Time of My Life

You are not going to believe this…

So yesterday, during one of my breaks from working, I hurriedly checked one of my email accounts to find the letter below in my junk mail. At first glance I thought that it was one of those emails asking for money or my credit card number and I was excited! I know a sick mind, but in different classes I had heard about these things, but as someone interested in fraud, I never received them. So when I completely read this, I was even more interested that because of my last name, someone wanted ME to defraud some foreign government.

Dear Robie,

Kindly accept my apology for contacting you via this medium(internet).I hope you will not betray me for trusting you.

I am Mr.Martin Ogbuka the personal account officer to Mr.Morie Robie, a foreigner who used to work with shell Development Company here in Nigeria, but on the 21st of April 2002,were involved in a motor accident along Shagamu road in Ogun State with his wife and their two Children, Unfortunately Mr.Morie and his family lost their lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy here in Lagos to locate any of Morie's extended relatives with the informations as contained in his official file Access Bank, This has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to see if i can locate any member of his family or a reliable person with the same last name to enable us claim this fund,hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by Mr.Morie before they get confiscated, frozen or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged according to the banking policy here in Nigeria after four (4)years of unserviced or dormant account, and the four years is due this 2006. The deceased had an account valued at about US$5.5m. with Access bank nig.plc.

The management has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account frozen within the next few months. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the real relatives, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at $5.5m can be paid to you. And then you and me can share the money,(50% to me and 50% to you.) This deal is 100% risk free.

And this I must do to make sure that this fund is not wasted or end up in the wrong hands. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law.

PLEASE ON YOUR REPLY.DO SEND ME YOUR FULL NAMES,RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS,PRIVATE TEL NUMBERS WITH YOUR COUNTRY'S CODE,INCLUDING A SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENCE.

For us to move forward. I hope to hear from you soon. Please do reply this mail if you are sincerely willing to be a partner to this business.

Awaiting your urgent response.

Mr.Martin Ogbuka

I’m not doing a thing, have you ever heard of identity theft??? And the fact that they are calling it a “business” makes me laugh or that they "trust" me. There are no business deals here whatsoever and they are blind contacting someone!! I am though, on one of those online listings groups, there are 2 other Robie’s that are my “friends”, so I may just ask them if they’ve received anything like this and make sure that they don’t do anything!! I can’t believe that there would someone dumb enough to do this…but you never know…would you?

posted by Melinda @ 10:18 AM