ANOTHER AFRICAN SCAM EMAIL

Got this in my email this morning:

FROM:MRS. M SESE-SEKO

DEAR FRIEND,

I AM MRS. SESE-SEKO WIDOW OF LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU
SESE-SEKO OF ZAIRE? NOW KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF CONGO (DRC). I AM MOVED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER,
THIS WAS IN CONFIDENCE CONSIDERING MY PRESENT
CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION.

I ESCAPED ALONG WITH MY HUSBAND AND TWO OF OUR SONS
JAMES KONGOLO AND BASHER OUT OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
CONGO (DRC) TO ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE WHERE MY FAMILY
AND I SETTLED, WHILE WE LATER MOVED TO SETTLED IN
MORROCO WHERE MY HUSBAND LATER DIED OF CANCER
DISEASE. HOWEVER DUE TO THIS SITUATION WE DECIDED TO
CHANGED MOST OF MY HUSBAND'S BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
DEPOSITED IN SWISS BANK AND OTHER COUNTRIES INTO OTHER
FORMS OF MONEY CODED FOR SAFE PURPOSE BECAUSE THE NEW
HEAD OF STATE OF (DR) MR LAURENT KABILA HAS MADE
ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SWISS GOVERNMENT AND OTHER
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO FREEZE ALL MY LATE HUSBAND'S
TREASURES DEPOSITED IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. HENCE
MY CHILDREN AND I DECIDED LAYING LOW IN AFRICA TO
STUDY THE SITUATION TILL WHEN THINGS GETS BETTER,
LIKE NOW THAT PRESIDENT KABILA IS DEAD AND THE SON
TAKING OVER (JOSEPH KABILA). ONE OF MY LATE HUSBAND'S
CHATEAUX IN SOUTHERN FRANCE WAS CONFISCATED BY THE
FRENCH GOVERNMENT, AND AS SUCH I HAD TO CHANGE MY
IDENTITY SO THAT MY INVESTMENT WILL NOT BE TRACED AND
CONFISCATED. I HAVE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF EIHGTEEN
MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS(US$18,000,000,00.) WITH A
SECURITY COMPANY , FOR SAFEKEEPING. THE FUNDS ARE
SECURITY CODED TO PREVENT THEM FROM KNOWING THE
CONTENT. WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IS TO INDICATE YOUR
INTEREST THAT YOU WILL ASSIST US BY RECEIVING
THE MONEY ON OUR BEHALF.ACKNOWLEDGE THIS MESSAGE, SO
THAT I CAN INTRODUCE YOU TO MY SON (KONGOLO ) WHO HAS
THE OUT MODALITIES FOR THE CLAIM OF THE SAID FUNDS. I
WANT YOU TO ASSIST IN INVESTING THIS MONEY, BUT
I WILL NOT WANT MY IDENTITY REVEALED. I WILL ALSO WANT
TO BUY PROPERTIES AND STOCK IN MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES
AND TO ENGAGE IN OTHER SAFE AND NON-SPECULATIVE
INVESTMENTS. MAY I AT THIS POINT EMPHASISE THE HIGH
LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY,WHICH THIS BUSINESS DEMANDS,
AND HOPE YOU WILL NOT BETRAY THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE,
WHICH I REPOSE IN YOU. IN CONCLUSION,IF YOU WANT
TO ASSIST US , MY SON SHALL PUT YOU IN THE PICTURE OF
THE BUSINESS,TELL YOU WHERE THE FUNDS ARE CURRENTLY
BEING MAINTAINED AND ALSO DISCUSS OTHER MODALITIES
INCLUDING REMUNERATION FOR YOUR SERVICES.

FOR THIS REASON KINDLY FURNISH US YOUR CONTACT
INFORMATION, AND YOUR PERSONAL TELEPHONE AND FAX
NUMBER FOR VALIDATION PROCESSES.

BEST REGARDS,

MRS M. SESE SEKO

I also received an email similar to that one.

I wonder how many people will think these things are for real
and get involved?

neyank

I have gotten dozens of these stupid things. As soon as I block one they resend from a new addie Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

http://www.scamorama.com/duarte.html

Top portion of url:

THE LADS WRITE TO THE COLONEL

From a Kindly Contributor in New Zealand:
Dear Scamorama
When I received correspondence from the Lads posing as Mrs Sese-seko, I decided to pose as exiled Colonel Migul Dematei Ugarte, fugitive from Argentina's vicious "dirty war" of 1975-84 in which thousands of people disappeared.

After a while the Lads took fright, I think, faced with two things:
a.. Colonel Dematei's poor English
b.. The implied threat of Argentine heavies who operated torture chambers and murder squads on their trail.
It helps too, that I speak pretty good Spanish....

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http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/info/nigeria.htm

sKally

Yep, I have been getting these thingies over the past month. I knew it was a scam when they said I was trustworthy. Man, they don't know me. That's how I know it was bull pucky.

So I shouldn't have given them my pin number and visa?

I get plenty of these damned things.  I sure hope no one falls for them. 

Mim

I just click delete, over and over again.

My mom almost fell for it when she received one of those notorious Nigerian letters around '91 at her place of work. Her co-worker was
actually making long distance phone calls to Lagos to deal with these
crooks. Fortunately at last minute they realized the scam.

Leolaia

Nah, I dont get any of those scams.  All I get is PORN PORN PORN all day long...well mabye that isnt such a bad thing......

Here is some precious help against this SCUM EMAIL: http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml

Let's send these persons into the prison, by a fast train in Africa:

I've never gotten one of those things!!!  WHO thinks up this crap!