Gone Phishing – Williams and Suzan wants to give me their money?

I got this letter yesterday night. It’s quite interesting even though some bits of it I don’t really understand, for example why the author wants to give me a fortune, or what do I have to do with a Sierra Leone Mining Company?

The purpose of the e-mail is likely to be an e-mail address harvesting scheme; what would they do with my address I don’t know, but am not really interested at the moment in finding it out either. It’s much more likely that if I’d answer, they’d reply with specific queries regarding my security number, address and other, personally identifiable information.

This is the email, I removed the e-mail addresses and informed Yahoo about a possible phishing scheme. Have fun:

Dearest One ,

Our names are Williams and Suzan we are the children of Late Chief Micheal Koffi Donald the former acting General Manager of the Sieria Leone Diamond mining coperation(SLDMC ). We are contacting you to seek your good assistance to retrieve and invest USD 14,300,000.00 belonging to our late father which he deposited in one of the famous Security Company here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire. The money was deposited in a Trunk Box to the Security Company and our late father declares the content as Family Valuables for security reasons.

This money is revenues from solid minerals and diamonds sale which were under our fathers possession before the civil war broke out in our country Sierra-Leone. Following the brake out of the war, almost all government offices, coperations and parastatals were attacked and vandalized. The SLDMC was loothed and burnt down to ashes, and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebel military forces who attacked our father’s office. Many top government officials and senior army officers were assasinated and my father was a key target because of his possition and appointment in the SLDMC.
Regreatably, our father was captured and murdered along with half our brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel shoot-out when our official residence in freetown was armbushed by Fordey Sanko the notorious rebel leader.

My mother sustainded very sever bullet injuries which resulted to her untimely and painful death in a private hospital here in Ivory Coast. Now we are alone in a totally strange country without parents, relatives or any body to care for us at our tender ages. Before our mother died, she told us that we should pray and find a trustworthy foreign business partner who would help us to retrieve the Trunk Box from the Security Company and invest this money in profitable business venture overseas. She told us to do this quickly so that we can leave Ivory Coast, then settle down abroad.

I have gone to the Security Company to make inquires about this Trunk Box and I spoke with the operation manager of the Security Company who assured me that everything is ok in their computers.

If you are willing to assist us, please let us know immediately through our private email address ([removed]@yahoo.com for more details on how to proceed and also provide us with Your full names and address, tel/ fax/ mobile for easy communication.

Please note that I and my younger sister have maped out 20% for your noble assistance. We are interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country and you would also get a school for me and my sister where we can finish our colledge education.

We are hoping to hear your urgent response.
Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.

Best Regards,
Williams and Suzan DonaldDearest One ,

Our names are Williams and Suzan we are the children of Late Chief Micheal Koffi Donald the former acting General Manager of the Sieria Leone Diamond mining coperation(SLDMC ). We are contacting you to seek your good assistance to retrieve and invest USD 14,300,000.00 belonging to our late father which he deposited in one of the famous Security Company here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire. The money was deposited in a Trunk Box to the Security Company and our late father declares the content as Family Valuables for security reasons.

This money is revenues from solid minerals and diamonds sale which were under our fathers possession before the civil war broke out in our country Sierra-Leone. Following the brake out of the war, almost all government offices, coperations and parastatals were attacked and vandalized. The SLDMC was loothed and burnt down to ashes, and diamonds worth millions of dollars was stolen by the rebel military forces who attacked our father’s office. Many top government officials and senior army officers were assasinated and my father was a key target because of his possition and appointment in the SLDMC.
Regreatably, our father was captured and murdered along with half our brother in cool blood during a mid-night rebel shoot-out when our official residence in freetown was armbushed by Fordey Sanko the notorious rebel leader.

My mother sustainded very sever bullet injuries which resulted to her untimely and painful death in a private hospital here in Ivory Coast. Now we are alone in a totally strange country without parents, relatives or any body to care for us at our tender ages. Before our mother died, she told us that we should pray and find a trustworthy foreign business partner who would help us to retrieve the Trunk Box from the Security Company and invest this money in profitable business venture overseas. She told us to do this quickly so that we can leave Ivory Coast, then settle down abroad.

I have gone to the Security Company to make inquires about this Trunk Box and I spoke with the operation manager of the Security Company who assured me that everything is ok in their computers.

If you are willing to assist us, please let us know immediately through our private email address ([removed]@yahoo.com for more details on how to proceed and also provide us with Your full names and address, tel/ fax/ mobile for easy communication.

Please note that I and my younger sister have maped out 20% for your noble assistance. We are interested in any profitable commercial venture which you consider very good in your country and you would also get a school for me and my sister where we can finish our colledge education.

We are hoping to hear your urgent response.
Thank you and may God bless you and your dear family.

Best Regards,
Williams and Suzan Donald

Please, never answer any e-mail which looks suspicious!