I have gotten alot of those "deposit the money from overseas and split it with me" get rich e-mails. So I decided to respond to one and see what happen.

Here is my story...... lol....

The first e-mail I received
Dear ShirleyIt is with great opportunity that I write you.I am Michael Boateng ,age;34 years and a Junior bank staff at the Accounts & Treasury Department,International Commercial Bank Ltd,Accra,Ghana which is one of Ghana's leading retail bank withover 30 branches scattered across Ghana.I humbly solicit for your confidentiality in what I have to tell you as my good findout in my department.

A national of your country,late MR.HERBERT SHIRLEY, was a Gold Investor/Contractor with Ghana Trade and Investment Corporation and died in October 2007 as a result of his diagnosed cancer.He had a closing balance of $9,374,871(Nine Million,Three Hundred and Seventy-Four Thousand,Eight Hundred and Seventy-one Dollars).Since his death,the bank has been expecting a next of kin to him to come and claim his money in the bank but up till this time of writing no next-of-kin of relative of the deceased has come forward to claim his money with us. I think surely now that no family relative knows about this money he deposited at our international bank branch,Ghana as he was a foreign investor/contractor.Thus,I bent on searching through the internet to see if I could locate any of the deceased relatives and on one of such searches,I saw your email address and I decided to seek your consent to act as next of kin to the deceased since you bear the same last name with him. However,as an insider,I will guide you on how you proceed to enable you claim the money as your inheritance fund and it will be transferred into your account.

On the confirmation of the money into your bank account,I will proceed on applying for my annual leave to procure a visa so as to come to your country to collect my own share of the money which I will invest in a profitable business venture in your country and I will rely on your advice.

Regards,
Michael Boateng


I responded with
Please let me know what I can do to help. I am very desperate for money right now. I will do all I can.

I received back

My Cara Shirley ,

This is a real deal for both us.You must keep this very secret.Please do not let anyother person hear about this deal from begining to the end.I am ready to advise and guide you on what to do.
As a bank insider,I will guide you on how best you can claim the deposited money of late Mr.Herbert Shirley as your family inheritance.As the procedure requires,you will write to the bank director telling him that you will be happy if the bank can process the transfer of your family money back to you as your family inheritance.Or if you do not know how to write it,I may draft the letter to you which you will send to the bank director .I will give you the bank account number of late Mr.Herbert Shirley so that when you contact the director,he will know you are saying the truth about claiming the money as your family inheritance.i will give you the contact information of the bank director.

But before i give you these important information ,I want you to understand that once we coperate and succeed and the money is finally transferred to you as your family inheritance,we will share the money half and half.
My phone number is (+233)249-589-439.Please do not call me in the bank premises so that nobody in the bank will monitor our telephone communication.You can give me your direct phone number so that when i am not in the bank premises,i can call you.
The most important thing is that I must make sure that I will be replying your email as fast as possible.
As a bank insider,I also know very well that both of us cannot get into trouble because the bank director do not know any family member of late Mr.Herbert Shirley.Therefore, the bank director cannot doubt you since you have the same last name with late Mr.Herbert Shirley.
So before i start ,let us agree that once we coperate and succeed and the money is finally transferred to you as your family inheritance,you will take half and give me half.
I have attached my picture photo so you can know my face very well.

I wait for your reply.

Regards,
Michael


I responded with
Michael, I really do want to help but I am afraid I am confused as to what I should do. Do I need to call the bank or will you call them. Do I need to send them a letter? Can you tell me what I need to say? Or do you have a draft you can send to me?

I received back

Cara, Please just relax .I will draft the letter so you can read it and send it to the bank director by nextweek. I will give you the director's name and email address. Regards,Michael

I responded with
Michael,

Please hurry. I am very excited about helping you!
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I will update when I receive info back!
Lets see how crazy I can get before this guy gives up. Give me some sample e-mails that I should respond back with.

Which proves there's all kinds of entertainment for anyone out there whose looking. I'm like you, Sunrise. I just don't give them the time of day.

People actually send money to these scammers??!!?? apperantly I am too poor then, because I just wouldnt have the cash to send them LOL...I guess that is why they dont write me, they saw my bank balance LOL

Shirley, be careful w/something like this. If you make him mad enough at your trickery...well, I'm just not sure a few laughs are worth the possibilities.

I'm not dumb enough to fall for something that obvious, but the minute I think I'm too smart to fall for anything is when I will be "had." Some of those suckers can be pretty smart and convincing.

(One of these days if I get smart enough to again figure out how to post pictures on here, I'll post the picture of the Brooklyn (NY) Bridge I bought for a "steal.")

I bought some water front property

Here is a site dedicated to scamming these scammers http://www.419eater.com/ It has tips and a forum where you can ask advice.

Awhile back I had a email conversation with a person claiming to have a high dollar breed of dog to give away. They claimed they were in Starksville, but after tracing the ip I found out they were in Nigeria. We emailed each other back and forth before I finally got bored with it and told them I knew their game. They told me they make thousands a week with the scam.

Cjshirley you should sign up with a free voicemail service (using fake info) and get them to call the number. The way I see it is if you keep them occupied maybe they will be to busy to scam other people.

Here is a site where you can get a free number with voicemail http://www.k7.net/

btw the pic they send is usually a stock photo that isn't even them.

Just found this in my email, it was a scammer trying to get me through one of my ebay auctions. I am John Hopkins in this conversation. The scammer was offering to send me a money order that I would cash and send part back to him wiht the item for sale.

To: John Hopkins <*******@gmail.com>
hi john,i've been waiting for your reply but i didnt get any.i also tried to call your number and i couldnt get through.i tried to deliver a message but my network doesnt permit the service of delivering a message to an answering machine.pls let me know whats going on cos my son's birthday will come up very soon.pls send the package on time and you recieve the money order when you send the tracking number to moneygram.thanks

John Hopkins <*********@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I don't understand what i need to do now. Can you please call me and explain? My number again is 206-339-9232.


Thanks
John

John Hopkins <*******@gmail.com> Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 5:07 AM
To: mario davids <mdavids20@yahoo.com>
Hi Mr. Mario,
I just wanted to say you are a #$%&*. And I hope one day you will see how you hurt people. This is one of the ways i make money to buy groceries is selling things on ebay. You probably never consider the lives of the ppl you rip of though do you. Well one day Allah or God or whoever you pray to will judge you. I only wish i could be there. Well so long. Wish i coulda wasted your miserable time more, but you bore me. Oh btw tell you son happy birthday lol!
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mario davids <mdavids20@yahoo.com> Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:58 AM
To: John Hopkins <*****@gmail.com>
hi john,thanks for the message but i will liek to tell you that i also make my money through this way.jow i wish i could talk to you or hear you voice.pls dont be cross with me.Allah wont do anything wrong cs He is the through God.sorry man

Smitty, please tell me you reported this jerk to Ebay, along w/his 'confession'. Ebay tries to make sure this type of thing is stopped immediately. But it has to be reported first. I'm sure they'd like to keep their reputation AND stay in business.

I'm pretty sure I did, but that was in 2006 and I can hardly remember what I did yesterday lol.

On another note in the last email he sent he almost makes me feel guilty for fussing at him, but maybe I'm just to much of a softy

Latest E-mail.

The Director
International/Foreign Remittance Unit
International Commercial Bank Ltd
Accra, Ghana
C/O:Mr. Prince .J. Tutu (Bsc,MBA)
Private Email: tutupj_intericbnk@yahoo.com
Official Email: intercommercial.bank@financier.com Dear Sir,

RE: APPLICATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF MY FAMILY INHERITANCE FUND LEFT IN YOUR BANK BY MY LATE FAMILY MEMBER MR.HERBERT SHIRLEY.
BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER : 0392000001418
AMOUNT: $9,374,871 ( NINE MILLION,THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR THOUSAND,EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE DOLLARS )

My name is CARA SHIRLEY.
As I was going through our family documentation files in the family cupboard and arranging them properly, I saw your personal information in one of the files left in the family cupboard by my family member, MR.HERBERT SHIRLEY. Therefore, I decided to write to inform you of my family inheritance fund left in your bank by MR.HERBERT SHIRLEY. The amount is $9,374,871(Nine Million, Three Hundred and Seventy-Four Thousand, Eight Hundred and seventy-one Dollars) in his bank account. MR.HERBERT SHIRLEY died on 30th October, 2007.
Please Sir, I request for your help that you can use your good office to facilitate on the transfer of my family inheritance fund as soon as possible. On behalf of my family, I hope to hear from you concerning the transfer process of my family inheritance fund. I have considered this time very essential to see that my family inheritance fund is transferred back to me.
Dear Sir, I respect your office and do hope that you shall attend to the transfer of my family inheritance fund as soon as possible.

Yours Faithfully,
CARA SHIRLEY

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When watching dateline, the told how they will do this. One person will start it then "transfer" you to another person.
Lets see how it goes.

Must be a boring day at work.