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Weird email I received today

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Here's what I got today in my yahoo account:

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KINGS  EDEM  ADVOCAT,
52D RUE DE FRANCE
LOME -TOGO.,
WEST AFRICA.
ATTN/PLS

I am Barrister Kingsley Edem,an Attorney in law, and the Personal lawyer to Engr.W.C.Sandu,a foreigner who works with Shell International Republic of Togo, Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client. As it may interest you to know, Your contact was giving to me by divine inspiration at the office of the Chamber of commerce and Tourism in Lome-Togo as I was going through some directories. I decided to contact you in order to champion such a business magnitude without any problem. On a very sad day,more than 200 persons unboard the Egyptian Airline that crashed on 31st October 1999 on its way from New York to Cairo.
He died alongside with his beloved wife and his little baby in the plane crash. After we got news of his death we have been expecting his Next of Kin or relation to come over for the claim his consignment deposited in a Security Finance Firm.Since then, I have made several inquiries to his embassy to locate any of their extended relatives and this has also proved unsuccessful. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at US$5.5m,(Five million and five hundred thousand United States Dollars),left behind by my client before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount were deposited. The said Security Finance Company has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next twenty one official working days.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to present as the next of kin or his business partner to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.
Therefore, I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 45% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 50% will be for me. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. below is the Website as indicated. EGYPTAIR FLIGHT NO.990 that crashed on the 31-10-1999 in U.S.A.Confirmable from the below website. website:www.cnn.com/us/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html)

Sincerely,
Barrister Kingsley Edem. (Attorney in Law) 

I tend to consider it some sort of spam. What's your oppinion?


First, there's no name resemblig the one he mentioned in the passenger list. Second, there's this line:
, Your contact was giving to me by divine inspiration at the office of the Chamber of commerce and Tourism in Lome-Togo as I was going through some directories. I decided to contact you in order to champion such a business magnitude without any problem
Then the spelling is somehow rough for an attorney.
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standard 419 scam. i recommend ignoring it.
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This is a variation on the Nigerian bank scam. It's quite well known. I'm surprised you've never run into it.
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DAMN they try to make it look legal with an imaginary lawyer. :roll:
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Dalton wrote:This is a variation on the Nigerian bank scam. It's quite well known. I'm surprised you've never run into it.
I don't give this address everywhere. There are other accounts I use for that thing and I don't really check what I have received in them.
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