Hi Friend! Uh, Who Are You?

Dear friend,

This is to inform you about my success in getting the money moved under the
co-operation of a new partner from London. Presently, I'm in saudi arabia
for the purpose of investing my own share of the money.

Meanwhile I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts in assisting me to
move the fund evendo we were not successful. Now contact my account officer
in Mali-Republic on the underlisted contact immediately

Name: Mr. IFEANYI PETER
Email: ifeanyi_pee002@yahoo.fr


Ask him to send you a cheque of the sum of (US$ 1,200,000.00) One Million
two hundred thousand dollars. which I kept for you as compensation for all
your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I
appreciated your efforts at that time so much. while contacting Mr.
IFEANYI PETER ,Please include and give him instructions on where to send the
money to you. I will advise you to contact him with:

NAME:...................................
.
AGE:.......................................
.
SEX:......................................
..
ADDRESS:..............................
.
EMAIL:....................................

PHONE:...................................

OCCUPATION:.........................

COMPANY:..............................

COUNTRY:...............................
Best regards,

Mr ALI OBA

"Dear friend," "...I didn't forget your past efforts...", "...as compensation for all your past efforts..." Sounds like I've been in constant contact with our dear friend Ali Oba.

So wouldn't you think our dear friend would know what gender I am? Sheesh!

Total To Date: $26,050,000.

Another Lottery? I'm really lucky!

La Loterie' Romande,
Rue Marterey 13,
1002 Lausanne,
Switzerland.

Reference number: LR/19-CH/9642,
Batch: LR/07/18

Congratulations!,

You are hereby notified that your email identity has won EUR 1 000 000 (One million Euro) after our final email draws condcuted last week.Your email ID was attached to serial number : 25-6395 and drew the winnig numbers; 4.36.18.2.31.39

Please contact your assigned release manager, Mr.Mac Grant by his email below;

Mr. Mac Grant
Foreign Services Manager,
Information and Payment Bureau.
London Representative Office.
Phone: 00 44 702 403 5806
Fax: 00 44 870 471 1698
Email: info@swissloterie.vossnet.co.uk

for more information and release details.

To avoid complications or delay, endeavor to quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence

Another lottery? Huh. I don't remember entering so many lotteries. I'm one lucky person; I hear the chance of winning two lotteries (I won another one last week) is smaller than the chance of being struck by lightning some arbitrary number of times.

Wow!

I wonder how much they'll charge me to get the check to clear?

Total To Date: $24,850,000

An old, dear friend.

HELLO MY GOOD FRIEND.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. You may not understand why this mail came to you. But if you do not remember me, you might have receive an email from me in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar business proposal which we never concluded.

I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar business has been concluded with another person who financed it to a logical conclusion. I thank you for you're great effort to our unfinished transfer of fund into your account due to one reason or the other best to known you.

But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred the fund out of my bank to my new partner's account in Praguay that was capable of assisting me in this great venture. Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you showed during the course of the transaction i want to compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $950, 000.00.
I have left an international certified bank check for you worth about $950,000.00 cashable anywhere in the world.

My dear friend I will like you to contact my Barrister Ben Obiora: for the collection of this international certified bank check have
authorized to release the international certified bank check to you as soon as you contact him regarding this issue.
At the moment, I 'm very busy here because of the investment projects which myself and the new partner are having at hand. Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.

Also comply with Barrister Giwa Benson: so that he will send the check to you without any delay.

CONTACT: Barrister Giwa Benson
Email: Barrister_giwa1@yahoo.com

Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your address where you want him to send the draft to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment,I am very busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand.

Contact him and kindly forgive me of the past.

Best regards,

Senator Samson Peters.

Apparently the amount of "effort" I've shown show far to warrant nearly a million dollars was bupkis, nada, zilch. But I was very brave and sincere in doing nothing, and my doing nothing showed a lot of trustworthiness. Which, of course, means that naturally I'll have to do nothing to get this check.

Naturally.

Total To Date: $23,350,000

So where is the security fee?

(JOHN & COUNSELORS AT LAW)
25A HIGH LEVEL AVENUE OKOKO
COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN.

My dear Friend,

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick up your $950,000.00
Bank Draft but I did not heard from you since that time.Then I went and
deposited the Draft with Courier Security Company here in Benin Republic,because
I travelled to Iraq to see my boss and will not come back till next month
end. I want You to contact the Courier Company to know when they will deliver
your package.I have paid for the delivering charges and insurance fee. The
only money you have to send to them is there security keeping fee which
is $96.00 Us Dollars to received your package don't be deceived by any body.This
is their Contact Address Hon.Adams Tokpa.Director of the Royal courier delivery
company Benin Republic. E-mail:(INFO_ROYALCOURIERCOMPANY@webmail.org.in)
Phone number +22993413717

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security
keeping fee and also give them your contact delivering address to avoid
any mistake on the delivering. Let me know immediately you receive your
Draft.

Thanks.
Barr.Hill John

Just $96 for almost a million dollars? What a deal! Though it's in Iraq, so I'm sure additional fees will apply...

Total To Date: $22,400,000

Oh, look mate; another lotto.

What's interesting about this one is that the message was repeated twice in the body of the message.

BRITISH LOTTERY 6/49
P O Box 1010, 3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
16th November , 2007

FINAL NOTIFICATION

We are notifying you on our Online Draw held on 16/11/07, where your Email emerged one of the Two lucky winners who won the first prize of atotal sum of 1,000,000.00, from a total payout prize pool of 2,000,000.00 in our Online Lottery Draw. Your e-mail was attached to Ticket no:56475600545188, Serial no:2113-05, Lucky no:08-11-17-30-32-41bonus no:47,REFNO:BRLFGP2551256/02You have been selected for a cash prize of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Pounds Sterling). The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system(ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.The BRITISH. NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved
by the British Gaming Board.To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our Account Officer of Scarlet courier department for more infomation as regards procedures to claimyour prize.

You are to contact the Account Officer
MR. Patrick M Williams
TELL:+447045700138
Email: scarlet.delivery@hotmail.co.uk

(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY.
(4) AGE
(5) OCCUPATION
(6 )TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7) SEX
(8) TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(9) COUNTRY

Congratulation!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Michael Anderson

Here's the odd thing, besides the fact that the same message was repeated twice. In the information that I am supposed to send them, I have to include the total amount that I won. (Question 8.)

Ummmm, if I won the lotto, shouldn't they know how much I won? That is, shouldn't question 8 be, ah, irrelevant? Otherwise how can they trust me not to fill this in with a much bigger number?

Total To Date: $21,450,000, assuming I'm not dishonest and put in a bigger number in question 8.

The amount? It's private and confidential, of course.

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL,

Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Adams Diallo, and I am contacting you from Dakar, Senegal for a mutual business relationship and investment. I have some funds realized through contract execution and I need your cooperation to invest the funds. The first stage requires transferring the funds to your account for subsequent investment. I have chosen to contact you because you live in a country where I want to invest in. I therefore want you to work with me as a partner. On receipt of your response, I will send you full details of the transaction and more information about myself.
I await your prompt response.

Best regards,

Presumably as this is supposed to be both private and confidential, it's because he doesn't want to tell everyone and his dog about it.

Which means he should know who I am.

Including, naturally, what my gender happens to be.

Total To Date: $19,450,000 + some undisclosed sum of money.

I Won!!!

Please Read!!!

You are lucky to have been selected among Ten people to receive One Million Euros each by Staatlorij.For further inquiry,please Contact our claims dept.with your details Ref.no.(9590 ES 9414)Batch:(573881545-NL/2007),full names & tel.no:

I'm one of ten people who won a lottery I never heard of! Cool!

Total To Date: $19,450,000

A Secret Deal.

Hello,

I am an investment consultant working with Bank Of
Swtizerland, UBS AG. at their offshore department
Zurich Switzerland.I will be happy to work this deal
out with you if you have a coporate or personal Bank
Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET.I
need strong Assurance that you will never let me
down,if I transter this money to your account.

During one of our peroidic auditing I discorved a
dormant accounts with holding balance of 18,000.000.00
{Eighteen million US Dollars only} this account has
not been operated for the past years. As at this
moment,I am constrained to issue more details about
this business until your response is received.

If you are not familiar with my Bank profile,please
take a moment of your very busy schedules to read
about my Bank website;uwww.ubs.com and I look forward
to hearing from you as soon as possible if you are
interested, on replying send me the followings.

Hmmmm. If I'm not familiar with the bank--because I don't trust this guy--I should go to their web site. However, what he wants me to do is to help him "transfer the money to my account"--i.e., steal the money. Am I the only one to see the irony here?

Total To Date: $18,000,000

Time for a new blog: let's see how much money I'm worth!!!

Every day I come home and delete an endless series of messages promising me untold millions, if I would only just cooperate by sending information, money, or some other such thing.

Time to accumulate a tally of how much money I'm giving up!

I think it's important to keep in mind that I'm just showing the spam messages which are trying to convince me to give up information or put money into an account (the Nigerian 419 Scam or equivalent) and not messages which are trying to convince me to buy drugs, send my personal information for a guaranteed job, or send me to a sex site. I also intend to keep a running total of the amount of money I've supposedly won, inherited, or should otherwise help bring into this country.

Of course all of this is complete and utter bullshit--a total scam. That it works sufficiently for people to still send these messages boggles my mind: after receiving thousands of these messages over the years, how is it one message manages to percolate through someone's mail box and get someone to go "ah! of the thousands of scam messages you're real!"?