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Ericamaxine Price

9 Years Ago

The Scammers Are Getting New Ideas. (could It Be Possible !?)...lol

Here is information from the FBI letting you know to forward mail to them.
http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/e-scams

Here is 1 of 3 emails I received today. I know some of you have also received email scams but this is different... so I'm sharing the 'new' twist.


From: MICHEAL BLOOMBERG (postmaster@hostedwin.com) Microsoft SmartScreen classified this message as junk.
Sent: Thu 11/13/14 2:25 AM
To:




Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days.
Wait, it's safe!








VERY IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION,

Michael Bloomberg.





How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope

this mail finds you in an excellent condition of health. But if you do

not remember me, you have received an email from me in the past

regarding my late father inheritance multi-million-dollar business

proposal which we never concluded at that time.I am using this

opportunity to inform you that my late father inheritance which was

WILL in my name have been concluded with another Greek Merchant who

financed it to a logical conclusion.



I thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer of the

funds into your account, due to one reason or the other best to known

you at that time.Due to the effort, sincerity, courage and trust

worthiness you showed during the course of the transaction, I want to

compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of

$5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). I have left

an international certified bank draft for you, worth about

$5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). cashable

anywhere in the world.



My dear friend I will like you to contact Bar. Hawley James so that he

will send the draft to you without any delay. At the moment, I 'm very

busy here in Paraguay South American, trying to invest my money with

the help of the Good Samaritan who hears my cry and assistant in the

release of my funds with the bank. Please I will like you to accept

this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.





CONTACT:======== Bar. Hawley James



ADDRESS:========= No. 183 Western Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.



EMAIL:======== hawleyjames99@gmail.com



Tel:=========== (+234)7079711221





Therefore, you should send him your full Name, telephone number and

contact address for his reference and make further arrangement with

him on how you want to receive your check.



Thanks you in anticipation for your past efforts and God bless you.

Regards.

Michael Bloomberg.

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Patrice Laborda

9 Years Ago

Old very, old scam ... more than a decade, i even thought that they have stopped, it's so well known, and i can see it still always the sames countries in Africa ;)

 

Michael Bloomberg? Wow -- there's a man with some serious disposable income! Wonder if he's in the market for some art prints? ;-)

Half the people I know (and half the ones I don't) have received this particular message during the last few weeks.

http://tinyurl.com/pe3n8rm

 

Lonnie Christopher

9 Years Ago

The poor bastard probably bought this scam off of another scammer who convinced them it would work...lol Scammers scam other scammers as well!

 

Greg Jackson

9 Years Ago

Wow, Michael Bloomberg. I wonder if he was drinking a large 64oz soft drink while composing that email. :)

 

Bradford Martin

9 Years Ago

Looks like a classic Nigerian scam. AKA 419 scam. Not that different then the letters they would send out in a manila envelope back in the 1960's. In the purist form Nigeria is mentioned. Also it comes from a Barrrister.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

all i look for is the amount and then just erase it. to think that anyone would have to track me down so they can give me money is just silly. one lady had cancer and 6 million and she needed me to help her give her funds to me or something. or another that got right to the point, they needed me for some reason, and they had money and all i had to do was send them a note of who i was...

most came from Nigeria and one came from england.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

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