How does this scam work?

So i got this email from some asshole, i know its a scam but not quite sure how it works. has anyone gotten anything like this? im getting 3x a week.



Dear,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, I got your contact address from the computerized search. My name is Mr Tofil Bama, I am the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of Bank of Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of eighteen million three hundred thousand United State of American dollars (18.3MILLION USA DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr Kurt Kuhle from Alexandra Egypt who died along with his family in Siber airline that crashed into sea at Isreal on 4th October 2001.

Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

Am contacting you because our deceased customer is a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as a next of kin to foreign customer. The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should be transferred into the bank treasury after 9 years if nobody is coming for the claim. I have agreed that 33% of this money will be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of your account for the transfer, 2% will be set aside for expenses that might occurred during the business and 65% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage as indicated.

Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I am a bank official.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Tofil Bama.

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You probably have to reply to find out the next stage of the scam. Evidently you will have to send bank details of some kind.

 

I like those, I send back rickroll links or just something like

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise

Fuck you.

gives me something to do when im bored. my sythe email gets 2 a day at least.

 

Pretty sure it's called the 419 scam..
They ask you to send money so that the money that is apparently available to them can be obtained. After that, they keep asking for money for various things such as settlement fees. They pay off victim's greed and eventually end up taking a lot of money from people, sometimes the victim is even asked to travel to see the person, after that they may be taken hostage.
How do I know this? I read a book on it

 

It's either what guinea said or they're trying to steal your identity. Pathetic. Just delete the emails or send rickroll links back lol.

 

I'd just tell them to download some link on rapid-share saying it's my bank details here, and put a RAT in it.

 

They want ur bank details eventually, aint you ever seen phone jacker?

 

Reply with this link: ffffffffffffffffffffff

Works like a charm.

 

they try to take your money

 

give a bunch of us their email so we can troll rick roll.

 

You'd prob have to fill in ur bank number etc.
and no-one gives money for free, even not if someone's whole family dies..

 

This is obviously a scam and you know it. Don't give them anything and you should be fine.