$6,000,000 SCAM

[johnorun]

I got this email today and the sender mentions a cpu-museum.de "account".
DON"T click on the link below, since it could contain a virus.
A typical Nigerian Scam....

I'm posting this for warning purposes only! The owner of cpu-museum.de, better secure your website.
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"Hello johnorun,

The following is an email sent to you by nelson4u via your account on cpu-museum.de. If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following address:

forum@cpu-museum.de

Include this full email (particularly the headers). Please note that the reply address to this email has been set to that of nelson4u.

Message sent to you follows
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From: Nelson Makenze
Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire
Peace Be Unto You
I am Nelson Makenze the only son of late Mr and Mrs.Douglas Makenze.My father and mother were very wealthy farmers and cocoa merchant when they were both alive.After the death of my father,long ago, my mother was controling his business untill she was poisoned by her business associates which she surffered and died.
Before the death of my mother on August 2007 in a private hospital here in Abidjan where she was admitted, she secretly called me on her bed side and disclosed to me about the sum of Six million five hundred thousand US dollars .($6.5 million )she left in suspense account in one of the bank here in Abidjan,it was the money she intended to transfer oversea for investment before she was poisoned.She instructed that I should seek for a foreign partner in any country of my choice who will assist me transfer this money in oversea account where the money will be save and invested wisely.
Because of the current political problem here in Ivory Coast I decided to transfer the money to abroad where it will be save and invested.therefore,I am crying and seeking for your kind assistance in the following ways:
(1) To provide a safe bank account into where the money will be transferred for investment.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am a boy of 21 years old.
(3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit for me in your country.
As soon as I receive your urgent reply indicating your interest to assist me to successfuly transfer the money into your yet nominated account,I would give you all necessary information you may require.I have mapped out 20% of the total funds as mode of compensation for your effort for assisting me with

Contact me through my email address: nmakenze@yahoo.com


this request. Expecting your urgent response.
Yours,
Nelson Makenze"

[Cutabove]

Hey John.
Check this out.
http://www.419baiter.com/_scam_emails/0-rzt-001-10/88/scam-email-054919.shtml
Open the "find on this page" feature in the edit tab and type in the first 4 of that email address and his pops up.
Oh and both of those links are clean,I can scan them before clicking on them.Both just open up a new email window.
Johnny

[allebram2]

Here we just call them "Nigeria Letters"

You can just point your mouse at a possible link and you should be able to see (with the correct settings) what will happen if you press the left mouse button. In your letter it was just some basic html code for opening an e-mail with this guys address pasted into it.

Did track some IP addresses many years ago and found that some of the e-mails actually came directly out of NIGERIA, but most e-mails back them came from Spain and UK (and some even from Florida). Not using their own ISP but instead Yahoo, Hotmail, G-mailetc, to forward their e-mails ( like most of them seem to use today) this will only be readily possible for FBI, CIA....

Receive a couple of those e-mails every day together with "You just won €250 000" in the Sweepstakes Lottery (or whatever). Your e-mail address was chosen at random.... All you have to do is to deposit €1000 to be able to collect the 1st price..... usually they will not be so direct in the first e-mail but just ask for ALL your details...

It's hard to understand that anybody will ever fall for this, but they wouldn't be sending this out if it never paid off. So i guess you have to look at this statistically. If you send out 1million e-mails and even if only 0,01% actually responded that would still be 100people. And given the fact that you can buy lists with 1million (or more) different e-mails addresses for next to no money, the relative (and actual) cost of trying to scam people unfortunately is VERY low in this age of the Internet.

Don't think this will ever stop until you have stable governments and in-corrupt Police and legal systems in the countries in question. Unfortunately that will probably not happen in our lifetime.

[D.8080]

My father recieved 2 paper letters.

At the time the police knew about them but couldn't do anything.
Scammers go with big fishnets, and they always end up with someone trapped...


Happy scam day!

[gshv]

I believe the scammer has registered in cpu-museum.de forum and uses private messages to send his spam/scam. Please contact grampa or morkork, and ask them to remove the scammer.

Gennadiy