"This Seems The Wrong Way Around . . . " Topic

So, now they tell YOU you're the dead/dying person whose money is being given away.

YOUR URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED.

Are you alive or dead? We received several emails from one Mr.Simon Brudenell Locke who narrated to us about the auto car

accident you had 2 weeks ago. Mr.Simon made us to understand that you are in hospital for treatment but there is no hope of

your recovery. He stated that he is your business associates and your next of kin whom you have chosen and permitted to

inherit all your properties. He is contacting this office base on your contract /Inheritance payment fund valid USD

$10,500,000.00 USD (Ten million, five hundred thousand dollars only) which is about to be pay to you. He requested that the

payment should now be transfer into his own personal account as he stated below.

Bank Name:City National Bank
Bank Address:! 89 South Lake Avenue Pasadena CA 91101
Account Number:026269474
Routing Number:1220-1606-6
Swift Code:CINAUS6L
Account Name: Simon Brudenell Locke

We request your confirmation before we can process this transfer to Mr.Simon Bank Account. This is to avoid releasing your

money to wrong person because Mr.Simon is too eager and ready to follow every instruction to have this money into his

account. If you did not have auto accident and you did not permit Mr.Simon to claim your money,kindly reply this message

with your full contact information so we can process the release of the $10.5 USD million dollars to you.

I want to bring to your notice that the Federal government of Nigeria decided to pay you in cash i mean the method of

payment is by Cash delivery to your door step which means that your fund will be packaged as a consignment box and deliver

to you through special delivery courier company direct to your door step without any delay again.

To proceed you are advise to get back to us with the below information's for easy delivery of your consignment box.

YOUR FULL NAME….
YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS….
YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER….
A COPY OF YOUR I.D OR PASSPORT…

Waiting to hear from you

yous in Service
Eric Goodman
Director International Remittance
+234-812-995-6780

And cash to the doorstep! That means you can avoid taxes!

cash to the doorstep

That's an awful lot of small, unmarked bills.

This is an interesting, possibly sophisticated scam.

Someone recently made the observation that with email scams you don't want to be too subtle. You're sending out a lot of emails, you only want the truly clueless to respond or you have to deal with too many bad leads – people who will figure out it's bogus after the second or third email. You want to weed out people who are incredulous before you spend any effort on them. This is why they always mention Nigeria.

But you don't need to accomplish everything in the first email. You just want greedy, uninformed people to respond. So how are people going to respond to this, and it's right there – if you didn't have an accident and *don't* want this guy you never heard of to get *your* money. "Cash to your doorstep" makes it sound like they're not asking you for anything, but in the second email…

Remember Jim Garner's character in Support Your Local Gunfighter? If he had any money on his person, and he entered a room with a roulette table, he'd plunk down all of it on (I don't remember the number, same number each time).

There are apparently some helpless individuals who cannot resist following through when given the chance.

$10.5 USD million "in cash" would bury the doorstep and everyone standing on it.