I got an email from the Deputy Minister of Mining

[loveispoison]

hey all

i have recieved this email which is a scam i heard this before some were dont remmeber were it was anyways

here it is what is says so funny who is gona believe this :nuts:
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From Mrs. Susan Shebang


Pls see The Attachment And Get Back To Me.


E-mail:mrs.susanshabangugov2008@gmail.com



Thanks and God bless you.


Mrs. Susan Shebang

FROM MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU
Deputy Minister of Mining ,
South Africa.

E-mail:mrs.susanshabangugov2007@gmail.com

PLS CONTACT MY SON MR ,TERRY SHABANGUN
Dear Sir/madam,
First, let me start by introducing my self as MRS SUSAN SHABANGU , a mother of three children and the Former Deputy Minister of Safety and Security since 29th April 2004 to 11th May 2009 under the auspices of the President of South Africa MR THABO MBEKI. Now Minister of Mining under the leadership of JACOB ZUMA President of South Africa .

After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as a beneficiary to the sum of US $14. 5M (Fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only).

You can view my profile at my website www.gov.za click on, Contact Information, then click on Deputy Minister, and click on Safety and Security finally, click on my name Susan Shabangu and read about me.

THE PROPOSAL, after the swearing in ceremony making me the Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, my husband Mr. Ndelebe Shabangu died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 1996.

After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a doll are account which amounted to the sum of US $14.5M with a security and finance institution in South Africa of which I will divulge information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into you a comfortable and conducive account of your choice.

This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of South Africa . Though I assisted him in getting this contract but I never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the government of South Africa might star t to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date. If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely affect my political career in government.

I want your assistance in opening an account with bankers through my banker so that this fund could be wired into your account directly without any hitch. As soon as the fund gets to your account, you are expected to move it immediately into another personal bank account in your country.

I will see to it that the account is not traced from South Africa . As soon as you have confirmed the fund into your account, I will send my eldest son with my Attorney to come to your country to discuss on business investments. For your assistance, I am offering you 20% .However, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement with me that you will not elope with my fund. If you agree to my terms, kindly as a matter of urgency send me an email. Due to my sensitive position in the South African Government,PLEASE DO NOT CALLON THE OFFICE LINE, BECAUSE OF THE SENSITIVITY OF THIS TRANSACTION EXCEPT OF THE ABOVE DIRECT LINE.

I prefer you send me email or call my Son Terry Shabangu. All correspondence must be by my Private mail address (mrs.susanshabangugov2007@gmail.com) if you want to speak with my Banker that is fine and okay by me. You will have to send down you private telephone /fax number so that I can forward it to him to reach you from time to time this is for security reasons. Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute Confidentiality of this transaction must succeed. If you do not feel comfortable with this transaction, do not hesitate to discontinue.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation and my regards to your family.
Yours
faithfully,

MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU
Deputy Minister of Mining ,
South Africa .
[FONT=&quot]CONTACT MY SON MR TERRY SHABANGUN [/FONT]
TEL: +27-720-110-046

as far as what i heard some 1 believed it and got scamed they got his money some how

 

[ichwar]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

Wow, but how did he get scammed? Did he give them his bank info. or something?

 

[TechAsh]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

It's called '419 Fraud' or 'Advance-fee fraud'
http://419.bittenus.com/index.htm - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

1. If you reply you are added to spammers lists
2. They ask you to pay a whole load a fees for things like Air plane tickets, hotels, other expenses, in order to arrange the transfer of money. However they just take the money and run...
3. They are effectively asking you to launder money...

 

[loveispoison]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

Wow, but how did he get scammed? Did he give them his bank info. or something?

hey dont remember how i think its what techash said it could be that way but million $ hahahha thats crazy i dont believe it but dont know how the guy that believed him or was trying to scam the scamer

 

[garrettroyce]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

IDK, I did this and I got my $14M. Maybe I just beat this other guy to the punch.

 

[loveispoison]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

IDK, I did this and I got my $14M. Maybe I just beat this other guy to the punch.

its kinda winning a 14m lottery hahaha its a scam so u cant beat the other guy:biggrin:

 

[zen-r]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

I can't believe you haven't heard of these scams before!

They're also known as Nigerian Scams, because (I'm sorry to say that) the Nigerians have a reputation for churning out these, & numerous other scams by the millions.

They've been at it for years now. Loads of people have been gullible or greedy enough to take up the bait, & lose their money. Other scams include pretending to be someone else while building up an internet relationship with westerners, & then asking for money loans from them, for some sort of fictitious emergency.

It always ends the same way, they milk you for as much money as they can get, then disappear. The victim is often then put on a "gullible" list, & more people try their luck at scamming money from them. After all, if you're stupid enough to fall for a scam once, you're probably stupid enough to fall for a scam again!

I don't know if I've ever been sent this sort of email - I never open my spam. :biggrin:

 

[rlodge]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

People actually fall for this stuff? I guess they are correct when they say the gene pool is getting really shallow!

And lucky you! out of all the people in the world the "Minister of Mining" chose you for ~$2.8 Million!. (<<< = Sarcasm, I know you didn't fall for it!)

 

[zen-r]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

Hehe.

I don't think that $2.9 million is really worth my trouble.

I wouldn't get out of bed for anything less than 3.2 million!

 

[adamparkzer]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

I got something similar to this earlier:

FROM THE DESK OF Mr.Ade James
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AGENCY
INTERNATIONAL OPERATION DEPT
VICTORIA ISLAND
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
EMAIL: adejames83@hotmail.com

RE-OUTSTANDING PAYMENT

Good day, this is to inform you of your Long overdue Payment outstanding our Banking records.

I saw your name in the Central Computer among list of unpaid inheritance claims individuals and have to update your informations through this email contact for immediate confirmation .

Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a part-payment of USD$25.7million and it has been approved already for payment months ago.

However we received an email from one Mr.Morris Thompson who told us that he is your next of kin and that you are died in a car accident last two months back .

He has also submitted his account informations to the office department for transfer of the fund to him as your inheritor.

We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in our Bank records before we can make the transfer into his account and for us to conclude confirmation if you are dead or not.

Please , confirm response immediately before our action release of the outstanding paymentagainst your name listed out .

Upon this, i request you send your full personal information as soon as possible to enable this department finalize the transfer of the fund release to your nominated foreign Bank Account.

This department needs the following informations from you urgently.

1.Full Names...

2.Telephone Or Fax Number...

3.Contact Address...

4.Age...

5.Occupation....

6.Sex....

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This E-Mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged,confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law.

Once again, I apologize to you on behalf of International Monetary fund Agency towards this contact and proper confirmation required urgently from you if alive. Make sure you reply to my alternative mail address ( samdada190@post.ro )

Thanks,

Yours Sincerly

Mr.Ade James.

 

[David]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

Scams.

 

[loveispoison]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

I can't believe you haven't heard of these scams before!

They're also known as Nigerian Scams, because (I'm sorry to say that) the Nigerians have a reputation for churning out these, & numerous other scams by the millions.

They've been at it for years now. Loads of people have been gullible or greedy enough to take up the bait, & lose their money. Other scams include pretending to be someone else while building up an internet relationship with westerners, & then asking for money loans from them, for some sort of fictitious emergency.

It always ends the same way, they milk you for as much money as they can get, then disappear. The victim is often then put on a "gullible" list, & more people try their luck at scamming money from them. After all, if you're stupid enough to fall for a scam once, you're probably stupid enough to fall for a scam again!

I don't know if I've ever been sent this sort of email - I never open my spam. :biggrin:

yes nigerians have been doing this and some time ago i was at work and a nigerian guy came in and said if u give me £20 i will make it £40 hehe every was shocked hpw he would do it and he did it dont know how so we gave him a £20 note and he said he will need water in a bowl and soap init so we gave him that then he took out a blank paper which it was same size as the £20 note then he took out his uv pin light and then pointed it to the blank paper and there it was you could have seen the writing and the queens picture exactly as orignal so after that he put some brown chemical on the paper then he atached the money that we gave gime to one side of the blanks paper and he gave us the seriel number of the £ 20 note so we know which one is wich then he washed it in soap water in the bowl and then there it was the real money we matched the seriel number and took our £20 note and then he gave me the £20 note the one he made he said take it to bank and show them if i dont believe him if its fake and it was not fake i took it to bank so i dont know how he did it there was no illusion or anything so ya they are masters in these kinda things:biggrin:

 

[garrettroyce]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

I would not recommend bringing anything fake to the bank. My wife worked there and in the USA, if they find any fake bill of any denomination, you have to be detained until the FBI says you can go.

 

[adamparkzer]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

I would not recommend bringing anything fake to the bank. My wife worked there and in the USA, if they find any fake bill of any denomination, you have to be detained until the FBI says you can go.

That's interesting. Our family owns a coin laundromat, and a lot of people come with cash to get change for lower denomination bills so they can use our quarter machine. We've come across some fake bills that we were unable to identify right away, and the bank money counting machine keeps rejecting the bill because it's counterfeit. Usually they just take the bill and put it aside and just add the money to our account. This rarely happens though, maybe once every several months, so I think the bank knows that we weren't responsible for the fake money.

 

[zen-r]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

yes nigerians have been doing this and some time ago i was at work and a nigerian guy came in and said if u give me £20 i will make it £40 hehe every was shocked hpw he would do it and he did it dont know how so we gave him a £20 note and he said he will need water in a bowl and soap init so we gave him that then he took out a blank paper which it was same size as the £20 note then he took out his uv pin light and then pointed it to the blank paper and there it was you could have seen the writing and the queens picture exactly as orignal so after that he put some brown chemical on the paper then he atached the money that we gave gime to one side of the blanks paper and he gave us the seriel number of the £ 20 note so we know which one is wich then he washed it in soap water in the bowl and then there it was the real money we matched the seriel number and took our £20 note and then he gave me the £20 note the one he made he said take it to bank and show them if i dont believe him if its fake and it was not fake i took it to bank so i dont know how he did it there was no illusion or anything so ya they are masters in these kinda things

Sounds a bit like one of the scams shown on The Real Hustle TV program (in UK) where they got the victims to soak blacked out bank notes in a bath tub.

Whatever way that your guy did it, you can be sure it was a trick, & he wasn't using any real method to duplicate bank notes!

 

[the_site]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

Hah scams. I was watching tv. Consequently he was Nigerian and going around places, in peoples homes milking them for money.

 

[zen-r]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

Since I was the first one to mention that these are known as Nigerian scams, I just want to make sure that we don't turn this into a "let's knock the Nigerians" thread.

There are plenty of honest Nigerians too, please remember that! And scammers come from all walks of life, & from all countries.

Just so we're clear on this!

 

[loveispoison]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

yes but this i dont know how he does it i never took me eyes out of him how that remains mystery it is a scam but how he does it god knows and btw i scamed him i took a £20 note from him i gave him a £20 note and he gave me an extra £20 hehe to check it if its real or not and he said i can keep it

 

[Kayos]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

IDK, I did this and I got my $14M. Maybe I just beat this other guy to the punch.

Lucky.

I've been waiting to receive my 15 million dollars for a while now. This is last time I trust a Minister of Mining or their sons again.
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[zen-r]

Re: got an emai from-Deputy Minister of Mining

yes but this i dont know how he does it i never took me eyes out of him how that remains mystery it is a scam but how he does it god knows and btw i scamed him i took a £20 note from him i gave him a £20 note and he gave me an extra £20 hehe to check it if its real or not and he said i can keep it

Without being there to see exactly what he did, it would be impossible to say.

But one possibility is that he used you for money laundering. If the 2 notes you ended up with really are genuine (& not good fakes), then he may have given you 2 stolen bank notes in exchange for your legal note. The serial numbers on yours may be linked to a crime.

Unless you have 2 identical notes, in which case they will definitely be fakes!