I'm rich!!
I don't usually get these so I had a good chuckle. :) From: Federal Bureau of Investigation Subject: Attention: Private and Confidential (A Must Read) Date: November 11, 2013 12:59:37 PM MS...
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This subject has been part of a project I have been involved in since the early 1990s.
Some friends of mine fell for one of the Nigerian scams in 1991 and lost everything they had.
Here is how they got scammed:
My friends received a letter in the mail from an "attorney" in Nigeria saying he needed to move $2,500,000 out of the country before the corrupt government took it away from him. They were promised a $500,000 commission for their services.
They opened a special bank account and gave all of the account information to the scammer.
They then received five "cashier's checks" ($500,000 each), which they deposited in that account.
The scammer then waited about a week and started making withdrawals from the account until just over a million dollars had been withdrawn.
It took about two months before the bank found out the "Nigerian bank" on which those cashier's checks were drawn didn't exist; my friends were "on the hook" for approximately $1,200,000. Needless to say, my friends lost everything they had.
Sorry to say, but if this really happened then your friends are truly idiots. There are so many red flags I don't know where to start.
