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I don't know, if I should post it in the jokes forum or here, but anyway, today I received this email, I was going to delete it without reading, but found interesting, so I am sharing with you all.

 

 

FROM THE DESK OF: MR. JONAH OTUNLA
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Federal Secretariat Towers (5th & 10th floors)
Shehu Shagari Way, Central Area, Garki, Abuja.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings to you and members of your family.

You may not really understand why this email is being sent to you. I am Mr. Jonah Otunla, from the Office of the Chief Accountant General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Due to series of petitions received from International Organizations and individuals on claims of scam perpetrated on them by Nigerian imposters and its network in Europe, Asia and other parts of Africa, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and myself the Chief Accountant General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have been having series of meetings with the Secretary-General to the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. This meeting has been holding for 3 months now, but ended yesterday with a conclusion to compensate selected scam victims. As the United Nations Paymaster general in Africa, your information and dealings with the imposters was forwarded to me by the United Nations Internet and
Telecommunication Monitoring Team. I am now contacting you for you to be compensated for what ever you might have lost in the past to scam artists.

Being the outcome of our meeting, we are sending this message to selected scam victims who has been scammed in various manners. The United Nations have therefore agreed to compensate selected scam victims with the sum of US$500,000.00 each (Five hundred thousand U.S dollars each). The compensation is for selected foreign contractors and inheritors that could not receive their contract or inheritance payments, for beneficiaries with unfinished transactions, for international businesses that could not be completed as a result of strict Government policies and unnecessary charges, victims of information theft, victims of bank account hacking, victims of apartment scam, victims of lottery scam etc. You are lucky to be one of those selected for this compensation payment.

So be informed that you are on the list of lucky scam victims provided to us by the United Nations, and this is the reason why we are contacting you so that you can receive the United Nations Compensation Payment of US$500,000.00 as compensation to you. You will receive this payment with immediate effect from the Central Bank of Nigeria which is the United Nations payment bank in Africa.

You are hereby advised to get back to us immediately acknowledging that you have received this payment notice so that my office can immediately process your payment and then instruct the Central Bank of Nigeria to pay you. The United Nations has already given final instructions for my office to process your payment and also get the Central Bank of Nigeria to pay you.

Congratulations!

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Jonah Otunla.
Chief Accountant General
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

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Received a mail few months back. Still have it.

 


106 GROSVE...NOR SQUARE
NEW DELHI W1A 1AE
INDIA.
Customer services,
Our ref: RBI/AT602/PR/2014
Payment file: RBI-DEL/id717/2014

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA OFFICIAL PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

Attn: Beneficiary,

The Foreign Exchange Transfer Department Reserve bank of India has decided to bring to your attention, that you were listed as a beneficiary in the recent schedule for payment of outstanding debts incurred by the BRITISH GOVERNMENT pending since 2004 to2014 According to your file record with your email address; your payment is categorized as:
Contract Type: inheritance/ Unpaid Contract Funds &Undelivered Funds

Recently on the 22nd of December 2014, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Dr. Raghuram Rajan and Secretary-General of the World Bank met with the Senate Tax Committee on Finance RBI Mumbai/Delhi branch. Regarding unclaimed funds which have been due for a long run, at end of the meeting (RBI) Governor, Dr. Raghuram Rajan mandate all unclaimed funds to be release back to the beneficiary stating that it is an unfair practice to withhold funds for government basket for one reason or the other for tax accumulations. Therefore, we are sending this mail to inform you that 500,000.00GBP (40,875,054.58 INR) will be release to you in your name, as it was committed for (RBI) Governor that Beneficiary will have to pay crediting fees only. So you are therefore required to pay (19, 500.00 INR) ONLY in cash deposit to credit your account immediately making a deadline of (2) working days after date of receiving this mail. Also reconfirm your details- for crediting.

Fill The Form Below:
1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. Mobile Number:
4. Occupation:
5. Sex:
6. Age:
7. Marital Status:
8. E-mail id:

SEND DETAILS TO:
monetary@outlook.in

General Manager-in-Charge
monetary@outlook.in
Foreign Exchange Transfer
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
2014

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Found one like that in my spam folder a few days ago.

 

I think it's hilarious that they are still trying to con people like that, so damn obvious!

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Used to do it years ago. Get them to prove there worth by sending pictures holding various signs

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setup a fake email and see how long you can string them along for

Inform them to send funds to by western union

 

 

Wire transfers via Western Union and MoneyGram are ideal for this purpose. International wire transfers cannot be cancelled or reversed, and the person receiving the money cannot be tracked. Other similar non-cancellable forms of payment include postal money orders and cashier's checks, but as wire transfer via Western Union or MoneyGram is the fastest method, it is the most common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams#Western_Union_and_MoneyGram_wire_transfers

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This morning, I received this word file as an attachment which says I am a millionaire.  :laugh:  


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