posted on December 23, 2002 06:00:59 AM new
I received this email this morning, surely no-one would fall for it. My concern is that it came in on my email address that I only use for eBay, and I'm wondering how anyone would get it.
"from: Dr.Willie Lansana.
Tel:234-803-3229674
Federal Airport Authority
of Nigeria (FAAN)
Ikeja - Nigeria
I hope this message will reach you in the best of
health and receive your prompt attention, even as we
have not had any previous correspondence before.
Kindly reach me immediately for details should you agree to
its contents.
I am a principal accountant and the Chairman of the
Federal Tenders Board Committee to the FederalAirport
Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). This message is
to solicit for your kindness in assisting me to transfer some amount of fund from my country to your country.
The total amount of fund is US$29.5Million
(twenty nine million, five hundred thousand United
States Dollars)which resulted from various contracts
awarded by my ministry to some foreign firms in which
the contract bills were slightly inflated by us
members of the Tenders Board Committee with the sole
aim of having the excess fund for our subsequent use.
Presently, all the foreign firms that executed the
projects concerned have been paid their bills
accordingly and the projects have been commissioned
for use.
At this juncture, we now want to claim and
transfer the excess fund using a foreign companysince
foreign contractors originally executed the contracts.
Also, we as civil servants are not allowed to operate
domiciliary nor foreign account, therefore, we cannot
claim this fund locally, hence the necessity for this contact
with you.
We have decided to embark on this transaction nowthat
we have new civilian administration. Our aim is to
present your name as a true beneficiary of the fund.
The total fund (US$29.5M) will then be remitted into
any designated bank account as shall be recommended by
you. The relevant authorities will be made to believe
that your company executed some contracts for my
ministry to which payment is due to effected.
In this regard therefore, you will be required to
present a suitable bank account that will accommodate
the total amount of fund. The moment the bank account
details are received from you, it will only take a
maximum duration of 7-9working days to have all
documentations complied and the fund remitted to your account.
On completion of this transaction, we have resolvedto
give you 25% of the fund for your efforts and
assistance rendered; 5% will be used to settle any
expenses that might be incurred on the process ofthis
transaction both from our end and your end while the
remaining 70% will be for us. I will be disposed to
giving the details of this proposal as soon as I
receive your confirmation signifying your interest in
this proposal and your willingness to assist in its
realization.
Kindly reach me through the above email
address or Telephone number for more details on
how we shall commence the whole transaction.
Permit me to stress the confidential nature of this
transaction and does not matter any particular field
of trade to prosecute this transaction. Above all,let
trust and honesty be our watchword throughout this business.
Many thanks and kind regards whilst I wait in anticipation for
your assistance and may God continueto bless you.
posted on December 23, 2002 06:14:41 AM new
I received this message - or one very similar to it about a month or so ago. Also to the email address that I use for ebay. I get a lot of spam through that email address. It's probably from all those people that email me with "question to seller" harvesting scams. I get those sometimes and answer them just in case they're legitimate questions. Ones like "I want to buy a lot of those, how many can you get me and do you take a credit card from Singapore" (or something like that).
posted on December 23, 2002 06:14:52 AM new
The old Nigerian scam. The Feds investigate this, you can send it with full headers here: [email protected] this has been around for a long time and is an international scam. Some people have fallen for this.. You know the old saying, if its too good to be true..
posted on December 23, 2002 09:56:44 AM new
WOW!!
25% of 29 MILLION?!?!!
If you're not gonna do it post the email here- I'll do it in a heartbeat! Why, I'll be RICH,RICH,RICH!!
Even richer than I was when I bought into that gold mining company
with the secret mine, the one that went bust when the old man with the mule had a heart attack and took the secret location with him to his grave. A pity, they never found the body, he died somewhere out in the desert, but he sent a note attached to his mule that was found later by the managing partners. The 25,000 tons of gold that were already extracted was still in the mine and before the managers could find it the Government took over the land for a TOP SECRET program, something to do with UFO's- but I think they just wanted the gold for themselves and used the CIA's satellite gold detector to find it. This time I'll not leave it all on deposit- I'll take a little bit out each month for other investments- it's good to diversify and besides, I've heard about a man who has an anti gravity machine almost perfected.
posted on December 23, 2002 09:59:52 AM new
You should be aware that there are eBay buyers and sellers who sell lists of names/email addresses to spammers.
posted on December 23, 2002 10:12:50 AM new
that e-mail is as old as the internet itself. it's been passed around in one form or another for years on end.
posted on December 23, 2002 10:41:22 PM new
Well, these guys are a bundle of laughs. I like to answer them. Play along with them. Set up a date and time to fly in to Nigeria to sign the papers. They are very nice. They always agree to meet me at the airport, even though I usually arrive at 6:35 am. Funny, they never seem to be able to find me at the airport. I am usually delayed at customs because they ask me to carry in $25,000 in cash. I set a second flight time (again 6:35 am) and funny how I miss that one too... Sometimes I miss four or five flights before they figure it out.
Here is the answer I used the last time I talked with one of these dudes (if you are squeemish or easily offended, don't read it. They never seem to understand what I am talking about, but that doesn't stop them from trying to steal my money)...
His Royal Highness Prince Obinna,
I am interested in your proposal and would like to know the modalities of such an exchange. Please send more information.
Assuming we both agree to go forward with this trasaction, I would like to tell you a bit more about myself. My name is Dr. Shmegma Smith PhD. I am a 29 year old woman. I am not married and I have no children. I have a PhDs in Personal Hygene, Public Heath, and Metalurgy. Quite an interesting Combination. I have perfected a method of producing personal reproductive devices from a highly flexable alloy. This allows for sterilization, cleaning, and reuse. We have $25,000,000 in funding from various sources to finalize the modalities of production, distribution, and sales of our devices. I've beed called the Queen of Metalic Reproductive Care by Time Magazine and wish to use that title. I hereby request that you address me as Her Royal Highness, Queen Shmegma, Dr. PhD, CEO, CIO, AFL. I believe that by using this title, we will create a marketing empire based on royal use of our metalic reproductive apparatus. This will allow us to control the market even after our patent runs out. Thank you for your help with this. Since it seems that this transaction requires confidentiality for your personal and professional safety, I will need to secure a phone line that is free of Glabootz. As you know, Glabootz would allow nearly anyone with the proper technology to intercept and record our conversations. If I can secure a phone with the Prozootaflap technology, our comunications will be secure. In the mean time, since my email is encripted, email is the most secure way for us to communicate.
respectfully
Her Royal Highness, Queen Shmegma, Dr. PhD, CEO, CIO, AFL
