This is a letter I am now sending to all the scammers who continue to harass us on the Net…It only takes a second, and I had fun writing it !
This :”scam sample” spoof actually comprises the most common lines used by these tragic thieves to entrap innocent, poor uneducated people into sending them their life savings….

Besides sending my reply, I also forward their mail to INTERPOL, and to the scam registries:.
419@419scam.org, joewein@pobox.com

Hope I’ll make you smile !
mesha

For a tour of the Dumbest Nigerian Scams, please join :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DumbestNigerianScams/

_____________________________________________________________________

BLESSINGS, URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
From:BOBOLTIIIJR@gmail.com
to : (undisclosed recipient)

Dear Sir/Ms./ Mrs. ,

Blessings !

I hope this mail finds you in good health, thank you so much for all your precious help some years ago.

I do not know if you remember me, my name is
* Monsieur Bobo Latortue III Jr, *,
I am the CEO, President, Founder, and General Director of LLoyds Bank in Barbados, France.

As a God Fearing Man, I am so delighted to inform you that you have been picked among Millions of Internet users (through Yahoo MegaEmailFilterNetwork):
to receive $134,500.494 as soon as you make contact with me.

and to be the next of Kin for Late Mr. Jean Paul Verlaine,

I was so happy when I recognize your name popping out of our State of the Art YahooMegaFilter !

knowing that you are a highly intelligent, God Fearing, honest Foreigner, so worthy of your current fate as you are inheriting an immense fortune through our Prestigious and Highly Reputable Financial Institution.

I do not know why dead important persons are never women in any such instances,

but it does not matter much right now :

The Late Mr. Verlaine, a very famous writer who made Thousands of Billions from the copyrights of his books, had terminal cancer of the fingertips, from overuse while writing all his wonderful poems, terminal cirrhosis of the liver, and barely survived a devastating Tsunami in Andalusia, time when he mysteriously and abruptly disappeared,

As the sole agent handling his Estate, I looked for him relentlessly on sea shores, inside countless dumpsters, and back alleys as well as presidential palaces for many years,
as he possessed armored trunks full of Millions of Dollars in our Barbados France LLoyds Bank Branch
(and, did I mention, I am personally in charge of his account),

I ultimately, though painstaking efforts, found out that his entire family was tragically wiped out by a horrible case of indigestion through food poisonning at Taco Bell in Bankok last year.

A Top National Expert Informant hired by our Bank finally found out that the Late Monsieur Verlaine, after all the terrible trials and tribulations incurred on his now defunct person,
Tragically met his untimely DEATH through slipping on a banana peel in his driveway in front of his mansion in Bobo Diulasso, Burkina Fasso, on a very wet night, and during the lethal fall swallowed his poorly fitted gold dentures and choked to death,
while corrupt Governement Assassins stabbed him mercilessly through his craneum, armpits, bussom and incinerated the sole of his feet with a flame thrower, while HE WAS STILL ALIVE, then took off in his Glod Plated Jaguar for a vile joy ride, laughing and mocking poor Late Mr. Verlaine all the way to the Parliament.

Did I mention that the LATE Mr. Verlaine’s unfortunate entire family is also very dead?

Our Financing processing team has chosen you to be the next of kin for Late Mr. Verlaine, who is deceased,

and to collect the $134,500.494 that are currently floating in a silicone solution, for proper preservation, inside armored trunks at our LLoyds Bank Branch since his untimely death,

But this fabulous treasure must be transfered to you very quickly because we do not want Late Mr. Verlaine’s Millions to be returned to our corrupt governement when they find out that the Late Mr. Verlaine is, indeed, extremely dead, if no “next of kin” pops up, of which there are none since all of them as as dead as he is deceased, and sadly, defunct.

We warn you to keep absolute utmost confidentiality on this delicate and highly profitable matter , to avoid wrongful appropriation of your funds by unscrupulous, corrupt government magnates who would scandalously abuse the funds of the Late Mr. Verlaine, and laugh diabolically while dancing a death tribal dance over his desacred armored trunks bursting at the seams with MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

Do you fully understand that Mr. Verlaine is dead ?

(This is absolutely risk free, and legal, our attorneys have meticulously cleaned up any possible trace that the Late Mr. Verlaine ever even existed)

We will simply stuff his dead remains in his emptied armored trunks at LLoyds Bank, for a restful and peaceful eternal sleep, as bound as we are by our sense of Honor and High Integrity, (and in strict compliance with Barbados LLoyds Bank Code of Ethics Ordinance 897-hX1789-5A) once we promptly send you the Late Mr. Verlaine’s Millions.

Once we made successful contact, you will request of you a minimal $956 processing fee to cover stamps, envelopes, related phone calls, cordials, and Malboro Lights while I tirelessly write to you in the middle of my very busy nights, and DSL Bill incurred through our continued Honest correspondence.

In order to process your payment in the most expeditious fashion,

(I will only keep 60% of the funds, while you will collect %30 while 10 % will cover processing expenditure on our Bank Personel unloading the content of the Late Mr. Verlaine’s armored trunks into your luxury, certified shipment packages, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ! As a courtesy, we will not even charge you for stuffing Mr. Late Verlaine’s remains back into his armored trunks).

please send us without any further delay :

* Your Legal Name, and all Aliases
* Your Date of Birth
* Your Mother’s maiden name
* Your secret Question’s Answer associated with:
Your internet ID and Password,
* A Copy of Your Social Security Card
* A copy of your ID Card
* A Copy of your Driving Licence and Passport
* Your Library Card #
* Your Gym Membership #
* All Bank Account #
* ALL Credit Cards #
* Full address
* Office Address
* Primary &all Alternate Email
* Private home. cell and Office phone #
* Fax #
* Life Insurance Policy #
* Copies of any deeds on your personal properties,
and Assets
* Occupation (title)
* LIFE Insurance policy # if any.

* A Notorized Copy of your Will, making your Humble Servant your beneficiary in the eventuality of your death, as your sole Next of Kin (as a token of your gratitude and appreciation).

Unfortunately, I will not enjoy my share of the Late Mr. Verlaine’s millions myself for a very long time, because I have been diagnosed yesterday with a devastating, and very fatal, terminal case of
Brain Cloud Simplex II,

Which prompted me to decide that I will donate my Honest entire share of the Late Mr. Verlaine’s Millions to:

* Artic Orphan Seals,
* and Unwed Struggling Rehabilitated Senior Prostitutes in the Galapagos Islands,

as well as a host of charitable organizations of your choice.

Please do not feel sorry for me,

But I beg you in good conscience to support my worthy endeavors
before it is too late and before I join (any time now…) the Late Mr. Verlaine in Heaven,
and your connection with his Late MILLIONS would be lost to you forever, through your laziness and negligence.

since I am the sole (did I mention it?) LIVE (but not for too much longer, Pray for me), Executor of the Late Mr. Verlaine’s Estate,

PLEASE contacting me immediately, though my very private email:
BOBOLTIIIJR@gmail.com

Congratulations again, * in God We Fear *,
you will not be disappointed
so do not disappoint me

Yours Faithfully, and Humbly,

Mr. BoboLatortue III, Jr.
General Manager, LLoyds Bank
Barbados France
BOBOLTIIIJR@gmail.com

“Innocent” I think not - the so-called victims are greedy and dishonest. Worse they are sick enough to want to profit from the corruption that keeps Africa and its children poor, sick and hungry.

Do you feel sorry for the sickos scammed by police pretending to be selling images of child being abused?