Suspicious Activity

I just got this message that was super suspicious and obviously fake. Here is the full message:

I CONTACTED YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME Mr.  Alex Spawkle

My Dear; 
I am a personal attorney to my late client. Since he and his family perished in a local plane crash here in Benin, I have done all my best to contact any of his family members for 3 years now. He has Eight Million Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars deposited in a Bank here in my country.
I decided to contact you so that the bank will transfer the fund to your bank  account , and I have all the document of deposit and none of his family member knows about this deposit or has tried to enquire about it till date. Your last name matches with my late client name Mr.  Alex Spawkle, hence I solicit your cooperation to work with me to claim the funds as a next of kin, there is no risk and we will share 50/50.You can call me with this number+229 975 668 25 for more oral clarification. Waiting for your urgent reply. chamberdjikui@outlook.com
Best Regards.
Barrister  Johnson Cyrille Djikui.

If you got it here, report to support....

https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new

    That's funny.   "oral clarification"?   $8.7 million + none of his family knows.    CALL THE NUMBER!!  use MY name.    I want 80/20, not 50/50                                                http://interfraud.org/nigerian_laundering.htm

I got the same one. 

It doesn't suprize me that crooks target chess.com members. Everyone knows that we are some of the most gullible people on the planet. 

Do you mean did I get here on the forums? No, I got it in my messages ( like where I get team match requests).

I meant here on the site and I assumed you meant messages. Report it and don't delete it until staff have had a chance to do something.

Why don't you get some 'oral clarification' ? lol

Hello spawkle, 

Unfortunately Barrister  Johnson Cyrille Djikui has passed away mysteriously.  I will be taking over this case.  

Thanks, ChessOfPlayer

    " I got it in my messages".    So one of us is not who they appear to be            I think it was Col Mustard in the attic with the pipe wrench  I suggest we break up into pairs and start a scavenger hunt on Chess.com. We will find Mr Body by the end of the week. Then we can stak the $8 million dollars in the off-topic forums, turn out the lights, and leave quietly through other threads.

Huh, huh, huh, huh, Beavis, he said "oral clarification." Huh, huh, huh, huh

My parents got a similar letter in the mail a couple months ago. It was supposedly from a bank in canada. I hate scam artists, trying to take advantage of my elderly parents that dirty son of a......

Just now I got THIS one. 

Do I give the impression of being that stupid?

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I CONTACTED YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME Mr.  Alex Solsky

My Dear Itzhak ; 

I am a personal attorney to my late client. Since he and his family perished in a local plane crash here in Benin, I have done all my best to contact any of his family members for 3 years now. He has Eight Million Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars deposited in a Bank here in my country.

I decided to contact you so that the bank will transfer the fund to your bank  account , and I have all the document of deposit and none of his family member knows about this deposit or has tried to enquire about it till date. Your last name matches with my late client name Mr.  Alex Solsky, hence I solicit your cooperation to work with me to claim the funds as a next of kin, there is no risk and we will share 50/50.You can call me with this number+229 975 668 25 for more oral clarification. Waiting for your urgent reply. chamberdjikui@outlook.com

Best Regards.

Barrister  Johnson Cyrille Djikui. 

It's the old "419" scam, so called because that's the classification number that this particular type of fraud is coded with in the Nigerian penal code where it is said to have originated. In the past I've even had a couple of these typewritten on old Olivettis and the like. Much more often these days they are sent by e-mail. They often start with 'MY DEAREST' or something similar and are occasionally written entirely in caps. The deal is that they are ready to transfer the money but first you will need to send them a nominal sum (a few hundred dollars) for some spurious purpose of setting up the infrastructure for the main transfer of your 50% (or whatever) which of course will never come. Needless to say I've never fallen for it, and I'm sure you, as a smarter-than-average chess player type, won't either. Most are clearly quite ludicrous but a few are fairly cunningly plausible to the unwary.

For those interested enough with more time on their hands than their chess allows, there are a couple of 419-baiting sites that offer techniques for winding up 419 scammers as a sport and even on occasional turning the tables on them and getting money from them. One 419 baiter was even able to get one of these scammers to meet him at an airport wearing a kilt as he (the baiter) had told him (the scammer) that he (the baiter) would be more inclined to do business if he (the scammer) celebrated his (the baiter's) supposed Scottish identity. Takes a bit of guile persuading the scammer that you are very interested in and entirely serious about embracing his proposal, while at the same time setting him up for a king-sized wind-up. Most of these 419 scams originate in West Africa and especially in Nigeria, but I've also seen letters of this kind come from other parts of the world as well.

If I can trip and dislocate my kneecap while walking to get some orange juice, I sure as hell don't believe them that there's no risk in this venture.

I just got this one.

  I CONTACTED YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME Mr.  Alex OfPlayer

Dear Chess; 
I am a personal attorney to my late client. Since he and his family perished in a local plane crash here in Benin, I have done all my best to contact any of his family members for 3 years now. He has Eight Million Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars deposited in a Bank here in my country.
I decided to contact you so that the bank will transfer the fund to your bank  account , and I have all the document of deposit and none of his family member knows about this deposit or has tried to enquire about it till date. Your last name matches with my late client name Mr.  Alex Spawkle, hence I solicit your cooperation to work with me to claim the funds as a next of kin, there is no risk and we will share 50/50.You can call me with this number+229 975 668 25 for more oral clarification. Waiting for your urgent reply. chamberdjikui@outlook.com
Best Regards.
Barrister  Johnson Cyrille Djikui. 

I wonder what language/ethnicity the last name Djikui comes from. I mean, I know this is probably from Nigeria etc etc but Nigeria has like a hundred different peoples in it.

I mean, I haven't been there to count them.

Dude.

I was way under.

http://www.nigerialocal.com.ng/complete-list-ethnic-groups-nigeria/

why do you hate nigerians