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You received the following message from: rose (rosekuffo01@yahoo.com)

At: http://forums.gunbroker.com/

FROM: ROSELINE KUFFO

COUNTRY: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST

DEAR LOVELY ONE,

PLEASE PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE MY SELF TO YOU,
MY NAME IS ROSELINE KUFFO,I AM 20 YEARS OLD, THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR MORRIS KUFFO WHO WAS A FAMOUS COCOA MERCHANT BASED IN ABIDJAN HERE,THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF IVORY COAST (COTE D'IVOIRE). I AM SEEKING FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION TO HELP ME TRANSFER THE SUM OF (US$10,500,000.00 )TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE OF AMERICAN DOLLARS INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. PLEASE, I AM WILLING TO OFFER YOU 15% OF THE TOTAL FUND AS A MODE OF COMPENSATION FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE AND TIME. I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS IN RELATION TO THIS FUND DEPOSITED BY MY LATE FATHER IN THE BANK. PLEASE DO CONTACT ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE
EMAIL ADDRESS,FOR CONFIDENTIAL AND SECURITY REASONS .(rosekuffo01@yahoo.com)

PLEASE KINDLY MAIL ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MY LETTER FOR ME TO GIVE YOU MORE IMPORTANT DETAILS CONCERNING THIS FUND AND EQUALLY SEND YOU MY PHOTOS SO THAT YOU WILL SEE AND KNOW WHOM I AM.
THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR ME.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,

ROSELINE KUFFO,

The @#$%ing cheat only offered me 12.5%! If you can't trust the only daughter of an Abidjani Cocoa Merchant, whom can you trust? In any case, it's an old scam, but the grammar is better than most. Universal education, paid for by Western Union transfers, may be taking hold in the old Ivory Coast...or more probably Nigeria.

This is one of the oldest and most common scams of all. It's called the "Nigerian 419 scam." If you do a search using those three terms, you'll see what I mean. I have my email set to trash all messages containing the words Nigeria, Lagos, and ivory. I get two or three of these each week and wouldn't trust one even if it was forwarded to me from the Vatican.

I had a new one on Sunday, it informed me that I was the winner of 3.8 million pounds and a Toyota car. All I want is the money then I can buy the car.

The lady on this site, and some of her friends, like to return the favor and "scam the scammers".
http://www.bustedupcowgirl.com/scampage.html
I don't think they've ever mentioned a double barrel on her site, maybe we should mention that to her?
Curtis