Free 30 million dollars. Yeah, right.

[LRB]

I got the following email last night and this afternoon. Obviously it's a scam, but I'm not sure what they're trying to scam since all they ask for is name, address, telephone, and fax numbers. Maybe there's a part 2 to this. Anyone seen this before?

R. Von Heinz
Valiant Privatbank AG
Postfach 3001 Bern, Switzerland
EMAIL: ssw231@netscape.net
Sir;



PRIVATE AND URGENT.



I am contacting you on business transfer of a hugh
sum of money from a deceased account.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am
sure that you are experienced in handling this sums.
We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this
transaction.



PROPOSITION; We discovered an abandoned sum of
US$30,000,000.00 (thirty million united states
dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customers who paid
in these funds into our bank as depository for an
investment program he was involved.
she was at our bank nine (9) months ago at the
begining of this investment program, but unfortunately
she died.



The details of the investment program states that she
and she only is in control of the funds and it was
invested out of her
corporate estate. Her family records are not stated
in our bank records and in her investment program
contracts. Thus her family are not aware. Again she
is a widow.



The rules in our bank here in Switzerland puts the
money under current Bank Assets as soon as they do
not get communication from the accounts owner within
a stipulated period agreed during the clients accounts
opening. In the case of this customer, she is meant
to send banking instructions
every three mnoths.



She died five (5) months ago and i got to know from
my
sources, and her Obituary is also stated in the link
below:



http://www.herald-journal.com/obits/...arnes0104.html



She has been buried and i know no one knows about
these funds. Since her death, none of his next-of-kin
or relations
has come forward to lay claims for this money as the
heir. We cannot release the fund from his account
unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin
to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines.



Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to
have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as
all documentations will be carefully worked out by us
for the funds (US$30,000,000.00) to be released in
your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin.It may
interest you to know that we have secured from the
probate an ORDER OF MADAMUS to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries.



Please acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following;
1. Beneficiary name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
These requirements will enable us file letter of
claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in
your favour before the transfer can be made. We look
forward to your suggestions and sharing formula. Your
share stays while the rest shall be for us for
investment purposes. If this proposal is acceptable
by you, do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent
mail.
Please reply to EMAIL: ssw231@netscape.net




Regards,
Mr. Von Heinz.

[Usually Lurkin]

I get 3 or 4 of those a day in my UT mail account. It's rediculous. Usually they're from some foreign country, or a deposed dictator or something.

From what I've read about this scam, the idea is to string people along as long as possible, gathering various "fees" from them in order to process the transfer of huge sums of money. If you respond, they'll probably fax a description of some fee along with a request for a few hundred dollars.

The only time I responded, I asked them to please deliver the huge sums of money (as a good faith gesture) in small, used, one-dollar bills, inside a brown paper bag, to a dumpster on a certain street corner in Scotsdale, Arizona. I wrote that I would then send them however much they asked. Unfortunately, I haven't been to Arizona to check. But since I haven't heard from them, I assume they are still waiting for me to pick up the money and then get back to them.

[EricaLubarsky]

Stupid assh@les. I wouldnt mind if they were creative in the slightest but that scheme is only for the most idiotic.

[sike]

*sheesh*

[EricaLubarsky]

lol, I just realized that the name on the Email is Heinz.