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Alden Bates' WeblogFeigning normality since 1973"Proposal for Gold Sales" scamFiled in: Spam. I'm not even sure I know quite what this one is proposing...
I'm shocked. What sort of people use minors to mine gold. Only adults should be miners!
Ummmmm... Tilt. There's a French version of the email included as well, and I suspect that the English version is simply the French version run through an autotranslator (the "minor" goof is present in both language versions). This portion of the email appears to suggest they couldn't get a mining licence and want to sell their gold under the table.
Translation: You give us $6,500 per kilogram of gold, we run away very fast with your money before you realise there is no one coming to give you the gold.
And oddly I got another email from Amos Zongo about an hour ago, now claiming to be auditor general of the Bank of Africa and wanting to offload 16 million dollars. Gets around, does Mr Zongo. Interestingly the second scam email was addressed from "OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO" - the Bozeman, Montana of Mr Zongo's scam emails, evidently. Posted January 25, 2006 8:28 PM Trackback PingsListed below are links to weblogs that reference "Proposal for Gold Sales" scam:
CommentsI just received bullshit from that kid, we should arrest him, he ask for our bank code. hes a sucker! Posted by: bloodrose | May 11, 2006 12:54 PM Just recieved an email myself. Any opinion? Posted by: Van Whistler | May 29, 2006 3:44 AM If these are all emails from the same scammer, he's sure not doing a lot to hide the fact. Interestingly in that email he says the crash occurred in July 2001, and says the money will revert to the bank if unclaimed after four years, which would mean he's a year too late asking for help. :P Posted by: Alden Bates | May 29, 2006 8:48 AM hey, does anyone know (more than I do) who this guy is? I mean, I am from Romania, and I just got the email with the plane crash(mentioned above by bloodrose) in 25th July 2001 from a guy in Africa, who sent many emails with different ideas and is generous enough to give us millions of dolars. Yeah, very nice of him. But why didn't he sent it just to me, as I expected, from the way he wrote in the letter? And another thing... NO concorde crash occured in 25th July 2001... It was, as I searched on the internet, in 2000... so my shock is about over now... this is a bunch of crap, right? Posted by: david | June 25, 2006 2:39 AM Yep, it's a bunch of crap. Their sole aim is to get as much money out of you as they can and then "disappear" with it. Unfortunately this does work when they manage to find someone willing enough and greedy enough to "help" them. Posted by: Alden Bates | June 25, 2006 11:58 AM How long they will continue to eat the money of innocents. Posted by: HOSSEN MOHAMED | March 14, 2007 9:12 PM Someone has just contacted me from Africa, so as to help him to have a huge sum from the bank where he is the manager. His proposal is 5% for expenses, 35% for me and the rest 65% for him. He will be sending me all the vital informations in the next hours. I will let you know what informations he will send. Beware of these kind of people. Don't loose your money in vain please. Posted by: RAZAA -E-MUSTAFA | March 14, 2007 9:22 PM Post a comment | |
Ah, Amos Zongo. I've lost track of much spam I've received from a guy who seems to get around.
Posted by: jamie | February 18, 2006 9:59 AM