Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Miss Ferima Makaya (2006)
This is one message from a collection of email scams. We don’t send these messages! We just collect the ones we receive and document them here for the benefit of others.
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From: ferima makaya ferimamakaya04@yahoo.co.jp
Reply-To: ferima_makaya@yahoo.fr
Date: Aug 17, 2006 12:45 PM
Subject: From: Miss Ferima Makaya.
From: Miss Ferima Makaya.
Dearest One,
This message may come to you as a suprise but I am desperate in need of your assistance not minding the distance between us. I am Ferima Makaya, the daughter of late Dr. Theophilus Makaya. My late father, an Ex-Minister was a Gold and Diamond merchant in my country Cote D’Ivoire before his untimely death. My mother died when I was still a year old since then father took me so special.
My late father was assassinated on his way back from his trip to South Africa where he went to nagotiate for new branch of his business, my father died after five days in the hospital, on that faithful afternoon, I didn’t know that my father was going to leave me because he was the only person I had. Before he gave up the ghost, it was as if he knew he was going to die. He told me about his properties and assets in my country.
Among these is a sealed box containing the sum of US$7.5Million with some valuables and other properties which I could not lay my hands on because my relatives have collabrated to seize all except the box money they are not aware of. According to my late father,he wanted to use the money for an investment in the republic of South Africa. He kept the box money under the costudy of a safe deposite security company in my country Cote D’Ivoire, he gave me the contact address of the company and the documents regarding to the box issued to him by the company. He made me to understand that the security company were not aware of the money content of the box because he decleared them as containing only Gold and diamond for security reasons.
I have succeeded in locating the security company and confirmed the existence with most honesty and confidentiality. It is in respect of this particular box money I am contacting you to help me retreive and transfer to your country for investment purpose into a lucrative business as this is my only hope of survival in life. I am ready to offer you part of the money for assisting me or you might as well tell me how much you would like to take for assisting me?
Please, kindly reply me immediately for more details if you are interested in this project.
Thanks for your kind attention and mutual understanding.
Sincerely,
Ferima
