A Message From Ralph - The Next of Kin 419 Scam

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From: "Ralphael Bayan"<raflbn15@yahoo.com>
To: x
Subject: Message From Ralph.
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:35:53 -0700
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I have a new email address!

You can now email me at: raflbn15@yahoo.com

- Dear Confidant,I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a large sum of money from a dormant account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. My name is Mr. Raphael Bayan. a staff of one of the leading private banks in my Country Ivory Coast. I discovered an abandoned sum of US$7,500, 000.00 in an account that belongs to one of our foreign Customers (an American) late George Brumley. This very account has been dormant for some years now. After my investigations, I discovered that the account owner has died since July 2003 with all his family members in a charter plane crash on Mount Kenya. http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html since his death, nobody has come forward to lay claims to this money and recently my bank issued a notice that the account will be declared unserviceable and the funds called to the government treasury since no relative of the deceased customer came up. In order to avert this negative action, I seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin so that funds can be released in your favor as the next of kin. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following if you are willing to work with me Actually: Your full name, Postal address, Profession, Telephone and fax numbers, Date of birth. This information will enable me work on the Deceased account file so as to indicate you as his next of kin after which you can now apply to the Bank officially for the release of the funds to you as the next of kin to the Deceased. We are going to share the total sum on final conclusion of this project. If you are truly disposed and capable of handling this transaction from your end contact me. Regards, Raphael Bayan

Comments:

The whole style of this e-mail shouts 419 scam. If they don't type everything in capital letters, they squeeze everything into a tiny e-mail and make the text green. Imagine an e-mail like this without punctuation marks and spaces between the words.

I have a new email address!

As if the victim had his previous e-mail address. But sadly the tone of the e-mail is that of a first time acquaintance so it actually betrays the "I have a new email address!" introduction.

Dear Confidant

Another one of those cheesy generic greetings from yet another 419 scammer.

I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day

So what you are actually telling us, is that everything will not be OK until the end of the day, right?

My name is Mr. Raphael Bayan. a staff of one of the leading private banks in my Country Ivory Coast.

Are you a staff of the bank? Do they use you to hit the clients if they fail to meet their repayment obligations?

I discovered that the account owner has died since July 2003 with all his family members in a charter plane crash on Mount Kenya.

So the account owner and his family have been dying in plane crashes since July 2003? Don't you think it is about time they stopped the plane from crashing? You know, one crash is enough.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Ah, the age old trick of using a newsworthy article to back your facts. Anyone can make up a lousy story like yours from a news article published on CNN.com. The news article lends absolutely no credibility to the scammer's story, so don't be fooled by this trick.

I seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin so that funds can be released in your favor as the next of kin.

Do you still have any doubt in your mind about the intentions of this swindler. This sentence says it all: 419 INHERITANCE FUND / NEXT OF KIN SCAM!

If you are truly disposed...

Who do you think reads your junk mail? A trash can?

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