wbjones
wbjones UltraDork
8/25/12 7:28 p.m.

this e-mail came the other day

what say the GRM crowd ?

sanfordgregory@yahoo.cn

Dear Friend,

I am Sanford Gregory, the Human Resources Executive of Atlantic Oil & Gas Corporation. On the 15th of May 2008, Tom Clinton, an expatriate, who was a consultant/contractor with the Corporation, was found to have died in a plane crash along the Lekki Peninsula while on inspection tour of offshore oilfacilities belonging to the Corporation.As the Welfare Director of the corporation, I contacted Toms bankers and briefed them of this development. The bankers informed me that since their client is dead, it is only the next of kin to the deceased with the proper legal documents that can compel them to pay his fixed deposit as an inherited estate. With the position of the financial outfit, I mandated the legal department of our firm to search for a relative of the deceased so that he can be presented as the next of kin to the bank.

But the only relative of the deceased, one Mr. Sam Leonard who was also the next of kin to the deceased according to his bank documents and who was last known to have lived in Latvia Eastern Europe, died as cancer patient some two months before his death. All efforts to trace other relatives of the deceased proved abortive, as all available links were exhusted. Three years after his death, with no news from any relative living anywhere and no one coming forward, we decided to seek a foreigner so that the fund can be transferred out of its present account to yours.

The account deposit contains US$12 million United States Dollars and it is important that a probable next of kin claims this fund within the next fourteen official working days. If no one comes for the claim before the stipulated time frame, the account would be closed as inactive and dormant and funds sent to the coffers of the government. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased.This would facilitate the payment of the proceeds of the said account to you.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect all the parties involved from any breach of the law.

Please let me know what you intend to have as your commission if you agree to embark on this venture.

Please reply me via my private email address

sanfordgregory@yahoo.cn

Best Regards,

Sanford Gregory.

HindsFeet
HindsFeet HalfDork
8/25/12 7:38 p.m.

Google the e-mail address, I did. You didn't really think you would be getting $12 million did you? Scam.

Anti-stance
Anti-stance Dork
8/25/12 7:40 p.m.

The Nigerian prince has moved to a much nicer place and had the time to go to school.

fasted58
fasted58 UltraDork
8/25/12 7:41 p.m.

... and you're the winnah

friedgreencorrado
friedgreencorrado PowerDork
8/25/12 10:43 p.m.

If you have the wit+spare time:
http://www.419eater.com/

wbjones
wbjones UltraDork
8/26/12 12:07 p.m.
HindsFeet wrote: Google the e-mail address, I did. You didn't really think you would be getting $12 million did you? Scam.

I never thought it was anything but a scam ....I guess the sarcasm in the title just didn't make it .... just thought you guys would get a kick out of the change of venue and the upgrade of the language

HindsFeet
HindsFeet HalfDork
8/26/12 3:11 p.m.

In reply to wbjones:

Whew, that's good I thought you were falling for it. Yes, the language and grammar is very good. Probably better than mine anyway. Sorry you didn't get the $12 Million.

wbjones
wbjones UltraDork
8/26/12 4:25 p.m.

everything's ok ... I figured out a LONG time ago that the saying "if it sounds to good to be true .... odds are it is" was a truism .. besides I've never heard of someone named Sanford Gregory ( + I noticed his e-mail address ended in .cn not .com)

and yeah to bad I didn't get the $12,000,000

rallymodeller
rallymodeller Reader
8/26/12 11:43 p.m.

I just love that the scammer seems to think that it's OK that a senior exec at a major corporation would have a Yahoo freemail address. Well played.

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