I received a classic email scam today that I wanted to share, just in case there was someone out there who was actually tempted to call the phone number. The email is from “George Aguie” of the “Abidjan ivory coast west Africa” and the return email address is “[email protected]“.

This is a fantatic example of an email scam that’s officially known as “Advanced Fee Fraud“. According to Wikipedia, the definition is:

An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a very much larger gain.

I’m pasting the body of the email here so that folks searching for it can find my post article and know that this is a fraudulent email scam:

George Aguie
Abidjan ivory coast west Africa
Dear

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Sister intend to establish in your country.

There is Four million Three hundred Thousand U.S dollars($4,300,000.00) which our late parents kept for us with a security company here in Abidjan before their death.

I and my sister have decided to invest these money in your country ,outside our Country for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us transfer these fund from here into your personal account in your country for investment purposes on these areas were tax will not be much.

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 10% of the total fund.
you should contact us with this telephone number +225 091 333 05 for faster communication

I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours,
George Aguie

Again, do NOT respond to this email, it’s simply another example of email scam and fraud - just congratulate yourself on being smart enough to recognize it for what it is, and delete it.

Be careful out there!

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