How do I report suspected scams?Foreign Country originated. - 419-Legal Fraud and Scam Forum

SharonB · #1 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 03:46 PM

GOOD DAY BXXXXXX,FROM Mr Marc kolo
Cocody Cités des Arts,
Abidjan--Cote D Ivoire

I beg your excuse for the inconveniences that this mail may cause to you.
IT IS MY SINCERE DESIRE TO RELATE TO YOU THIS IMPORTANT BUSINESS,COUNTING SO MUCH ON YOUR GOOD SENCE OF UNDERSTANDING,AND BELIEVING THAT YOU WILL NEVER LET ME DOWN EITHER NOW OR IN FUTURE.

My name is Mr Marc kolo , I work with one of the local Banks here in Abidjan Cote d Ivoire. I am the personal accounts manager to one Engr. Norman.R BXXXXXX, a National of your country, who owned a construction company here in Ivory Coast (Cote Ivoire).My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in (30 January 2000)which all passengers on board died.

Since the death of my customer, I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I came across your contact.

Of particular interest is this huge deposit with our bank here in, where the deceased has an account valued at about US$35 million United States dollars. Being the personal a/c manager of the deceased's bank account, the bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin/beneficiary or else the bank will declare the account unserviceable and thereby forfeit the funds to the bank treasury.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over the past 2 years now,I hereby seek your consent (with due respect and honour) to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names with him, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you and then you and I will share the money 50 / 50.All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.

However, I urgently need you the following information from you which I have to plase in the computer file of the deceased as next of kin/beneficiary: -1- your full name, -2- your date of birth -3- resident address.and i will like you to send me your telephone and tex for easy communication

I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Need you be interest, kindly reach me via my private email as indicated above for further details.
Thanks in advance as I anticipate your maximum cooperation in this regards.

Mr Marc kolo
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I often receive these types of e-mails and want to help stop scamming if possible.
SharonB

clive · #2 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 07:59 PM

Hi everyone,

jenf529 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2007, 04:28 AM

unfortunately, as long as your e-mail address is out there, there will be scammers sending you scam-mail. What you can do is copy and paste them and put them in the archives in this forum. As you can tell, I get A LOT of scam mail a day for some reason. I had been gone for a little under a week and just got a chance to check my e-mail today. I must have spent 3 hours going through my e-mail and copy and pasting them in this forum. I didn't count but within the past 5 days, I probably got between 30 and 40. Another member of this forum had posted that he e-mails the 419 section of the Nigerian criminal code back to the people who send him the scam-mails. He said he actually receives less now since he started doing that. So, I started doing it today. We'll see if it works. Try it too and see.

jenf529 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 05:57 AM

e-mailing them back with the 419 section of the Nigerian code actually doesn't work. Most of them came back stating that the message could not be sent. It's best to just delete it. I usually post them in the archives and then delete them.

SharonB · #5 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 02:30 PM

I have even tried forwarding/contacting abuse at hotmail and other common e-mail hosting services to no avail.
What I was hoping for by coming here was a url where a sting operation could be used to bring these thieves to justice. To get to the FBI, from what I can garner, you must have already been scammed. They want particulars, etc type info.
Seems the FTC or somebody would want to clamp down on these perps.
We can protect ourselves, but I have elderly friends that I am not so sure about. I continually advise them not to respond with personal information and never disclose banking, social security info, and address on the internet when responding to an enquiry. In this regard, they must actually contact a bank or agency where confidential information is going to be revealed and to make sure the URL address is an https link and there is a padlock icon.
That is a lot to remember for some and the major reason for my concern.
SharonB

AirTrans · #6 (**permalink**) 07-07-2007, 07:50 PM

Today I recieve that exact e-mail stating that someone related to me died in a fatel plane crash in Africa and that he left $15 million us dollars. I am glad that I did some research before sending any personal information. How would I go about reporting this scam? I'm pretty sure this is close to the same e-mail that you recieved
Hello @@@@@@

My name is Mr. Wilson Banny, a Banker with one of the leading banks here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire West Africa; I am the personal accounts manager to Mr. William @@@@@@, who used to be a contractor with an oil servicing company based here in Cote Ivoire. My client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2000 in which all passengers on board died. Since then I have made several inquiries to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful. I decided to trace his last name over the internet, to see if I could locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.

Of particular interest is this large deposit with our bank here, where the deceased has an account valued at about ($15 million US dollars) They have issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or the bank will declare the account unserviceable
And thereby send the funds to the government treasury. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over last 7 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account valued at can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. If you can handle this with me, reach me by sending the following informations now through this email account:

1. Your Name
2. Postal Address
3. Date of Birth
4. Telephone and fax numbers
5. Profession with position

Thanking you for your anticipated cooperation.
Sincerely yours
Wilson Banny

Thank you for your time. Please let me know how to report this e-mail. Thank you
-AirTrans-

Mercenary · #7 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clive

Hi everyone,

Bye bye scam

armondo522 · #8 (**permalink**) 01-13-2008, 01:59 PM

Read the legend of wilson banny. thats how i handled him...what a goof ball

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