[Vision2020] Email scams (Fwd: Merry Xmas From Karims)

[Joan Opyr]

Dear Visionaries,

I really must share this marvelous (if illiterate) investment 
opportunity with you.  Wow.  It seems Mark Knopfler was right -- you 
can get your money for nothing and your chicks for free!

Nonsense.  Quite apart from my amazement that this particular email 
scam is still going, I find it interesting how many of the wives, 
widows, and children of ex-African dictators seem to have nowhere to 
stow their ill-gotten millions except in my poor little Latah Federal 
Credit Union account.  In addition to Mr. Karim Admas of Sierra Leone, 
I've also heard from Mrs. Mobutu Sese-Seko and Mrs. Bogamil Doudou, all 
wanting my Social Security and/or bank account number.  Gosh -- I feel 
so special.

BTW, there's a warning up in Latah Federal that if anyone should 
contact you to say that you've won the Irish lottery, and all you need 
to do to collect is send them a cashier's check for $2000, you really 
should think twice.  Did you actually enter the Irish lottery?  Is 
there an Irish lottery?  Why a cashier's check?  Sounds like selling 
Stanley products to me . . . you, too, can be a millionaire!  Just 
cough up a few thousand and have at it!

Anyhow, beware.  In the past week, I've noticed a marked increase in 
messages like the one I'm forwarding below, and my Junk Mail filter 
(though set on high) is not catching them.  These things must be 
fooling someone, so caveat email user.  Don't get took!

Not that I think you will -- I just find these things perversely 
entertaining.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

Begin forwarded message:

> Merry Xmas From  Karims
>
>
>                           CONFIDENTIAL
>
> Dear One
>
> I am KARIM ADMAS the only son of late former Director of finance,Chief 
> Vincent U ADMAS Sierra Leone diamond and miningcorporation I must 
> confess my agitation is real and my words is my bond, in this proposal 
> My late father diverted this fund acquired from the over influencing 
> of price of sales purchasing of raw materials now he has deposited the 
> money with a bank here in Abidjan BY FIXED DEPOSIT FORM,and he 
> attached a strict clause to the fund in bracket PAY AS RECEIVED where 
> I am residing under political assylum
>
> Now the war in my country is over with the help of ECOMOG soldiers the 
> present government of Sierra Leone has revoked the passport of all 
> officers who served under the former regime and now ask countries to 
> expel such person at the same time freeze their account and confiscate 
> their asset, it is on this note that I am contacting you all I needed 
> from you is to furnish me with your bank particulars like
>
> Account name
> Account number
> Bank address
>
> telephone and fax number For you to assist me transfer this money in 
> your private bank account, the said amount is Five Million Two hundred 
> Thousand United State Dollars $5.2 Million
>
> I am compensating you with 12 percent of the total money amount now 
> all my hope is banked on you and I really wants to invest this money 
> in your country were their is stability of Government political and 
> economic welfare Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction 
> is real and never a joke
>
> My late father Chief Kamara gave me the photocopies of the certificate 
> of deposit issued to me by BANK on the date of deposit and he called 
> me closer to his bed side before his call to glory that i should pray 
> to God first, before contacting any foreginer and he warned me stricly 
> that i should avoid afican men with their greedy and evil mind since 
> this is the only legacy i am inheriting from him.
>
> SIR,this is for you to be clarified because, I do not expose my self 
> to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction 
> secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, it is 
> important. Please immediately after you must have gone through my 
> message fill free and make it urgent. That is the reason why I offered 
> you 12 percent of the total money amount, and in case of any other 
> necessary expenses you might incure during this transaction including 
> your telephone calls
>
> N.B Try and negotiate for me some profitable blue chip investment 
> opportunities which is risky free which I can invest with this money 
> when it is transferred to your account and you will be our guiardian 
> personally I am interested in estate management and hotel business 
> please try to reply me immediately you receive this message for more 
> explanation.And promisse me to be a father considering my situation 
> and not to betray us
>
> Thanks and God bless Best regards
> KARIM ADMAS