Me acaba de pasar algo bastante curioso que me gustaría compartir para que no haya nadie que pique en este tipo de cosas… Tenemos un apartamento en Fuerteventura en venta, desde hace ya algún tiempo. Está en alquiler y venta, pero en estos tiempos que corren, la venta se antoja a largo plazo. El caso es que hará unos tres días mi padre recibió un email de un inglés a través de un portal inmobiliario en el que anunciaba la venta del piso. Era muy breve, apenas tres líneas, en el que decía estar muy interesado y que quería saber si aún estaba disponible para comprarlo. Evidentemente, contestamos rápidamente diciendo que si que estaba disponible y que si quería podía verlo antes de comprarlo. Incluso le dimos la localización exacta del apartamento a través de Google Maps para que comprobara la excelente situación en primera línea de playa.
Hoy llegó la respuesta. Me llamó mi padre diciendo que me la había reenviado, que le había escrito un ladrillo contando un montón de historias. Os copio el susodicho email a continuación, pero os aviso que igual os da un ataque de risa…
Ya me había pasado el verano pasado, cuando un supuesto comprador de Nigeria se puso en contacto con mi suegro para comprarle una casa que tenía en venta. Todos estos timos funcionan igual:
- Primero mandan un escueto email diciendo que están muy interesados en comprar la propiedad.
- Después de recibir una contestación, lanzan la bomba. Generalmente se inventan una historia rocambolesca en la que para pagarte te ingresan una cantidad desmesurada de dinero. A cambio te piden que una vez te ingresen el dinero les hagas una transferencia para ajustar cuentas. Me atrevería a adivinar que al final su dinero nunca llegaría y acabarías haciéndoles una transferencia porque sí…

Aquí la prueba del delito!! Por favor, dedicadle unos minutos para leer la historia que se ha montado… jajajaj

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: John Vest
Date: 2009/7/20
Subject: Ap. nº 34..reply

Hello Alvaro ,
I want to inform you that I will take your property at the price you listed it but I have a payment proposal for our benefit that i will pay from.scondly becuase of the nature of my work i will not be avialable for inspection.

I am Spc. John Vest with the United Nations troop stationed here in Iraq, on war against terrorism. Based on the United States legislative and executive decision for withdrawing troops from Iraq, I have been deployed to come and work in your country’s military base soonest. Our mission is to help beef up terrorist targeted states, mostly the United States and the European Union on the war against terrorism. I will need a house for myself and that is why I contacted you.

On the other hand I want to inform you that I have in my possession the sum of 16.2 million USD which i got from a crude Oil deal here.I deposited this money with a Red Cross officer informing him that we are making contact for the real owner of the money. It is under my power to approve whoever comes forth for this money.

I wish to use this money for charity purposes in Turkey, where we have about 3 million Iraqi refugees and Sudan where we have currently the highest numbers of refugees displaced as a result of war. You need to visit such places.I am not forgetting the displaced in India. I want to invest the money on stock fish from Norway to this refugees because based on my experience on battle ground in this places, they lack a lot of fish and meat to add to their meagr and unpalatable meals which they get in little quantity just to keep them living until God knows when the problem ends. Instead of allowing these terrorists to get the money and spend it on purchasing arms from Russia, it is better channeled to saving the world. I cannot move this money to the United States because I will be in Europe for about 3 years, so I need someone I could trust. If you accept, I will transfer the money to Europe where you will be the beneficiary because I am a uniformed person and I cannot be parading such an amount so I need to present someone as the beneficiary. I am an American and a Specialist officer for that so I have a 100% authentic means of transferring the money through diplomatic means.I just need your acceptance and all is done.

Please if you are interested in this transaction I will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I decided to find someone that is real and not imaginary and that is why I went to a secured property site where I can be sure that the person is real and i believe I can trust you. Where we are now we can only communicate through our military communication a facility which is secured so nobody can monitor our emails, then I can explain in details to you. I will only reach you through email, because our calls might be monitored, I just have to be sure whom I am dealing with.

If you are interested please send me your personal mobile number so I can call you for further enquiries when I am out of our military network. I am writing from a fresh email account so if you are not interested do not reply to this email and please delete this message, if no response after 3 days I will then search for someone else. I am doing this on trust, you should understand and you should know that as a trained military expert I will always play safe in case you are the bad type, but I pray you are not. 16.2 million USD is a lot of money which is the dream of anyone.

I wait for your contact details so we can go on. In less than 7 days the money should be in you custody and I will come over for my money. I will give to you 30% of the sum and 70% is for me. I hope I am been fair on this deal.
Sincerely,
Spc. John Vest

UPDATE 1
Turns out that this email that “John Vest” wrote is being sent to more people. I’ve got some visits from search engines looking for “John Vest Irak” and from pieces of the email. UNBELIEVABLE!
People, seriously, do not fall into this scam!!