I receive perhaps 25 of these weekly and am posting several samples (I must have over 300 in storage) for your information -
dubious, badly spelled, emotionally manipulative, just plain pathetic? You decide -


From Mrs Rosemary,

Attn,

I am Mrs Rosemary 69 years old, from Ivory Coast I
am married to late Mr Ferdinand Koffi of blessed
memory who worked with Ivory Coast government for
years before he died in the year 2005. We were
married for years without a child. he died during the
political crisis that lasted for only four days.
Before his death we were both married and Since his
death I too have been battling with cancer and
fibroid problems. When my late husband was alive he
deposited the sum of $ 3.5 Million United States
Dollars with a finance firm IN SPAIN.

Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for
the next two months due to Cancer problem. Though
what disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having
known
my condition l decided to donate this fund to either a
orphanage organization or devoted individual that
will utilize this money the way l am going to instruct
here in. I Want this organization or individual to use
this money in all sincerity to fund orphanages,
widows and also propagating the word of God and to
ensure That the society upholds the views and beliefs
of the holy book of God bible.

The holy Bible emphasized so much on God benevolence
and this has encouraged me to take this bold step. I
took this decision because l don't have any Child that
will inherit this money and my husband two brothers
died in the war in my country I don’t want my
husband’s hard earned money to be misused by people .
I don’t want a situation where this money
will be used in a bad manner. Hence the reasons for
taking this bold decision.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the
contact of the finance house I will also issue you a
letter
of authority that will empower you as the new
beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the Christian
community where you reside to always pray for me.

My happiness is that I lived a life of a true devoted
worthy of emulation. Whoever that wants to serve the
God must serve him in truth and in fairness. Please
always be prayerful all through your life. and please
don't give any delay in your replying me soonest, With
your tel /fax number and address

Regards,

Mrs Rosemary



Dear Friend,

I am Mr DANIEL KARIM. Bill And Exchange Manager at AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE BANK Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso in West Africa. Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise. I have decided to contact you on a project that will be very beneficiary both of us at the end. During our auditing in this Bank, my department came across some amount of money belonging to a deceased costumer late Mr. Ali Bin Rachid, a Lebanese Who died on Plane crash on 25th of December 2003 with his entire families in Cotonou (Republic Of Benin).
The fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund. As indicated in our banking guidelines, this bank cannot release this unless somebody applies for it as his or her next of kin but unfortunately we learnt that all his nearest next of kin who is imposition to claim this money is died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim

The said amount was $ 11.5m US dollars (Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) and the management of this bank has conclude that after this year 2007 if there is no claim over the fund, The money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. I don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury account. i want to transfer this money out of the country and All the whole arrangement to put your claim over this fund as the Bona fide next of kin to the deceased, has been put in place and directives will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity.
This transaction is 100% risk free and the request of foreigner in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina-be cannot stand as next of kin to the foreigners.

I agree that the 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account. 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the transaction and the remaining 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I will visit your country for subsequent sharing according to the percentages indicated.

Please you have been advised to keep "top secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this deal with you. I will fly down to your country for further investment which will be discussed. I intend to established a manufacturing company in your country and also imports a Drugs(Medicines) back to my country. On your acceptance to be my partner please email for a brief discussion before we proceed. Please keep this proposal secret, even if you don’t want to assist me.

THANKS
Yours faithfully,
MR DANIEL KARIM


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YOUR PARTNERSHIP NEEDED URGENT

Reply me here please.
Email: dr.alsukar.davis@gmail.com
Dear Friend,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it's just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($11.5million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 31 july 2000 in a plane crash.You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 60/30 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail. have a great day.
yours,
Dr Alsukar davis

Send your Reply to my new email address.
Email: dr.alsukar.davis@gmail.com

Doubtless some of you are familiar with the format. As many of these as I've time to deal with are sent to a reputable anti-phish site. Any comments?[/i]

We all have seen these "419" spams/scams, and while some of these are almost funny to read, they of course all have a criminal intent.

What you can do when you receive any of these, is to break their contact addresses as quickly as possible. Almost all of them use Yahoo throw-away addresses; you can report them at
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse.html
- or -
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse.html

Gmail addresses can be reported here
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse_spoofing

Too often these mails are in fact tasteless, threatening, and highly offensive. Any humour is often unintentional -
I send these along with headers to:

email address removed by Moderator

where they are properly disposed of.

Who is email address removed by Moderator? lol.

Interesting enough, Google's only results point to this very thread

They spider this site like crazy

.... a very useful place to send trash mail.

Care to explain...?

This requires explanation? Not a spammer are we?

You come here, openly post someone's unmunged email address, recommend that spam should be sent there, but refuse to give any background information. Don't you think that's somewhat strange...?

Data-West operate a database of known spam/scam/virus servers. They collate listings of these as they appear which are then assembled as listed intray blockings for the benefit of any individual or organisation recieving more junk email than they either want or need.
All I know of them is their email address.