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obi
10-05-2003, 04:22 PM
From: "Chief George Nkosi." <SNIP>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Project Relationship Required
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 12:14:57




From: The Office Of Chief George Nkosi.

Fax: 17752061036

Dear Sir,

First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in
this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature
as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. We
are top officials of the Federal Government Contract
Review Panel who are interested in importation of
goods into our country with funds that are presently
trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this
business, we solicit your assistance to enable
us transfer into your account the said-trapped funds.

The source of the fund is as follows: During the
regime of the last Military transitional government of
Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, government officials
set up companies and awarded themselves contracts
which were grossly over invoiced in various ministries.

The present democratic government of President
Olusegun Obasanjo set up the Contract Review Panel and
we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds
that 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. My
colleagues in the panel have therefore delegated me as
a matter of trust, to look for an oversea partner into
whose account we would transfer the sum of
US$31,320,000.00 (Thirty-One Million, Three Hundred
and Twenty thousand United States Dollars) which we
hope to use in purchasing Agro Allied Equipment, and
also to enable us to own properties and invest in the
stable economy of your country. Hence, we are sending
you this email message.
We have agreed to share the money thus:

1. 20% for the account owner (you)
2. 70% for us (the officials of the CRP)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local
and foreign expenses.

Please acknowledge receipt of this message for proper
briefing on the safe modality for the execution of this project.
I await your eager response.

Yours faithfully,
Chief George Nkosi.

Please Quote this Reference number (GN/09/03) in your Response.


I think i'm gonna reply, just for kicks tho :p

linkofzelda1
10-05-2003, 04:31 PM
I've seen worse... Like those penis enlargement ones. Everyone knows I don't need that ;)

Blonde799
10-05-2003, 04:35 PM
Yeah. I mean, you're not gonna get any bigger, no matter how hard you try link.:p

Just trash it obi. I've seen someone fall for those things, and teh results weren't pretty.:p

obi
10-05-2003, 04:39 PM
I'm thinking of a reply how does this sound?

Dear Chief George Nkosi,

I am intrigued by your e-mail and am honoured to recieve it, but I fail to see how I could be more than an utterly random selection form a host of e-mail address most probably collected by a web-crawler of sorts.

Your story is amusing, but honestly, the only people that would believe it would be the people who phone into PC helplines asking how to turn their unit on.
I also realise that you most definitely don't exsist and my email probably wont even be read by a person. It will most probably be scanned for the reference number you urged me to quote, and I quote - " GN/09/03 "

I don't wish to be part of your "scheme", but I do urge you not to send me any e-mails regarding this matter after a direct reply to this very e-mail. The pmessage you sent was from the address "SNIP".
I know that they can be spoofed but there are ways I can use to find the real source.
Do not trifle with me, I only have one request, and for the sake of your entire server, I hope you follow it through, I await your reply.

Yours faithfully,
"Sir"

How does that sound, or is it too much bullshit? :D

linkofzelda1
10-05-2003, 04:50 PM
Sounds good. And official :)

I would send it.

obi
10-05-2003, 04:53 PM
Sent :evil:
But of course, I doubt I'll get an intelegent response...

DarkPanther
10-06-2003, 03:18 PM
Wow, that is ridiculous!





I can't even get the fax number to work.


har har har

TheGeepster
10-07-2003, 08:01 PM
Just curious how much this opportunity "costs". But it may, in fact, just be an attempt to verify an email address, in which case no reply ought be sent.

Clearly, though, it is mostly like a load of bunk. In the unlikely event it isn't bunk, then it's probably quite illegal and likely to land you in trouble with some major organizations, like, say, the FBI or CIA, or Homeland Security.

Dart Zaidyer
10-07-2003, 08:05 PM
Abdulsalami Abubakar

With a name like that, how can it NOT be fake?

I seem to recall getting such an Email as this once or twice myself.

linkofzelda1
10-07-2003, 09:34 PM
Originally posted by TheGeepster
In the unlikely event it isn't bunk, then it's probably quite illegal and likely to land you in trouble with some major organizations, like, say, the FBI or CIA, or Homeland Security.

If it were true, I'm sure they wouldn't send it over email. It's not secure enough at all. Someone would come to his house or mail him. Unless the guy who sent it is retarded... :shrug:

TheGeepster
10-07-2003, 09:35 PM
Well I did note that the event of it not being bunk was unlikely.

inori
10-08-2003, 05:05 AM
Uh... this is a fairly ongoing scam. It's been around for quite some time. Of course it's not real.

http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/internetfraud/story/0,23008,3396766,00.html

AlexMax
10-08-2003, 08:47 AM
I've heard of people dying from this scam when they try to visit Nigeria to uncover the money that they have lost. Either that, or it's just gone without a trace.

Nigeria claims to be cracking down on the problem, but it would be the equivilent of Las Vegas cracking down on gambling, it's just too big of a moneymaker to outlaw.

So sad...

obi
10-08-2003, 05:44 PM
Date: 6 Oct 2003 21:52:27 -0000
From: [email protected] | This is spam | Add to Address Book
To: [email protected]
Subject: failure delivery




Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

<[email protected]>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too
long.
Bleh, figured the sending wouldnt work :p

TheGeepster
10-08-2003, 07:16 PM
This was listed on MSN as the #3 scam at 1% today, where it was 3rd at 4% a couple of years ago.

About 10% were said to have responded, and 1% of those were drawn in. Of course, there inevitably ends up to be snags, and you have to pay emergency funds in order to keep the deal alive (Makes sense since they have a lot of money in their hands, right?)