"LEONARD SAVIMBI" ripoff scam artist e-mail lies
Recently in my email I receieved this letter from a person calling himself "LEONARD SAVIMBI", stating that he was a nephew to Late General Savimbi am from the tutsi minority of
Angola but at the moment am in Accra Ghana. I find it so odd as it the email reads like a 1940's mystery novel. I almost expected Sherlock Holmes to walk in and start asking me questions.
I know this to be a scam. I felt that I needed to share it here because someone might not realize it is a scam.
Below is the body of the email I received:
follwing my discussion with a well travelled business friend,who confided in
me of your trustworthy and honesty in business,however my name is leonard Savimbi a nephew to Late General Savimbi am from the tutsi minority of Angola but at the moment am in Accra Ghana.
prior to the news I heard about the death of my uncle I decided to contact you,Before my Uncle was killied he deposited an amount of US$18.300,000,00 with a security company in Ghana,Though the security company does not know the contents,he deposited it as a personel belongings and made me the next
of kin to the deposit.
Following his attack by by the ruling Angolan Government and his death I am compelled to contact you to seek for assistance to transfer this funds out Africa.
Brother 20% of the total amount will be given to you while 10% will be set aside for any expenceses we may incur at the cause of this transaction while 70% will be deposited for me and my sister who is here with me in any Bank in of your choice in your country,I asure you I will send to you all the documents relating to this transaction.
You can contact me on Telephone number+233-24-382655
Best Regards
Leonard SAVIMBI
2 Updates & Rebuttals
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Austin,Texas,
Thank you
#3Consumer Comment
Fri, May 03, 2002
Fraud chick...I received the exact same email, and although I did not take it seriously, I still was curious as to the origins. Thanks for the heads up :-)
TheFraudChick@aol.com
Ethics,Arkansas,
Very Dangerous Nigerian Scam--Classic Letter
#3Consumer Suggestion
Sat, March 02, 2002
What you received via e-mail is a classic Nigerian Scam letter. Nigeria is notorious for frauds and scams, which for decades have been ignored or even supported by its government.
Most people mistake these letters as an attempt to get at their personal bank account in order to drain it. It's not--that's nowhere near what these sinister fraudsters want from you.
Greedy people who really believe they are cleverer than the cons attempt to outwit the Nigerians by giving them a freshly opened bank account. These are the suckers the Nigerians want. Once they have your attention they get into a correspondence with the sucker and lure him out of the country to Nigeria--although lately many victims have been lured to England.
Once they get you anything goes. Some people have been beaten within an inch of their lives and their families extorted for large sums to get them back. Some have been murdered and dumped. More recently a man committed suicide in a London hotel room after he mortgaged his home three times in order to pay the "taxes" on the millions he expected. He lost hundreds of thousands and couldn't face the family.
A few years ago I spoke to a man who had been duped out of $80,000. The e-mail they had sent him stated that the author was a government agent who also worked for the Nigerian Petroleum Company. This poor victim actually told me he had been an employee of the Nigerian Petroleum Company for three years, which is exactly how long they strung him along. He was very deluded. They put him off with a half million dollar counterfeit check--he still believed in the fraudsters. Some people never learn.
When you get one of these e-mails cut and paste them to the reporting form at http://www.ustreas.gov/.
Dont ever respond to one of these e-mails. These people are not to be trifled with--they are very dangerous.