So my mother got this email from some Barrister Ogele Eturu, that her relatives have passed in a tragic accident in west africa???? hahahha i though this was funny, i wonder how many people will fall for this one?? just incase you get this letter in your mailbox its a SCAM.. i googled it and hundreds of people already have gotten this email... TO .... XXXXXXXXXX Barrister Ogele Eturu Tele - +228 921-55-91. No- 80- Abobo Kome - Lome Togo West Africa. Private Email: ogele_esq@yahoo.co.th Dear XXXXXXXXXX, I am sure that the receipt of this mail will be of utmost blessing to you . However sorry to marvel you a bit and take some of your time in going through this unpredicted letter of entreaty for your forbearing and facilitation. I am Barrister Ogele Eturu a solicitor at law,personal attorney to Mr. M . XXXXXXXXX, a national Of your country, who used to work with Shell Development Company in Lome Togo. Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 26th of December 2005, my client, his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident along Basari express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then i have made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repartriating the fund valued at US$ 9 .5 million left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Citizen Bank where this huge amount was deposited. The said BanqueTogolaise has for sometime now issued me a notice to provide the next of kin of my client or his account shall be declared dormant or possibly confiscated. I have made several probes here to uncover any of my clients extended/distant relatives, which resulted abortive now , I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response,we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for claim. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get back to me through my private Email: ogele_esq@yahoo.co.th for more details and dont fail to call me on my direct telephone umber for more oral clarification (+228 921-55-91). Best Regards. Barrister Ogele Eturu.
For some reason african's love to try and scam people. I've had 2 or 3 e-mails like that when I was trying to sell something onlne and they even showed one scam on TV. The same guy that sets up the meets with the child molsestors.
That's messed up. There ARE a lot of people in African countries sending scam e-mails. I went to a call one time where this poor old senile man was all alone after his wife passed away for some time. She left him like $65,000 and he ended up meeting this "girl" on Lavalife or something. He showed me the e-mails and they were all photoshoot pictures of some amateur model. The e-mails told him to wire money over to her so she could send him bars of pure gold to sell in Canada. Then she posted this picture the girl from the same photoshoot at a desk, with a bar of gold crudely photoshopped onto the desk. The old man told me he loved her... it was so sad.. and he got scammed out of like $12,000 before his brother finally called police.
ppl suck so much these days, my dad got scammed with a fake paypal thatwith was written as Paypai but the capital i look liked a lowercase L
tell your dad to send forward paypal emails to spoof@paypal.com that will verify if the email is sent by paypal or scammers
Oh man that's tricky. I probably would have fallen for that too. Next tine I'm just gonna look for the little lock on the bottom.
