The email is basically a scam I've seen before, translated to French (for
'confidentiality reasons' they say.. *cough*Avoiding US Feds*cough*)
There is another similar email written in english, circulating around the
web as well. Only the names, places, and dollar amounts are different in
that version; the rest of it is pretty much verbatim. Basically, they say
they have $30 Million that they'd like to wire into your account, because
they 'need your help to move the money from Canada to here due to some
unfortunate mishaps'. If you're interested, just fax them :
1) your telephone/fax #
2) your address
If you take the time to respond, they'll ask you for a bank account number
to transfer the money into. Finally, if they get that far with you, they'll
request co-ownership of your account ("if I can trust you enough to wire
$30M USD into your account, you can trust me enough to be co-owner of your
bank account.."
Obviously if they get that far with you, they can visit the nearest bank
branch, and since they've become co-owner of your account, they will proceed
to clean it out completely. Short version: This is a scam.
- J
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Robin S. Socha wrote:
>
> > * ABDULKAREEM KASEREKA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010703 16:24]:
> > > CHER MONSIEUR,
> >
> > Eh. Sexual harrassment. USD 6m waiting for me. C007!!!1 Anyway, darling,
> > your request for steamed frog avec Cous-Cous has been taken. You'll be
> > served a couple of PDF files shortly. You don't mind them coming in 1k
> > slices, do you?
>
> I take it you didn't understand that e-mail, did you?
>
> -Stephen-
>
