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A Scam or a Scam…you decide!
BigSi:
My Mum got sent this email today, and wanted to know what to do! I told her that the best place for these emails was the one marked ‘Trash Can’!
Dear Friend ,
I am making this contact based on my Department needs an
individual/company who can help us with the transfer of a
contract entitlement.
This amount(US$14.5M) represents the balance of the total
contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a
foreign contracting firm.
This transaction is 100% safe and legal in all areas, we
are only handicapped in the circumstances, as the South
African Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to
operate offshore account hence your importance in the
whole transaction.
I have the authority of my colleagues involved to propose
that should you be willing to assist us in this
transaction your share as compensation will be
(20%), while my colleagues and I receive (70%)
and (5%) for taxation and miscellaneous expenses incurred
and the remaining 5% will go the charity organisation.
We have reposed our confidences in you and hope that you
will not disappoint us. Kindly send me your direct
telephone/fax number to enable me reach with further
details upon your acceptance to help us and I can be reached
through my private email.
Once again, Please remember that time is of great essence
in this transaction. I will appreciate your prompt
response.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Thambo Maleze
Gosh….you don’t think that it could have been a genuine email! Shant tell Mum, that I might of lost her some money!!! :-k :-k :-k :-k :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
muddyjames:
I read the first few lines. Scam all the way! bin it.
Frankie-Boy:
I have to agree, I'd have binned it straight away.
Silvery Thing:
Sadly these are fairly common.... bin time :doh:
carbore:
SCAM.
Intersting thing on the egister about our mate Mr Clarkson and scams
Gobby TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been forced to reverse his position after he lost money after publishing his bank account details in a newspaper column.
The Top Gear presenter rather rashly published his account details in a column in The Sun to back up his claims that the child benefit data loss furore, which resulted in the loss of unencrypted CDs containing bank details of 25m people, was a lot of fuss about nothing.
Clarkson published his bank account number and sort code, along with clues to his address, insisting that the worst that could happen was that someone could pay money into his account.
Days later Clarkson was forced to admit he was wrong after an unidentified prankster set up a £500 direct debit from the presenter's account in favour of charity Diabetes UK, the BBC reports.
"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again," Clarkson said in a column published in the Sunday Times. "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
Clarkson, never one to shy away from colourful or controversial commentary, is now hopping mad over the data loss. "Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy," he said. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/07/clarkson_bank_prank_backfires/comments/
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