Those Nigerians never give up.

[MattyP]

FROM THE DESK OF: Dr. Peter Ego.
E-Mail: petergo@weedmail.com
LAGOS - NIGERIA.

Dear Friend,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP. - STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL.

It is with my profound dignity that I write you this
very important and
highly confidential letter. First, I must solicit your
strictest
confidentiality in this transaction. This is by
virtue of its nature
as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and "TOP SECRET". Though
I know that a
transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried,considering
the fact that we have not met each other before, but I
am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day. We have
decided to contact
you by email due to the urgency of this transaction,
as we have been
reliably informed that it will take at least a minimum
of two to three
weeks for a normal post to reach you, so we decided it
is best using
the e-mail,which is quicker and also to enable us meet
up with this
quarter Payment for the year 2002 which has already
begun.

However, let me start by introducing myself properly
to you. I am Dr. Peter Ego, a Director in
the Department Of Petroleum Resources(DPR) and I presently head a seven man
tenders board incharge
of Contract Awards and Payment Approvals. I came to
know
of you in my search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle a very
confidential business transaction which involves the
transfer of a huge
sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum
CONFIDENCE. I and
my colleagues are Top Officials of the Federal
Government Contract Review
and Award Panel. Our duties include Evaluation,
Vetting, Approval for
payment of Contract jobs done for the DPR e.t.c.
In order to commence
this business we solicit for your assistance to enable
us transfer into
your Account the said funds.

The source of this funds is as follows: In the second
quarter of 2001
this committee was mandated to review and award
contracts to the tune
of US$400 million US dollars to a group of five firms
for the supply
construction and installation of Oil Pipe lines in
Warri and Port Harcourt.
During this process my colleagues and I decided and
agreed among ourselves
to deliberately over-inflate the total contract sum
from US$400 million
to US$431 million United States dollars with the main
intention of sharing
the remaining sum of US$31 miilion amongst ourselves.


The Federal Government of Nigeria has since last year
approved the sum
of US$431 million for us as the contract sum, and the
sum of US$400 million
has also been paid to the foreign companies concerned
as contract entitlements
for the various contracts done, but since the
companies are entiltled
to US$400 million dollars only, we are now left with
US$31 million dollars
balance in the account which we intend to disburse
amongst ourselves,
but by virtue of our positions as civil servants and
members of this
panel, we cannot do this by ourselves, as we are
prohibited by the Code
of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening
and/or operating
foreign accounts in our names
while still in Government service, making it
impossible for us to acquire
the money in our names right now. I have therefore,
been delegated as
a matter of trust and urgency by my colleagues in the
panel to look for
an overseas partner into whose account we would
transfer the sum of US$31
million. Hence we are writing you this letter.

My Colleagues and I have agreed that if you or your
company can act as
the beneficiary of this funds on our behalf, you or
your Company will
retain 20% of the total amount (US$31 million), while
70% will be for
us(OFFICIALS) and the remaining 10% will be used in
offsetting all debts/expenses
and Taxes incurred both local and foreign in the cause
of
this transfer. Needless to say, the trust reposed on
you at this juncture
is enormous. In return we demand your complete honesty
and trust. You
must however NOTE that this transaction will be
strictly based on the
following terms and conditions as we have stated
below;

a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and
diligence
b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost
secrecy and
confidentiality
c) That you will not ask for more share or try to sit
on the funds once
it is under your custody, or any form of blackmail.
c) That upon receipt of the funds you will release the
funds as instructed
by us after you have removed your share of 20% from
the total amount.

Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and
risk free and we
hope to conclude this transaction seven bank working
days from the date
of receipt of the necessary requirements from you . We
are looking forward
to doing business with you and solicit your Total
Confidentiality in
this transaction. There is no cause for alarm. I give
you my word that
you are completely safe in doing business with us.
Transactions like
this have been successfully carried out in the past by
most Government
executives. Here in my country there is great economic
and political
disarray and thus looting and corruption is rampant
and the order of
the day, thus explaining why you might have heard
stories of how money
is been taken out of Nigeria, this is because everyone
is making desperate
attempts to secure his or her future, so that when we
retire from active
service we donot languish in poverty. I will explain
more to you when
I have heard from you.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using
the above e-mail
address. I will bring you into the complete picture of
this pending
business transaction when I have heard from you and
also receive your
confidential telephone and fax numbers to enable me
fax to you all necessary
information you need to know about our pending
business transaction.
I will also send to you my private telephone and fax
numbers where you can always reach me.

Your urgent response will be highly appreciated to
enable us transfer the funds under this quarter of the year 2002.

Thank you and God Bless.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Peter Ego.


N.B. PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION
IS 100% LEGAL AND COMPLETELY FREE FROM DRUG MONEY OR MONEY
LAUNDERING. THIS IS A COMPLETE LEGITIMATE BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

[GeorgeK]

I usually either delete them, or send them links to my casino sites.

[Nic]

I spam them back with my "alias" email

[wwww]

Nice to see that Mr. Ego is still around

[mole]

Nuke them with Nucem! http://www.helpmesoft.com

Is it just me, or does that letter border on comic genius?

Miles

[mole]

My last 3 nukes...

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Deutsche Version / English Version follows below

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

wir haben Ihre E-Mail erhalten und ausgewertet.
Gerne moechten wir Ihnen moeglichst konkret und schnell weiterhelfen.
Wir haben jedoch festgestellt, dass die von Ihnen geschilderten
Aktivitaeten ueber fest zugeordnete IP-Adressen erfolgten. Deshalb wurde
Ihr Anliegen an unser

Contact Center für Datenkommunikation
mailto:sls.dk-cc@telekom.de

weitergeleitet.

Bei weiteren Fragen in dieser Angelegenheit wenden Sie sich bitte an diese
Stelle.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Deutsche Telekom AG
Security Team Ulm

[mole]

Some of the responses I get when spam has been investigated.

- English Version -


Dear Sir or Madam,

We have received and analysed your E-Mail.

Deutsche Telekom AG informed the causer that there are complaints about his activities. We requested him to refrain this activities as soon as possible.

Please do not hesitate to contact us again if there are further inadmissible activities by using the same IP address.

Yours faithfully,

Deutsche Telekom AG
Contact Center für Datenkommunikation
mailto:sls.dk-cc@telekom.de

[uncle]

I usually either delete them, or send them links to my casino sites.

rough

gonna do the same lol

[pixelman]

Someone fell into their traps.

I heard that they showed you the magic cleaner to remove the mark on the US dollar, and tried to sell you the cleaner and pile of US dollar (probably fake money). I am not sure what it is about but it is definitely a fraud.

[uncle]

several people have already lost their lives or gone missing over this

[pixelman]

Originally posted by uncle
several people have already lost their lives or gone missing over this

Really?!!!

Hopefully I won't lose mine coz I always replied their spam with 4-letter word.

[uncle]

some people actually do fall for this.
http://www.scambusters.org/NigerianFee.html

[pixelman]

I feel sorry for those who had lost their lives.

I think there are a few variations of this unsolicited mail.
I had received more than 30 mails like this sent from Africa.

[prasit]

the best place to find scam info is scam.info

[O.C.]

Act very interested and give them (202) 406-5031 as your fax number. That way, the scammers are reporting themselves to the Secret Service AND giving them their fax/phone number at the same time.


It's truly sad people have died over this. I wonder how these Nigerian scammers scammers thought of the scam. If they spam 10,000,000 people a day and maybe .0001% percent fall for it, then they are getting one person a day to wire them $5000-$10000.

This in countries where the average annual salary might be $350.

[prasit]

Originally posted by O.C.
Act very interested and give them (202) 406-5031 as your fax number. That way, the scammers are reporting themselves to the Secret Service AND giving them their fax/phone number at the same time.


It's truly sad people have died over this. I wonder how these Nigerian scammers scammers thought of the scam. If they spam 10,000,000 people a day and maybe .0001% percent fall for it, then they are getting one person a day to wire them $5000-$10000.

This in countries where the average annual salary might be $350.

good suggestion. anyone know how much the scammers earn monthly?

[uncle]

do a search on google and you will find lots of articles about that. it's a whole industry. they arrange for their victims to come to nigeria, have people acting as corrupt officials etc. it is all very well organized