If you see emails like this one,
Good Day,
My name is Mr. Micheal Tan. I trained and work as an external auditor for the United Oversea Bank (UOB) Malaysia.
I have taken pains to find your contact through personal endeavours because a late investor , who bears the same last name with you has left monies totaling a little over $10 million United States Dollars with Our Bank for the past twelve years and no next of kin has come forward all these years.
Banking regulation legislation in malaysia demand that I notify the fiscal authorities after a statutory time period of twelve years when dormant accounts of this type are called in by the monetary regulatory bodies.
The above set of facts underscores my reason of writing.I am of the settled conviction
that using my insider leverage, working with you,since you have the same last Name with
the Late Investor, we can secure the funds in the account for us instead of allowing it
pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the Government of Malaysia .This exactly is why I crave your participation and cooperation.I have seized all
relevant information (legal and Banking) that will facilitate our putting you forward
as the claimant/beneficiary of the funds and ultimately transfer the money to any
account nominated by you.Be assured that I and my colleagues are on top of the situation all the time and there
will be no risk . Needless to say, Uttermost CONFIDENTIALITY is of vital importance if
we are to successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.I have intentionally left out the finer details for now until I hear from you. To affirm
your willingness and co-operation to my proposal please do so by email, stating your full
names, date of birth, telephone number and fax number and occupation. I do expect your
prompt response.Thank you
Mr. Micheal Tan
Thrash them, and have a good day.
A reference to an old blog article with regards to Nigerian Scam here.
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“The same last name” … lol, yeah!
I should go to the local bank and ask if there is someone who has the same name last name like me, then I can taken over his bank account. LOL
Is anyone dumb enough to believe this obvious scam?
yep. there was a county treasure i think about a month ago who took lot of the city money to invest in this. He been at that job for a lot of years.
This rubbish exists more than twenty years, 22 years ago i’ve been working in an import and export company, we received this nonsens, they get their info fron international chambers of commerce. I’ve read that several people bought this kind of crap at the end, it’s gonna cost them. That’s what you get when your greedy. My own rule: don’t ever do business with nigerians.