Suatu pagi, terselip diantara bejibun email-email urusan pekerjaan, masuklah sebuah email dengan redaksional subject yang lain dari kebanyakan. Memang bukan sekali atau kedua, email macam ini masuk menyapa dan membuat kesan rasa ingin-tahu yang tinggi, apalagi saat kedua mata ini membaca baris satu ke selanjutnya dan terhenti tatkala mendapati simbol mata uang dengan enam atau tujuh digit itu..

Ting! – persis seperti suara bel pada mesin cash register… maka kedua mata ini berputar bak inikator mesin jackpot di kasino-kasino itu dan kemudian lidah ini menjulur ke bawah seperti karpet merah yang akan digelar.. membayangkan seberapa banyak uang atau kesempatan mendapatkan uang bila kemudian merespon email sontoloyo macam ini.

Ya, sebuah email yang ditulis dari Mister Cokodidi, keponakan dari Madame Pecel-lele, yang mana mendiang suaminya, Mister Keboireng Oraopopo, adalah mantan menteri atau pejabat Bank Sentral Republik D’ Kamprete B’uluque – yang sedemikian situasinya sehingga ia membutuhkan seorang mitra di luar negeri untuk dapat menjadi penerima transfer uang selundupan bernilai ratusan ribu sampai jutaan dollar, namun demikian meminta si penerima untuk mengirimkan sejumlah ‘fee’ atau biaya pengganti wiring services dan lain sebagainya – dibayar dimuka.. kira-kira seperti itulah.

Satu dari beberapa surat asmara [Mohon dibaca dengan seksama] yang masih sempat tersimpan di archive folder email ini adalah sbb:

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Dear Partner,

Before I proceed I must first apologize for this unsolicited mail to you, I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of approach to establish a relationship of trust, but you will realize the need for my action,because I got your contact information from the country public record when am searching for a last name similiar to my late father business partner in america so I come across your contact I decide to reach through this medium of exercise.

My name is David Kimball I am a citizen of Southern Sudan the son of the late Chief Dr. Okpo Kimball who work as an expatriate engineer with the foreign government in Sudan 1999 to export at the oil venture to foreign country, but unfortunately he was killed by rebels during political problem in my country Sudan 2005. When the government of Sudan try to investigate the profit of the oil been export out of Port Sudan, so the opposition leaders disrupt the oil operational and cause war in Sudan. Before my father’s death he made my mother to understand that he deposited some huge amount of money in a security company in Ghana, West Africa, which he made from sales of gold and oil business in Africa Market and he gave my mother all relevant document of the trunk box,which he deposited (marked) as family belonging.

I and my mother were able to move out from Sudan through the UNITED NATIONS, that Coven refugee from Sudan to Accra Ghana, West Africa. Because we want to make the claims of the trunk box content $15 Million Dollars because my late father deposit the One Trunk Box/Diplomatic Personal Treasure so that nobody should knows about the content of the box here in africa. So I am hereby soliciting your assistance to be my foreign partner and adviser because: I do not know much about investment or how to handle this funds, here in Ghana that is why we need your assistance as a foreign partner to help us to move this funds out of Africa for security reason to your country,

Please if you are interested to help us please promise us to keep this transaction confidentiality because nobody knows about the existence of this funds I and my mother agreed to give you “Twenty Percent” of the total sum of the funds inside the trunk box, your compensation for the assistance is negotiable, If you really want to be sure about this and before you agree to assist us to stand as my foreign partner for you to know am not joking kindly make trip to come to meet me in Ghana in person so that we meet face to face, for us to go to the security company to present you as my late father foreign business partner, because the Company said to us that before the claims of the trunk box due to the agreement been made with my late father when is making the deposit of the trunk box, that we most present his business foreign partner to make sure the box deliver to him. According to my mother she said my late father make this agreement for security reason so that nobody knows about the content of the funds here in Africa and he did not include any body name just my name as the next of kin.

email: davidkimballs1@XXXXX.com [Censored]
I wait for your immediate response so that I give you more details.

Thanks and God bless you
David Kimball

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Saya yakin bahwa mungkin banyak diantara kita sering sekali kebanjiran menerima email-email tipu-muslihat macam si kampret gimbal diatas. Hal lainya yang melatar-belakangi posting ini adalah: Salah seorang sanak-famili di Jakarta tiba-tiba menelepon saya di Liberia dan menceritakan skenario serupa-tapi-tak-sama, hanya merubah negara referensi dari Ghana menjadi South Africa dan skenarionya adalah melibatkan istri mantan menteri pada pemerintahan silam.. dan mereka berjanji untuk bertemu di sebuah hotel di Jakarta.

Secepatnya mendengar cerita itu, maka advise untuk tidak melayani dan jangan sampai berurusan dengan aktor-aktor yang terlibat dalam skenario yang penuh dengan potensi motif umum penipuan seperti ini.

Cerita diatas adalah salah satu modus operandi yang umum, dimana cerita skenario lainya adalah tawaran uang lembaran dollar AS dengan harga murah, dimana si calon korban diminta untuk mendanai pembelian tinta cetak-nya, atau membeli butiran berlian mentah (uncut diamonds) dan lain sebagainya.

Semoga emergency posting update kali ini bisa menjadikan kita untuk mawas dan terus berkoordinasi.