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FROM: PAUL OWENS & Co. Solicitors.

Dear Beneficiary,






All I do need from you to reconfirm your informations properly




Adrien de Beaupré

Adrien de Beaupre

353 Posts
ISC Handler
I've seen these for ages. I get so much spam "from" Robert Bates that you'd think I worked for the FBI.
typo, that's Robert Gates.
You people are so cynical. These good people are scouring the internets to make sure I get my wining amounts! $3,000,000.00 will buy me a lot of wine.
Re: "I am leaning towards scam."

Leaning? No offense -- but seriously?
SCAM - In capital letters. They would not need your age, occupation or sex for payments related to a scam. The English is not right in several places either. I Googled the law firm and it did not seem to exist.

The last lawsuit I was notified about I got a paper document in the U.S. Postal mail.

63 Posts
It's pretty obvious it's a scam from the first few words. After reading this, everything else is noise. I knew it was a scam just from the first two words: "Dear Beneficiary". However, if you don't see these emails a lot then you should simply read a few more. Dear Beneficiary,
"We are London based solicitors working as representative solicitors to the United Nations, delegated to Nigeria". Seriously, leaning towards scam? It tipped over after first sentence!
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Yeah, keep calling it a scam.
I'll be laughing at you when I take that all expense paid free vacation in the Bahamas, using my discount generic, non-prescription Viagra and spending my billions of Nigerian delegated money.
Or any permutation of such SPAM scams...
The LEAST of the cattle cookies was the "UN security operatives" arresting people, as the UN has NO police authority anywhere on the planet.
What is depressing is, SOME sap will respond with their information and get taken for all that they have in the bank.
Usually the same sap that opens that worm infested e-mail...

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What I don't understand is why banks and law enforcement don't answer this scams. Give them scammer a bank account with $5 in it and then have the bank see to what account they attempted to transfer all your money to. You can notify the other bank about the illegal activity occurring using one of their accounts. Eventually, you'll have a list of banks that have so many bad accounts like this that you decide to no longer do business with this bank.
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