A friend of mine forwarded this email to me which he got from somebody in Nigeria.

 

Good day,
 
 
I am Mr.Omar Bongo,i trained and work as an external auditor for  Wema Bank (WB)
Nigeria,working as part of a bigger team that covers the entire African region.
 
 
An investor,a nationality of your country died without naming a next of kin to  his fund in our bank.The amount in question is  $7.5M and banking regulation/legislation in Nigeria demand that I notify the fiscal authorities after a statutory time.The above set of facts underscores my reason of  writing and making the following proposing to present you as the next of kin.You will read more stories  about the crash on visiting this  website: www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/
 
 
I have all the legal and Banking details of my deceased client that will facilitate our putting you forward as  the claimant/beneficiary of the funds and ultimately transfer the money to any bank account nominated by you.I am prepared to compensate you with a 40% share of the total funds for your efforts.The final details will be given upon receipt an affirmation of your desire to participate.
 
 
Please contact me immediately whether or not you are interested in this deal.If you are not,it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal.But where you are interested, contact me through my email address below for more details as time is of the essence in this transaction.
 
 
Thank you,
 

Mr. Omar Bongo
(omarbongowema@yahoo.com.au)

And this is my friend's response

Good day Mr. Bongo,

 

I am glad that you chose me as the beneficiary for this transaction. I am not sure if the investor was from my country and that may cause difficulty along the process. Could you please give me the name of the deceased investor and his nationality so that I can confirm he is from my country and proceed with further process?

 

Thank you

This is what Bongo writes back:

Dear ……,
 
 
Thanks for your interest and your urgent response to my humble partnership/assistance request I urgently needed from you. I am very much impressed with your response which I am happy and very oblige to give you more details as requested.Attached is my working identity card and my phone number is (+234)8056717506. I will like to have your phone number  for easy communication.

 

I have very good confidence to co-ordinate with you and I hope that you will not betray me when the money comes to your account and I hope that our good relationship will lead us a very greater value in the nearest future.With your permission i shall proceed further to present you as the next of kin/Beneficiary to late  (David  ).
 
 
Please I expected you to feel free and have every confidence with me towards this transaction, I am in the key position with all necessary vital information and documents originated from deseaded beneficiary's deposit confidential bank file that will grant us an immediate approval of the deposited fund in your favour .
 
 
All I want from you is to simply adhere with my directives to actualize this fact within the next few working days.,Once the fund is moved to your nominated account,you will be entitle to 40% of the total sum. Your share stays while 5% out of the total money will be set aside to defray all incidental expenses both locally and internationally during the cause of this transaction.
 
To execute this deal perfectly, your presence here is not much needed, as I will be secretly working internally inside our bank for the same success too in giving you information secretly.
 
 
Please, I will need your maximum efforts to do this in less than few working days.
I am waiting to hear from you urgently.
 
Your Friend in trust,
Omar Bongo.

 

Friend's reply:

Mr. Bongo,

Thank you for the quick response. If you can provide me with late David's last name (surname) and the nationality, I would be more assured of this process. I have one more question for you. Why aren't you using your office email instead of using yahoo Australia?

 

Waiting for your reply.

 

Bongo still tries,

Dear….,

 

I Thank you for your response too.The Deceased name was David Chang and his nationality was Mexico.I thank you for the second question,like told you that this is confidential and i have no other option than to use my private email address in contacted you in other to avoid any suspicious.

 

Please, I will need your maximum efforts to do this in less than few working days.

I am waiting to hear from you urgently.

 

Your friend in trust.

 

Omar.

 

Immediate reply was:

 

Mr. Bongo,

In your first email you said the deceased is from my country. Since he's from Mexico, I can assure you that he is not related to me in any way. His last name does not match to mine or anybody I know.Having said that, I don't think this transaction is gonna go any further (I will not be qualified as the next of kin).

 

Bongo won't give up:

Dear ……,

 

Thanks for the email and note that you are to stand as the beneficiary to the deceased.Hence he is not from your country,you as a foreigner can stand as a next of kin to the deceased.Be informed that a Nigerian cannot stand as a next of kin to the deceased person and that was the reason why i contacted you in this.

 

In fact,i would have done this ,but as a civil servant(BANKER) we are not allow to operate a foreign account.If i must do this alone it will raise an eyebrow on my side.

 

On the second thought ,you are fully qualify to stand as the beneficiary to the deceased .Simply adhere to my directives.

 

I await to hear from your subsequent correspondence in this matter.

 

Your friend in trust.

 

Omar.

 

Acting innocent, he asks:

Mr. Bongo,

 

What kind of cooperation do you need from my side in order to make this transaction happen? Please clearify in details.

 

Bongo replies within minutes:

 

Dear ........,

 

I Once again thank you for responding so quickly.I will need your maximum efforts to do this in less than few working days.Finally , give me your words that you will be faithful to me in this transaction to keep this proposition in absolute confidentiality and trust then, we can work out the details.

 

I will like you to furnish me with the following information's:
(1)Your full name and contact address,
(2)Your full address and telephone number,
(3)Your date of birth and occupation.
 
This information will enable me prepare the necessary documents in your favour as might be required by the bank.

 

I await your urgent reply.
Mr. Omar Bongo.

I hope this answers Bongo's question. Ha Ha Ha

 

 

 

Mr Bongo,

Here you go:

Full name and contact address: Scam Hater

                                               No Street

                                                Apt # Homeless

                                                Some City, State, XXXXX-XXXX

                                                Earth

Telephone # XXX-XXX-XXXX

Date of Birth: Don't you know your papa's DOB?

Occupation: Scam Detector

 

If you need more info, please feel free to contact me via email, telephone or mail.

 

Thank you again.

Punte damai, this last reply is awesome. I been getting the same kind of email from long time, and been ignoring it. lol. This was good response though, Funny and good one!

wow.nepal

Ha ha. Sweet. Did Mr. Omar send your friend any e-mail after this?? "Scam Hater" good one.

lol..Did Bongo reply after that..? that wud be interesting to know

Ha ha funny ...I get such email from various places regularly. If I start accepting money from them then I think I would be able to buy whole Kathmandu within 5 years.

Well done Punte bro.

hahahah that DaZ boka must have been fooled i could be more happy.....mula trivia geek

No doubt a funny exchange.

Last time I got similar email, this is the information I gave:

Name: Ashky Icker

Address: 26 Federal Plaza, 23rd. Floor
New York, New York 10278-0004

Phone: 212-384-1000

 

The above phone and address were for FBI in New York. The guy replied to me saying he will contact me ASAP. I didn't hear back from him since.

 

The only problem was I started getting more and more spams