Here’s another typical email scam I received today. There is definitely a pattern here – if the stupid scammers arn’t claiming a rich person died in a war they are suggesting it was in a plane crash. In these cases they always suggest you can get the details of the crash from a website but ‘Jeffrey Rice’ obviously can’t be bothered to give us the hyperlink himself 
From : jeffreyrice1@visir.is
My name is Jeffrey Rice, I am the credit manager in a bank here in the United kingdom. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I amassuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.
PROPOSITION;
I am the account officer of a foreigner named Gerald Welsh who died in an air crash along with his wife on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline 990 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below which was published by BBC WORLD NEWS.WEBSITE.
Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself and his wife(May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-
of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.upon this discovery, I Now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the funds (US$! 12,000,000.00) to be released in your
favor as the beneficiary’s next of kin. Because after five years the money will be called back to the bank treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of the bank. so it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next of
kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow the bank directors to share this money amongst themselves at the end of the year. it may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.
1.A Beneficiary name..In order for me to prepare the document for transfer of the funds in your name.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers For our personal contact and mutual trust in each other.
Upon your acceptance I shall send you a copy of my international passport and drivers license for more confidentiality and trust. I shall be compensating you with four million dollars ($4Milliondollars) on final conclusion of this project for your assistance, while the balance $8 million dollars shall be for me for investment purposes. Because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this transaction. If his proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavor to contact me immediately. Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed n you, I await your urgent mail to my personal email address:jeffreyrice09@yahoo.co.uk
Regards,
J.Rice
I can’t believe how someone who is supposed to be a bank manager can have such a poor command of English – the grammar, tone and poor use of capitals is such a giveaway.
What?
He’s not really genuine bank manager?
Get away… I’d never have guessed!
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The really sad part of this is that my name really IS Jeffrey Rice, and my great aunt and uncle died in this crash. I wish this scammer had chosen a different name to fake…
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