Love those Fraud E-mails

I just love to receive these fraudulent e-mails. (NOT!) I do not know why I read them, I guess it is to see how many grammatical and ridiculouls mistakes they make in the body of the letter. That and how preposterous of an offer that they make. As if any one falls for this?!? YIKES!

BILL AND FOREX EXCHANGE MANAGER, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. Contact me on my private email: jamescolman68 @workmail.co.za Telephone: +27 726-394-148 / Fax: +27 806 028263

Dear Sir / Madam,

I am James Colman, the manager of Bill and Forex exchange at the foreign remittance department of STANDARD CHARTERED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA(STD). I am writing following the impressive information about you through one of my friends who works in the ministry of chamber of commerce . He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten Million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 1997 in a plane crash. 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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that there is no body to claim the money as the next of kin. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department 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 and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go in to the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a South Africa citizen cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 65% would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues 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 relations or next of kin of the deceased, please indicate your information through fax or email such as:

Your full name and address………………………………………
Your mobile phone, telephone and fax number……………………………………….
Your occupation and position……………………………………………
Your country and Age…………………………………………
Your first born ...................
Your blood type ........................
Your bank account number ............................

All this will enable us to create a file on your name and the beneficiary of this fund and also for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. 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 receive this letter. Larry will send you more details about this transaction. Trusting to hear from you immediately. Yours faithfully,
James Imafraud Colman