A new spam scam!!

This is certainly one of the more entertaining scam emails I’ve ever received - I just had to share it. Then I need to send whatever I can within 72hours!! :stuck_out_tongue: I especially liked the part that I bolded near the end. :smiley:
THE PRESIDENT OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF BENIN
LIBERATION PALACE COTONOU REPUBLIC DU BENIN
REF NO:…PDSF/OSI/OO2/ DSF2O11
DATE:…2 /11/2012

ATTENTION FOR YOUR IMMENSE BENEFITS!!!

INFORMATION REACHING US FROM OUR CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS TROUGH OUR PRESIDENT YAYI BONI NOW STATES THAT YOU HAVE 72HOURS TO EFFECT PAYMENT OF YOUR COMPENSATION FOR THE ACTIVATION OF YOUR MTCN TO ENABLE YOU CASH UP YOUR FIRST $5000.00 FROM YOUR TOTAL (FUND OF $950.000.00 ) SINCE YOU ARE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO MAKE THIS PAYMENT WE HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TO GO AHEAD AND PAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE FOR THE ACTIVATION FEE SINCE YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO COME UP WITH THE REQUIRED SUM,TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE HERE.

YOU ARE TO PAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE FOR THE ACTIVATION FEE; WE WILL ACTIVATE YOUR MTCN UPON RECEIPT OF THIS PAYMENT.

BE INFORMED THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY THE BALANCE SUM OF YOUR RELEASE ORDER FEE UPON CASHING UP YOUR FIRST $5000.00 USD, ALSO I AM USING THIS MEDIUM TO INFORM YOU THAT FAILURE TO PAY THE BALANCE SUM WILL LEAVE US WITH NO OPTION BUT TO DEACTIVATE YOUR MTCN OF WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE AND CAN NEVER CASH UP THE BALANCE SUM I WANT YOU TO SEND THE ACTIVATION FEE WITH THE INFORMATION BELLOW.

SEND US THE MTCN NUMBER IMMEDIATELY YOU SEND THE MONEY AND IMMEDIATELY WE CONFIRM THE ACTIVATION FEE WE WILL SEND YOU THE FIRST RECEIPT OF YOUR $5000.00 TODAY AND DON’T FORGET TO FORWARD THE MTCN TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS <removed> OR ON PHONE <removed also> DIRECTOR REV. FR. FRANCIS NWAIKE TO AVOID MISTAKE DO THAT FOR YOUR PAYMENT.

HERE ARE THE INFORMATION’S WHERE YOU CAN SEND ANY AMOUNT YOU HAVE AT HAND

RECEIVER-------MR.JAMES OKECHUKWU DIBOR.

COUNTRY--------BENIN REPUBLIC.

CITY-----------COTONOU.

**QUESTION-------AS SOON AS?

ANSWER---------POSSIBLE.**

AMOUNT---------$5000.00 USD.

AMOUNT YOU HAVE SENT

MTCN---------

SENDER NAME-----

SENDER ADDRESS-------

TEL--------

AWAITING FOR YOUR URGENT MAIL TODAY.

I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
YOURS IN SERVICE
VICE PRESIDENT BARRISTER FEMI ANDY.
WESTERN UNION HEAD OFFICE DEPARTMENT
REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
FOREIGN CONTRACTOR PAYMENT OFFICE.
Incidentally, what is MTCN? And who knew Benin’s new year began on Nov 1??

Why wouldn’t you believe that?

Remember, when you send the activation fee you have to BELLOW the information or it won’t work. :smiley:

That is beautiful. An absolute classic of the form.

Wait- where are the information’s??

Oh yeah, there they are.

How cool is it that the President of the Federal Republic of Benin has a corporate headquarters!!

Great President, Yayi Boni. He’s such a kidder!

But I hear he made the trains run on time.

My favorite is

QUESTION-------AS SOON AS?
ANSWER---------POSSIBLE.

This clarifies so much in life. I’m pretty sure I can use this in many situations.

If they offer me a percentage, I always ask for more. Sometimes they actually say no and argue my percentage is large enough. We’re talking imaginary money and they want to argue.

I wrote back to one recently who gave me the email address of an “international banker” who would help me set up an account to transfer my money (international bankers apparently are fond of Hotmail). I wrote to the banker and mildly suggested we “eliminate” the first guy and keep all the money.

Anyhoo, how much were you able to send?

On hand (or actually in my pocket) I have $7.93 - how much is a Western Union fee for sending money? hmmm, that could be a problem. I wonder if he could wait till I get paid next week…

:smiley:

Don’t do it!

I sent those bastards $35.00 and they only sent me $4870 for the first payment.

Their other payments have been infrequent and sometimes two weeks late.

To date they have only sent me $786,400 and all of my attempts to get them to send the remainder of the $950,000 of the fund have been met with, “We’ll send it soon” or “It’s in the mail.”

I regret ever doing business with those guys.

Relax, you’ll get it. They have expenses. They must spend a fortune on RANDOM CAPITAL LETTERS.

MTCN is a Western Union Money Transfer Control Number. When you send them your penny (why send any more than that?) by Western Union, they can use that number to pick it up at any Western Union in the country you specify.

https://thewesternunion.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13/~/what-is-a-money-transfer-control-number-(mtcn)%3F

Usually these scams start with a letter that starts a conversation that (they hope) eventually leads to you sending them money. This scammer gets right to the point. The sad thing is that there are probably people who will fall for this and send money.

This is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. This is 10 times funnier than the shit that people come up with when they’re actually trying to be funny. I intend to use this in place of “ASAP” in the hopes that it will catch on.

Everything seems as it should be, but this apostrophe error gives the whole scam away.

As it turns out, Yayi Boni sounds like he could be one of those West Africans who need to get money into a secure Western bank AS SOON AS? POSSIBLE.

[On 15 March 2007, Yayi Boni survived an ambush on his convoy near the village of Ikemon while returning from an election campaign rally in the town Ouesse for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The attackers blocked the road with downed trees, and fired upon the vehicle that usually carries the President; however President Boni was traveling in a separate vehicle. Several of his entourage were wounded in the ensuing crossfire between the presidential guard and the would-be assassins. However this information remains unproven since all sources claiming the assassination attempt come from the president’s camp. The verification of such information remains impossible to date.

On 23 October 2012, the BBC announced that the president’s doctor, niece, and former commerce minister had been arrested in a plot to poison the president. A former ally of the president and businessman had reportedly paid the niece to substitute the President’s medicine with a “toxic substance” while he was on a state visit to Brussels.](Thomas Boni Yayi - Wikipedia)

::sigh::
Nobody ever offers me money.
I only get the ones that tell me if I don’t click on the link immediately the FBI is going to show up at my door to arrest me.

Although one woman did offer to make me her beneficiary. I asked how soon was she going to die because I really really really need the money. I guess she died already because I never heard back.
Oh well, such is life.