Flim Flam Retaliation

[shariray 14]

CONFIDENTIAL

BARNARD MARISSA ESQ.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW

192 VISAGIE ST,

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA

PHONE: +27-73-335-0317

LONDON OFFICE:

4 CHURCH CROFT

EDLESBOROUGH DUNSTABLE

BEDFORDSHIRE LU6 2HU

PHONE: +44-702-407-1886

Email: marissa4law@juno.com

DATE: 7th March,2006

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good

health and success in your pursuits particularly through my

proposal as contained in this letter.

I was privileged to capture your name from the Internet.

My name is Mr.Barnard Marissa, a legal practitioner and the

personal Attorney to late Mr.Adam Johnson, a national of

your country who died along with his wife and his Two sons

in a ghastly motor accident along the express way, over 3

years now (August 13, 2002).All the occupants in the

vehicle lost their lives.

I am convinced that it was by the grace of God that made me to

locate you.

my client was a successful and am accomplished family man,

who made enough fortune before his untimely death. Since

then I had made several inquiries through your Embassy to

locate any of my clients extended relative but this

exercise has proved unsuccessful. After several

unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives through the

Internet, to locate any member of his family not much progress was

recorded.

My late client was an influential wealthy businessman, an

oil magnet here in South Africa and he left behind a deposit

of Twelve Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States

Dollar ($12,200,000.00USD) in his domiciliary bank account in a

commercial bank here in South Africa. After the death of my

client his bankers contacted me, as his Attorney to provide

his next of kin who should inherit his fortune.

The board of directors of his bank adopted a resolution and

I was mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment

of this money within 28 working days or forfeit the money

to the bank as an abandoned property.The bankers had

planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to

confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period

given to me.

Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness, fortunately, I

came across your name, to my utmost amazement , you are

nationals of the same country.

Convinced that you may be linked with my late client or

that you might provide clue to my search, I Therefore,

decided to contact you with these facts before me because

of the situation now .

By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate

family, I am very much aware of my client financial

standing and the bank account he operates. I have reasoned

very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper to

present you as the next of kin of my deceased client,so

that you can be paid the funds left in his bank account,

hence I contacted you.

I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin to

the Deceased since you are at an advantage as nationals from

the same country, so that the proceeds of this Bank Account

valued at $12.2 Million Dollars can be paid to you. we

shall both share the funds. 55% to me and 40% to you,

while 5% should be for Expenses or Tax as your Government

may require, I shall assemble all the necessary Legal

Documents that will be used to back up our claim .

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see

this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed

under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from

any breach of law. I am looking forward to doing this

transaction with you and I solicit for your utmost

confidentiality in this transaction.

I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this

transaction when I hear from you.Please get in touch through

my alternative email box: (marissa4law@juno.com) or call me on

+44-702-407-1886.

Best Regards,

Barnard Marissa (Esq)

[shariray 14]

The letter in the previous post is one I get on occasion. It comes in various sizes and shapes, but basically says the same kind of scam.

DOes anyone have a good idea on how to inflict pain, torture, or at the very least a good old fashioned stomach virus or something?

They get annoying.

[VanDiesel99 14]

Whats their angle? I have gotten those stupid emails before but I couldn't figure out the scam.

[mikew 14]

I had this same email this morning in my inbox.

Whats their angle? I have gotten those stupid emails before but I couldn't figure out the scam.

I think they either request you send a large sum of money (say 10,000) to cover the cost or they ask for your bank account information in order to clean you out.

Mike

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

Ray,

I deleted the other two threads you started on the same topic...one of these is more than enough....

Heard a report on the news here once, on these very emails. Some are linked to money laundering and you can get in huge trouble. They interviewed a person who responded to it and was caught.

Beth

[PLD 14]

Beth,

As best I can tell, that is a rumor started by law enforcement. The idea is that if we cannot convince people (particularly the elderly/ignorant) that the behavior is stupid, perhaps we can stop them if convince them it is illegal and may be a sting.

That said, those of us operating online businesses need to know that in most cases it is illegal to offer a refund to an international customer because it violates the money changing provisions of the patriot act.

Philip

[shariray 14]

Beth,

When I tried posting it the first two times, the board froze then gave me some message that I cant remember, which indicated that the message didnt post. Thats why there were three.

I tried deleting them to no avail. Thanks.

As far as the scam, I believe if I were stupid enough to follow through with their requests, they would more than likely ask me for my baking info, passwords, etc. They would then vaccuum out my accounts and move to the next victim. Fortunately for me, I am just dumb, which last I checked is a hair short of being stupid.

Have a good day all.

[squirtgun 122]

Ray check out

www.419eater.com

[Larry B 55]

I like 419eater. I have become an addicted "baiter".

The way these guys make money is to make it look like they paid most of the transfer fees and now you only have to pay a certain amount to get the transfer completed. They want it done by Wester Union so they can pick it up without ID, as they get the numbers from you that let them pick it up. Sometimes it is a few $100 but if they think they can get more they will.

[shariray 14]

Larry,

Did you infer that you are a master?

[Beth n Rod 1,279]

Ray,

No problem. I figured it was a duplicated thread. That one "spam" email is on my list of most annoying as well.

Beth

[Washaway 64]

I occasionally get a phone call that I've won a 3 or 4 day getaway to wherever. They confirm that I'm such and such and what I make and etc.

Then they explain what I get for what I give, which usually is nothing more than a registration fee of >100 bucks.

After this, if I'm still interested, I get asked for my bank account # to verify that I truly am who I am and for whatever other 'legitimate' reason they present.

Sidenote: I'm smarter than I look therefore I just play along with them from the inital "Hello" for personal amusement.

When asked for my bank acc# I usually drill off a bogus number and they run it. Then they come back saying that it doesn't exist b/c it must have been closed etc.

This is when I ask the persons first and last name, their marital status and income. When they respond with a dumbfounded response I ask them for their account number..........this is usually followed by me repeating "Hello? Hello?" b/c they've already hung up.

I love messing with people!! :lgsideway

[tunatussle 14]

It is called the Nigerian Connection and has been around since the early 80's a postal mail scam. I first ran into it as a banker when an eldely customer came in with the letter of the same nature. We turned it over to state officials and eventually went to feds.

Never give numbers over the phone or in mail. You may be asked by callers to verify your credit cards by giving the last 3 numbers on the back of the card and they have all they need to scam you. It works by; The caller represents himself as a credit card co employee and says he is checking on excessive use on your card then he asks you to verify you have your card in your possession by asking you to turn over your card and reading him the digits in the signature line space.