Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 10178

im gonna be rich!!!

heheh i got this in my email today, obviously a scam. like im sending my account numbers to an unknown solicitor in Nigeria:

ATTN: MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O

DR. MUSA YAKUBU.
TEL:234-1-759-8169
FAX:234-1-759-7366
LAGOS - NIGERIA
EMAIL - m_usa@soon.com
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

First, I must solicit your strictest confidence inthis
transaction .This by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential
and'top secret'. You have
been recommended by an associate who assured me in
confidence of your
ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of
great magnitude
involving a pending business transaction requiring
maximum confidence.
We are top officials of the federal government
contract review panel who are
interested inimportation of goods into our country
with funds which are
presently trapped in Nigeria.In order to commence this
business we solicit
your assistance to enable us transfer into youraccount
the said trapped
funds
The source of this fund is as follows : During the
last Regime here in
Nigeria, some Government Officials set up companies
and awarded themselves
contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various
ministries.The present
Government set up a contract Review Panel and we have
identified a lot of
inflated contract funds which are presently floating
in the Central Bank of
Nigeria ready for payment.
However, by virtue of our position as civil servants
and members of this
panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names.I
have therefore, been
delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the
panel to look for an
overseas partner into whose account we would transfer
the sum of
US$20,500,000.00 (Twenty Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United .States
Dollars) Hence we are writingyou this letter.We have
agreed to share the
money thus:
1. 20% for the Account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (The officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all
localand foreign expenses.
It is from the 70% that we wish to commence
theimportation business.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% safe and we
hope to commence the
transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date
of the receipt of the
following information below by Tel/Fax:234-1-
759-7366,
(a)company's name Beneficiary of account
(b) Your Personal TeL. Number and Fax Number
(c) Bank account/Sort/ABA/Routing numbers were
thefunds will be transferedto
(d) Your Bankers Address, Telephone and Fax Number.
The above information will enable us write letters of
claim and job
description respectively. This way we will use your
company's name to apply
for payment and re-award the contract in your
company's name. We are looking
forward to doing this business with you and solicit
your confidentiality in
this transaction.Please acknowledge the receipt of
this letter using the
above tel/fax number. I will bring you into the
complete picture of this
pending project when I have heard from you.
Your faithfully,

DR. MUSA YAKUBU.

NOTE:Please responed by phone or fax.with the number
above.Due to our poor
communication network, it may be difficult to
access,we therefore appeal for
your persistence in accessing the given tel/faxline

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Wetaskiwin AB, Canada
Posts: 1438

Send us money.

Don't tell anyone.

Don't tell anyone else.

Trust us.

How can I put this nicely......?


NOT A FUCKIN' CHANCE!!!



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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Van Diemen's Land.
Posts: 3607

Don't be so cynical, it could be true!

bah

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location:
Posts: 7236

This guy was on an investigatative journalist show in the BBC called 'McIntyre Undercover'.

He is wanted in Briatin for Fraud currently, and has many many aliases. He runs the equiv of the 'nigerian Mafia'

You would be surpirsed how many people around the world have been sucked in by the scam once they meet him and discuss it

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 862

remind me never to send anything to Dingle in "strictest confidence"!

jebus only knows where else he'd post it.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beyond Mason-Dixon Line
Posts: 16165

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Originally posted by Musashi:
remind me never to send anything to Dingle in "strictest confidence"!

jebus only knows where else he'd post it.

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Hahaha! GOOD ONE! Humour point comin' right up. Amen.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Texas
Posts: 2593

I got the same email last night. Damn it, Dingle! Ruined my whole fantasy.

Crud. Back to work for me.........*mumbles something about being glad she hadn't quit her job yet*

P.S. THAT EMAIL ADDRESS DOESN'T WORK:
":
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named usss.tres.gov. (#5.1.2)"

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
Posts: 10413

quote:

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Originally posted by Emerald:

P.S. THAT EMAIL ADDRESS DOESN'T WORK:
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Sorry, I couldn't find any host named usss.tres.gov. (#5.1.2)"

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Oakland-ish
Posts: 6032

quote:

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Originally posted by DevilMoon:
if that is wrong, blame money magazine.

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Somehow I have a hard time picturing DM reading Money magazine.



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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Shreveport, LA
Posts: 2936

I got this same email awhile back. I replied only to tell him to go fuck himself.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
Posts: 10413

The US Secret Service set up a permanent outpost in Nigeria 18 months ago because of these emails. It's called the Nigerian 4-1-9 scam, and they ask if you get one of those emails to forward it to: 419.fcd@usss.tres.gov

I guess its a new adaptation of an old scam but they estimate that people lose hundreds of million dollars a year.

D

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beyond Mason-Dixon Line
Posts: 16165

Dingle, I'm not shittin' ya--There are literally zillions o' these postal scams running out of Nigeria. There are some from other places, too, but Nigeria is especailly notorious for these. You should turn this over to the Postal Service fraud investigators. Amen.

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