Even the Nigerian scammers are getting better!

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I just got this email that addressed me by last name in the subject line and used my last name in the email, I guess to make it sound like it was my long, lost relative.

Email:

Good day

I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a large sum of money from a dormant account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you That all will be well at the end of the day

PROPOSITION

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$7,500, 000.00 (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign Customers by name Mr. Brian M. [MY LAST NAME]. This very account has been dormant for some years now. After my investigations, I discovered that the account owner has died since January 2000. Since his death, nobody has come forward to lay claims to this money and recently my bank issued a notice that the account will be declared unserviceable and the funds called to the government treasury since no relative of the deceased customer came up.

In order to avert this negative action, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin so that funds to be released in your favor as the next of kin.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following if you are willing to work with me actualize.

1. Your name
2. Postal address
3. Occupation
4. Telephone and fax numbers

This information will enable me work on the account file so that you can now apply for the release of the funds as the next of kin to the account. We are going to share the total sum on final conclusion of this project on a 50-50 equal

If you are truly disposed and capable of handling this with me, reach me immediately.

Regards,
Raphael Bayan
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What do they do after collecting our information? Can they use it for any illegal activities? Recently I gave my personal information to a person on a small business deal (he was from the same place as I am according to his public profile, but he was banned soon after the incident.) And coming to this topic do they talk you into paying them some money quoting some expenses?
 
I was watching a show on those Nigerian bastards. The worst scam i saw was after someones been scammed once they scam them again by saying the national government of Nigeria is gunna give them a buncha money for the inconvenience of being scammed
 
I always wondered when some desperate copywriter
would jump ship and run to Nigeria to teach them
idiots how to actually craft a compelling message.

Just think of the damage they could do if they actually
constructed some decent stories and calls to action.

It's obviously a fairly lucrative industry for some of
these guys, and their skills are piss poor. I'm afraid
to witness the scams of the future because they will
only get more convincing over time.
 
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