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I was under the impression that advanced fees scams were the property of african people, especially those from Nigeria for the english speaking world (ivory coast and senegal for french speaking world) but today I received this communication:
From: “Mr.Mou Xinsheng”
Reply-to: m_xsheng002@yahoo.com.cn
Subject: HELLO FROM CHINA!!
Hello,
I want to solicit your attention to recieve money on my behalf.
I will send you the full details and more information about myself.
My personal email is: mou0100@yahoo.com
Thank you
Mou Xinsheng
Then I simply replied a dummy message, not talking about the money, just making a joke, then I received the second one:
From: “Mr. Mou Xinsheng”
Subject: Regards from china!!
Dear friend,
Thank you for your reply to my first email. I needed to be very sure of you before I disclose my identity for confidenciality purpose. I Would also like you know that this transaction is 100% risk free and legal.
I could not give you my true details in my first contact because I felt it would be huge surprise for you to receive such email from a serving minister of the Peoples’s Republic of China.
Now that you have replied the correspondence with interest I will give you more information about myself and the business.
My name is Mou Xinsheng (Minister of General Administration of Customs of the Peoples Republic of China)
Forgive me if you see my business proposal as shameful and not honourable because of my governmental status.
But please excuse me and understand that this is the situation I am and must find a credible partner in the western wolrd.
In my years of government service as Narcotics Control Commission and General Adminstration of Customs, I have received kick backs from smugglers and business people seeking favours from me and as a public officer my bank accounts are monitored hence I diverted the funds Thirty million united states dollars for safe keeping abroad.
I want you to receive the money which has been in deposit since the last Two years.
When the money is in your bank account,I want to use Sixty Percent of the money for charity to help orphanage Children suffering (You will spare head this project and my name will not be mentioned).You will receive Twenty Percent as your commission and I will take the remaining Twenty Percent as my share which I intend to settle with in your country.
Please consider this proposal and reply to me soon.It will certainly do you no good to report me to my government authorities or devuldge this information to anybody because doing so will only destroy my person and my career.
Mou Xinsheng
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So I don’t know what to think, I know africans do travel all over the world, that’s why you have similar scams originating from western countries as well, but I wonder if some chinese locals are not trying to do the scam themselves too. That would be a shame because there are many more chinese than african people in the world, so our mailboxes are not going to be scam-free anytime soon..
In fact, just a look at the originating IP adress 41.220.70.3 and we can see:
Country (per IP registrar): NG [Nigeria]
Country IP Range: 41.220.64.0 to 41.220.79.255
Country fraud profile: High
That’s right! Yet another stupid african, for some minutes I was afraid chinese started to try this scam too. We’re safe for now.. :-)
But beware that every year thousand of people get scammed this way, I guess they deserve it because of their stupidity, but those african scammers deserve to die from starvation after having their legs and arms cut off.
Byebye!
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