What an email!

Ahh I tell you! Some fools do really have time to fool fools.  I happen to get loads of stupid emails in my hotmail inbox (let’s forget about junk emails).  Below are two emails, which required a massive effort to open and read, instead of selecting and deleting – which I always do when I get emails from unknown senders.

The first one has as subject: Business Proposal.

Let’s see what it says:

My name is Mr. Martin Roland, the Account supervisor of Abbey National Banl Plc, I ‘m 58yrs old,I hope you read this message carefully and reply me immediately. Although we have not met before, but I suggest that this transaction will bring us together. The Board of Directors and the Management of Abbey National Bank Plc has been looking for the Next Of Kin to Engineer Benson Dinno”s Next of Kin to come and claim his fund, Since November 17th 2009 Till date, Since i have been looking for his relation’s or his next of Kin to come and claim his fund which he Deposited with our bank, I have contacted his Embassy and after 3days, his Ambassador told me that Engineer Benson Dinno has no relation and no next of Kin, their Ambassador told me that he used his first son as His next of kin, but it is quite unfortunate that Engineer Benson Dinno Died with all his family members.So I want you to stand as the next of kin to Late Engineer Benson Dinno Adams, it might interest you to know that he had a Bank Account with our Bank, with a total sum of US$2.5M (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars).This transaction is very easy and simple, and it is 100% risk free.The Management and Board of Directors of the my bank are waiting for me to provide to them the Relation or next of Kin to late Engineer Benson Dinno Adams, of which I told them that I am still searching the next of kin to the deceased. Finally, if you are interested with this transaction, I will notify the ban that you are the only next of kin to late Engineer Benson Dinno Adams, and I will let the bank know that you are the only right person to inherit Late Engineer Benson Funds and properties.You will be antitled to 50% of the US$2.5M. If interested please contact me via email below.
Email:  martin_roland0@bay.tc
Mr. Martin Roland

Imagine 50% of USD2.5M!

Money Hai To Honey Hai

Who needs a job with such a proposal?

The second one goes as follows: Please Read

Dear Sir/Madam,
I do apologize if this message is against your ethics, I am Barr Amado E. Cordero from UK,  I am in possession of (Eight Hundred Thousand EURO) currently in a Private Security/Finance company in Spain by a late African Contractor (Now Deceased) some years ago. However, the dormancy period for all unclaimed and abandoned accounts if no account owner can be found will be given to the Inland Revenue Commission, to prevent the government confiscate the fund due to its nature,I solicit your support as a partner to assist  in moving the fund as Next of kin  from the Bank´s  private Security/Finance company to your country and be compensated with 50% of the total amount for profitable  investment  projects . This is 100% guarranteed and absolute risk free. I have confirmed that the owner of the account is a dead from the hospital, if you are interested do contact me via my private and secured email: “amadcordero@admin.in.th” for more details. Thanks for your co-operations

Sincerely,
Barr Amado E. Cordero

He is more formal in his writing and cares about the ethics of the victim! Great! *sarcasm*

Ahh people! They do really have time to write such emails!  I bet there is a minor category of people who will email Mr. Martin & Mr. Barr to get some money, LoL

On a serious note, such emails are a form of Money Laundering Fraud or phishing scams.  I will call those senders as “cyber criminals”.  So the cyber criminals will send junk emails using anonymous email addresses they picked from any mail service provider.  They will say things (like above) to lure you and make you tempted to reply to their email.  If you’re fooled enough to believe in the words, you will reply to their email.

Result: you would sooner be asked to pay an enormous amount of  ”processing fee”.  You will get nothing out of this, not even a cent of what they “promised”. And your money would be lost, but you are 100% sure to receive further tempting offers in the future!

A few cents or dollars

Unfortunately, in Mauritius, I THINK, the Money Laundering Regulations 2003, have not not been proclaimed yet.  Can anyone confirm?

So people, what can we do to sensitise people about this issue and what are the preventive measures that can be taken?

Please cast your ideas in the comment section.