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Please beware of scam...

Posted : 8/25/2006 5:42:16 PM

Hi everyone -
I received the e-mail below through this forum... Please beware. It is a scam!!! Does anyone know how to alert all the users of this site?

-----Original Message-----
From: love55 from Dog.com Forum mailto:love_rechard06@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 24 August, 2006 3:58 AM
Subject: From Lovirine Rechard

From Lovirine Rechard

Urgent / Assistance

Hello Dear,

Permit me to inform you my heart desire for a business relationship
with you. I got your contact when I was searching for a foreign partner here in Abidjan republic of Cote D'Ivoire on my search for honest and reliable person.

I prayed over it and decided to confide in you because of your integrity and educational background. I am Miss Loverine Rechard,( 23 years old ), the only daughter of late Dr and mrs Paul Rechard. My father was a very wealthy Gold/Diamond dealer in Free town, the economic capital of Sierra leone.
My father was poisoned to death by his close business associates on one of their outings on a business trip My mother died when I was 9 years old and since then my father took me so special.

Before the Death of My Father last year on August 19th 2005, in a
private hospital in Freetown, he secretly called me by his bed
side and told me of a deposit of 9,000,000,00 united state dollars
(NINE MILLION DOLLARS) in a bank here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire with his name as the depositor while my name been the daughter as the next of kin when he deposited the money, he told me that because of envy he was poisoned by his close associates.

He also advised me to seek for an honest foreigner in a country of my choice, so that those associates will not hurt me as they have succeeded in poisoning him, it has been difficult to know who is an honest person to assist me in this transaction, and for me to continue silent over looking for assistance , I decided to make a try from you,

I arrived here (ABIDJAN) in a nearby country on the 2th of Aug 2006 since my uncle wants to kill me because of this certificate of depositsas hev have suceeded in collecting all my father's property left with this money, They continuously mal-treated me, and have made life very unbearable for me. The wife serve me a delicious poisoned rice meal on 1th of Aug 2006, but for the Devine mercy the daughter secretly whispered to me not to eat the meal,

I wasted the meal to the bin only to find ten dead rat on the bin the following morning and that made me to run away immediately. And i don't want to stay long here since I know nobody or have much money to pay for hotel bill.

Dear, I honourably seek your assistance in the following ways:

1) To stand as my late father's foreign partner since my late father deposited it to be cleared by his foreign partner and no name was mentioned.
2) To provide an account where we can transfer this money.
3) To help me arrange for better establishment.
4) To help me come over to your country to further my education.

Please my intention is not to disturb your Peace,but because l am sincerely in need, And desperately need a solution before my life is wasted because there is war in this country. the most important thing is for you to be aiding me as parent who will directing all my affair. and all my doings in your country. Lastly ,you will promise me that you will not betray or deny me if this my money gets into your hands.

Dear, I am ready to offer you 10% of the
total money for your help. But if you are not in better position to help. Please let me know. So that I can look for another helper. I am with the certificate of deposit upon demand. I am Looking forward to your kind reply.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Yours sincerely,
Loverine Rechard.

Julitza

Posted : 8/25/2006 5:51:39 PM

Sounds like an action movie, but how is this a scam, besides the fact that its probably a fiction story?

Xebby

Posted : 8/25/2006 6:28:11 PM

HA ha, I was thinking it was a good

lot for an Indiana Joans movie. Some lady and with her million dollar dead dad trying to get her dads money back... Scam or whatever it's to unreal to even belive.

KCSO

Posted : 8/25/2006 7:04:15 PM

ORIGINAL: LizzieCollie

Sounds like an action movie, but how is this a scam, besides the fact that its probably a fiction story?

Its a very old (and sadly very common and very profitable) internet scam, usually done via email.

[linkhttp://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp]http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp[/link]

Xerxes

Posted : 8/25/2006 9:19:50 PM

The way the scam works is that they promise you a bunch of money, get access to your private information, including bank info and then they rob you by either transferring money out of your accounts or by stealing your identity to create fictitious credit accounts.

It works because of the promise of lots of money.

Jeff Cornella

Posted : 8/28/2006 4:01:44 PM

The way people are normally defrauded with this scam is once they are hooked in and have everything set up to retreive the money they are told by there foreign counterpart that there is a $5,000 bank fee to retreive the money at this time. The are guaranteed repayment of the $5000 from the money with drawn from the bank, plus there 10% (or what ever the particular scam offers).

It has been aroud for years, and is still effective today.

janobonano

Posted : 8/28/2006 4:12:16 PM

ORIGINAL: *chloe*

Hi everyone -
I received the e-mail below through this forum... Please beware. It is a scam!!! Does anyone know how to alert all the users of this site?

-----Original Message-----
From: love55 from Dog.com Forum mailto:love_rechard06@yahoo.com]

Because it came through the forum, I would notify Jaime ([linkhttp://forum.dog.com/asp/showprofile.asp?memID=591]amstaffy[/link]).

amstaffy

Posted : 8/28/2006 4:29:12 PM

Good bye Love55!

Please be sure to let me know these things. We don't see PM's or e-mails sent through the system and only you telling me will I know there is a problem