More 419 Letters
I’m so tempted to reply to one of those and make fun of them! But I’m kinda scared that if I do Mr. Ecko is going to show up at my house and kick my ass. 
From:LadyRita Mosley.
4 Old Church Street,
Chelsea, SW3,
England.Here writes Lady Rita Mosley, suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married to Sir David Mosley an Englishman who is dead. My husband was into private practice all his life before his death. Our life together as man and wife lasted for three decades without child. My husband died after a protracted illness. My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals as he had passion for persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament.
I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this relationship, which never came.
I didn’t even know that adduce was a word. Apparently it means to provide evidence for
[source]. I’m totally gonna use it from now on. In fact, I’m going to use it in a sentence right now:
Dear Sir and/or Madam, can you please adduce that you are a rich english lady and not some dude from Nigeria?
How do you provide evidence that he needed a child anyway? I kinda needed to pee like an hour ago, but I don’t think I could adduce for that.
And , if you don’t mind me asking, why the hell do you spell child with capital C? Are you just capitalizing Random words in your Letter for fun, or is it some clever new technique to bypass spam filters?
When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of Twenty Million Pounds (20,000,000.00 Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling)which were derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market with his bank here in UK. Presently, this money is still with the Bank. Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from.
Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to the cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen my family, and me I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.
So you have a stroke? Are you having it right now? Is it like a continuous, never ending stroke or something? Man, that must suck considering you also have cancerous problems.
I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill perceived ventures. I do not want this money to be misused hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I do not need any telephone communication in this regard due to my deteriorating health and because of the presence of my husband relatives around me. I do not want them to know about this development.
And also, I’m pretty sure I could discern between an British and Nigerian accent. Not even mentioning the fact that you are a dude, not a lady. So yes, we definitely don’t need telephone communication in this regard.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank in UK. I will also issue you a Letter of Authority that will empower you as the original beneficiary of this fund. My happiness is that I lived a life worthy of emulation. Please assure me that you will act just as I have stated herein. Hope to hear from you soon.
Anyone who actually believes that some English widow with a perpetual cancerous stroke is just going to give them 20 mill totally deserves what is coming to them.
Here are some useful links for those of you who found this through a google search and want to learn more about the 410 scams:
- Wiki Article on 419 scams - everything you need to know and more
- 419 Coalition - has some tips on what to do if you get scammed. This includes some contact links of where you can file complaints and etc…
- Ebola Monkey Man - a site that records the correspondence with these people and tries to fool them into doing silly stuff (like sending in pictures holding embarrassing or silly sings)
- 419 Eater - another website that specializes in making the scammers do stupid stuff
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September 27th, 2006 at 4:51 pm (1253) [Quote]
We talked about these in my systems assurance class last night.
The guest speaker gave us the following webpage:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
Enjoy
Posted usingSeptember 27th, 2006 at 8:40 pm (1254) [Quote]
Hehe! Priceless!
I saw this website once before. I especially liked Father Will U. Touchme.
Posted usingSeptember 29th, 2006 at 5:07 am (1256) [Quote]
“Anyone who actually believes that some English widow with a perpetual cancerous stroke is just going to give them 20 mill totally deserves what is coming to them.” - Well said
Posted usingSeptember 30th, 2006 at 3:40 pm (1258) [Quote]
This actually made it to my mail box in Bermuda. How do they always manage to find me? Unbelievable.
Posted usingNovember 11th, 2006 at 7:09 am (1535) [Quote]
Oh how I laughed when I received another lame 419 mail.
If “Lady Rita Mosley” actually exists - which I doubt - it’s most unusual in modern written English to begin your mail with ‘Here writes…’. Indeed, I’ve never known anyone to start a mail or letter that way. Describing terminal cancer as “an ailment” is interesting too: it’s a disease!
Point of order to the scammers: if you intend to scam those in the UK who have a pretty good working knowledge of written English, try to ensure your mails actually read properly. One would presume that the wife of a peer of the realm would know how to write a letter and starting it with “here writes” is not cricket!
As we say on the football terraces “You’re not very good, you’re not very good. In fact you’re FUCKING SHIT!” so kindly fuck off and stop bothering us with your phoney-baloney scam mails.
Posted usingJanuary 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm (2498) [Quote]
I’m just receiving the lady rita mosley letter today 1/19/2007,how this people take emails of us and what can we do about it because this is at least the 10 received from diferents adresses but same objective to give money to unknown person for good reasons,maybe there’s a lot of people who believe those bad jokes?
Posted usingJanuary 20th, 2007 at 2:44 am (2501) [Quote]
Manuel - apparently some people still fall for it. I figure that if it was not working they would have stopped doing it. Sigh…
Oh, and getting email addresses is easy. You write a simple perl script using www::mechanize that will crawl along the links and then do a quick regexp to match everything that looks like an email.
They you just let it loose on a site that has lots of links (ie. digg.com for example). So every time you type in your address on the web in plain text, you risk it being spidered by spammers.
This is why your email address does not show up next to your name when you post comments here. I don’t want spammers to get your infos.
Posted usingJanuary 27th, 2007 at 2:38 pm (2604) [Quote]
I just receied this email on January 26th and January 27th 2007 and she replied to my email I sent back to her with the lawyers name and email address and phone number. I did not believe it but I went along with it any way. I got suspicious today and figured let me search her name online and sure enough I found many website saying that other people have gotten this same email and I am glad that I look for myself and found out about this as soon as I did.
Posted usingJanuary 27th, 2007 at 3:10 pm (2605) [Quote]
Leah! This is a well known scam. They call it the Nigerian 419 scam after the legal code for this kind of fraud in Nigeria. Just google for 419 scam and you will see hundreds of pages dealing with it.
Note - these people are usually relatively harmless, because most of these scams are run from Nigeria and other African 3′rd world countries - mostly because they do not have the infrastructure in place to track down, capture and prosecute or extradite these people.
Just ignore their future emails from now on. Good luck!
Posted usingJanuary 27th, 2007 at 8:26 pm (2613) [Quote]
Hi there
Posted usingMy daughter received a letter like this about 4 months ago, just after having been diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1, a month later we got an email saying this lady had passed away, now I get one from the same Lady wow why dosnt someone stop them.
January 28th, 2007 at 2:38 am (2616) [Quote]
Jenny - those people do get caught sometimes. Mostly though these things are run as one-man operation. It’s just some guy sitting in an internet cafe in Nigeria sending out hundreds of emails every day.
Anyways, here are some links:
Wiki Article on 419 scams
419 Coalition - has some tips on what to do if you get scammed.
419 Eater - another website that specializes in scamming the scammers.
Posted usingFebruary 11th, 2007 at 8:15 am (2917) [Quote]
Scams piddle me off because people then begin to think that all cases of hardship come over as scams. Disgusting.
Posted usingPlease consider signing this petition. Thank you from within my heart!
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/justicenatasha
February 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm (2923) [Quote]
Sorry but online petitions do not work.
Also, the internets do not like sad stories of hardship. If you want people to rally behind you, you need to either make them laugh or make them angry. Viral advertising is the way to go.
Your cause must become a cultural icon that can produce “___ has a posse” stickers, youtube spoofs and etc… Otherwise you are drowned out in the sea of scam.
But that’s just my opinion. Internet is disgusting in more way than one - but that’s why I love it.
Posted usingApril 26th, 2007 at 1:04 am (4245) [Quote]
I got this emal today. Thought I would up date the emails being sent out by this whoever it is!
My Dear Child,
I am please that at least you replied me.
I am sending u this message, and i will be very pleased if you can help me carry out this duty as it has been laid upon you today.
You might be surprised that “WHY YOU” but please dont be.Just take this with good faith and please be sincere with youserlf, if you cannot help me carry out this then i beg of you to be plain to me.
Hence,You have every reason to be doubtful,i wouldn’t blame you for that. But one thing you should know is that i stand to gain nothing in trying to play games on you, cause that is the most recent way people get money from others on the internet or whatever you may think.
I am presently lying on my dying bed,as a barren mother if i would put it that way,i have no kids and all my relatives are way too dubious and i believe if this funds is passed to them,it would be used for their selfish interests.
It’s upon this that i got to you.I am actually searching for someone who is God fearing and would use these funds as I and My late husband had wished.The question on ground is supposed to be directed to you if only you will be of help to the less priviledged and other dessitudes.
I have not much time to live on earth as i am at the verge of passing on.I want you to state clearly if you will use this funds accordingly? But if you feel you can’t on the fact that your conscience is not pure,then you can as well tell me in your reply that you are not intrested.
I have discuss this matter with my Lawyer and he is going to work with the Bank and secure this funds from the UK Bank where it is been kept for safe custody in a very proper and legal manners and he will make the arrangement with the Bank in your name, as the new beneficiary of the fund and also my next of kin, to move the fund from England to meet you in your country, with your data.
My Attorney is Barrister Franklyn Marcucci. Do email him at once and let him commence with the transfer modalities, his email address is: franklinmarcuccisoffice@yahoo.co.uk , you can reach him through his telephone number, which is +447031968274 and you can also contact me through his telephone number but note that you must ensure that this is not disclosed to anybody until the money has been successfully transfered to you because of security reasons on my side.
You are implored to use this funds for the less-privileged, widows, and orphans, destitute and indigent persons in the society. Please, do your best to see that the dreams of my husband SIR Mosley of blessed memory and my dream is fulfilled and make sure this is kept confidential until the transfer is completed and the good works of charity commence, as you are the only one contacted for this and aware of this too.
Sincerely yours,
Posted usingMrs.Rita Mosley.
April 26th, 2007 at 1:06 am (4246) [Quote]
This is also another one that I got from the same person
Dear Beloved,
Here writes Lady Rita Mosley’s wife of late Sir David
Posted usingMosley,
suffering from cancerous ailment without a child. My late husband
deposited
the sum of twenty million pounds derived from his vast estates and
investment in
capital market with his bank here in UK. Recently, my doctor told me
that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am
suffering from.
With this hard reality that has befallen my family, and me I have
decided to donate this fund to you and want you to help me use this
gift
which comes from my husband’s effort to fund the
upkeep of
widows,
orphans, and needy financially. You can contact me through my personal
email
address:ritmley2007uk_mywishes1@yahoo.co.uk
Rita Mosley
April 30th, 2007 at 5:02 pm (4274) [Quote]
i too got a letter stating my beloved
Posted usingi didn’t fall for it either , i too played a long they even sent me pictures of a lady in her death bed and a certificate of the actual so called 20,000,000gbp
then a bank got a hold of me to let me know that i needed to pay 1200pds(2000us$)
so i sent the so called lawyer if someone is to inherit the money why lady rita mosley didn’t care of it her self.? so his reply was she died before she could.
so i figure i would write one more email and told him if someone would have inherrited that kind of money it would have been i a will, already in the bank for , and the legally papers would not have mispelled words. and that the banks email address would have worked.
then i told them i know this was a scam and it was all over the inernet.
never did hear from them again
i was not stupid to give them 2000 they where insane.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm (4275) [Quote]
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:25:22 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: MY BENEFACTOR.
To: mlgkats@yahoo.com
Beloved,
Thank you for your response,but you have to understand that you are the only person i am contacting for this mission of my late husband and I implore you to be as honest as possible in this dealing as the spirit of my late husband will be with you always and the Almighty will also bless you for your effort in seeing that persons are brought out of their predicament.
However,i prayed over this before making the decision after which I got your email-address while searching for someone that can be sincere and honest to carry on this task as I have been given some days to live and I have no child to inherit the money and I do not want my husband’s relatives to possess the funds as they are rich and will misuse it also it was the wish of my late husband that we use the funds for those people in the society(since we had no child).
I have discuss this matter with my Lawyer and I have told him about you and he is going to work with the Bank and secure this funds from the UK BANK where it is been kept for safe custody in a very proper and legal manners and he will make the arrangement with the Bank in your name, as the new beneficiary of the fund, to move the fund from England to meet you in your country, with your data.
My Attorney is Barrister Jackson Williams. Do email him at once and let him commence with the transfer modality, his email address is: barrjackson_williams@yahoo.co.uk you can reach him through his phone number, which is +44 70111 49476 and you can also contact me through his phone number.
I want these funds to be transferred to you before I pass on. When the funds are transferred I would want you to use it for charity work in my family name for the less-privileged, widows, and orphans, destitute and indigent persons in the society. Please, do your best to see that the dreams of my husband Sir David Mosley of blessed memory and my dream is fulfilled and make sure this is kept confidential until the transfer is completed and the good works of charity commence, as you are the only one contacted for this and aware of this too.
NOTE YOU ARE ADVISE TO FILL THIS FORM AND SEND TO MY ATTORNEY.
1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.COUNTRY:
Sincerely yours,
Lady Rita Mosley.
Posted usingMay 21st, 2007 at 3:50 am (4431) [Quote]
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Posted usingMay 22nd, 2007 at 9:23 pm (4533) [Quote]
My sister was being scammed and this was the outcome.
Beware!!!!!!!
Dear _______,
I hope that you are fine.
It is with heavy heart that i bring to your immediate notice the demise of my client Mrs Rita Mosley in the early hours of this morning.
I want you to take the news of her eventual demise with a strong heart knowing that she lived a life worthy of emulation,as all who knew her were favoured by her kindheartedness.
I write to advice you based on my discussion with the Administrative officer at the Bank this morning when i informed him of her demise.
You must be already aware of the high rise in money laundering and terrorist activities in the world today which has brought about strict scrutiny and investigations by monetary bodies especially of financial transactions involving such huge sums both locally and internationally,also putting into consideration the fact that my client is dead there is need to transfer this funds immediately to you as desired by Lady Mosley.
In a bid to ensure the success of this transaction,i decided to inquire from the Bank as to the most convenient and fast way to transfer the 20,000,000.00 GBP from Mrs Mosley’s account to you now that she is dead and some relatives of her late husband whom are very boigous and desperate would want to take this chance and have a hold of this funds.
The administrative officer suggested that you open a fresh non-rescident offshore account in your name with the Bank,so that the transfer would be seen as an inhouse transfer and as such would not attract the attention of Englands inland revenue board and some strict monetary bodies that supervises the transfer of such huge funds internationally.
So that once your new account has been successfully opened and activated,then the funds can easily be transfered to your account with the Bank within the next 48 hours.
In this regard,you are expected to contact the Bank immediately and secure the account as soon as possible,afterwards the funds would be transfered hitchfree to the new account in your name here in UK.
You would now begin to transfer this lump sum in smaller bits to your account in your place of parmanent rescidence.
Here is the contact details of the Bank.
CONTACT PERSON:
Mr.Oliver Bullak
Accounts Manager,
ROYAL DUBLIN FINANCE PLC.
EMAIL: accounts@royal-dublin-finance.com
TEL:+44-709-465-6839
FAX:+44-870-478-1362
Do well to provide the new account information to me once you have successfully opened the account so that we may proceed with the transfer.
I hope that i have informed you correctly and i expect that you would act exactly as directed.
I await to hear positively from you in this regard as soon as possible.
Warm Regards,
Posted usingBarr Marcucci F.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm (4534) [Quote]
I was so shocked when I heard LAdy Rita Mosley had passed on. She lived a full life,LOL and I will publish this responce on each and every site.
Posted usingJune 28th, 2007 at 4:32 am (4989) [Quote]
i got this email and thought cool there are rich nice people i was all for setting up a foundation and kinda felt sorry they had no kids but ive been scamed before so just in case i lefty in my email ill do it but before i give any info on me send me 10 grand ill give it to a local church and ill have no worrys my identity is being stolen and you will know i am a giving person …….never got a response figured it was a scam if it wasnt them a dieing old lady with 20 million would have no problem in sending me 10 Gs specially if she was gona give it all to me by the way the scam they got a little info from me was uk lotto luckaly i went to the real site and seen that if you win they will never disclose the amount in a email so if anyone ever gets a you won such and such amount its a scam there is no state or country lotto that will give you a admount in a email
Posted usingJune 28th, 2007 at 9:51 am (4990) [Quote]
Just a side note for anyone who ever considering sending their info in response to an email like that:
The reason why transactions that involve so much money are never done is because email is inherently insecure. Whenever you send an email, you send it in plain text, and unencrypted and generally travels over many different hoops before it reaches it’s destination. And anyone at any of those hoops can read it.
Sending your account number via email is like yelling it across a crowded room. Chances are that no one cares enough to write it down - but then again, you never know.
Posted usingJune 28th, 2007 at 5:36 pm (4993) [Quote]
I recieve these scams all the time, I just wish one of them was ligit. I recieved the announcement from LAdy Rita Mosley and I played along and told them I would deliver the info they needed to London, in person. Poor Lady Rita kicked the bucket and it was canceled.
Posted usingNow I have recieved one from Susan something, I forget her name, but it was identical to Lady Rita’s letter. I told her to can it LAdy Rita had already played that game with me. Lol , these people need to get a life.
I just get a kick and play along with some of them, if they only knew what fools some of us think they are.
July 7th, 2007 at 7:09 pm (5120) [Quote]
If you think Rita Mosley has it bad then you should hear about her housemates!!
So far, I have received emails from six different women from the same house in Chelsea.
Coincidentally, all are Ladies, have recently lost their husbands, have no children and are suffering cancerous ailments.
But that’s not as bad as the one I got today from a poor woman who has all that and is also deaf, dumb(no kidding!) and is losing the ability to walk. Oh, and she has pneumonia too… guess we ought to give her some cash to make her feel better huh?
No?
Awwww, you cruel lot!!
Posted usingJuly 7th, 2007 at 9:49 pm (5121) [Quote]
Deaf and dumb sounds about right. LOL
Posted usingSeptember 21st, 2007 at 9:11 am (6253) [Quote]
Anyone want to buy a puppy?
Posted usingSeptember 21st, 2007 at 10:07 am (6255) [Quote]
LOL! Nice one! Although it narrows down your target audience. Not everyone wants a free puppy - but who could refuse a lottery winning of “millions of US DOLLARS”
Posted usingSeptember 24th, 2007 at 8:41 pm (6291) [Quote]
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Posted usingOctober 4th, 2007 at 9:10 am (6418) [Quote]
got this one this morning:
Dear Friend,
I did not forgot your past effort and attemps to assist me, now I’m happy to inform you that i have suceeded in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay.
Now Contact my secretary ask him for (£500.000.00) for your
compensation,his information is below,
Name: James Tofa
Phone: +229 93050197
E-mail: mrjames_44@yahoo.fr
Contact him with these informations as listed below.
1). Your Full Names:
2). Your Contact Address:
3.). Your Tel/Mobile Numbers:
I am so busy with my Investment Projects in Paraguay at the moment and will be in touch with you once in a while.
Yours Faithfully
Mrs Tina Wilson
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Posted usingOctober 4th, 2007 at 9:49 am (6422) [Quote]
LOL! I saw the same one in my inbox not so long ago. Maybe the name was different, but it was the same text.
Small world.
Wait… I’m assuming that this line:
Was added by your (or their) webmail. Either that or 419 spammer now sell Vista.
Posted usingNovember 10th, 2007 at 4:00 pm (6924) [Quote]
I am a total idiot. I received the E-mail approximateley one month ago. I was skeptical, but ,of course a little curious. I corresponded with Lady Rita Moseley, briefly, and then she died, supposedly. I have since been in contact with Barrister Franklyn Marcucci. I told him of my skepticism, and he seemed to be genuine. I had a thought today, to look up his name or Lady Rita Moseleys. I now know what a fool I have been. I did not send them any money, nor did I go ahead with the transaction. Apparently these people are fairly educated, and I use the term fairly, loosely. I am so glad I looked this stuff up. I might have been duped, just because I am a caring person. For all of you who provided this information, Thank You, May Mr. Marcucci and Lady Moseley rot in hell for trying to take advantage of good people. Again, I Thank those of you who were already aware. Dani-Texas
Posted usingJanuary 8th, 2008 at 11:11 am (7641) [Quote]
My boss recieved a letter in the mail last week similar to the online letters and then today I recieved one from Madam Catherine Davis. Usually I just delete them and today I decided to read it. They are so full of crap. I just don’t understand how people can get sucked into these scams to rid you of your money. No one is going to give anyone this kind of money for no reason what so ever. So no one should believe these letters.
Posted usingJanuary 12th, 2008 at 12:00 am (7683) [Quote]
If it didn’t still work, spammers wouldn’t still do it.
Posted usingApril 23rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm (8860) [Quote]
I have ever got a power of attorny letter from Mr Jackson…what you think?
Posted using