Is the Net safe?

Is the Net safe?

No.

Not even close. The Net is as safe as a dark alley on the bad side of town when you have loads of cash and it is 5 days until payday. There are bad guys lurking in the shadows; actually they are just standing out in the open. Heck, Nelly & Fabien wrote me today asking for money!

From Miss Nelly & Fabien Barou
Abidjan ivory coast
West Africa

Dearest One,

I know that this mail may come to you as unespected since we have not met or known each other before,but I hope that you will treat this matter with love and fear of God.

I am Miss Nelly & Fabien Barou the children of late Mr Barou Michelle. Our Father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discusson a business deal.

Before the death of my father earlier this year in a private hospital here in Abidjan.He secretly called me beside his sick bedside as the elderst child and told me that he has a sum of $8.500.000 (Eight Million five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in Abidjan, that he used my younger brother’s name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance him from the business deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that we should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of our choice where we will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management five stars hotel or transportation etc..).

Please, we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To provide a bank account where this money would be transferred to.

2) To serve as the guardian of this money since we are so young to handle this all alone and we don’t know anything about bank to bank transfer or business world.

Moreover,my younger brother and I are willing to offer you 20% of the sum as compensation for effort input after the successful transfer of this money to your designate account in your country where you will help us to invest this money into any of the above mentioned field while we continue our studies.

Thanks and God Bless you.

Anticipating to hear from you soonest.
Best regards.
Nelly & Fabien Barou.

There are two types of people on the Net: stupid people and the rest of us. Nelly & Fabien Barou are stupid threats, but people actually do fall into this scam - called Nigeria 419 (The number “419″ refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud). People fell for this scam, and some have died because of it.

Let’s reply to Nelly and Fabz and see where they bring us, shall we?

I just answered “Just go to your bank, have them cut a certified check in your name and mail it to me. I’ll hold the check and pay for your ticket up here, and you can pay me back, plus give what you consider fair.“