{"id":20,"date":"2004-02-20T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-02-20T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T13:50:30","slug":"how_i_blew_20_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2004\/02\/how_i_blew_20_m\/","title":{"rendered":"How I blew 20 Million Dollars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must give it to them, these guys are persistent. I suppose this kind of scam must work for the perpetrators or otherwise not so many people would be wasting so much time and bandwidth in this kind of crap. I even read somewhere that this is an actual industry in Nigeria with traceable income in the overall GDP.<br \/>\nThere must also be an unending supply of suckers out there who actually reply to this kind of correspondence. Well, good luck guys!!! Who knows, maybe some distant cousin will get the 20 millions and cut me in the profits. I am sure I will not&#8230;<br \/>\nWould somebody please put this guy Musere out of his misery?<br \/>\nBy the way Mr. Musere, please check your spelling. It does not look very professional in business transactions to have these kind of errors. Besides, aren&#8217;t there 20 million reasons to look good?<br \/>\n====================================<br \/>\nEmail:rmusere@mailtobe.com<br \/>\nDear Andrade,<br \/>\nCompliments.<br \/>\nMy name is MR. ROLAND MUSERE, a close confidant of Mr.Martin Andrade,a<br \/>\nforeign national but who was resident engineer who was into heavy duty<br \/>\nfarm equipment maintenance and supplies in Zimbabwe. Since his death I<br \/>\nhave made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my friend&#8217;s<br \/>\nextended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.<br \/>\nAfter these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his last<br \/>\nname over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I<br \/>\ncontacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money<br \/>\nleft behind by my friend before they get confisicated or declared<br \/>\nunserviceable by the security company where this huge deposits were<br \/>\nlodged.<br \/>\n&#8230;. read on<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe crux of the matter is that during the war against the farmers in<br \/>\nZimbabwe from the supporters of President Robert Mugabe to claim all the<br \/>\nwhite-owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all<br \/>\nwhite farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his<br \/>\nfollowers.<br \/>\nMy friend being one of the best agric-engineers in the country and because<br \/>\nhe did not support Mugabe&#8217;s ideas,Mugabe&#8217;s supporters invaded his site and<br \/>\nburnt everything in the site, killing him and his entire household and<br \/>\nmade away with a lot of items in his site.<br \/>\nBefore his death, he had deposited with one of the Security Companies in<br \/>\nEurope the sum of US$20 Million (Twenty million USD), then after his<br \/>\ndeath,because of the apprehension all over the place I decided to move out<br \/>\nof Zimbabwe temporarily.Indeed my late friend died just a couple of days<br \/>\nafter he had just returned from a visit to the said Security company in<br \/>\nEurope where he had gone to extend the period of domicile of the Twenty<br \/>\nMillion USD for another 12 months.<br \/>\nSince I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for some<br \/>\nyears now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the<br \/>\ndeceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this<br \/>\ntransaction is moved out of the Security Company. You will be rewarded<br \/>\nwith 25% of the total sum for your assistance, 5% will be mapped out for<br \/>\nany expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction and<br \/>\n70% will be for invest in your country.<br \/>\nAll I want you to do is to furnish me with your confidential phone numbers<br \/>\nfor easy ommunication. You can contact me via mail:rmusere@mailtobe.com<br \/>\nNote that this transaction is 100% risk free and absolutely confidential.<br \/>\nThanks and God bless.<br \/>\nRegards,<br \/>\nMR ROLAND MUSERE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must give it to them, these guys are persistent. I suppose this kind of scam must work for the perpetrators or otherwise not so many people would be wasting so much time and bandwidth in this kind of crap. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2004\/02\/how_i_blew_20_m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}