[thechat] FW: Request for assistance

[Andrew Forsberg]

I've received this on three of my four active email addresses.

Still, it's not half as weird or creative as the one I received from 
Princess Zainab Williams, daughter of the (I quote): 'late KING 
SANKOH AGOMAKA WILLIAMS the XI of MENDE TRIBE in Sierra Leone', who 
wanted someone to arrange for some horrendous amount of money to 
transfer from a British bank account to <insert victim of email hoax 
here>'s bank account. That one even included photos of the booty to 
be collected!

Can't quite see how either hoax could be used to defraud the email 
recipient or others, but I'm entirely unimaginative when it comes to 
organizing fraud. This 'strictly confidential' one finishes half 
sentence...

Anyhow, weird,
Andrew

>This is new...
>
>Could this be a twist on the old "Nigerian" scheme?
>
>FROM:THE DESK OF OLAWALE DANIELS
>FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX IKOYI LAGOS
>TEL:234-1-804 4830(DIRECT LINE).
>TEL:234-1-7731972
>FAX:234-1-7596291
>EMAIL:OLA-WALE at EUDORAMAIL.COM
>
>              STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
>WE SINCERELY HOPE THAT THIS LETTER WILL NOT COME TO
>YOU AS AN EMBARRASSMENT BUT RATHER A SURPRISE SINCE WE
>NEITHER KNEW EACH OTHER BEFORE NOW NOR HAVE HAD ANY
>PREVIOUS CORESPONDENCE OR CONTACT.
>
>[.....]
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Andrew Forsberg
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