Here's an offer I got in email

[cbman]

CHAIRMAN CONTRACT REVIEW COMMITTEE
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,
THREE ARM ZONE,ABUJA,NIGERIA.
FAX:234 1 7597267
EMAIL: umar444@arabia.com


SIR/MADAM,

I KNOW THIS LETTER WILL COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE SINCE
THERE WAS NO PREVIOUS CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOU.I GOT
YOUR CONTACT THROUGH A NATIONAL OF YOUR COUNTRY
RESIDING IN MY COUNTRY AND WHO ASSURED ME OF THE
TRANSPERENCY AND HONESTY OF YOUR NATIONALS IN
TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE.I THREFORE URGE YOU TO
TREAT THIS TRANSACTION IN THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE.

IN PURSANCE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIANS DIRECTIVE
TO OFFSET ALL DEBTS OWED FOREIGN CONTRACTORS,THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE SENATE HAS APPROVED THE
FUNDS FOR THE PAYMENT OFALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS OWED
BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA FROM 1996 TO DATE.

I REPRESENT MY COLLEAGUES AT THE CONTRACT REVIEW
COMMITTEE IN THE SENATE,WHO BY VIRTUE OF OUR
POSITION,CAME ACROSS DOCUMENTS REVEALING CONTRACTS
AWARDED TO PERSONS AND COMPANIES DURING THE PAST
MILITARY REGIMES OF GENERAL SANI ABACHA AND GENERAL
ABDUSALAMI ABUBAKAR.SOME OF THIS CONTRACTS WHICH WERE
NOT ACTUALLY EXECUTED,WERE USED AS FRONTS BY THE LATE
HEAD OF STATE,HIS FAMILY AND THE THEN PROVISIONAL RULING
COUNCIL(PRC). THE MONETARY VALUE OF THESE PURPOTEDLY
EXECUTED CONTRACTS WERE SET ASIDE BY THEM AS A POOL
WHICH THEY HAD ACCESS TO.WE DISCOVERED ABOUT $US54,000,00
(FIFTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS)WHICH WAS SUPPOSE TO BE
CONTRACT SUM OWED A GREEK COMPANY,NAMED ZETEK
INTERNATIONAL LTD. FOR CONTRACT EXECUTED BY THIS
COMPANY FOR THE CONSULTANCY FOR THE REHABILITATIONS OF
REFINERIES IN NIGERIA. TO OUR AMAZEMENT,ZETEK
INTERNATIONAL LTD DOES NOT EXIST.HOWEVER THIS FACT IS
ONLY KNOWN TO MEMBERS OF MY APPROPRIATION
COMMITTEE.SINCE THE CONTRACT SUM ($US54,000,000) HAS
ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BY THE SENATE AND THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA .I HAVE THEREFORE BEEN DELEGATED
BY MY COLLEAGUES TO SEARCH FOR A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON OR
COMPANY INTO WHOS ACCOUNT THIS SUM OF MONEY WOULD BE
LODGED AS PAYMENT OF THE CONTRACT EXECUTED BY THE
UNKNOWN ZETEK INTERNATIONAL LTD.I THEREFORE USE THIS
MEDIUM TO SOLICIT FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS TRANSACTION
AS ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS COVERING THE TRANSFER
AND THE CLEARANCE OF THIS SUM OF MONEY HAS BEEN DULY
TAKING CARE BY US.IF YOU AGREE TO ASSIST US IN THIS
TRANSACTION YOU STAND TO BENEFIT 20% OF THIS SUM OF
MONEY,AND 10% FOR ANY MONEY SPENT BY EITHER PARTY,WHILE
70% WILL BE FOR MY COLLEAGUSE AND I.PLEASE I URGE YOU TO
TREAT THIS TRANSACTION IN UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY WHETHER
INTERESTED OR NOT.

CONTACT ME ON THE ABOVE FAX NUMBER OR BY EMAIL WHETHER
INTERESTED OR NOT AS ANY LEAKAGE WILL JEOPARDISE OUR
POSITIONS IN THE SENATE,AFTER WHICH I WILL BRING YOU INTO A
CLEARER PICTURE OF THE WHOLE TRANSACTION.

I AWAIT YOUR ANTICIPATED COOPERATION IN THIS MUTUALLY
BENEFICIAL TRANSACTION.


SENATOR CONFIDENCE UMAR

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY



Anyone wanna take him up on his offer... LOL

[Dilitante1]

be a shame to let all that money go to waste CBman

but seeing that you posted it for the world to see shows me that you weren't interested lol

are ya gonna send email to the local consulate so they can investigate this? If others received the same email soliciting fraud there could be hell to pay for you or anyone who doesnt report it....

just a thought

=P

Dil

[Greebe]

I have heard of this (scam) when I lived in Indianapolis and all were told via news broadcasts that this was illegal and that the people operating this would empty your bank accounts in the wink of an eye.

Report this to your local authorities ASAP.

[TomNuttall]

This scam was doing the rounds in England last year. Apparently some people lost lots of money!

Tom

[The PIT]

This thing has had more repeats than the sound of music.

Can't someone write a virus that hunts for emails like this and squash them before anyone reads them.

[Paulr]

Here in the UK I had two similar offers, one late last year, one earlier this year.

If it wasn't for the fact that both the 'from' e-mail addresses didn't look quite right, plus the UK media had published some stories about it, I might have been tempted

[ayoub_ibrahim]

just inform the relevent authorities & delete that email!

[cbman]

LOL...

If you guys think I am going to take the bait on this one you don't know me too well.

First thing I did was look up the Name and Position of the originator and when that pulled up short I sent a draft over to my MPP's Mailbox

I am also thinking of sending a reply message stating:

Error this message has been undeliverable

Plus all that other gobbledegook that shows up in the header..

then I attach a few little virus's that I have floating around on some old floppies and in my online E-Mail.

NatasB
CIH
SirCam

[Nuno]

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

ENGR. IDIOMA ST.MICHAEL ADAMS
LAGOS - NIGERIA

ATTENTION : THE PRESIDENT / MANAGING DIRECTOR

DEAR SIR,

REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS
RELATIONSHIP RE : TRANSFER OF USD28.6
AMERICAN DOLLARS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

AFTER DUE DELIBERATION WITH MY COLLEAGUEAS, I DECIDED
TO FORWARD TO YOU THIS BUSINESS PROPOSAL, WE WANT A
reliable person who could assist us to transfer the
sum of twenty eight million, six hundred thousand
united state dollars (us$28.6m) into his/her account.

this fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract
awarded by us under the budget allocation to my
ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the
concerned ministries. the contract was executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual
cost of the contract. We are left with the BALANCE OF
US28.6M AS THE OVER INVOICED AMOUNT WHICH WE HAVE
DELIBERATELY OVER ESTIMATED FOR OUR OWN USE BUT UNDER
THE PROTOCOL DIVISION, CIVIL SERVANTS ARE FORBIDDEN
TO OPERATE OR WON FOREIGN ACCOUNT. THIS IS WHY, I
CONTACT YOU FOR AN ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE AGREED TO SHARE
THE MONEY AS FOLLOWS.

1 30% FOR YOU (ACCOUNT OWNER)
2. 60% FOR US
3. 10% FOR TAX, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY YOUR GOVERNMENT.

AS YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW AND TO MAKE YOU LESS CURIOUS,
I GOT YOUR ADDRESS FROM OUR REPUTABLE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY AND I AM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
OF THE CONTRACT AWARD COMMITTEE OF THE NIGERIAN
NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC). THIS
TRANSACTION IS VERY MUCH FREE FROM ALL SORT OF RISK
HENCE THE BUSINESS WAS CAREFULLY PLANNED BEFORE IT WAS
EXECUTED AND WE THE N.N.P.C. OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THE
DEAL HAVE PUT MANY YEARS IN SERVICES TO OUR MINISTRY.
WE HAVE BEEN EXERCISING PATIENCE FOR THIS
OPPORTUNITY FOR SO LONG T AND TO MOST OF US, THIS IS
ALIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY WE CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS.

TO GET HIS FUND PAID INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, WE HAVE TO
PRESENT AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OUTFIT AND
CONSEQUENT UPON INDICATION OF YOUR INTEREST TO FULLY
ASSIST US IN THIS TRANSACTION, YOU ARE ADVISED TO
FURNISH US WITH THE FOLLOWING:

1. YOUR BANKER'S NAME AND ADDRESS
2. YOUR BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER AND ROUTINE CODE NUMBER IF
ANY
3. THE BANK TELEPHONE, FAX AND TELEX NUMBERS.
4. THE NAME OF BENEFICIARY OF THE ACCOUNT.
5. YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS FOR EASY
COMMUNICATION.

THIS INFORMATION WILL ENABLE US SEEK APPROVAL OF THE
FUND FROM THE CONCERNED QUARTERS WITHIN 3-4 WORKING
DAYS AND THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
(NNPC) PAYMENT INFORMATION DATA WILL BE FAXED
IMMDEIATELY TO YOU FOR COMPLETION. ONE OF MY
COLLEAGUES AND INVOLVED IN THIS DEAL WILL COME TO YOUR
COUNTRY TO ARRANGE FOR OUR OWN SHARE UPON CONFIRMATION
FROM YOU THAT THE MONEY HAS HIT YOUR NOMINATED BANK
ACCOUNT. ALL THIS WILL ONLY TAKE US ABOUT 14 WORKING
DAYS TO TRANSFER THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FROM THE
DAY WE RECEIVE THE REQUIREMENTS.

NOTE HOWEVER, THAT DUE TO OUR POOR TELECOMMUNICATION
SYSTEM, WE FIND IT DIFFICULT TO DIAL OUT
(INTERNATIONALLY), THIS OFTEN AFFECT OUR INCOMING
CALLS FROM ABROAD. FURTHERMORE, IN YOUR BID TRYING TO
GET THROUGH TO ME, YOU MAY RECEIVE SOME DISCOURAGING
TELEPHONE SIGNALS RANGING FROM SUBSCRIBER NOT
AVAILABLE, ALL TRUNKS ARE BUSY; PLEASE TRY LATER,
TELEPHONE SWITCH OFF AND MANY OTHER DAUTING SIGNALS.
DO NOT EVER BE DISCOURAGED AS IT HAS TO DO WITH OUR
POOR TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT STATED ABOVE, HENCE,
I ADVISE YOU TO KEEP DIALING UNTIL YOU GET THROUGH. DO
NOT GO THROUGH INTERNATIONAL OPERATOR BECAUSE OF THE
CONFIDENTIALITY INVOLVED IN THIS TRANSACTION.

LET HONESTY AND TRUST BE OUR WATCHWORD THROUGHT THIS
TRANSACTION.

I SHALL FURNISH YOU WITH SOME DETAILS ABOUT MYSELF,
YOUR PROMPT REPLY WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.

BEST REGARDS
ENGR. IDIOMA ST.MICHAEL ADAMS

A slight variant.... man, there are people who really fall for it?

[omegaRED]

Re: Here's an offer I got in email

CHAIRMAN CONTRACT REVIEW COMMITTEE
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,
THREE ARM ZONE,ABUJA,NIGERIA.
FAX:234 1 7597267
EMAIL: umar444@arabia.com

Ummm ... his e-mail is Arabia, yet he is from Nigeria ... i think it`s a fraud ... but i`m not sure

[Nuno]

MILITARY REGIMES OF GENERAL SANI ABACHA AND GENERAL ABDUSALAMI ABUBAKAR

OmegaRED, it´s obviously a fake. Everyone knows that ABDUSALAMI ABUBAKAR was indeed a coronel.

[cbman]

Your wrong there Nuno

Nope he was promoted when he came up with this really easy way to trick people out of their account information through regular email.. .LOL

[Sasq]

I'd did a whois on arabia.com, its a company based in America, that offer arabic news, you can view their home page in English or Sandscrit. They also offer free email. They have a strict policy of no spamming/selling so it might pay to send a note to there complaints dept. as well

Dan

[Laurie]

There was something in our local paper two weeks ago about people being arrested and charged with this Nigerian scam. It really is an infamous one.... hard to beleive people still fall for it......greedy, greedy,greedy.

[DentyCracker]

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