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Eric Robert - Good News For You - 7 février 2008

De : Eric Robert
Objet : Good News For You
@dresse de retour de courriel : eric.robert52@yahoo.fr

My Dear,

COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON.

This is Eric Robert writing to you once again,

Thank you for the assistance rendered to me when i was really in need, it is a thing of joy to inform you that finally, I have succeeded in collecting the money at Long last.

Hope this mail find you in an excellent condition of health. I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from London UK. Presently I'm in EUROPE for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.

Meanwhile I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds that later failed some how, I have compensated you with the sum of $1.5M, One million five hundred thousand dollars. Now contact Barrister Lamine Kofi my lawyer in Ghana and his email address is :( barrlaminech@gmail.com) ask him to send the money to you the sum of $1.5, One million five hundred thousand dollars which I kept for your compensation for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get in touch with him and instruct him where to send the amount to you.

Please do let me know immediately if you receive it so that we can share the joy after all the sufferings at that time. I'm very busy here WITH MY STUDIES and the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at hand. This Money, I have left it for you to Barrister Kofi, I have tried many times to talk to you on phone but you could not respond and I have no time for myself because we are very busy now.

Eric Robert G.

Pourquoi est-ce que ce message est une arnaque ?
  1. J'ai reçu ce message de "Eric Robert G.",
  2. Comment sait-il que je parle l'anglais ?
  3. Je ne connais pas cette personne et je ne lui ai jamais donné mon adresse de courriel,
  4. Je n'ai jamais communiqué avec cette personne,
  5. Le contenu de ce message est typique de l'arnaque nigérienne.
  6. Ne vous arrêtez pas aux fins détails de ce courriel mais plutôt au genre de contenu. Plusieurs se ressemblent.
    Notez qu'il est aussi fréquent de recevoir une exacte copie de ce message mais avec un nom différent.

Solution ?
  Veuillez expédier ce message à la poubelle sans hésitation avant de vous faire voler des milliers de dollars.

Par René Leclerc, Artisan2k.com, Mercredi le 7 février 2008
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