Scam Spam - Who falls for this? 2 funny

[Professionalpoker]

One of the 500 scam spams I get a week:

Law Chamber Principal Attorney
Okoh Frank & Associates
44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.


GOOD DAY,


Kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I believe
you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I
sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your
country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with
events.


Well, I am Barrister Okoh Frank, a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney
to Mr. Steve A . who used to work with Agip Oil Company in Nigeria. On the
21st of April 2004, his wife and their three children were involved in a
car accident along Abuja Express Road.


Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident.
Since then I have made several inquiries to your Embassy to locate any of
my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these
several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the
Internet to locate any member of his family hence, I contacted you to
assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Bank.
Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US$15
Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) knows me very well
and has ask me to present some one to claim the fund left my late client
as they all know I am his attorney.


Consequently, this Bank issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to
claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) in
their custody within the next ten official working days. Since I have been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the
fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the Bank will transfer the fund to
your account.


Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with
you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share the
money in this order: 60% will be for me, 40% will be for you. I have all
the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we may make with the
Bank.


All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Best regards.
Okoh Frank
Principal Attorney

[pzhon]

That's not funny. We've all seen it before. They do this because it costs them almost nothing to waste a few seconds each from millions of people, and a few of those millions make a 1 in a million mistake and get scammed out of thousands of dollars, which is a big deal in a country with an average wage rate under $1/day.

I believe there was a Harvard researcher who fell for it, borrowing money from friends, and went to jail afterwards. Other professors, government officials, doctors, etc. have been victims. While a housewife in a small town isn't going to believe someone overseas has decided to ask for her help, many of us in academia actually do get real letters from foreigners asking for help (though not bank details). For more information, Google 419 scam.

That's why this is sad, not funny.