Dear Sir or Madam
By Mitch Berg
Attorney Remi Tunde
Principal Partner/Owner,
REMI TUNDE & Associates
plot 278 Emmanuel Avenue
Victory Island
Dear Friend,
In re: your email letter of November 22, you wrote:
“We are Attorneys, Solicitors and Advocates. We have been privileged to know Mrs. Jamila Ahmed and her predicaments. Having listened to her and her wishes, we are happy to be associated with the processes being taken to fulfill them.
Jamila has briefed us of your desire and intention to be part of the fulfillment of her dreams by agreeingto take delivery of the sum of $25,500,000.00 (twentyfive Million, five hundred thousand US Dollars only) and invest in humanitarian and charitable ventures.
Out of pure curiosity, does anyone actually fall for this anymore? Other than her, I mean? I’m just agog at the notion that not only do people fall for this, but other people on your end take it so very seriously:
The Secret Service claims that “in June of 1995, an American was murdered in Lagos, Nigeria, while pursuing a 419 scam, and numerous other foreign nationals have been reported as missing.”
Anyway – feel free to send me, via certified check, the sum of $10,000 – a pittance, really compared with the millions you and your client Ms. Ahmed need to smuggle out of wherever you are, that I may commence in my solicitude. You (obviously) have my contact information.
Remain blessed and best regards,
Yours faithfully,
Mitch Berg
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
If you get any positive responses, send them my way. I have some spare carbon credits I need to unload.
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
i got 3 of these types of emails today. Ugh. But lately, it’s been that i’ve won the Irish lottery one million pounds sterling! i only need to send them my name, email address, phone number, marital status, and social security number. Yah right.
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
The Secret Service has a web site where you can report 419 scams. My guess is that they cannot pursue most of them, but it can’t hurt. I would rather get these than have certain parts of the male anatomy enlarged.
November 24th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I get a couple of these a day. Someone with my name dies in Africa leaving millions in the bank. I won the microsoft lottery. The world wide lottery. The world cup lottery. Someone’s dad (who was the president of some country) died and now they need to move money. None of them remotely believable, but someone must bite to explain the volume of email. I look forward to the day Nigeria passes the death penalty to sending this stuff. The same people also run scams on ebay. Quite the industry.