Thread: SPAM?

I got some spam a few weeks ago. I never look at spam I just delete it. But I once got some spam that was not a fake email. I had some kinda special feeling I should reply (don't ask). So I did and I got real emails, not fake. He answerd quistions and stuff. So I'm posting this for help and for opions. Here are the emails in the order in wich I got them:

I AM THE DIRECTOR OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEPARTMENT
OF MINERALS AND ENERGY, PRETORIA, REPULIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.

I AND MY OTHER COLLEAGUES WHO ARE SECTIONAL HEADS
DELIBERATELY OVER INFLATED SOME CONTRACTS AWARDED IN MY
SECTOR. IN THE COURSE OF PAYMENT AND DISBURSEMENT, MY
SECTOR WAS ABLE TO TRACK DOWN THE SUM OF US$24.5M (TWENTY
FOUR MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
AS OVER INFLATED SUM. THIS MONEY IS NOW IN MY SECTOR'S
DOMICILLIARY ACCOUNT WITH BARCKLAYS BANK PLC, PRETORIA,
SOUTH AFRICA.

MY COLLEAGUES AND I NOW WANT TO QUICKLY TRANSFER THIS FUND
TO A SAFE NOMINATED FOREIGN ACCOUNT FOR VIABLE INVESTMENT
ABROAD. WE ARE NOT ALLOWED AS A MATTER OF GOVERNMENT POLICY
TO OPERATE FOREIGN ACCOUNT BECAUSE OF OUR STATUS AS
CIVIL/PUBLIC SERVANTS. HENCE THE NEED TO SOLICIT FOR YOUR
ASSISTANCE.

WE HAVE ALSO EVOLVED A SHARING FORMULA WHICH IS AS
FOLLOWS:
1) 10% FOR YOU, OUR FOREIGN PARTNER.
2) 5% IS SET ASIDE FOR ANY EXPENSES THAT MAY BE
INCURRED BOTH AT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL.
3) 85% IS FOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES. THIS WILL BE
INVESTED INTO PROPERTIES AND VIABLE BUSINESSES IN
YOUR COUNTRY.

KINDLY GET BACK TO US SO THAT I WILL GIVE YOU DETAILS
OF HOW THIS TRANSACTION WILL BE EXECUTED, AND TREAT
THIS MATTER WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIAL. ALSO PROVIDE YOUR
TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS WHERE YOU WILL BE CONTACTED.

YOURS SINCERELY,

MR. HARICHARUN HARESH

Reply: Give me directions on how to do it and I will.

Email #2:Thanks for your email and interest in my proposed business. Be fully
assured
that with your cooperation, the said fund will be smoothly transfered
into
any account you will provide. I got your email address from yahoo
website
and I decided to contact in case you will be able to handle a business
of
this magnitude.

The said fund (US$24.5 million) originated from an executed contract
(DME/PED/WER-2002) in the Department of Minerals and Energy, Pretoria
South
Africa. I and my colleagues who are members of Contract Award
Commission
deliberately over-inflated the value for our personal use. The fund is
presently lodge with the Department's Domicilliary account with
Barclays
Bank Plc.

For this fund to be smoothly and successfully transfered to any account
you
will provide, I will create you as a foreign contractor who executed a
sub-letted contract (DME/PED/WER-2002) for my section of the
Department. In
this arrangement, application for claims will be forwarded in your name
as
the foreign contractor and beneficiary of the fund to the appropriate
government agencies for approvals. The approvals that will be obtained
in
your name will facilitate the transfer of the fund to any account you
will
provide.

Because of the large amount involved, it will not be good to transfer
it to
your existing account. You should open a new account and send the
details to
me to process the documents that will enhance the tsransfer.

I will like to know more about you. What you do for a living. I will
also
like to speak to you on phone. You should send your telephone number so
that
I will call you for discussion and for us to get better acquainted.

Waiting to hear from you, and treat this business with commitment and
absolute secrecy.

Regards.

Mr. Haricharun Haresh

Reply: 1. Why must I keep this confidential?
2. Would this kind of account work?
3. Is this legal?

Email #3: Thanks for your emails. In response to your questions, I will like to
state
as follow:

1. You have to keep it confidential because large amount of money is
usually
considered as drug or terrorist related money. Hence, the transaction
must
be handled under absolute confidentiality.

2. The account you will provide will be such that can receive and
accommodate this fund.

3. This business is absolutely legal because the fund originated from
and
executed contract (DME/PED/WER-2002) and the Government of South Africa
has
originally approved the payment. After the approval documents have been
processed in your name as the beneficiary, the fund will also be
transfered
to your account as a contract payment which makes it legal.


I will like to speak with you so that we can better acquainted. You
should
provide your telephone number for me to call you.

Regards.

Mr. Haresh

Reply:I would rather talk over a program called AIM. It is a program in wich we can talk through the internet. My AIM screen name is EddTheRetard. Please go to www.aim.com to download this program. It does not cost anything. Please email me if this is a problem for you, if not please sign up for it and give me your screen name.Then we will discus details on this program. Thank You.


Email#4: The website (www.aim.com) is not compartible with my DSN and Server. It
is
not opening it. You should provide a telephone number where I should
call
you.

Regards.

Mr. Haresh

Email: I have eventually succeeded in down-loading the aim programme. We can
now
talk through the internet. My AIM screen name is Harhre. Do you know
the
time difference between your country and South Africa? I am on the line
now.

Regards.

Mr. Haresh

Reply:
Good. Before we do this deal, I would like you to TRY to prove this is not SPAM, or a fake email. Also, I'm looking for an American account to put the money in so we both can acess it. I will be on AIM on Friday, Saterday or Sunday. Also please be honest. If I do this deal, I'm hoping its totally legal. Sometimes my internet is down for a while, so if I hav'nt emailed you, its because my internets down. Thank you. I'm planning to hear from you soon

Email #6:I want to tell you in all honesty and sincerity that this business is
not a
spam and it is not a fake email. Be fully assured that this fund will
be
smoothly transfered into any account you will provide and you will see
it
live and realise that this is no child's play.

I also want to assure you that this business is 100% risk-free and
legal.
You will be happy that I introduced this business to you. Ve fully
encouraged vy the fact that a very senior Government official like me
in
executing this business with you. You are in safe hands and well
protected.

You should tell me the exact time you will be in the internet on
friday,
saturday or sunday for us to talk.

Regards

Mr. Haresh

Reply: Dear Haricharun Haresh,

I will sign you up for an account, but first I need this information (I don't want to share any personal information). I need all of the following:

Acount Number:

Social Security Number:

Home Phone:

Zip Code:




Email #7: I not really know what information you need from me. What account
number are
you talking about? You suppose to send account details to me where the
fund
will be transfered. I do not really understand what account number you
are
talking about.

Anyway, I have decided to send my passport copy for you to know whom
you are
dealing with and to allay your fears. My address is in the passport
copy. My
direct telephone number is 27-83-9230071. You should send your full
corect
names so that I will start processing the documents that will
facilitate the
transfer pending when you will open a new account.

Waiting to hear from you.

Regards.

Mr. Haresh


Email #8: It appears that you do not understand this business we have been
discussing
for the past weeks. I will advise that you go back to the email where I
sent
the details of this transaction to you.

The fund is not in my personal account. The fund is in one of the
domicilliary account of the Department of Minerals and Energy here in
Pretoria where I am the Director of Nuclear Technology. This fund
(US$24.5
million) originated from an executed contract (DME/PED/WER-2002) in my
section of the Department and for it to be transfered to any account
you
will provide, I will create you as a foreign contractor who executed a
sub-letted contract for my section of the Department of Minerals and
Energy
here in Pretoria, South Africa.

You are to send an account where the fund will be transfered. That was
why I
asked you to open a new account.

Regards.

Mr. Haresh

Reply:The account number I wanted from you is the account you are keeping your money in now. I need this number so I can transfer the money to the account (american). So give me your old account in wich your keeping your money.

Thanks,
Mike

Reply to Email #8: Understood.


Email #9: This is a Government account and there is no way this your method can
work.
I have told you that this fund originated from an executed contract,
and for
it to be transfered to your account which you will provide, an official
legal documentation process will be involved. You and I cannot withdraw
money from a Government account which we are not signatory to. This is
South
Africa and not America.

Anyway, I have been able to run into a friend who is very close to the
Seat
of Power here in South Africa. I have privately discussed this matter
with
him and he has a diplomatic contact to deliver this fund in your name
as the
beneficiary to Namibia or Holland. That will be made possible when I
have
processed the documents and obtained approvals in your name which will
facilitate the release of the fund.

In this arrangement, you will be required to fly to Namibia or Holland
to
claim the fund for onward transfer to your account in America or
anywhere
else. However, I will need a double assurance that after this fund has
been
transfered to your account, you will not cheat me by sitting upon it.

Kindly get back to me so that I will perfect this arrangement.

Regards.

Mr. Haresh





After that I did not reply. How do I set up an account without my parents finding out? I'm trying to use a paypal account but I don't know how to work it. Where can I sign up for a bank account online? Is this real? WHAT DO I DO?