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PM's from Prince Kamara

By Adriandavies, in The Bonfire

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Adriandavies
How many other DZ.com members have received the following PM? If you have I'm hoping that none of you have been naive enough to respond offering help. The sum of money offerred is huge but believe me you will be the one losing out whilst 'Prince Kamara' runs all the way to the bank. You've got to admire his cheek though as he has used a private message service to propogate his scam.
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Attn:,
Good day and God Bless you.
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into a
business relationship with you.

I know you might be surprised on recieving this mail
due to we have not met before.
By brief introduction , I am Prince Kamara a citizen
of Sierra Leone
and the only son of late Mr and Mrs Vincent Kamara.

Remainder of PM deleted. This is indeed a scam and the issue is being taken care of.

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This is an article by Vin Suprynowicz on the 419 scam. I think it is hilarious. YMMV.

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"Even someone suffering from end-stage syphilis-induced insanity would
not fall for such a transparent scam. Right?" asks Morrock News columnist
John David Powell (http://morrock.com/powell2.htm.)

"Wrong. The U.S. Secret Service says hundreds of millions of dollars are
lost each year to this scheme, and the toll is mounting. ...

"It's called the Advance Fee Fraud, or the 4-1-9 scheme, named for the
section in the Nigerian penal code that addresses fraud scams. The 4-1-9 is
so widespread and successful that the Secret Service has set up 'Operation
4-1-9' within its Financial Crimes Division. Each day they receive about
100 telephone calls from victims or potentia victims and as many as 500
letters or faxes. Agents have been assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Laos to
address the problem and to help larcenous and stupid U.S. businessmen get
out of the country. ... An American participant was murdered in 1995,"
Powell reports.

You get an e-mail from someone in Africa, proposing to defraud the local
authorities of their share of millions of dollars. They just need an
overseas co-conspirator with a bank account into which they can shovel the
loot by international wire transfer. But they don't know any foreigners, so
they got your name from the "Chamber of Commerce." For a 30 or 35 percent
share, all you have to do is send them your bank account number, name,
address, phone ...

Personally, I've received so many of the offers I now have a separate
e-mailbox named "African Opportunities."

An early one came from one Fatima Dengo, "the daughter of Dr. S.J. Dengo,
who was the director, International Remittance Central Bank of Sierra-Leone
until he was assassinated by the rebel junta. ..."

Ms. Dengo had $35 million which she needed to my help to get out of the
Republic of Togo.

Then came Mrs. Mariam Abacha (impressively introduced by her attorney,
"Mike Ugboma.") The "widow of the late Gen. Sanni Abacha former Nigerian
Military Head of State who died mysteriously as a result of Cardiac
Arrest," Mrs. Abacha had "US $41.5 Million Dollars" which was "sealed in
two Metal Boxes In Nigeria." And nobody but me could help her get them out,
of course.

I started filing the offers based on creativity and literary merit, and
noticed patterns emerging. A recurring theme involves a late, lamented
mining engineer by the name of "Smith B. Andreas."

"Dear sir," wrote Mr. Mudy Edger, purportedly of Louis Botha Crescent,
Sadton, South Africa, back on June 26, "In order to transfer out 126
million United States Dollars from African Development Bank, I have the
courage to ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable for this important business. ...

"I am Mr Mudy edger, the Chief auditor of African Development Bank." (Do
you suppose he'd mind if I borrowed his name for the protagonist of an
existential detective novel?) "There is an account opened in this bank in
1980 and since 1990 nobody has operated on this account again. after going
through some old files in the records I discovered that if I do not remit
this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. the owner of this
account is Mr. Smith B. Andreas, a foreigner and a miner at kruger gold co.
an he died since 1990. no other person knows about this account. ..." (Do
these people really speak English that way, or is it just part of the act?)

All I have to do is send "full details of the account to be used for the
deposit," and I'll end up with one third.

But my Uncle Smith's plane crash had mysteriously shifted from 1990 to
1997 by the time I heard from Dr. Koffi Kaku, of the Auditing and
Accounting Unit, Foreign Remittance Department, International Bank of
Africa, Lome-Togo:

"During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came
across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on
November 1997 in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in his
account ..." $14 million this time.

I replied:

Dear Dr. Kaku --

Wow! Upon his demise in the tragic accident in which his Ford Tri-motor
encountered that massive swarm of tsetse flies over Lake Victoria, my
beloved uncle Smith Andreas, noted hydrologist, veterinary researcher, and
palladium magnate, left me ANOTHER bank account -- this one valued at U.S.
$14 million -- and this time in Lome-Togo?

I didn't know he'd even BEEN to Lome-Togo.

For that matter, I didn't even know they'd added the "Lome." I thought
that was some kind of traditional Hawaiian dish. But now, looking at the
map, I see it's actually the CAPITAL of Togo. Live and learn!

Thanks for the news. I'll be sure to make a stop and claim these funds in
between closing down Uncle Smith's equally moribund accounts in Nigeria and
South Africa. (I'm amazed -- and gratified -- at how helpful all you
African bank officers have been in contacting me about these misplaced
funds.) I fear I will need some help with the international air fare,
however, so please send me a bank "cashier's" or "treasurer's" check for
U.S. $1,840 to: Vin Suprynowicz, c/o Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1111 W.
Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, Nev. 89106, U.S.A., to facilitate my travel and
further research.

(We're planning a memorial sculpture of my Uncle Smith, depicting his
final moments --wiping the swarms of flies from the goggles of his leather
flying cap, his white scarf streaming out behind as he plunged into the
crocodile-infested waters. If you like, feel free to add a little something
extra to help fund this endeavor. The full-size Tri-motor is going to take
a lot of bronze. Not to mention the swarm of bronze tsetse flies. ...)

An apparently somewhat confused Dr. Kaku wrote back on July 24:

"Dear Vin Suprynowicz, How are you? Hope good.

"Please can you put me through because I don't understand what you are
talking about in your mail send to me. Are you interested in the deal or
not tell me so that I can go ahead and do the deal with you.Or you can tell
me so that I can go ahead and look for bodyelse who can help me champion
this deal. ..."

So I wrote back again:

Hi, Koffi -- It sounds like a WONDERFUL deal! Just send me that bank
"cashier's" or "treasurer's" check for U.S. $1,840 and we'll get started!

This is a pittance, Koffi, compared to that $14 million we're going to
split. I'm sure you don't want to let your share slip through your fingers,
for the lack of a mere $1,840!

Meantime, feel free to add a little something extra for Uncle Smith's
memorial sculpture, if you like. We're arranging to give it a place of
honor on the ceiling of the cocktail lounge of the "Reserve" casino in
Henderson ... or possibly next to Howard Hughes' old flight jacket at
McCarran International Airport. ...


Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas
Review-Journal. Subscribe to his monthly newsletter by sending $72 to
Privacy Alert, 561 Keystone Ave., Suite 684, Reno, NV 89503 -- or dialing
775-348-8591. His book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom
Movement, 1993-1998," is available at 1-800-244-2224, or via web site
www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html

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