Kavin Collins

 

Fraud.

One out of five!

> From: Mr.
> Subject: ABSOLUTE TRUST AND CONFIDENTIALITY NEEDED FROM YOU
> To: kavincollins1000@yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:30 PM Good day to you,
>
> I am Mr. kavin collins, branch manager with the Equitorial Trust Bank,
> Lagos, Nigeria. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my
> bank (Mr. William Barnes, of United States of America) who perished in
> an auto crash on the 21st of November, 2003 along with his wife on the
> Lagos – Ibadan express way here in Nigeria.
>
> Since the demise of Mr. William Barnes, I personally have watched with
> keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no
> one has come to claim his funds of $30,000,000USD [Thirty Million
> United States Dollars] which has been with our bank here for a very
> long time.
>
> On this note, I decided to seek for whose name shall be used as the
> next of kin, as no one has come up to put claim as the next of kin to
> this funds and the banking ethics here does not allow such money to
> stay dormant for more than five years due to the fact that after five
> years, the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed
> bills.
>
> In view of this, I got your contact through my country’s foreign trade
> mission after I was convinced in my mind that you could be used as the
> next of kin to this claim. The request of the foreigner as a next of
> kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
> foreigner and a Nigerian cannot stand in as the next of kin to a
> foreigner.
>
> I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in
> respect of providing an account while 10% will take care of any
> expenses that might be incurred in the process of succeeding the
> transfer and the rest will be for me, thereafter, I will visit your
> country for disbursement as I am almost due for retirement.
>
> Upon the receipt of your acceptance, I will intimate you on all that
> will be needed and the next step to take for the successful claim and
> transfer of the funds. I will also not fail to bring to your notice
> that this transaction is 100% risk free and you should disabuse your
> mind of any negative thinking or fear as the whole required
> arrangement has been perfected for the transfer. Remember this should
> be very confidential due to the fact that I am still working with the
> bank.
>
> Hope to hear from you soonest.
>
> Regards
> kavin collins

Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.