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I just got this message on FR

"Dear Graham G****

Please, i Want to introduce my self on this business opportunity to
you My name is Peter Guie Fiduciary bank Attorney At Law. i wish to
know if we can work together.

I Would like you stand as the surviving beneficiary to my deceased
client Engr.J.P G**** Who made some deposit of $10.5 MILLION He
died without leaving any WILL and any registered next of kin and as
such the funds now have open beneficiary mandate

Kindly Get in touch with me through my Email address
[email protected] With your information For more guild lines to
the repatriation of this fund

FULL NAME
CONTACT EMAIL
CONTACT PHONE NUMBER
HOME ADDRESS
OCCUPATION
AGE
INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENCE

May His Fragile Soul Rest In Perfect Peace Amen!!!

Regards

Peter Guie
Private email address [email protected]
+228 9988 21 06
TO ASSIST ME DO KINDLY WRITE TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS AS PROVIDED"


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Lucky you :-D

Most of us don't have rich relatives :-(

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Of course you'll get in touch with him..... too good an offer to miss lol!

reply giving fake details that right pees them off :-D :-D

+228 is the area code for Togo

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo
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?Lomé - ?Faure Gnassingbé - ?Gnassingbé Eyadéma - ?Gbe languages

What a surprise!

begging letter on it's way :-D :-D

These people are not as illiterate as they appear. The bad grammar and spelling mistakes are deliberate, as those too stupid to recognise them are also the ones likely to be conned. Bob

What spelling mistakes? :-S

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The spelling mistakes are often done on purpose. The more literate of us will spot those and delete or ignore.

The people they aim these at and often get success with are those less able to realise that this is a scam.

This very subject was discussed on a programme in the week, cannot forvthr life of me remembdr which one. But the basic premise of the reasoning is logical. It also talked about the history of these scams, and hey go back a very long time, pre computers. The first was called the Spanish Soldier. They were started here in the UK!

We had our first one back in the 80's, by post (snail mail). It was from Nigeria, but apart from that, extremely plausible.

At the time OH ran a sailing school and the letter was about buying yachts. In return for our assistance we would get commission of, I think, 15%. The figures were reasonable, the letter well written and OH gave it serious consideration - for a while.

It was the first time we had come across anything like it, but then common sense prevailed and he decided that giving out his bank details wasn't really a good idea!!

After we had received a few more, OH took them to the local police, who said they were all being sent to a special dept. in Scotland Yard.

Then someone invented emails, and the rest, as they say, is history. :-| :-| :-| :-|

The Spanish Soldier was f4omeither the 18th or 19th, started here in the UK.

Ive just got an email from PayPal ...Subject *Suspicious Activity* its from Luxembourg

Asking to click on link to remove my limitation :-S :-S

????

I keep getting emails saying that my paypal account will be closed if I don't click on the link. I closed my paypal account about a year ago. :-S

I get the Pay pal ones and numerous banks saying similar. I have no accounts with any of them. I just bin em :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D