Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time - Chilon
I logged on this morning to read a few blogs. As fate would have it (LOL), I received a note here on AV from someone by the name of "Miss Roffina Naina" asking me to contact her. I began thinking...."its kinda weird that she would not mention what she wanted to "talk" to me about, only mentioning that it was "private."
So I give her the benefit of the doubt thinking she saw or read something in one of my blogs or that she had a question about home inspection so I emailed her asking how I could be of assistance to her. Here is the response she sent back....
From Miss Roffina Naina
Abidjan cote D`Ivoire
West Africa.
MY Dear, Please this mail comes to you directly,kindly ready and get back to me, Good thing to write you.
I have a proposal for you,this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will. Your profile pushed me to send you this mail, I am Roffina Niana,i am 23 years old Girl and the only daugther of my late Father Mr Richard Ehoha Naina. My Father was a highly reputable business man (a cocoa merchant) who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad on 12th.August 2005.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been master minded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time. But God knows the truth!,
Since then my father death took me so special. Before his death in the hospital, he told me about a box he concealed the sum of Ten million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars.(US D$10.5) deposited in one of the security company here in Abidjan, Ivory coast West Africa, which he disguised and declared the box to contain family valuables belongs to his foriegn bussiness partner instead of money, for security reasons,he do this for selfety of his life best known to him, by this way the company does not know the real content of the box. The deposit document which I have in my possession carries my late Father's name as the depositor in the security company, i Really don't know what to do. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. The death of my Father actually brought sorrow to my life that i will never forget, I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded. Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help me as your daughter?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3 i hope you will not betray me when this fund get to you?
4. Please, Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.
Thank you so much Yours Miss Roffina Naina
I am sure we have all seen this type of scam before! I did a search on google for "bank scams" and I received 1.2 million possible pages! The website http://www.rediff.com/money/2002/dec/09dalal.htm has a few of them listed as well
The website over at http://www.scambusters.org/scamlinks.html has some good information on how and to whom we should report such activity. If you receive any type of email or correspondence from someone like "Miss Roffina" or some other fraudster promising $$$ in exchange for assisting them in moving so-called family fortunes out of their "war sticken country" or the like, report them immediately - I know I most definately will!
Calvin Bailey
A Closer Look Home Inspections
www.inspectorpages.com/cbailey1
cbailey1@on.nachi.org
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