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I am getting money!? Email Hoax!? Zack Manuel!?
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Posted By:
Eric Thorson
Nov 01, 2004
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Hello, just recieved this really strange email from a man named Zack Manuel. I wonder if anyone else has recived this one as well:
"Mr Zack Manuel
First Standard Finance Bank .
London UK
Reply emailto: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dear Friend.
My name is Zack Manuel, I am the credit manager of First Standard
Finance 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 am assuring 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 Joyce Lake
and her husband Ronald Lake who died in an air crash along with his wife
on the January 31 in an Alaska airline Flight 261 with other passengers
on board. You can confirm this from the website below which was
published by CNN.WEBSITE.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
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 fund (GBP�10,300,000,00) 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 and personal banking details. 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.
I shall be compensating you with 30% which is Three million Ninety
thousand Great Britain Pounds (�3,090,000,00) on final conclusion of this
project for your assistance, while the balance �7,210,000 dollars shall
be for me for investment purposes. Because I intend to retire after the
conclusion of this transaction. If this proposal is acceptable by you,
please endeavor to contact me immediately.
Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you,
I await your urgent response
Regards,
Mr Zack Manuel
First Standard Finance Bank.
London UK
Reply emailto: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)"
I don't think I will email him becuase it sounds to good to be true...
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Comments
Matt
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 | 09:39 AM
This one looks like the standard Dead Bank Customer Letter. Only real twist to this one is the "banker" claims to be in the UK instead of Nigeria, which may or may not be true. I've been sent a few and seen even more on the Internet.
http://www.scamorama.com/ |
Paul
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 | 10:08 AM
Go down a few topics where it says "just another scam". Notice anything about the text?
You should act upon those 419-scams.
People HAVE turned up dead.
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Paul
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 | 10:34 AM
Well...this took me about 5 minutes to find. Not very clever, this one.
Either that or there was a massacre at the memorial service....
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle, Saturday, February 5, 2000 p. A19
RONALD ROBERT LAKE AND JOYCE BROWN LAKE
A memorial service will be held in Tiburon today for Ronald Robert
Lake and Joyce Brown Lake of Corte Madera, who died Monday when Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the ocean near Point Mugu. He was 59 and
she was 62.
The Lakes loved the outdoors and spent their last days doing what
they enjoyed most - being with each other in Puerto Vallarta, according to
family and friends.
Mr. Lake retired last year as a bank inspector for the comptroller's
office of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in San Francisco. The past
chairman of his neighborhood association, he collected model trains, loved
to kayak and even dabbled in gold mining.
Mrs. Lake was a highly successful real estate broker for Frank
Howard Allen Realtors in Greenbrae and was active in outreach programs for
the Community Congregational Church in Tiburon. Mr. Lake is survived by
three grown sons , Jeffrey Whitworth and Bradley Whitworth, both of Houston,
Texas, and Keith Whitworth, of Sarasota, Fla.; a sister Jean Lake
Weingaertner, of St. Louis, Mo.; and brother , Bernard H. Lake Jr., of West
Covina, Los Angeles County.
Mrs. Lake is survived by her mother , Nina Hanning, of Sedalia, Mo.,
and her brother , Larry Brown, also of Sedalia.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. at the Community Congregation [sic]
Church of Tiburon, 145 Rock Hill Drive, Tiburon.
Associated Press
Also note that nobody is from the UK. |
Paul
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 | 08:48 AM
OMG...
You should NEVER act upon those 419-scams.
stupid, stupid, stupid typo...
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barbara
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 | 09:31 PM
thanks for listing this guys- i just rec'd a copy of this & knew it was garbage. glad to know someone posted it out there as trash. |
sonya
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 | 03:26 PM
On 10-10-07, I received a very similar email--'I've been chosen as a next of kin...blah,blah,blah', but the contacts were listed as Malcolm Chambers and Thomas Malcolm instead of the people you noted. The only reason I thought some of it sounded legitimate was that I have friends from England and I had just been in contact with some of his relatives with the surname Chambers. So, when I saw something from London & the Chamber name, I thought his family was trying to get ahold of me. After reading the email, I knew it had to be a scam. However, I looked up some information on the internet, and discovered that there had indeed been an accident & the January 31, 2000, American Airlines flight 261 crash was listed on a National Aviation Disaster website. i didn't respond because it sounded like a scam listing a Barrister Thomas Malcolm & Malcolm Chambers with a complete address and even listed a phone#, a fax# and email address. I think it's a shame someone would use such a tragic event as bait for a scam. |
erin
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 | 09:35 AM
well this kind of stuff is crazy i end up with emails like this from across the world so they say but why address phone and name why are they trying to get that info? you can get them out of the phone book? |
Rose
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 | 05:25 PM
I just recieved an email like this also, I figured it had to be a scam, except someone claiming to be Barrister Bruno Issa sent it to me, so good thing I did some research before replying...I'm sure it's just a scam to get all your bank information.
Thanks for posting stuff like this! |
ruben
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 | 11:49 PM
This Lake couple must be Filipinos since they came from the same country where I came from...hehehe
Part of the email.
"After all these several unsuccessful attempts, since it's not compulsory that the next-of-kin must be a blood relation to the deceased, hence I contacted you because you are from the same country with my late client, Be informed that a next-of-kin can be anybody, friends or organization." |
Carla Hilgert
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Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 | 01:38 AM
Yes, I received this same letter, but the contact person is Michael Moris, esq. Im sure its a hoax. Shame on these kind of people. Im sure they will say, there is a "fee", and we would both be victims, along with whoever else got this bogus email. |
Anna Giipson
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 | 01:42 PM
I rec'd the same crazy email from Mr Morris ESQ. This is horrible. |
Laurie
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 | 06:56 PM
Mr Liu Kang sent me an email asking me to help him a 50/50 share in the money a man left who was on flight 261 from a China bank he says my last name is the same as a pasenger who died on this flight ,sound,s like another SCAM to me what do you think as i checked the pasenger list and my name was not there ,why dont these people get a real job insted of trying to scam good people. |
Diana
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 | 02:51 PM
THIS JUST A HORRIBLE SCAM & I ACTUALLY KNOW MRS. LAKE'S MOTHER. |
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Note: This thread is located in the Old Forum of the Museum of Hoaxes.
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