Lendas e folclore da Internet: as pulhas virtuais (hoax)

Lendas e folclore da Internet.
Anexo ao artigo 419 scam - o golpe do nigerianos:
a fraude da antecipação de pagamentos

Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002

Kabul, AFGHANISTAN

Dear Sir,

My name is KENNETH COLE of the foreign legion special forces commando currently on covert search and destroy mission in the mountainous wastelands of Eastern Afghanistan impenetrable domicile of the dreaded Taliban Al Qeada terrorist network.

Last week, my group (4 agents) successfully overran a hard drug processing enclave and recovered a sum of US$36 million, which no doubt are proceeds from the illegal trade used for funding terrorist activities. We have since deposited this cash in a security luggage office in Kabul capital city. We do not intend to surrender this booty to our sector commandant for obvious reasons and we cannot take out the consignment from Afghanistan physically by ourselves as it is against military ethics.

I hereby solicit your assistance to enable me ship this money to your safe custody pending the expiration of our current regional anti-terrorist exercise. It may interest you to know that modalities have been perfected to move this funds to you through a security courier agency as soon as you respond in the affirmative, indicating your interest and capability to handle this transaction. We will thus send you the shipment waybill, so that you can help claim this luggage on behalf of me and my colleagues. Needless to say the trust reposed in you at this junction is enormous, we are willing to offer you an agreeable percentage of this funds.

Finally, I believe that I have been very concise and sincere in my representation to you and I look forward to consummating this transaction with you, but most importantly do acknowledge receipt of this mail using my email for further clarification on the modus operandi.

Awaiting your prompt response .

Yours Truly

KENNETH COLE