Robert says, "Attn: **********
I am ROBERT KAUFMAN, the Personal Attorney to a Foreign Contractor Engr. B. J *********** i. He died along with his
entire family his wife and two children in airplane Boeing 727 ghastly Air-Crash on 25 5 2003 .
Before his death, he had an account with the bank valued at ( 5.5 M USD) at his Bank in Benin here.
I called the Bank Maneger about this matter before contacted you and he
said that i should contact any of this family member before the money can
pay to them as i want.
So that the proceeds of the pâyment of the money to your account number to
your Country so that i will come over there for the sharing of the money.
present Back to me with your contact informations as follow.
1 YOUR NAME:
2 YOUR PHONE NUMBER:
3 YOUR FAX:
4 EMAIL :
I will forward to you all the necessary documents attached.
Email me here:barristerrobertkaufman@
Regards,
Barr. ROBERT KAUFMAN. (Esq.)
Phone: 00229 99105363.".
Just got an email from robert...
ReplyDeletewow this guy`s family must be huge..i just received it.
ReplyDeleteGot this Friend Request and Mail Today.....
ReplyDeletei´ll bet next thing would be that he ask´s for some Money before the 5 Million can be send to a Bank Account ;)))
Nice Weekend
Petra
I received this e-mail today. I was 99% sure it was a scam, but googled it to make sure...AND SURE ENOUGH it is a scam. Thanks for posting it
ReplyDeleteAlso got a friend request on facebook. Thanks for revealing this, even though it is quite obvious;D
ReplyDeleteDon't really feel like loosing 5,5 USD:D
i got that message too, just, didn't add to my friends, i deleted it from requests. thanks :D
ReplyDeleteThey are still active... received the same letter via LinkedIn today.
ReplyDeleteReceived an invite via LinkedIn today
ReplyDeleteYes, got it on Linkedin now. Anyone who knows how to report scams to Linkedin?
ReplyDeleteThank you all for sharing this information.
ReplyDeleteI've been contacted today by LinkedIn!
Thanks for the report link :)
Got the scam linkedin message also today.
ReplyDeleteI got a link request from Robert Kaufman just this morning, and as soon as I accepted it, I got the same e-mail as other have, with my own surname after "my late client Engr B. J". I immediately thought "scam", and I'm grateful to have everyone here confirm this. I'll break the link immediately and notify my e-mail provider.
ReplyDeleteSame for me - over LinkedIn - Robert Kaufman is active again! - SCAM
ReplyDeleteI just received a contact request via Linkedin, thanks everyone for the heads up. I will report as a scam to Linkedin as well.
ReplyDeleteRoberts back again
ReplyDeletesure enough I got the email yester day hes along time scammer id love to get his email and bombard his email with viruses lol
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