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From: "DR, BAWA SANI" <bawasani@hotvoice.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:29:20
To:ldge@u.genie.co.uk
Subject: (STRICTLY PERSONAL)

INDEPENDENT HOUSE, LAGOS, NIGERIA.

Attention : Dear Friend

We have an immediate business proposal that involves US$ 25, 123,000 (Twenty-Five Million, One Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand United States Dollar),which we will like to invest under your custody for Investment Purpose in your country, with you as our Expertriate Partner.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me, so as to discuss with you the details of the transaction and the terms and condition of sharing regarding the business.

Your urgent response will be highly appreciated and will swiftly bring us to the commencement of the transaction. We hope to conclude this transaction within 10-12 working days.

Do not forget to contact me on the receipt of this mail on the above e-mail address. And please you have to maintain absolute confidentiality as regards this pending transaction.

I urgently await your response.

Best Regards,

DR, BAWA SANI

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Has anyone else had one of these? The reason I ask is that my email address above, which is the one you'll see if you click on 'who?' above my name, is an address I use only for listservs and bulletin boards. I have another one for personal emails, the idea being to maintain one address that won't attract junk mail.

Given that this email refers to a sum in US dollars, it seems to be targeted at Americans. Besides this board, I subscribe to one other US-based listserv: I've checked privately with two other people on it, and they haven't received a message like this. Of the other listservs I subscribe to, one is operated from France and the other in the UK.

So - just curious, does our Nigerian friend seem to be targeting Film-Tech, or have I been singled out for a special privilege?!
 

User groups and UseNet Newsgroups provide scammers and spammers plenty of e-mail leads. I prefer being a real person to those on the many groups I participate in, so I avoid using pseudonymns or anonymous e-mail addresses, which unfortunately puts my real name on more unwanted lists.

Scams and spams go with the territory. Just trash them and ignore them.

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion

I did not answer, simply tossed in the circular file.
 

What all this suggests is that this criminal knows for certain that no-one can be bothered to catch him. And that he lives in the bit of Nigeria which has not adopted Sharia law, or else someone would have taken up Ken's suggestion by now!
 

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From: "SCOTT OGUN" <scottogun@lycos.com>
To: <ldge@u.genie.co.uk>
Subject: Transaction
Sender: "SCOTT OGUN" <scottogun@lycos.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:56:35 -0800
Reply-To: "SCOTT OGUN" <scottogun@lycos.com>

It is my humble pleasure to write this letter irrespective of the fact that you do not know me. However, I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and trustworthy person that can handle a confidential transaction of this nature in respect of this, I got your contact through an uprooted search on the internet. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Scott Ogun, I work in a bank at the private banking sector. A foreign customer of my bank died under mysterious circumstances in a air crash, until his death five years ago, He had a closing balance of USD$20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin. Or, alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than six year, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed after this period. The bank will now have the right to do as they please with this money.

Fervent valuable efforts made by my Bank to get in touch with any next of kin (he had no known wife and children) has been unsuccessful. The management under the influence of our chairman and board of directors, are making arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for Arms and Ammunition which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development. I now seek for your permission to have you stand as the next of kin. So that the fund (USD$20.5M), would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin I am assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 40% of the total amount. You should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within five banking days, after you apply to the bank as the next of kin.

If this proposal meets your approval, then kindly contact me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, so I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction. reply to scottogun1@winmail.com.au

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

Respectfully submitted.

Mr. Scott Ogun

N.B (If you have received this email in error, please accept my apology. If you no longer wish to receive email from me, please do not reply. Your request will be honored).

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What will the next one be? A request from Robert Mugabe to help him get his frozen assets out of Europe, perhaps?

This website has information on this:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

 

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From: "AKU" <cemaku@ecplaza.net>
To: <ldge@u.genie.co.uk>
Subject: URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 04:52:55

ATTN: DEAR SIR, REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE. I AM MRS CECILIA MARK AKU WIDOW OF LATE MARK ISHAYA AKU, MINISTER OF SPORTS AND YOUTH IN NIGERIA WHO DIED ON 4TH MAY 2002 ON A PLANE CRASH. I HAVE BEEN
INFORMED BY MY FAMILY ATTORNEY BARRISTER JAMES MOSES THAT MY LATE
HUSBAND DEPOSITED TWO TRUNK BOXES OF MONEY IN A SAFE KEEPING COMPANY
AMOUNTING THIRTY-FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS US$35,500,000) IN HIS FAVOUR. THE ATTORNEY NOW ADVISE, I SHOULD SEEK IN CONFIDENCE A FOREIGN PARTNER WHO CAN STAND AND RETRIEVE THESE BOXES AND BE TRANSFERRED FOR DISBURSEMENT AS
DIRECTED BY MY LATE HUSBAND IN HIS WILL.

IT HAS BEEN RESOLVED THAT 20 % WILL BE YOUR SHARE FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE FOR THIS PURPOSE AND ANY OTHER ASSISTANCE YOU WILL GIVE IN THAT REGARD, 10 % HAS BEEN SLATED FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR ALL
LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPENSES WHICH MAY BE INCURED IN THE TRANSFER
PROCESS . FINALLY 70 %WILL COME TO MYSELF AND CHILDREN AND A GOOD PART OF THIS SHALL BE DIRECTED TOWARDS EXECUTING HIS WILL WHICH IS TO BUY SHARES AND STOCKS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO SECURE HIS CHILDREN’S FUTURE. TO FACILITATE THE CONCLUSION OF THIS TRANSACTION, IF ACCEPTED, DO SEND TO ME PROMPTLY BY E-MAIL. THEFOLLOWING: FAX
AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS THROUGH WHICH YOU WILL BE CONTACTED PROMPTLY
WHENEVER YOUR ATTENTION AND ASSISTANCE MAY BE REQUIRED, SO THAT MY
ATTORNEY CAN REACH YOU. PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE BEEN ASSURED THAT THE
TRANSACTION WILL BE CONDUCTED WITHIN TWO (2) WEEKS UPON MY RECEIVING OR HEARING FROM YOU THE ABOVE LISTED INFORMATION.. HOWEVER, YOU MAY NEED TO GIVE ME SUFFICENT ASSURANCE THAT YOU WILL NOT SIT ON THIS FUND WHEN IT FINALLY GETS TO YOU .

PLEASE GIVE THIS MATTER A PROMPT AND QUICK REPLY. PLEASE YOU WILL NEED TO DISCUS WITH MY FAMILY ATTORNEY BARRISTER JAMES MOSES
TOWARDS THE EFFECTIVE COMPLETION OF THIS TRANSACTION. BEST WISHES. CECILIA AKU

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Hmmm... they seem to be getting more and more inventive. According to the 2001 Whitaker's Almanack, the Nigerian sports minister was indeed a Mark Ishaya Aku. If he did die earlier this year leaving a widow, I wonder what she thinks of this.
 

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