I've received e-mail from EXCHANGE MANAGER OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Question

MY DEAREST ONE ,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department
of The African Development . I saw your contacts in INTERNET
SEARCH,After
much consideration i decided to write you since I cannot be able to see
you
face to face at first. I will like you to take your time to read this
mail
carefully. I did not mean to embarrasse you with my business proposal
but I
seriously need your assistance. Please this is a confidential matter
and it
requires urgency.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$12.5m dollars
(Twelve
million five hundred thousand USD) in an account that belongs to one of
our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family into the World
Trade
Center on September 11,sept 2001 (AMERICA ATTACK).

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlines and laws, but unfortunately we
learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him
at
11,sept 2001 (AMERICA ATTACK). leaving nobody behind for the claim.
The
owner of this account is Mr JOSEPH. F.

GRILLO, foreigner and he is the Manager Of petrol chemical service, a
chemical engineer by Profession. He died in world trade center as a
victim
of the September 11,2001 Incident that befall the United State of
America ,
the bank has made series of efforts to contact any of the relatives to
claim
this money but without success, you can confirm through this
website:http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1260
I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to
you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
andsubsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money
to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidine
here
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Seven years, the
money will be tranfered into the bank treasurey as unclaimed bill I
therefore agree that 40%of this money will be for you as foreigner
partner,
in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside
for
expenses incured during the business and 50% would be for me.

There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of
this
fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation
or
next of kin to the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank
account
number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where in the money will be remitted.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch-free
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you recieve this letter. Trusting to hear from
you
immediately.

Yours faithfully,
MR OUMAROU SENI.

Answer 1

Uhm, suggest that you ignore the scam letter, spam the email ad, and delete it from your inbox.

Nigerian Scam Letters, spreading all over the net, and oh by the way it also went global. Here's a sample letter that might help to convince you that it is fake (and fraudelent, if i may add):
http://www.scams.net/showthread.php?t=606

There are yet hundreds of its kind that have been maliciously targeting citizens worldwide, in hundreds of different ways. You may check out from some informational sources like: http://www.fraudaid.com/

So gurl, be aware, and be careful. a'ight?

PS: Say, before deleting the email, it will really be helpful if you help pass the word so that other yet possible victims be prompted to awareness with such alike encounters.

Answer 2

Delete it. What you have there is a big scam run out of Nigeria. I don't know anyone who hasn't gotten an email from them. I get 2 or sometimes 3 a day from them. Because they are not in the US there is nothing you or I can do about them.

Beware the UK lottery it is a scam too.

Basically if you don't recognize the person or company that sent the email don't open it and delete immediately it is probably a scam, spam message.

Answer 3

It's a scam. Any letter that comes out of nowhere, claiming to have found you on the internet.....is a scam. Period.

Any email or letter coming from some bank (especially Nigeria!!!) that needs your assitance to cash a check, transfer money, etc.... is a scam. Always.

Anything that seems too good to be true, is. Period.

Answer 4

First of all, edit your posts before you put them here. That was a bunch of SPAM. Second of all, click on the "Spam" button in your e-mail box. Third, ignore such messages. They're just shams and no one does anything about them. Reporting those to the FBI does NOT do a thing.

Answer 5

Report it to the internet fraud division of the FBI

Answer 6

Without revealing any personal information, mess with them so they think you are being suckered.

Answer 7

Delete, it's just a scam.

Answer 8

Wasn't necessary to copy and paste the whole thing...
we're all aware of what you're talking about.

Delete it or report it....
but, whatever you do, DON'T REPLY TO IT!

Answer 9

I gave them $100,00 dollars.

Answer 10

delete! it is a scam