{"id":4027,"date":"2007-12-12T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/scam-e-mail-from-barrister-daniel-sampah\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:32:00","slug":"scam-e-mail-from-barrister-daniel-sampah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/scam-e-mail-from-barrister-daniel-sampah.html","title":{"rendered":"Scam E-Mail From Barrister Daniel Sampah"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Just as I was posting the last entry, I received another one! This one starts \u2018Dear Friend\u2019 (what lawyer contacting someone about an inheritance would start a letter that way?) and reassures you that it isn\u2019t a scam. But of course, it is. The details of the scam e-mail follow:<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Dear Friend,<\/p>\n<p>This message might meet you in utmost surprise, First of all I want you to Know that this is not a scam mail.Because based on what is going on all over the internet world, people find it very difficult to believe things like this any more.If you can guarantee me from your own side, your trust,honestly I will be able to work with you.I will appreciate if you can come down your self and see things for your self before we proceed and this will make things clearer for you.<\/p>\n<p>But Why I \u2018m sending you this letter, I think if that situation has a place in internet, maybe one out of 1000 has a real fund for transaction.<\/p>\n<p>I, am Barrister Daniel Sampah, a personal lawyer to one late Mr.Ruth Fred Leo An American oil Contractor with the Ivoirien Solid Minerals Corporation, here in Abidjan Ivory Coast who died in an auto Crash in september 2006. later Mr. Ruth Fred leo before his untimely death, made some deposit of funds with a Finance firm here and did not declare any information of any of his relatives to the said fund deposit at the time of deposit.<\/p>\n<p>Where you come in is that I needed your good collaboration to pull out these funds to overseas for investments because, he left with me the deposit information and no body could come around to lay claim if not I and a foriegner in good collaboration since he did not leave any information of any of his relatives.<\/p>\n<p>I will apprecaite if you can send me the following, <\/p>\n<p>1.Your Full Names.<br>2.Your current Mobile telephone and fax numbers. <br>3.Your age. <br>4.Occupation.<br>5.Your Current address. <br>6.company name<\/p>\n<p>Kindly get back to me inorder to bring you to the detail arrangement to move out the funds accross to your destination.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Daniel Sampah<\/p>\n<p>(legal Practitioners and Advocates<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8420828055703053654?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as I was posting the last entry, I received another one! 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