk.
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report these type scams to the us dept. of justice according to my sister who works there
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TRY, TRY AGAIN: Prosecutors in Hamilton, Ont., Canada, have finally gotten an arrest and conviction in a case of the notorious "Nigerian" online scam. Millions of e-mails every month tout a scheme to let victims get a share of millions of dollars, but only after paying transfer fees, bribes, and other costs. Of course, the payback never comes. Henry Statz, 61, pleaded guilty to fraud after netting C$6-15 million (US$4.4-11 million) in the scam. The victims "lost everything," says Hamilton detective Mark Simchison. "There is no further down to go. They're in the gutter." Statz, who has fraud convictions dating back to the 1960s, spent $100,000 a month on luxury living. So what's the penalty for a career con man who has ruined so many people? He was sentenced to 18 months of probation, less the 10 months he spent in custody awaiting trial. (Canadian Press) ...That's not punishment, that's an incentive.
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Come on. man, ya gota smell These scams from a few kilometers away, eh!
Just how many chumps are out there out there???
Like the old saying goes... if it seems unreal, brother/sister , it is.
HOW ABOUT WE FOCUS ON THE REAL, INSTEAD OF THE UNREAL ......lol
John Lennig / SignRider
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