Posted on Tuesday 31 July 2007
subject line: URGENT NEED FOR HELP
from: MRS SHIRLEY SMITH 4
email received: 31-07-07
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MRS SHIRLEY SMITH
LONDON UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44 703 189 1638
FAX: +44 870 471 6214
EMAIL:williamsmith660@msn.com
GOOD DAY
I know you are surprised to receive this mail from me. I am sorry for contacting you through this medium without a previous notice; I had to use email because it is very official and more confidential way of making contact with people around the world. I am MRS SHIRLEY SMITH, the wife of DR. MORGAN SMITH, a miner at the ANGLO GOLD PLATINUM MINING COMPANY in Zimbabwe, as a
geologist by profession who was recently murdered in the land dispute crisis in
Zimbabwe.
Before the death of my husband he took me to London on one of he,s trip to Europe were he deposited the sum of US$9MILLION Nine Million United States Dollar
The money was brought to London through diplomatic mains because the banks in my country Zimbabwe was unable to execute oversea transfer at that time. also geting to london we did not have the requirements to open a non-resident account at that time, so my husband told the security department under BARCLAYS BANK PLC LONDON that the money belong to he,s foreign partner to avoid them sizing the money.
Now we are ready to collect the money but they refuse to release it until we provide to
them our foreign partner. That is why we are looking for an honest person that will be our foreign partner so that they will transfer the money to he,s or her account oversea.
I am saddled with the responsibility of seeking an Honest and God-fearing individual with vast experience in business to help us safeguard and invest this money. I am presently living in LONDON with my son, as asylum seekers. In
view of this, l has decided to invest this money anywhere else, but preferably outside LONDON.
From the above you will understand that my entire life and my family Depends on this money, as such I shall be very grateful if you assist my son to transfer this money out of LONDON to your Company or Personal Account in your name, for investment purpose. Please all l want you to do is to give your total dedication, respect and confidentiality to my proposal, your interest of
helping me lift this money out of LONDON is urgently needed. There is no risk at all.
Kindly e-mail my son your interest of helping of receives this money Into your account and we will give you 30% for assisting us.
Best regards as we wait for your urgent reply.
MRS SHIRLEY SMITH and son WILLIAM SMITH
TEL: +44 703 189 1638
FAX: +44 870 471 6214
EMAIL:williamsmith660@msn.com
scam email
Following mail received with same telephone number.
Subject: ACCOUNT PROVISION
From: DR PACY PAUL
e-mail received: Sep 19, 2007
FROM THE OFFICE OF: DR.PACY PAUL
CHAIRMAN ECOWAS CONTRACT AWARDING
COMMITTEE ECOWAS FUND HEADQUARTERS
Address: 60 Bays water Road
London W2 3PS, United Kingdom
TEL: +44 703 189 1638
TEL: +44 703 189 0441
TEL: +44 703 189 0277
FAX: +44 870 974 8036
ACCOUNT PROVISION
ATTENTION: C.E.O
I am DR PACY PAUL, The chairman, Contract-Awarding Committee of the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) with its fund headquarters in London UNITED KINDOM. I got your information in a professional database when I was searching through Internet for a reliable, honest and trustworthy person to entrust this business with. I was simply inspired and motivated to pick your contact from the many names in the list of the directory. After discussing my view and your profile with my colleagues, they were very much satisfied and decided to contact you immediately for this mutual business relationship. We wish to transfer the sum of USD45,500,000.00 (FORTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) into your personal or company’s bank account.
This fund was a residue of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by us intentionally for the supply of hard/soft wares, pharmaceuticals/ medical items, light and heavy duty vehicles, apparels and other administrative/logistics for the ECOMOG in Sierra-Leone and Liberia during the peace keeping projects.
This deal was deliberately hatched out and carefully protected with the cooperation and mandate of the financial director and the secretary of the organization. We arranged and over invoiced the contract funds supplied by different companies from different countries during the crisis. It was our consensus to seek the assistance of a willing foreigner to provide us with the facilities to transfer this money out of BARCLAYS BANK PLC LONDON.
The original contractors have been duly paid by ECOWAS banker through the BARCLAYS BANK PLC LONDON and finance ministry. The balance is suspended in the ECOWAS grand account with the BARCLAYS BANK PLC LONDON awaiting claims by any foreign partner of our choice to receive the fund on our behalf now ECOWAS is intending to pay all their outstanding balance of their contractors this year as the organization is winding up its activities since the aim of returning peace to the countries and the coast has been achieved. Based on the laws and ethics of employment, we as civil servants working under this organization, are not allowed to operate/own a foreign account. This is more reason why we needed your urgent assistance to provide an account that can sustain this fund for safe keeping and our future investment with your comprehensive advice, assistance and partnership in your country. It is however agreed, as the account owner in this deal to allow you 30% of the entire sum as compensation, 65% will be held on trust for us while 5% will be used to defray any incidental charges and cost during the course of the transaction.
This transaction will be successfully concluded within 14 days if you accord us your unalloyed and due cooperation. You should provide the followings for immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you; your name or company’s names with complete address, tel. and fax numbers. Upon the receipt of this information, application for claim will be sent to you to fill and return back to the organization in pursuit of the claim legally and then be forwarded to the organization for ratification and subsequent payment. As with the case of all organized (sensitive) we solicit for your unreserved confidentiality and utmost secret in this business.
We hope to retire peacefully and lead honorable business life afterwards. There are no risks involved. Kindly expedite action if you are interested as we are behind schedule to enable us utilize this golden opportunity pay out this fund immediately which we might stand to loose, if we fail to provide a safe account for this transfer on time at the expiration of this year ECOWAS has mapped out for payment of all their outstanding contractors and the dissolution of our committee. Please urgency is needed as we do not know the time our organization will start the payment hence it is necessary to start on time to forestall any hitch while transferring the fund into your
designated account.
Hoping to hear from you.
Best regards.
DR PACY PAUL