Email Scambusters, Part One: "Mr. Samson Bamogu"

[Eric]

I got this email from a certain "Mr. Samson Bamogu"/samson_bamogu@voila.fr yesterday, I think you should read this...The guy might've sent it to more people...It's obviously a scam...

Dear Sir,
I wish you go through this offer to consider being my partner.I am Mr.SAMSON BAMOGU .,from the republic of Sierra-Leone in west Africa,now seeking political asylum in Senegal under the (UNHCR).I got your contact through my search for a business partner.
In Details.My late father (Dr.MUSTAPHA BAMOGU) was the managing director of Rainbow Gold Diamond Mining company in (KEN EMA) Sierra- Leone.But was killed during the longing civil war and all his properties was totally destroyed.However, we managed to escape with some of my father's precious Diamonds which is presently deposited safely in a security and finance company here in Dakar.
Now we are saddled with the problem of securing a trust worthy foreign personality to help us transfer the diamonds over to his country pending my arrival to meet with him.Furthermore,we only want this done this way because your country is politically stable for any profitable investment and if you accept our proposal,you will serve as the beneficiary of the diamonds.
I am giving you the offers as mentioned with every confidence on your acceptance to assist us,we have decided to give you 10% out of the total money generated from the sales of the diamonds.Secondly,we shall mapped out 2% for any miscellaneous expenses that you may incur during the transferring of the diamonds over to your country. Finally,the diamond weight in question is 14.550 Carats.Conclusively,i wish you send me a reply immediately as soon as you receive this proposal, so that we shall arrange on how to lift this consignment out of Dakar Senegal to your country.
On commencement,this transaction will take (7) working days to be accomplished.A certificate of ownership, and the Lab-test result certificate of the diamonds would be fax to you immediately i receive your urgent and positive reply. My alternative email address is ( [email]samson_bamogu2004@yahoo.fr[/url]) Until then i remain with the best regards.
Regards,
Samson.

I haven't replied yet to this e-mail, and he sent it on the 8th of this month. Strangely, the metadata on the email indicated that it was sent to "none" or " "(blank)...Maybe it was sent to lots of people...I hate this kind of people...yeesh, can't they just get a life and stop bothering people with their stupid scam emails...

[cvrk3]

hey eric, such emails are doing rounds for more than a year- there are persons who folowed up the mail lost money- it is good that you did not reply- i simply ignore such letters, mean emails!

[Stuff2Do]

or go along with it for fun, then when they think they scammed you, drop out

[grilkip]

Originally Posted by Stuff2Do

or go along with it for fun, then when they think they scammed you, drop out

Or say your father actually knew his, and where best friends. And when you told him his friend died he broke out in tears.

[adok]

grilkip,

That's a good one.


I got some of those emails, I pretended to be interested and asked them if it's legal. They replied as long as I keep it hush, there's nothing illegal.

[Mayur]

I got something similar to that once. Except they wanted me to buy gold. I replied saying that I got this by mistake and the guy told me what are you talking about. Looks like he doesn't even know.

[Arisna]

Originally Posted by Mayur

I got something similar to that once. Except they wanted me to buy gold. I replied saying that I got this by mistake and the guy told me what are you talking about. Looks like he doesn't even know.

The e-mail address was probably spoofed, and some innocent fellow probably got a lot of angry messages. <_<

I can usually spot crap mail quickly, as the spam I get is generally written in Chinese.. It'd be a little less obvious if 1.)Gmail didn't have great spam filtering and 2.)I knew anyone who spoke Chinese.

[stuck_fugu]

ya ive got stuff like this except the guy who sent it to me was a general and his father died and left him 2,000,000 dollars, he wanted me to give him an account with 10,000 dollars so he can transfer the money here , so i played along with him for awhile for fun and then i just deleted his emails

[cysite]

i don't even open spam cause there are ALWAYS viruses and other stuff like spyware. (I REALLY REALLY HATE SPAM) people probobly do it to trick the stupid people!

[dhanraj]

Hai

from past 2 years i am recieving this shit mail
don't reply even i didn't reply then also this spam keep on coming best i did i clicked it as a spam mail and now i am free from this spam mail.