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This is the third time I've recieved this email, each time with a different country/bank.

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FROM THE DESK OF CHIEF OLA WILLIAMS
CREDIT OFFICER UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC

DEAR FRIEND,


FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION; THIS IS BY
VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET.

WE HAVE DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU DUE TO THE URGENCY OF THIS
TRANSACTION, AS
WE HAVE BEEN RELIABLY INFORMED OF YOUR DISCRETNESS, TRUSTWORTHY AND
ABILITY
TO CARRY OUT LEGITIMATE BUSSINESS.

LET ME START BY INTRODUCING MYSELF PROPERLY TO YOU. I AM OLA
WILLIAMS,
CREDIT OFFICER WITH THE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC, LAGOS. I CAME TO
KNOW YOU
IN MY PRIVATE SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE THIS
CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF HUGE SUM OF

MONEY
TO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.

THE PROPOSITION: A FOREIGNER AN AMERICAN, LATE ENGR JOHN CREEK (SNR)

AN
OIL MERCHANT WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA, UNTIL HIS
DEATH ON
30TH OF JANUARY 2000 IN KENYA AIR BUS (A310-300) FLIGHT KQ430, BANKED

WITH
US AT UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC LAGOS AND HAD A CLOSING BALANCE AS AT

THE
END OF SEPTEMBER, 2000 WORTH US$15,200,000.00(FIFTEEN MILLION, TWO
HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLAR), THE BANK NOW EXPECTS A NEXT OF KIN AS
BENEFICIARY.

VALUABLE EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE BY THE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC TO

GET IN
TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE CREEK'S FAMILY OR RELATIVES BUT TO NO SUCCESS.

THE
ONLY POSSIBLE NEXT OF KIN ADDRESS THAT WAS GIVEN TO UNION BANK OF
NIGERIA
PLC BY LATE ENG JOHN CREEK (SNR) WAS AT SERRIA LEONE WEST AFRICA TO THE

PERSON
OF MRS MARBEL BRAIN, THE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS WAS DESTROYED IN THE
RECENT
SERRIA LEONE REBEL CRISIS AND THE WOMAN WAS REPORTED DEAD WITH OTHER

UNITED
NATION OFFICIALS (U.N)

IT IS BECAUSE OF THE PERCEIVED POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO
LOCATE ANY
OF LATE ENGR. JOHN CREEK (SNR)'S NEXT OF KIN (HE HAD NEITHER WIFE NOR
CHILDREN THAT IS KNOWN TO US).

IN ORDER TO AVERT THIS NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENT, SOME OF MY TRUSTED
COLLEAGUES
AND I NOW SEEK YOUR PERMISSION TO HAVE YOU STAND AS NEXT OF KIN TO LATE
ENGR. JOHN CREEK (SNR) SO THAT THE FUND US$15.2MILLION WILL BE RELEASED

AND
PAID INTO YOUR ACCOUNT AS THE BENEFICIARY'S NEXT OF KIN.

ALLTHE DOCUMENTS THAT WILL ENABLE YOU GET THIS FUND WILL BE
CAREFULLY
WORKED OUT. WE HAVE SECURED FROM THE PROBATE AN ORDER OF MADAMUS TO
LOCATE
ANY OF DECEASED BENEFICIARIES, AND MORE SO WE ARE ASSURING YOU THAT
THIS
BUSINESS IS 100% RISK FREE INVOLVEMENT. WE WILL OFFER YOU 20% OF THE

TOTAL
SUM AS COMMISSION FOR YOUR PATICIPATION AS SOON AS THE FUND GET TO YOUR
ACCOUNT OUR 80% WILL BE ON YOUR SAVE CONSTURDY FOR OTHER FUTURE
INVESTMENT
PURPOSES IN YOUR COUNTRY ACCORDING TO THE AGGREMENT BETWEEN ME AND MY
COLLEAGUES.

AS SOON AS WE RECIEVE AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE

IN
ACCEPTANCE OF OUR MUTUAL BUSSINESS PROPOSAL, WE WOULD FURNISH YOU WITH
FURTHER DETAILS AS WE HAVE ALREADY CONCLUDED THE NECESSARY MODALITIES

TO
TRANSFER THE MONEY BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER WITHIN 10 WORKING DAYS.

IF THIS PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE BY YOU, DO NOT MAKE UNDUE ADVANTAGE OF

THE
TRUST WE HAVE BESTOWED IN YOU AND YOUR COMPANY, THEN KINDLY GET TO ME
IMMEDIATELY VIA MY E-MAIL ADDRESS.

PLEASE FURNISH ME WITH YOUR MOST CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE, FAX NUMBERS

AND
YOUR EXCLUSIVE BANK ACCOUNT PARTICULARS SO THAT I CAN USE THIS
INFORMATION
TO APPLY FOR THE RELEASE AND SUBSEQUENT TRANSFER OF THE FUND IN YOUR

FAVOUR.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED CORPORATION.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,
OLA WILLIAMS

--Philip
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Re: [sponge] I hate spam... In reply to
....and you believed the story the first time...Wink

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Paul: May 18, 2002, 2:41 AM
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Re: [Paul] I hate spam... In reply to
yeah, that group has finally gotten email going ... Tongue

I still have letters that came through the post.

LOL ... I wonder what would really happen though.

Steal all your money in the account, charge you of theft, or just steal your identity?

openoffice + gimp + sketch ... Smile
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Re: [QooQ] I hate spam... In reply to
Dunno....but I've had loads of em too :(

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Re: [Andy.] I hate spam... In reply to
So block any emails starting with:

FROM THE DESK OF CHIEF OLA WILLIAMS

...or using the same subject as the spam ;)
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Re: [Paul] I hate spam... In reply to
Here we go again...

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Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP – STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Firstly, 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
anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you
that all will be well at the end of the day. We have
decided to contact you first by your email due to the
urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably
informed that it will take at least two to three weeks
for a normal post to reach you. So we decided it is
best using the email.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to
you. I am DR. GEORGE KUMALO, a director general in the Petroleum Ministry and I head a Six-man tender board in charge of Contracts 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 Panel. Our duties include evaluation, vetting, approval for payment of contract jobs done for the Petroleum Ministry, etc. 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: During the
last military regime here in Nigeria, this committee
awarded a contract of US$400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred
Million United States Dollars) to five construction
firms on behalf of the Petroleum Ministry for the
supply, construction and installation of Oil Pipeline
from Warri to PortHarcourt. During this process my
colleagues and I decided amongst ourselves to
deliberately over-inflate the total contract sum to US$421,500,000.00 (Four Hundred and Twenty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with the main intention of sharing the remaining sum of US$21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) amongst ourselves. The Federal Government of Nigeria has since approved the sum of US$421,500,000.00 (Four Hundred and Twenty One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) for us as the contract sum, and the sum of US$400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred Million United States
Dollars) has also been paid to the foreign contractors concerned as contract entitlements for the contract done, but since each of the companies is entitled to US$80,000,000.00 only, we are now left with US$21,500,000.00 balance in the account which we intend to transfer abroad into a safe and reliable account to be disbursed 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 / operating foreign accounts in our names, making it impossible for us to acquire the money in our names. I have, therefore, been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US$21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), hence we are writing you this letter.

My colleagues and I have agreed that if your company
can act as the beneficiary of this funds on our
behalf, you or your company will retain 30% of the
total amount of US$21,500,000.00 (Twenty One Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), while
60% will be for us (members of this panel) and the
remaining 10% will be used in offsetting all
debts/expenses 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, as we have heard confirmed cases of
business associates running away with funds kept in
their custody when it finally arrive their accounts. A
very good and recent example is the one of Mr. Peter
Hopwood, the President of Mileage Trading and
Investment Company at Number 121, West 55th Street,
21st Floor, New York 10022, and former Chairman of
OMPADEC (Mr. Patrick Opia), who we were reliably
informed that after the agreement between both
partners in which he was to take 15% of the money,
while the remaining 85% for Nigerian Officials. With
all the required documents signed, the money was duly transferred into his account, only to be disappointed on their arrival in New York and were informed that Mr. Peter Hopwood was no longer on that address, while his telephone and fax numbers have been re-allocated to somebody else. This was how they lost US$18.5 Million to Mr. Hopwood. This is a very recent story here in my country and everybody is aware of this, some of the officials decided to cry out and face the law, because they felt they had lost too much to a stranger, while the Chairman of OMPADEC (Mr. Patrick
Opia) is hiding in a foreign country. So right now we
are taking all precautionary measures to guard against re-occurrence of such act in our case. This is why we have decided that this transaction will be based completely on the following:

(a). Our conviction of your transparent honesty and
diligence.

(b). That you would treat this transaction with
utmost secrecy and confidentiality.

(c). That upon receipt of the funds, you will
promptly release our share (60%) on demand after you
have removed your 30% and all expenses have been
settled.

(d). You must be ready to produce us with enough
information about yourself to put our minds at rest.

Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and
risk free and we hope to conclude the business in
Seven Bank working days from the date of receipt of
the necessary information and requirement from you.

Please, acknowledge the receipt of this letter using
my email address. I will bring you into the complete
picture of the transaction when I have heard from you.

Your urgent response will be highly appreciated as we
are already behind schedule for this financial
quarter.

Thank you and God bless.

Yours faithfully,

DR. GEORGE KUMALO

LOL...what a load of crap!

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Re: [Andy.] I hate spam... In reply to
What's with this forum with all the veterans jumping to hide their online visibility? ;-)

- wil
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Re: [Wil] I hate spam... In reply to
Huh?
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Re: [Andy.] I hate spam... In reply to
I'm just wondering why a lot of the Veterans all of a sudden have switched their profile to 'invisible' - including yourself?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...=user_posts;so=DESC;

- wil
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Re: [Wil] I hate spam... In reply to
I havn't changed anything Unimpressed

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Re: [sponge] I hate spam... In reply to
Aren't those great? I have my own little ode to "African Scams" here:

http://www.heavybombers.com/africa-scams.html
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Re: [sponge] I hate spam... In reply to
FrownSPAM IS CRAPTongue
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Re: [HeavyBombers] I hate spam... In reply to
I saw this on the news. People have actually lost ten's of thousands of dollars. If you respond and they think you'll bite, then they will actually send you airline tickets to Africa and put you up in a hotel. Later on they arrange a "meeting" at a bank (after hours of course) and work out the details. It involves you having to wire cash (yours) for "bribe money" so they can get everything past the police and government. You then go home and wait for your millions to arrive, which of course never do.
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Re: [Watts] I hate spam... In reply to
People's greed overriding basic common sense!

I'm inclined to say they deserve to be scammed.

But then you read about the elderly being taken in phone scams and the like, all those con artists should be strung up in a public square!
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Re: [HeavyBombers] I hate spam... In reply to
I'm also collecting these scam letters, have already more than 40 of them. Wink

Here's an interesting article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25394.html
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Re: [Tho:mas] I hate spam... In reply to
Good grief, I hadn't thought about anybody stupid enough to travel to West Africa in pursuit of those hidden millions.

People never cease to be entertaining Tongue
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Re: [ArmyAirForces] I hate spam... In reply to
Another classic Wink

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Dear sir,

In order to transfer out (US$40Million)forty million
United States Dollars) from African Development Bank.Ihave picked-up the trust
and courage to write you this letter with devine confidence that you are a
reliable and honest person who will be capable for this important business
transaction believing also that youwill never let me down either now or in the
future.
My name is EKOO JOSEPH a senior Auditing Officer
with the African Development bank (ADB) in South
Africa. There is an account opened in this bank in
1980 and since 1990 nobody has operated on this
account again. After going through some old files in the records, I discovered
that if I do not remit this money out urgently it would be for feited for
nothing. The owner of this account is
Mr. Fernando Carlos, a foreigner, he was a miner at
Kruger gold company, a geologist by profession, and he died since 1990. No other
person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no
other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that this company
does not know anything about
this account and the amount involved is (US$40
million)forty million United States Dollars. I want to first transfer (US$20
twenty million}United States Dollars from this money into a safe
foreigners account abroad before the rest. I am contacting you based on the fact
that you are a foreigner because this money can only be approved for payment to
a foreigner, more so it can not be approved by any local bank here, as this
money is in US Dollars hence the former owner of this account is a foreigner
too. I know that this proposal will come to you as a surprise as we don't know
ourselves before, however i got your contact from your Embassy's Commercial
Attaché I was meant to understand that your race are trustworthy
however I did not disclose the purpose of my intention to anybody in the
Embassy.Although we will still have to meet possibly, sign some agreement before
the final transfer of the fund into any of your chosen designated bank account.
I have involved a very senior official in the
operational department and we have agreed that after the transfer of the money
into your account, you shallbe entitled to 25% of the total sum, we the
officials will take 70% while 5% is for expenses.
All necessary precautions have been taken to ensure a risk free situation on
the side of the both parties.
Please note that this deal can only take place on the following
conditions:-
1.you will provide the bank account and other relevantparticulars/information
for easy and onward Remittance of this money.
2.absolute confidentiality and sincerity will be
required and guaranteed, considering our (me and my
partners) positions in the bank.
3.Assurance that our own due share will be released to us in good faith when
this money finally gets into your account. This transaction will last for some
days as soon as we hear from you.
Please treat with utmost confidentiality. Contact me as quickly as possible
through my e-mail box.
Expecting your urgent response,
Best Regards,
EKOO JOSEPH

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Re: [sponge] I hate spam... In reply to
This is incredible. Over 150 suckers fell for this Nigerian scam in the UK last year losing a total of 7 million pounds. Idiots.

http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/uk.cfm?id=258082003

- wil
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Re: [Wil] I hate spam... In reply to
Perhaps I should give them my details so they can have my overdraft. Cool