Hoodlums in Dubai

I received a very disturbing email this morning:

Dear Client/Friends,

How you doing and your week? Hope Great.
I'm Tom meyers
and a worker of "muratec-usa company" if you can recall perfectly. i
was on a business trip to Dubai and was to be back on Tuesday been 3th
Feb 2015 and i was attacked by hoodlums and they took all i had
including my gadgets and i can't reach my co-worker and family for
assistance to come back to USA, i wrote you with the help of a good
person that gave me his system to access my mail and that's why i'm
writing to you for a fund assistant of $950USD to get back to USA by
Monday. They fund will be returned back to you once i get back to USA.
Please if you willing to assist kindly get back to me via this email
(hillden100@gmail.com) so i can forward you a possible means of
sending the fund across to me

Hope to recieve your kind reply urgenty.

-- Tom Meyers
Sales Account Manager

Muratec
Murata Machinery USA, INC.
Charlotte, NC

I know the English is not perfect, and it is not really addressed to me, and it is from a person I have never heard of and a company that I have never done business with, and there was a suspicious attachment, and if he got to his mail why would he not contact his employer or his family...but the poor guy was attacked by hoodlums. I have been to Dubai, and it is clean and safe and friendly and I saw no hoodlums, so he really must be having some bad luck.

I am his agent in US of A. Send me money order for $950USD and I will see to it he is brought home safely.

I don't trust him. My friend works at Muratec: berkeley Yeah! Inc.

Hey I'm sure it hit some people who know this guy, and only one of them has to fall for it...

He don't write bad for a Sales Account Manager of a global corporation.

Count me in.

That be fluent Nigerian English if I ever heard it. Old scam often better focused by using an actual person whom you know and who is traveling.

I received one like that on FB, through chat from a girl I knew from HS. She said that she was in London, and was mugged and needed money to come home. I asked her how her son was, (she has no kids), and the person said he was fine, but shaken up a little. I ignored them after that.

That was the first time that had happened through FB...weird.

I am E Mailing him some gold bars to print off, Along with a loaded gun he can print off to defend himself against those hoodlums. He should be home safely soon.

TRoglodyte wrote: I am E Mailing him some gold bars to print off, Along with a loaded gun he can print off to defend himself against those hoodlums. He should be home safely soon.

I remember hearing a story of a guy who mailed a dead laptop with jokes scrawled all over it to some 419ers in a new laptop box, who had to pay massive duties on it since it was packaged and billed as a new laptop

I walked the streets in the wee hours in Dubai and never saw any of these hoodlums either. Maybe he's confused.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I am his agent in US of A. Send me money order for $950USD and I will see to it he is brought home safely.

This is clearly a scam. I can take of this Giantpurpleswarker for you. Please yes sent money to me, $1286 USD, To make fast go this situation.