Yeah, I know this has been done before. But I want to respond to a Nigerian Bank Scam of my own.
Well, to be specific, it's a Burkinabe Bank Scam. I believe that's the term for someone from Burkina Faso. Take a look at an email I just received:
Dear Sir,
I am the AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$25m dollars (TWENTY FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died
along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELLOW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Ten years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name,your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the
application .
I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
MESHARK JOHNSON(B.O.A)
What a sad, sad story. I am greatly saddened by the death of MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Germany, which occured in Jully (sp), 2000. (Note: The link in the email is a real story; I congratulate them on doing their research).
I love the wording in this email. They have to give me (of all people the money),
since nobody is coming for it
That made me laugh.
I, as the smartest person in the universe, quickly realised this email was a scam. Why? The email address of Mr. MESHARK JOHNSON is a Hotmail Account. I somehow think the Bank of Africa could afford proper email addresses.
Of course, I had to respond to this. But how? Well, I decided the best course of action was to put on my pale-white-boy-being-a-stereotypical-black-person hat and see what I could do.
Yoyoyoyoyoyoyo yo!
Yo!
Wassup my brutha from anotha mutha! It's ya home boi, dshban in da HIZZZZIIIE!
I gotta get my hands on the dolla dollas, G! What's a brotha gotta do to be hooked up with the Benjamins?
Gimme the low down on what I gotta do, bro.
Peace out, nigga.
dshban
Sorry to all of the people I offended with that partly racist but all horrible impersonation.
Now I just wait and see what happens...
