Gee, could this posibily be a scam?

As seen in my inbox today.

Good Day, I am Nick Bouwer, a solicitor at law. I am contacting you about a dormant account belonging to my late client who shares similar surnames with you. I was given an ultimatum from the Bank to provide a member of his family but all efforts have been proven futile. I want to present you as a surviving family member to enable you put a claim. Contact me for more details. Thanks, Nick Bouwer

This is the first one of these I've had show up in my email. How freaking stupid does someone have to be fall for this? Did their parents drop them on their heads when they were children? Some dumb a$$ somewhere emailed this guy back and got royally screwed.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

pity guys like that are hard to find....I'd love to report their location to some of the people they have scammed.

In reply to JoeyM:

If I had to guess, "solicitor at law" means "third world country" or "Nigeria".

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send me $10,000 in unmarked non sequential $20 bills and i'll find out if this is a scam for you..

novaderrik wrote: send me $10,000 in unmarked non sequential $20 bills and i'll find out if this is a scam for you..

50000 comedians out of work and here you are...

Open a second checking account. Leave a dollar in it. Wait for your riches to come.

This looks totally legit.

I never get emails like this.

I like free stuff too.

I get at leat a dozen of these a week, if you'd like I can forward them on to you. I'm too busy collecting riches from some of them to collect them all.

Homer Simpson quote " Hey, this sounds like a scam, or possibly scam-ola"

Do it. Totally trustworthy. That Nigerian prince who died finally sent me my check for $50 mil after all of you told me not to respond! I'm rollin in the dough. (In my mind)

I got that same letter, in the mail, with a stamp. My fortune was being kept in Spain. That cost real hard money, instead of just wasting bandwidth.

I'm guessing the type of people who would fall for that wouldn't have noticed the Spanish lawyer had put a Swedish stamp on the envelope.

In reply to Streetwiseguy: I know what you typed but this is all I can think of now...

Hocrest wrote: In reply to Streetwiseguy: I know what you typed but this is all I can think of now...

Those are delicious. I should get some on my way home.