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Raxis - Information Security Blog
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I received this scam email a few minutes ago.
Hi, Greetings to you and your family, first I apologize for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail, instead of a Certified mail/Post-mail. This is due to the urgency and importance of the information. My name is Shukri Ghanem, the Libyan oil minister and head of the National Oil Co-operation of Libya. I would like to use your relationship with me to pull my wealth out from our African continent. I was high-ranking Libyan official but I defected and fled the country on the May 17th 2011. I have huge amount of fund with Oilibya Petroleum Company in Ivory Coast I need help to divert this fund far from Africa . Thank you Shukri GhanemWhat's really sad is that there must be people still falling for this. This is an old scam that's been around for years and years, and I would think they would have stopped if there was no profit. Apparently there's still profit. People's lives have been ruined, and some even killed, because of this scam. Please make sure everyone you know is aware of this old, but obviously still effective, scam.
I'm sure if I sent him my bank account information that he'd setup a transfer of funds; except it would be my funds transferring out to his bank account.