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Those Nigerians are trying new tactics

post #1 of 11
1/9/07 at 1:44pm
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Email I just got-
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GREETINGS FROM MRS, RAGHAD SADDAM HUSSEIN.
Dear sir / madam,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to you, I hope you will not be embarrassed receiving this mail, as we have not had previous correspondences on this before. I am also believing that you will not expose or betray the trust and confidence I am about to establish on you. I have decided to contact you with greatest delight and personal respect.
I am Mrs, RAGHAD SADDAM HUSSEIN KAMEL, the eldest daughter of SADDAM HUSSEIN the former Iraqi president who was executed 0n the 30th december 2006 due to the crime against humanity. I and my 4 children are presently under a royal family(king Abdulah ii) protection in jordan due to humanitarian considerations as an assylum seeker in accordiance to arab tradition.
Before contacting you on this matter i have thought carefully about this idea, that I wish to invest this funds kept in my pocession before my father was`captured,my father gave me this funds for feature reference and to do anything with it so long as I will be happy with it, because he understood and beleived that things were getting out of hands though he never allowed it to show in his face because of the people around him and he also beleived he is firm and powerful.The amount is $2.500,000 us dollars (Two million five hundred thousand united states dollars).
I have already arranged for a successfully means in which the funds will be lifted out of were am presently(jordan) for europe and note that this funds can not come to you directly from were I am presently due to some security reasons and the present predicament, and i have two different european countries in mind which i have all the power and means to lift this funds through and we have good secret family relationship with these security companies over there in europe. The funds will leave for any of these security companies in europe immediately i receive a positive signal from you, from there you shall proceed to transfer it to your safest bank account or custody . You do not have to be worried for I will undertake all charges and cost involved in this transaction till it get to europe where you will be required to pick it up.

this transaction is 100% risk free so long you keep it very confidential because of the bad interest some people having in my fathers issue, I will be equally making an arrangements on how to meet up with you as soon as the fund is in you secure pocession .
You will be adequately compensated with 30% of the total funds as soon as you do everything possible for the funds to arrive in your safe possesion,also understand that if this 30% is not enough for you due to the expenses you think you will incure in making the funds get to you,you are very free to state your proposal . I will also give you the necessary data's you might need to secure the funds and you are interested do please furnish me your with your correct and proper details such as full names,telephone/fax,age,country and job status. And hence forth i will prefer you contact me on my private email:mrsraghad@aol.com for futher discusion over this matter. Hope to read from you soonest .
Your Ever,
Mrs Raghad Saddam Hussein Kamel.

I find it so funny that she's got an aol address. Hence forth.

Someone find some way to spam that email or something.
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post #2 of 11
1/9/07 at 1:46pm
Holy Shit Alex, that's a lot of money, you should do what she says!!!!
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post #3 of 11
1/9/07 at 1:51pm
I usually reply to some of these when I get them in an email address that is not my main one. I love negotiating for a bigger percentage and then they finally say ok, like I'm ripping them off.
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post #4 of 11
1/9/07 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica
I usually reply to some of these when I get them in an email address that is not my main one. I love negotiating for a bigger percentage and then they finally say ok, like I'm ripping them off.
I'm always tempted to tease them, but never do. I think there are whole websites devoted to getting these scammers to embarass themselves in pursuit of promised loot.
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post #5 of 11
1/9/07 at 3:38pm
Anyone else notice her name? Raghead? Is that a common name? Maybe I'm just being silly.
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post #6 of 11
1/9/07 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by Sammy Jankis
Anyone else notice her name? Raghead? Is that a common name? Maybe I'm just being silly.
it's about as common as KAMEL.
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post #7 of 11
1/9/07 at 4:58pm
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Originally Posted by Overlord
I'm always tempted to tease them, but never do. I think there are whole websites devoted to getting these scammers to embarass themselves in pursuit of promised loot.
www.419eater.com
www.quatloos.com
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post #8 of 11
1/12/07 at 3:38pm
Here's another new 419 tactic. Sucks for that girl.
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post #9 of 11
1/12/07 at 3:50pm
Ever since you posted those links Digger, I've been fascinated with these stories and the baiting they do.
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post #10 of 11
1/12/07 at 3:53pm
Ever since you posted those links Digger, I've been fascinated with these stories and the baiting they do.

While not technically 419 scam, this is kinda similar to that story. I guess you always have to do research.

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Luck runs out after moving in
Scam puts Akron man and daughter in a bind
By Carl Chancellor
Beacon Journal staff writer
The notion that a New Year's dish of sauerkraut and pork being the harbinger of good luck has been forever debunked for Gaylord Foster.

Foster, a single father, began 2007 with the traditional new beginnings meal and high hopes, having just signed a lease for a two-bedroom home.

``My daughter and I moved in on Jan. 3,'' said Foster, 43, a self-employed car mechanic.

Everything was starting out right.

Or so it seemed.

He said the quaint little stone and beige-sided home on Inman Street came at just the right time for him and his 17-year-old daughter, who is a member of Garfield High School's volleyball team.

But there was some big news coming that Foster knew nothing about.

Foster and his daughter were staying with his brother, and had been looking for a place of their own for a while -- ``My brother is selling his house,'' Foster said.

He said he was hoping to find a house to rent not far from Garfield High School.

``I saw the `For Rent' sign in the yard and one in the window and I called the number on the sign,'' Foster said.

He said he reached an answering machine and left a message.

While he waited for a return call, Foster asked several Inman residents about the area and was assured that it was a ``pretty decent neighborhood'' and a good place to raise a child.

Within a few days, Foster's call was returned and he set up a time to meet with the man who introduced himself as Darnell Harris.

Harris showed Foster the property and took the pertinent information.

``He took down my ID and my other information and told me he would call me in a couple of days,'' Foster said.

True to his word, Foster said, the call was returned and Harris told him everything checked out so Foster could rent the house.

``I met him at the house and we went to the kitchen where I signed a contract and gave him $1,950 in cash for first and last months' rent and a security deposit,'' said Foster, who produced the two-page rental agreement and a receipt signed by Harris.

After completing the paperwork and handing over the cash, Foster was given a set of keys.

He and his daughter had been in the house just a few days, when on Monday, there was an unexpected knock at the front door.

``It was a woman who said she had just bought the house,'' Foster said.

The woman was later joined by a ReMax real-estate agent, who had been listing the house for sale.

The agent confirmed the woman's claim and told Foster the woman had purchased the property on Jan. 5.

It was then Foster realized he had been scammed.

From what Foster has been able to piece together from the real-estate agent and Akron police, the man calling himself Harris simply planted a ``For Rent'' sign in the window and front lawn of the vacant home.

According to the police report, the man removed the lock box that was on the front door, put up his signs and waited for the calls to come in.

``You can see where he used a hammer on the lock box,'' said Foster, pointing to the dinged and dented doorknob.

Foster said the man then installed a second door lock.

He pointed to the shiny new brass-tone lock just under the front door's original lock.

``I was told by the new owner that I have to move out by January 19.... I don't know what I'm going to do. I spent all the money I had -- $1,950 for rent and security deposit and a few more hundred to put the utilities in my name,'' said Foster, his words trailing off.

``I don't know what I'm going to do.''

The ReMax real-estate agent, who didn't want to be identified, said she feels bad for Foster, but there isn't much she or her company can do.

She said she provided Foster with a list of six landlords who might be willing to rent to him and his daughter.

``I'm going to look for something in the (Garfield) school district, but it's going to be hard since I don't have any more money,'' said Foster, who stood on the front porch looking down at the ``For Rent'' sign lying in the front yard.

``Like I said, I ate the pork and sauerkraut for New Year's, so I'm hoping it will eventually kick in.''
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post #11 of 11
1/12/07 at 5:46pm
What the? You would think the new owner or the realtor would have noticed a "For Rent" sign in the yard of the house they were buying/selling.
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