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Did you receive an email from "Roberts Brown" at "SHELL Oil & Petroleum" who says "if you consider it necessary to work with us and will not term this as a scam, then I wish to have your response immediately". Sure, that makes sense, it must not be a scammer because he says it is not a scam. Even though he is claiming to be from Shell Oil, but wants you to reply to a Russian email address so you can receive money that he is apparently going to steal from the company.
And you're still not convinced it is a scam?
The scammer will try to steal your identity and get you to send him money, but the text of the scam is so odd, it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it. If this email out-of-the-blue from an unknown foreigner offering to pay you absurd amounts of money for almost no work doesn't strike you as a scam, then you really need to read through a number of the scams on this website and familiarize yourself with their approach.
Roberts Brown (not his or her real name, obviously, have you ever heard of anyone named "Roberts"?) hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune. If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Notice (highlighted below) some of the other obvious signs that this is a scam are poor spelling , use of free Yahoo/Hotmail/etc email accounts, proposals that make no sense, etc.:
From: Roberts Brown < officefile8@bigpond.com >
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:45:26 AM
Subject: Important Inquiry!!
SHELL Oil & Petroleum.
(Accounts department)
Shell House,
Ref: Los/9420x3/08
Batch: 033/07/LOS 369
Reply to: robertbrn@km.ru
I'm Roberts Brown, an accountant with Shell Oil & Petroleum Company. We run the largest oil companies with over 1.2 trillion capital investments Fund. I handle all staffs welfare Accounts and we on the Account Dept. have extracted 1.2 % Excess Maximum Return Capital Profits (EMRCP) per-annum on each of the staff's capital fund. As experts we have made over $ 22.4million from the staff's EMRCP and hereby looking for an external body or individual that can be trusted to stand as an investor to receive this fund as Annual investment proceeds from Shell capital funds of 2007. All approved and confirmable Documents to back up this claims will be made available to you as soon as this is obtained for payment prior to your acceptance.
However, if you consider it necessary to work with us and will not term this as a scam, then I wish to have your response immediately. We have up till middle of March, 2008 to wrap up this venture before our team of auditors will be arriving for the year general auditing. We have worked out the modalities or technicalities whereby the fund can be wired to you via Bank to Bank without any nervous tension.
Kindly declare your willingness in this matter as I would appreciate that you get back to me upon receipt of this important mail via (robertbrn@km.ru) on your opinion towards a lasting business relationship.
Respectfully,
Roberts Brown
(H.O.D ACCOUNTS)
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