A couple days ago..., a guy consult to me about "international banking transaction"..
I'm not a consultant or an expert per se.., but I'm more than happy if I could help.. :)
A (this guy) met this girl (call her B) via friendster.. B acclaimed that she's a Rwandan who currently lives in a refugee camp, Senegal.. Since then, they sent email frequently thru their private email address.. It looks like they're more than a friend.., coz a friend wudn't call darling, my love, sweetheart and anyother romantic callnames in his/her letter, wud he/she...?
Ok.., so B acclaimed that she inherited some substantial amount of money (ok.., it's $4.7 M.. No kidding huh..) from her late father (C) which was deposited in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), UK.. She said she was the only beneficiary of that money, she's aint got no other relatives.. The thing is..., RBS ask her to appoint other representative in order to get the money..
So...., as u can guess..., B appointed A as her next of kin.. Few from documents required from the bank are the power of attorney endorsed by a Senagelese resident lawyer permiting A to claim and transfer the fund to A's bank a/c on her berhalf and an affidavit of support from the Senegalese high court with B's signature in it (A gave me the copy of the email sent by RBS regarding this matter).
In order to get these documents ready, the lawyer from Judicial Advocates D'senegal Rue Achimiyou Reccess ask for amount USD1,905 for the court expenses. Since B's so poor and cannot do anything.., she asked A for help to pay these expenses. She promised, after A recieved the money, she'll come here and they should be live happily ever after with the money...
OMG.. Above scenario is so lame...
You already guess that she was a scammer, don't you..?
The thing is... this guy was about to withdrawal his deposit for the sake of his love...
I immediately said DONNTT...
Please....
Here's why:
1. Never fully trust people you met thru this cyberworld.. Most of friendster's data are fake.. (yea.., I know that I belong to the minority ones :P)
I've checked her friendster address.., and it's obviously suspicious..
2. From RBS' email.. It's obviously weird that a major bank sent email via free webmail address such as @financial.net and @mail2world.com.. It should be official.., shouldn't it..
I've checked the guy stated as Accounts Dept was actually the CEO of RBS.. :P
3. It's already weird in the first place, all those schemes.. how she asked the guy to transfer the money first in order to received sumthing much bigger... so similar with Indonesian scammer that told a person is winning a prize, but he/she should transfer some amount of money first to pay taxes in order to receive that prize..
4. And so many other weird things....
From the RBS' email I've read, I don't think that the scammer was an english speaking countries' native .. Just like me, he/she made so many grammar/vocab mistakes.. ;)
Well.., it's just my curiousity.., i found that A is not the first victim..
Check this out...
http://419.bittenus.com/7/4/LindaFred/(an exact condition with different first name and amount of money)
http://www.internetseriousbiz.com/2008/01/15/nigerian-419-scammers-get-scammed-part-7-awesome-o/(the same advocate that B used)
So the message here is.., pls be more prudent... and go googling.. a lot...
^_^
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