Now no longer Nigerian....

• DC+

  8 Jul 07, 15:51

  how about reader digest lotteries?
• Honeybunz

  8 Jul 07, 15:54

  Hey, everyone...
  
  ask you all ah....
  
  Should I forward it to SPH reporters and let them publish?
• mancha

  8 Jul 07, 16:21

  
  "My mommy told me Never trust anyone who says Trust Me"
  
  ~Line remembered from a movie seen long ago.~
  
  Seems like these scammers are using the Christian reputation, like drug trafficers using Singapore Passports.
• No9

  8 Jul 07, 22:53

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  Hey, everyone...
  
  ask you all ah....
  
  Should I forward it to SPH reporters and let them publish?

  yes..alot of people still believe that there's free lunch in this world.
• Devil1976

  8 Jul 07, 22:55

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  I just rec'd this email... fresh from oven one...heheh
  I dunno any Toni. But very strange hor... if this Toni knows me, how come he called me sir/madam. I dun even bother to find out whether we have a Toni Law working in a very established singapore law firm.
  
  Pui!
  
  From: Toni Law [mailto:---]
  Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:44 PM
  Subject: Private
  
  Dear Sir/Madam,
  
  Have you ever received an email about doing business with someone overseas, thus receiving a large sum of money? Anyway, I get them always on my email but trash them straight away treating them as scam. But one day i decided to follow up on one. This was sometime in March this year. I did much research on the subject and the people involved in this deal. Even had some contacts travel to said country to visit the bank and legal chambers. It turned out to be bona fide. I, myself, am a lawyer and barrister in a very established law firm in Singapore.
  
  Because I had payments to make for bank and legal charges, I had some friends involved to share cost with them.The large inheritance is US$5million. Now this transaction is almost complete and the funds are in a London bank (en route from country of origin). As the British government declares the funds as undeclared, they will only release this sum upon payment of taxes, which is 25,000 pounds. At this final point, my friends and I have already depleted all our savings. We are saddened that we have come so far, only to be hindered by British taxes.
  
  Now this is the reason for writing to you. If you help us, we will give you US$1million. (Myself and 3 partners get US$1mil each). I know it sounds far fetched, but believe me...this is for real. Please help us loan this money, which is about S$76K to S$80K. This is a large sum of money to invest, but your returns are higher.
  
  We are all trust-worthy Christians and don't believe in cheating people. Please respond soonest if you are interested to help us. Also, would appreciate if you keep this confidential.
  
  Thank you very much.
  God Bless you.
  
  Kind regards,
  Toni Law
  

  Many this type of letters going around.... The more interesting thing is that I've actually got a friend who fell for it....
• Devil1976

  8 Jul 07, 22:57

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  Hey, everyone...
  
  ask you all ah....
  
  Should I forward it to SPH reporters and let them publish?

  No need lah... I think chances are they won't publish it too.... Too many of such things been going around... Unless they're thinking of writing a more general story out of it....?
• SingaporeMacross

  8 Jul 07, 23:22

  hahaha, i thought the killer boss was scolding the PRCs again.
• Honeybunz

  8 Jul 07, 23:56

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  hahaha, i thought the killer boss was scolding the PRCs again.

  oh ya... long time never scold them liao. Btw, side track a little... I just found another Damn bl00dy idiot Bitch PRC, saw her keep asking married men out.. yucks.
  
  
• Vigelic

  9 Jul 07, 00:45

  forward to stomp la. they very free one. let them investigate. then even bother to entertain the iraq war scam guy
• SingaporeMacross

  9 Jul 07, 01:14

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  oh ya... long time never scold them liao. Btw, side track a little... I just found another Damn bl00dy idiot Bitch PRC, saw her keep asking married men out.. yucks.
  
  

  
  
  your office one ah?
• FireAndHell

  9 Jul 07, 09:57

  Originally posted by Honeybunz:

  I just rec'd this email... fresh from oven one...heheh
  I dunno any Toni. But very strange hor... if this Toni knows me, how come he called me sir/madam. I dun even bother to find out whether we have a Toni Law working in a very established singapore law firm.
  
  Pui!
  
  From: Toni Law [mailto:---]
  Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:44 PM
  Subject: Private
  
  Dear Sir/Madam,
  
  Have you ever received an email about doing business with someone overseas, thus receiving a large sum of money? Anyway, I get them always on my email but trash them straight away treating them as scam. But one day i decided to follow up on one. This was sometime in March this year. I did much research on the subject and the people involved in this deal. Even had some contacts travel to said country to visit the bank and legal chambers. It turned out to be bona fide. I, myself, am a lawyer and barrister in a very established law firm in Singapore.
  
  Because I had payments to make for bank and legal charges, I had some friends involved to share cost with them.The large inheritance is US$5million. Now this transaction is almost complete and the funds are in a London bank (en route from country of origin). As the British government declares the funds as undeclared, they will only release this sum upon payment of taxes, which is 25,000 pounds. At this final point, my friends and I have already depleted all our savings. We are saddened that we have come so far, only to be hindered by British taxes.
  
  Now this is the reason for writing to you. If you help us, we will give you US$1million. (Myself and 3 partners get US$1mil each). I know it sounds far fetched, but believe me...this is for real. Please help us loan this money, which is about S$76K to S$80K. This is a large sum of money to invest, but your returns are higher.
  
  We are all trust-worthy Christians and don't believe in cheating people. Please respond soonest if you are interested to help us. Also, would appreciate if you keep this confidential.
  
  Thank you very much.
  God Bless you.
  
  Kind regards,
  Toni Law
  

  This email is a scam, fraud.......wanna cheat ppl of money. Don't ever, ever reply to such email. You do that and become too trustworthy to this email, and they gonna squeeze you of your savings.
  
  Don't you know, have you not read it in the papers before? Such scams have cheated gullible Sporeans of their hard earned savings. There's also an episode in the not so recent MISSING series on Ch5 about a young guy who went missing after he went overseas [Africa?] to retrieve his money which he had sent to such a scam. He never came back. Family still waiting for him
  
  It was mentioned he may have been killed by the syndicate who used this email tactic to entice gullible and greedy ppl of send money.
  
  Be vigilent to such email and dun reply..........Oh btw....last week i recieved a somewhat similar email......this time saying a relative has died and left millions in heritance money that need to be smuggled out of the country.. The purported email promised a cut of 20% of the inheritance money [US$] if i reply and make arrangement with the sender......also from Nigeria!!
  
  I deleted that email.....Yeah ppl....dun ever believe such email or you'll LOSE YOUR MONEY BIG TIME!! and your LIFE too if you so decide to pursue your money that has been taken away from you!!
• shandower

  9 Jul 07, 10:19

  Talk about reverse psychology!
• Rephidim

  9 Jul 07, 21:12

  gives christians a bad name...
• Honeybunz

  9 Jul 07, 23:01

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  
  
  your office one ah?

  harnor
• mamamamama

  9 Jul 07, 23:41

  Can't understand why would anyone believe such rubbish. Especially the lottery scam. I was laughing my head off the first time i received such mail.