I just received one of those funny scam mails where you are supposed to give up your bank info to supposedly share some wealth with some foreign person of certain eminence or prestige. This may not seem like a big deal, and it really isn't--though I hardly get spam at all--practically one message a month! As for messages of this specific sort (as opposed to enlarging one's manhood and all that other JUNK), I get something like this once a year! I find the message humorous, and so I will post it:
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Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Albert Gaston I work as a Manager with one
of the international bank here in Burkina Faso. Although the world is
very small place and hard place to meet people because you don't know
who to trust or believe, but as I have developed my trust in you after
my praying, i made up my mind to confide this confidential business
suggestion with you.
Be rest assure that everything will be
handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity which we
cannot afford to miss as it will make our family profit allot.
It
has been 7 years ago, that most of the greedy African Politicians used
our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political
advisers,most of the funds which they transferred out of Africa was gold
and oil money that was supposed to used to develop the continent.
The
Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to
foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the
funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being
closed after the transacfer.
I acted as the Account Officer to
most of the politicians and when i discovered that they were using me to
succeed in their greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking
records from the Bank files and no body cares to ask me because the
money was too much for them to control.
As am sending this
message to you, I was able to divert Ten Million five Hundred thousand
United State Dollars ($10.5M) to an escrow account that belonging to
unknown person in bank.
Now the bank is very anxious to know who
is the real beneficiary of the funds because they have made a llot of
profits with the funds. It has been more than six years now and
most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds
overseas, majority of them don't have the power again, because their
tenure has expired. The $10.5 Million Dollars has been lying in the bank
as unclaimed fund.
I will soon retire from the bank and without
wasting time i will like the fund to be transferred into your account,
so that i will come over there in your country to capitalise the fund,
The money will be shared at the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you
.There's no one that is going to ask you any question about the funds
because everything is well secured with good arrangement.
If you
are interested in this transaction, do not hesitate to reply me back,
but if you are not interested delete my message from your box.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
Mr.Albert Gaston .
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Hahahaha, ha.....ha.....hahaha......HA!
This is how I imagine 'Albert Gaston' looks: