I've just received in my e-mail what must be the seventh different offer to use my bank account to launder a wad of "overlooked" African money. This time it's Dr. Adebayo Jones (sounds like a character played by Daffy Duck in a 1950s cartoon), "chairman of contract award and review committee set up by the federal government of Nigeria under the new civilian dispensation to award new contracts and review existing ones." He writes, "I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account."
"Reliable and reputable"? Okay, which one of you jokers has been telling lies about me behind my back?
The notable thing about these scam spams is that the alleged money involved accumulated through either a fraudulent deliberate overbilling, or an accidental overbilling, of some poor sucker of a multinational corporation, and that the scheme involving the recipient of the message is a fraudulent attempt to avoid returning the money to its rightful owner. I suppose that's why the victim is always a multinational corporation -- stealing from them is mere justice, right?
Anytime I've tried to write back to whoever sends me these things, the message always bounces back as undeliverable. Seems kind of pointless to try to get confidential information from me about my bank accounts, and not provide a valid reply address to receive the desired information.
Or maybe after they send the message they discover that I only have 98¢ and a month-old ham sandwich in the bank, and they close the e-mail account before I can reply...
