The latest one in my inbox...
Dear Friend
I am a banker in Cambodia. I contacted you for a reason , one of my late customer have the same last name as yours. He died 7 years ago and left , 17.7 million United States dollars in his account. Since then no relative have come to claim his money. I think we can work things out.
Unfortunately, my client died with his family in a car crash during summer holiday of 2011 in France. His account mandate does not have any contact of any of his relatives as next of kin. I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of his relatives without any success, I have been mandated by my bank management to provide the next of kin to his account. If I don't get any of his relatives in 29 days the account balance of $17.700,000 will be returned to the government treasury.
Since you have the same surname with the late account holder and i cannot find any of his relatives I now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the late account holder. You and I will share the money 50/50 after the money is transferred to you. I think this is fair decision instead of the Cambodian government taking the money.
I was his personal accountant before he died , i have all the vital information for us to claim the money without any problem .I only worry about your ability to keep this transaction secret to protect my job . The transaction is 100% risk free as I have studied and investigated the transaction properly as a professional banker and discovered that it's risk free before making contact to you.
If you are interested do let me know by replying.
Regards
Robert Rees
I loved reading this..so funny and as I've said before we need a laugh these grim days (on many fronts). Also laughed at the opening of Sphexx's reply.."Go for it,.What could go wrong"Lol
To find this hilarious you'd have to imagine that someone believed it and considered responding or worse, actaully did. I just did a Google hoping to get some stat on how much similar scams reaped rewards. Unbelievably, the famous, or rather infamous, Nigerian Royalty scam nets them $700,000 a year just from Americans. I have some very intellegent american friends who would immediately trash any such Email before anyone says anything..Lol.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/nigerian-prince-scams-still-rake-in-over-700000-dollars-a-year.html
The paragraphs I found so funny were 3 and 4. In three he/she suggests that the victim 'commits' fraud. Paragraph four tells the potential victim that it's 100% risk-free. Well, from a point of view that the victim will never be at risk of being charged by the police for fraud I suppose that's true. The risk, I assume, is forwarding a sum of money to the scammer.
This report is dated November 19 2019, so not long ago.The link is really worth reading. You'd have hoped that having been incarcerated in Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos State, Nigeria, it would, in the meantime, bring a stop to a prisoner's nefarious activities but not so. Wouldn't surprise me if there was some corruption by staff in facilitating Aroko's activities. That's being investigated by the authorities
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-50480495
Just a tit bit of info. I checked what kind of prison it is. Maximum Security. February 1st 1990 official capacity 956..in reality 1645 inmates and in March 2018 that had risen to approximately 5,700 of which 3,500 were still awaiting trial. Some inmates are on Death Row too.Many have been there without trial for 5 years.Also, in March 2018 the UK allocated $939,000 to build a new 112-bed wing for prisoners that been deported from the UK..as they did with a number of Jamaicans on Tuesday morning...originally 50 but a temporary court order not to deport many reduced that to 17.