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Not to imply anyone on this list would be so gullible to fall for this, but you may know someone who is....
Attached below is an "urgent" letter I recently received. Essentially, it is requesting that I reveal my bank account numbers to someone in Nigeria, and in exchange, I can claim my share in millions of dollars.
What's scary is that some suckers will fall for this.
For a good laugh at how blatant this scam is, here's the letter for your amusement.
From: audu ibrahim <ibra888@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "sales@xxxxxxxxxxx" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: URGENT & CONFIDENTIAL
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:03:08 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
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From:Dr.Audu Ibrahim
Tel/Fax:234-1-8042943(Office)
Tel/Fax:234-1-7744134(Home)
Lagos-Nigeria.
Attn: THE PRESIDENT/CEO.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award
and onitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation NNPC)
Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my
ommittee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M.
U. S. Dollars. This was done deliberately. The over- invoicing was a
deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to
trasfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any
Oveseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you
will be entitled to 30% of the money, 60% will be for me and my
partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover
any expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this
transfer, both locally and international expenses. It may interest
you to know that a similar transaction was carried out with one MR.
PATRICE MILLER, President of Crane International Trading Corp. of
153 East 57th St., 28th floor, NY10022, TEL: (212)-308-7788 AND
TELEX: 6731689. The deal was concluded and all covering documents
were forwarded to MR. MILLER to authenticate the claim. Once the
funds were transferred, MR. MILLER presented his Bank with all the
legal documents and remitted the whole funds to another Bank Account
and disappeared completely. My colleagues were shattered, as such
opportunities do not come all the time.
I would require the following: -
1. Your Company's Name,Address,Tel & Fax Numbers.
2. Your Bank Account Number and Address where the money will be
remitted.
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a
matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer
to your account.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract
projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your
company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other
companies. More often than not, big trading companies or firms of
unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more
specialized firms for execution of such contracts.
We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank
of Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have
no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we
get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal.
Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall
through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all
the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security.
We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this
once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be
transferred to the overseas Accounts for us, before the present
Democratic Government starts Audditting all Federal Government owned
Parastatals.
Please contact me immediately through my telefax number whether or
not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable
me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But
where you are interested, send the required documents aforementioned
herein through my above tel/fax number, as time is of the essence in
this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Audu Ibrahim
Tel/Fax: 234-1-8042943(Office)
Tel/Fax: 234-1-7744134(Home)
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