Yeah, I'm not falling for that

[Rayquarian]

So I got a letter from some guy I don't know (that's a sign of bad things).

ATTN:

My name is David Matane, the first son of late Paul Matane.I will be 19years old on the 15th December 2007; my father P.A.Matane is a great farmer in Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise for you to receive this letter from me and most especially where I got your contact address. I got your contact information from Global Trade Agent under the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industrial in Pretoria.

Now why would my contact address be in Global trade Agent under the South African Chamber of Commerce, and why did he choose "Arkansankid@gmail.com" over all of the more respectable e-mail address?

During the current crisis against the farmers in Zimbabwe by the supporters of President Robert Mugabe to claim all white owned farms in the country, he ordered all white farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and his supporters; my father was one of the black farmers and opposed the president actions towards the white farms.

I searched that exact paragraph on google.  Guess what I found.
Link

My father was at the same time killed on the process of fighting back the invaders. After two months I lost my mother and the president gave order to confiscate all our properties including the farmland. After the incident, my younger brother and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe to South Africa for the safety of our lives.

I'm not sure if this event ever happened, but if it did, I would have heard about it on google news.

My late father told me on his bedside about a finance company, in which all the relevant documents (depository agreement) was handed over to me by him to go ahead and transfer this money out of the country for investment.

The total amount is US$14.2million (Fourteen Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) was lodged into the security company in a metal box and the contained box was not made known to the security company, rather it was declared to them as gold and precious metals.

Due to our president status in South Africa and the nature by which we entered South Africa we do not reserve the right to operate or maintain a foreign dominated account as refugees. For your kindness I agree to give you 30%, 10% is set aside for expenses incur during the process of this transaction.

Yeah right.  If you really have that much money, just cash it in and sail to America.

Please I need your advice as an elderly person. Please contact me with this e-mail address.

I'm 15!

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, give me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted. This transaction is 100% risk free.

Geez, it's scam artist like these that make me glad that I'll never get a credit card.

I wait to hear from you as soon as possible.

Yours Faithful,
David Matane.

Now that was a load of cow poop.  Whoever would fall for that really needs to tell the difference between real life and fantasy.  I've seen these kinds of scam before, where an old person would end up losing 80,000 dollars at a time!

[bluaki]

I once got an email in my spam folder in GMAIL very similar to that.

[Waveburner]

wow. people these days.
They'll tell you the biggest lies to get your money.

[Nox]

Yay for you.

[Bocko91]

:D I hate those things so much. I've gotten 2 in the last week and I delete them on the spot.

They're depending on the stupid people sitting in front of a monitor in a slums apartment in the dark, who sees it and screams "HOT DIGGITY DAMN, THE PRINCE OF MEXICO WANTS TO GIVE ME $50,000!!!!!!!!!"

[StarWindWizard7]

So I got a letter from some guy I don't know (that's a sign of bad things).

ATTN:

My name is David Matane, the first son of late Paul Matane.I will be 19years old on the 15th December 2007; my father P.A.Matane is a great farmer in Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise for you to receive this letter from me and most especially where I got your contact address. I got your contact information from Global Trade Agent under the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industrial in Pretoria.

Now why would my contact address be in Global trade Agent under the South African Chamber of Commerce, and why did he choose "Arkansankid@gmail.com" over all of the more respectable e-mail address?

During the current crisis against the farmers in Zimbabwe by the supporters of President Robert Mugabe to claim all white owned farms in the country, he ordered all white farmers to surrender their farms to his party members and his supporters; my father was one of the black farmers and opposed the president actions towards the white farms.

I searched that exact paragraph on google.  Guess what I found.
Link

My father was at the same time killed on the process of fighting back the invaders. After two months I lost my mother and the president gave order to confiscate all our properties including the farmland. After the incident, my younger brother and I decided to move out of Zimbabwe to South Africa for the safety of our lives.

I'm not sure if this event ever happened, but if it did, I would have heard about it on google news.

My late father told me on his bedside about a finance company, in which all the relevant documents (depository agreement) was handed over to me by him to go ahead and transfer this money out of the country for investment.

The total amount is US$14.2million (Fourteen Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) was lodged into the security company in a metal box and the contained box was not made known to the security company, rather it was declared to them as gold and precious metals.

Due to our president status in South Africa and the nature by which we entered South Africa we do not reserve the right to operate or maintain a foreign dominated account as refugees. For your kindness I agree to give you 30%, 10% is set aside for expenses incur during the process of this transaction.

Yeah right.  If you really have that much money, just cash it in and sail to America.

Please I need your advice as an elderly person. Please contact me with this e-mail address.

I'm 15!

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, give me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted. This transaction is 100% risk free.

Geez, it's scam artist like these that make me glad that I'll never get a credit card.

I wait to hear from you as soon as possible.

Yours Faithful,
David Matane.

Now that was a load of cow poop.  Whoever would fall for that really needs to tell the difference between real life and fantasy.  I've seen these kinds of scam before, where an old person would end up losing 80,000 dollars at a time!

Who in the world is going to fall for that?

[Bocko91]

Who in the world is going to fall for that?

You'd be amazed. :|

[Totla]

That reminds my of those Nigerian Scam commercials. :D

[Trini]

:D I hate those things so much. I've gotten 2 in the last week and I delete them on the spot.

They're depending on the stupid people sitting in front of a monitor in a slums apartment in the dark, who sees it and screams "HOT DIGGITY DAMN, THE PRINCE OF MEXICO WANTS TO GIVE ME $50,000!!!!!!!!!"

I lol'd. :D

[Judas]

You better help him. :|

[phatyo]

Lmao i would email him back trying to get his info i recently got a similar email of a guy that says his misses me and that if i remeber our project in Switzerland and that he still owns me 600 thousands :P I email him back saying nah you own me 650 and Yeah what did happened to that ? Pleas send me back your phone number so we can contact each other about the payments :)

[Sabby]

Lmao i would email him back trying to get his info i recently got a similar email of a guy that says his misses me and that if i remeber our project in Switzerland and that he still owns me 600 thousands :P I email him back saying nah you own me 650 and Yeah what did happened to that ? Pleas send me back your phone number so we can contact each other about the payments :)

i lol'd :D :D :D.

has he e-mailed you back with his info yet :P.