# Cool e-mail from Ivory Coast asking for assistance transferring $19 million
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 28, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548 "2006-04-28T02:10:51Z")
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### Author:  [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/1 "2006-04-28T02:10:51Z")
How do people fall for this stuff?
INVESTMENT PROPOSAL.
ATTN;Dear One
Iam sending you this proposal with deep concerned as to beg for help out
of my situation.
Iam Miss AMMA AMMED,Daughter to the personnal assistant to the late former
president of cote d! Ivoire Robert Guie, my father captain IDRIS AMMED,was
shot dead including the former president Robert Guie and some members of
his family, in a coup attempt to overthrow the new president during his
official visit to Italy.
Hearing the news of my fathers dead lately in the night by his driver,i
ran to his bedroom and carried away some important belongings and move to
the interior village for hiding. I later discovered that the former late
president assigned $19million Dollars to my late father for the purchasing
of Ammunitions. But unfortunatly my father was killed before he could carry
out this assignment
Now; this $19million Dollars is saftly Deposited under a security company
by my father through the depositing documents i discovered in his bed room
from the important belongings i carried away,as families valuable items.
he never told them that the contains are money.but registered as families
valuable items.
The Depositing Document and the keys are in my position. Please i am contacting
you as to assist me clear this money from this security company and be
transfered to your \*\*\*\*\*\*\* for investment.so that i can continue with my
studies, iam a student of 18yrs of age and single
We can discuss your commission as soon as i hear from you,
Thanks,
sincerely,
Miss, AMMA AMMED
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/2 "2006-04-28T02:59:26Z")
That’s your official welcome to the Internet. They’ve been going around for longer than there’s been an SDMB (and the basic scam predates the Internet) – it’s usually known as the Nigerian Scam, since the early messages originated in Nigeria.
And, yes, people fall for it. Greed trumps good sense many a time.
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### Author:  [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/3 "2006-04-28T03:28:44Z")
Yes, they’ve been around for a while.
Recently, I saw a tv report on a woman who fell for the scheme, and a bank loans manager who fell for it enough to lend the woman the money she needed to “free” the said millions.
Hard to believe.
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### Author:  [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/4 "2006-04-28T03:51:47Z")
Whoa!
They’ve got 19 million? :eek:
Can I get that email address? I’ma totally rip them off. 😛
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/5 "2006-04-28T04:02:14Z")
What, is Nigeria’s name so sullied by scammers that they’re taking their business to Europe now?
This looks like a fun one for 419eater.
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### Author:  [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/6 "2006-04-28T11:34:24Z")
I don’t feel the slighest sympathy for the victims of such scams. You were scammed while trying to make money aiding a thief? Poetic justice, I say…
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/7 "2006-04-28T12:33:01Z")
_My_ scammers have been in the Far East lately.
Hey! The European scammers seem to have skipped me altogether - might be some type of conspiracy.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/8 "2006-04-28T13:16:34Z")
I like how the scammers are now broadening their scope- note how this one has elements of the begging-letter sob story, greed scam and even a hint of sexual promise at the end?
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/9 "2006-04-28T14:09:37Z")
Is it just me, are the scammers now just phoning it in? It’s like they don’t even really care anymore. They’ve got no time for the little people, and it’s just sad.
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### Author:  [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-e-mail-from-ivory-coast-asking-for-assistance-transferring-19-million/354548/10 "2006-04-28T14:33:28Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#):
>
> Is it just me, are the scammers now just phoning it in? It’s like they don’t even really care anymore. They’ve got no time for the little people, and it’s just sad.
Yeah, it’s kind of like when you read a Jack Chick tract with cartoon Satans and no real hellfire and you can tell his heart wasn’t in it.
> [@Happy Clam](#):
>
> I like how the scammers are now broadening their scope- note how this one has elements of the begging-letter sob story, greed scam and even a hint of sexual promise at the end?
Yes, but is Miss Ammed **hot**?