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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:36 pm 
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This amazing offer was sent to the DG Radio Yahoo account.

Ken Toure wrote:
From The Desk Of KEN TOURE
Senior Staff In File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa.
THIS IS MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS...ken12kt@yahoo.com

Private Number......00226 76 52 47 43.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE
http:
//www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

( "REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")
Compliment Of The Season,

On a very go od day. I am (KEN TOURE) a senior
staff in file
department in African developent bank (ADB).I got your
contact from a Yahoo Tourist Search.

When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of
your capability
and reliability to champion this businees opportunity when
i prayed to
God or Allah about you
.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum
of $ 15 million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) . In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with
his entire family in (friday december 26,2003 ) 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 all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this businness 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 into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclamed after five years, the money will be
transfered 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 Burkinabe 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, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for
;me and my woman colleague. There after I and my colleague will visit
your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number 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 on my number 00226 76 52 47 43.
immediately as soon
as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
immediately.

Your’s faithfully,

KEN TOURE

POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to
enable the
transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will
prove to the
bank.As you finished reading this letter call me
immediately so that we
discuss very well over this business.Please call me and
inform me that you
received my mail, because i don't go to net always.


How could we resist?!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:17 pm 
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Looks like a sure thing to me - can't imagine what could possibly go wrong.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:32 pm 
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Ken Toure wrote:
... irresistable offer ...

Must be Ali Farka's brother, eh!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:06 pm 
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I think there was a Norwegian who got convicted after getting conned by such a mail.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:17 pm 
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Well, that's awfully nice of Ken. We should give him at least a little role ine exchange. Maybe the role of the disgusting little putty-like slime from under the Stone. (Well, the role does not appear in the book, but things change, we should roll with them.)

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Difool wrote:
I think there was a Norwegian who got convicted after getting conned by such a mail.

You Think?!
You THINK?!
Difool - you're the one we always count on to provide us with the links to the facts no matter how obscure our reference was and now all you can say is you think? ... tis a sad, sad day indeed ...

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Uh-oh

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:31 pm 
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moongoddess wrote:
Difool wrote:
I think there was a Norwegian who got convicted after getting conned by such a mail.

You Think?!
You THINK?!
Difool - you're the one we always count on to provide us with the links to the facts no matter how obscure our reference was and now all you can say is you think? ... tis a sad, sad day indeed ...

I thought we demanded an absence of solid facts. :roll:

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I got this one from my former CEO a while back

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Highly Confidential.

Hello,

I’m Dick Cheney, Vice-President of the United States of America,
writing you from an undisclosed location. I am writing you because
I have been informed that you are a person of high character who
would be a reliable business partner.

I’m the former CEO of Halliburton, an international oil services
company. A considerable percent of my former company’s business
is conducted in the oil rich nation of Nigeria. Sometimes my former
company has to bribe prominent officials in the government in order
to have policies enacted that are favorable to the company’s
business goals. Although this is a regrettable practice, it is
necessary for my former company to maintain its position as a
global oil services company. As I am sure you are aware, my
former company was recently exposed for bribing a government
official for $2.4 million in order to get a tax break. My former
company doesn’t want to be exposed in the media like this again
and that’s why I have contacted you.

An unnamed official at my former company has informed me they
need to make a $5 million kickback payment to a prominent
government official in an important regulatory agency, or their
ability to do business in Nigeria will be severely compromised.
My former company needs an individual of high character like
yourself in order to forward this $5 million kickback payment
through your bank account. In return for your service you will
receive a payment of $2.5 million in one hundred, fifty and twenty
dollar bills, plus immunity from prosecution. If anybody tries to
expose what you’ve done in the media, I’ll have him detained
indefinitely under the PATRIOT Act.

Please contact me at my e-mail address and I will arrange to discuss
this transaction with you further: vice.president@whitehouse.gov. I
look forward to hearing from you. Perhaps someday I’ll let you hang
out with me at my undisclosed location.

Best and God Bless,

Dick Cheney

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...I am writing you because I have been informed that you are a person of high character...


He don't know you, do he?

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moongoddess wrote:
Difool wrote:
I think there was a Norwegian who got convicted after getting conned by such a mail.

You Think?!
You THINK?!
Difool - you're the one we always count on to provide us with the links to the facts no matter how obscure our reference was and now all you can say is you think? ... tis a sad, sad day indeed ...

I think I heard it in a Danish TV program about the problem.

He was convicted because he tried to help people smuggle money and even though the money didn't exist he had shown intent.

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Veet, you should definitely. Looks like a sure thing.

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BTW, does anyone know why all the blog replys on the dirk gently website are casino adverts? They dont even seem to make sence!


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:16 pm 
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Ken Toure wrote:
...when i prayed to God or Allah about you...


Y'know, whichever you want me to have prayed to...

That's my favourite line.

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