I recently recieved another of those annoying scam emails from some divvy in Africa saying he’d like to share $5.6 million with me if I could help him out! Below is the email I recieved:
From : collins bls
Reply-To : collinsbless2005@freeghana.com
Sent : 10 March 2005 12:23:03
To : collins_bls2033@yahoo.com
Subject : MY GOOD FRIENDDEAR FRIEND
My name is COLLINS BLESSI am the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana Takoradi in the Western region of Ghana.I got your information during my search through the Internet.I am 44years of age and married with three lovely kids.It may interest you to hear that i am a man of PEACE and don’t want problem,I only hope we can assist each other.If you don’t want this business offer kindly forget it as i will not contact you again. I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank,it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year.On the course of the last year 2004 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which i am the manager made[5.6million USdollars]which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of.I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary. As an officer of the bank i can not be directly connected to this money, so this is the reason why i am contacting you for us to work so that you can assist in receiving this money into your bank account for us to SHARE.While you will have 30% of the total fund .Note. there are practically no risk involved,it will be bank to bank transfer,all i need from you is to stand CLAIM as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me,i will appreciate it very much.As soon as i receive your response i will details you on how we can achieve it successfully.
Best regards,
COLLINS
Now I decided to do a simple google on the phrase “International Commercial Bank of Ghana Takoradi” and see what happened. On the first page 3 other emails almost identical showed up, the biggest difference being the name and the amount they wished to share. For example:
- From a Mr Henry Freeman
- From a
Mr Peter Murphy - From a Mr Herri Ofori
From a Mr Kingson Kadika- etc, etc
So I’ve decided to have a go at the new internet sport of SCAM-BAITING. This basically involves me wasting their time by pretending I’m going to help them out by offering to give them the money the need in order to get their money out from this bank account. I would love the readers of this blog to come up with some wonderful and wacky ideas of what to put in my replies. Maybe you think I should pretend to be slightly crazed (maybe I could pretend to believe I am a Jedi (I am actually, I just don’t admit it in public)), or maybe I could be a mad-axe murderer on the run from the police desparate for some money in order to change my identity, perhaps I just need the money for a boob job. I shall let you guys decide what I should put in my first reply. So leave your answers in my comments.
NB: If anyone else decides they wanna have a go at scam-baiting please read this. There are some risks involved and you MUST NEVER GIVE OUT ANY PERSONAL DETAILS, hence why I’m pretending to be someone else.
