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BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE! (2002)

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InOBU 30 Aug 02 - 11:12 AM
EBarnacle1 30 Aug 02 - 11:34 AM
wysiwyg 30 Aug 02 - 12:05 PM
Stilly River Sage 30 Aug 02 - 01:05 PM
Mr Red 30 Aug 02 - 01:12 PM
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artbrooks 30 Aug 02 - 05:17 PM
wysiwyg 30 Aug 02 - 05:25 PM
Little Hawk 30 Aug 02 - 05:28 PM
Mr Happy 30 Aug 02 - 05:35 PM
Sandra in Sydney 31 Aug 02 - 09:09 AM
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Amos 05 Sep 02 - 08:47 AM
SlowAlan 05 Sep 02 - 09:21 AM
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Subject: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: InOBU
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 11:12 AM

This one is a real work of art, a ballad really, so I am posting it for your enjoyment, came in the mail today.
Cheers Larry
FROM: JOHN DUKE.

SIR/ MADAM

I am DR JOHN DUKE, working with Union Bank Plc. Nigeria. There is one Captain Maxwell Browell who happen to be one of our client but he died last year December in a plane crash which also claimed the life of his only child, Mr. Maxwell Browell jnr. Who untill death was the next of kin to the father's money with Union Bank Plc. It is only me that knows the bank information of Mr. Maxwell and I'm the only Manager of the Bank who's aware that Mr Maxwell and his son (next of kin) is dead. He left at about $25millon in his account. And before his death, he told me personally if anything happened to him or the son, that his money should be willed to an NGO organisation as the next of kin.

At this juncture I want to transfer this US$25million into the account you have nominated. I will do the paper work here claiming that you are the next of kin to Mr. Maxwell and that you want to transfer the sum into your account abroad. The service of an Attorney will be need to seal everything and to change the data and information in his file so as to enable us transfer it swiftly. If we employ the service of a highly Accredited Lawyer that means it will take us only 14 working days to transfer the money into your account. He will arrange for the affidavit of support from Ministry of Justice claiming that you are the right beneficiary of this fund. Do send your Bank particulars and your personal phone number immediately.

I and my colleague will give you 30% of the total sum of the US$25M for assisting us.

The transaction is 100% risk free.

Yours Faithfully,

DR JOHN DUKE


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Subject: RE: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 11:34 AM

It's yet another variant on "The Spanish Prisoner." As stated on another thread, only the greedy get taken to the cleaners.


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Subject: RE: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 12:05 PM

I wish I was next of kin to money. Thanksgiving dinner would be ever so much more fun.

~S~


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Subject: RE: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 01:05 PM

Personally, I think the Thanksgivings where you have to work to pull it all together are the better meals.

SRS


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Subject: RE: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 01:12 PM

Surely they are all the same in essence
"give us your bank/credit card details"
or is someone compiling a "son of Child" book on all the variations of: "dead in plain crash", Ken Sarewewa's widow, Nigerian Dam project. Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Chad, (any more).


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: GUEST,ard mhacha
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 05:04 PM

That Nigerian must have friends in Kansas City, I keep getting these letters from some nut in KC telling me that I have won $29000 and to claim this sum all I have to do is send off a cheque for $29.00. Anyone else so lucky?. Ard Mhacha


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: artbrooks
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 05:17 PM

Regretably, the only relatively well-off person in my extended family is me...which may give you some idea about how hard up the rest of them are! I don't think I'll be sending anything to Nigeria anytime soon, but I do buy my $1 lottery ticket every month or so, so I have a 1:1,000,000,000,000 of being able to fully fund Mudcat some day!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 05:25 PM

Great, SRS, if you know of a family where it's more than one person doing that, call me over!

~S~


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 05:28 PM

I figure the best way to make money is write a book called "How To Make 20 Million Dollars In ONE YEAR", get a really good cover design for it, get a couple of celebrity endorsements (like Danny De Vito and Oprah Winfrey), fill it full of supposedly useful information, get published, then sit back and cash in! Greed feeds greed. Isn't useless capitalism glorious? Meanwhile there are things which actually need to get done, like growing food, healing the sick, educating people, and so on, but we'll just let someone else deal with it and buy it from them after we're rich.

You can order a P.H.D. off the internet too. I think I'll go for one in Paleontology...it sounds so distinguished.

- LH


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 30 Aug 02 - 05:35 PM

hmmmm, still no mention of spanking yet!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 09:09 AM

I work for a Federal Government agency & we get Nigerian scams, too. At least when they posted them our stamp collectors got a stamp. Now our mean & nasty webmaster just marks them SPAM FOR DELETION, so we don't even get the pleasure of reading them. He also marks other spam like the invitation from the beautiful blond with the webcam inviting us to look at her site, how sad for our male colleagues.

One of my friends got ordained into some church or other from a website!! He very proudly displays this certificate next to his & his wife's degrees. Its a good talking point.

Sandra


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Gareth
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 09:38 AM

If it sounds to good to be true, it usually isn't true.

Gareth


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 31 Aug 02 - 10:54 AM

But why are these letters all written by illiterate scam artists? Do they not think it might help if there weren't fifty grammatical errors? Perhaps the only folks who DO respond (and sadly there must be thousands of poor souls who willingly donate their e-mail addresses to the scam pool) aren't capable of noticing the bad grammar.

I have a friend who always responds to spam, because he thinks he's "tellin' them a thing or two". Naturally he now spends most of his waking hours on his rapidly expanding spam pile. Verrrrry strange.

Rick


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Subject: Womenfolk Can Do it Too!!
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 08:47 AM

Now they're making the women do their dirty work!! :>)

             STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL





My Dear Friend,

First i must solicit for your srictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval considering the fact that we have not know each other before.

I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you, I am Mrs Mary Iddo Sankoh,the wiife of the former minister of Diamond Mining Corporation in my country,My husband had a bullet shot by the rebels on his way travelling to Lusia a city after Freetown the capital along with my daughter, My daughter died on the spot while the U N peace keeping force rescued my Husband, he was taken to hospital for medical treatment which he later died about three months now.

Fortunately, my Husband has Ten million andFive hundred thousand United States Dollars(US$10.5million) cash, which he intended to use for investment purposes overseas. This money is kept with private security company here since two years ago. It is only my son and myself that know where the money is kept and has the documents for it.

Due to the current situation in the country concerning government‚s vendettas towards my family, we seek your assistance to transfer the ownership of this fund to you so that you can asisst us to claim it and use for the purpose of investment as intended by my husband. My family is currently being probed by this present government for alleged involvement in misappropriation
of public funds during his regime.


Towards this effect, an embargo restricting my family members from traveling or carrying out financial transactions without their express permission is in force. Right now, my son and myself have concluded plans and decided to to take immediate claim of this fund so that we can use it to better our lives and alliviate our present suffering hence this contact.

However, I have an arrangement on how you can help us to recieve this money after receiving some assurances from you. The money personally belongs to my husband and he intended that it still be used for investment. No record ever existed concerning this money, neither is the money traceable by the government because there is no documentation concerning the funds in the Federal
Treasury. We have concluded plans with the security company to transfer this consignment to their affiliate agencies outside this country to make it easier for you to recieve this on our behalf.I shall brief you in full once i hear from you on the detailed procedures for this project.

Bearing in mind that your assistance is needed to transfer this fund, we propose a commission of 20%(Twenty Percent) of the total sum to you for the expected services and assistance. While 5% is mapped out for miscellaneous expenses.

On your positive consent, I shall expect you to contact me urgently to enable us discuss about
this.Your urgent response is highly needed. I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise utmost indulgence to keep this matter extraordinarily confidential, while I await your prompt response.

Best regards,

MRS. MARY IDDO SANKOH/ABDUL SANKOH

pls reply to this box
abdul_marys3@amuro.net


They must have a room full of weirdos pumping these things out. I have seen at least five over the last four years, I am sure!


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: SlowAlan
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 09:21 AM

What makes you think these letters are scams? I replied to a letter from Benjamin M'botu the ex-Nigerian Foreign Minister, sent him a Bank Account number and within two weeks a cool 2 Million US was depositied!

Only trouble was that I did not trust the email, and used my worst enemy's bank account...

Nigeria is a remarkable place.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 09:29 AM

A recent grin from a friend along the lines of SlowAllan's hopefully fictitious tale:

I went to the store the other day, I was only in there for about 5
minutes and when I came out there was a damn motorcycle cop writing a
parking ticket. So I went up to him and said, 'Come on buddy, how about
giving a guy a break?' He ignored me and continued writing the
ticket.So I called him a pencil necked nazi. He glared at me and started writing
another ticket for having bald tires!! So I called him a son of a
mutant pig. He finished the second ticket and put it on the car with the
first. Then he started writing a third ticket!! This went on for about 20
minutes, the more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

I didn't give a damn. My car was parked around the corner...



Have yourself a great weekend, one and all.


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 10:23 AM

Hey folks, I'm not sure we SHOULD let this one go by..... sure MRS. MARY IDDO SANKOH doesn't spell very well, and lets face it, all that money was probably stolen from the workers in the first place....but hey...SHE TRUSTS US! C'mon Amos, giver her yer e-mail address. The rest of us on this thread (we don't need to let EVERYONE in on it, do we?) only want 10 %. We're not greedy, we'll share.....and YOU'LL be rich!

Mr. Mary Iddo Sankoh


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 10:51 AM

Well, Rick, I am kinda busy right now with the CD project and all, but tell ya what. I have HER email address so if you just send me yours I am sure she'd be thrilled to be hooked up with you. And given the current atmosphere in financial circles down here, you'd probably be a better candidate for her purposes, up there where level heads prevail.

PM me your email address and I'll setya right up!! Tell Heather I said it was ok!   LOL!


A


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: smallpiper
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 11:37 AM

Hey I've just had a similar one from the states! Only this time it was an aleged relative who was killed with all of his family in an air crash three years ago (never happened - needless to say) leaving lots of money and since I have the same last name etc..... bunch of shits!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 12:37 PM

it's always $10-20 million!!..if they said it was $50,000 and you'd get 10%, they might get hundreds of responses!....

(Now, if they got a bunch of Mudcatters email addys, and said they had mint copies of Bronson for sale for $25 and shipping costs, they'ed be ROLLING in $$$$ *grin*)


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Sep 02 - 12:40 PM

Little Hawk, I spent 35 years as a professional paleontologist with a major oil company research lab. My legal eagles will contact you. I am thinking in terms of $25 million damage to reputation, $25 million mental cruelty, and $25 million legal fees (for my son, the lawyer). Other charges pending.
Dr. John Duke is a piker!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 02:31 AM

I put in 10K for one connected to China and have gotten over 22K back in 16 months. Some are legit.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 10:34 AM

Jeesus, you skeptics! There's the proof right there in the last post! If that's not good enough for you, I don't know what is!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 11:26 AM

yep, Rick ..*big grin*...and I have seen a guy play a chord using his chin...doesn't mean it's a workable technique most of the time!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 11:37 AM

Ah yes Bill....Charlie Chin (look him up on Google if ya don't believe me), what a man for chords. Used to back up Dvid Amram.

Rick (off to Nigeria to make my fortune)


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 11:52 AM

That Guest post reminds me of the time Amergin tried to make someone believe he was 62 years old. Jeeze!!

A


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Melani
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 11:24 PM

Are there any statistics on the number of people who actually send their account info?

And how old IS Amergin?


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Sep 02 - 06:47 AM


What makes you think they are necessarily scams just to get you to divulge your bank details? The first one you get is to get up your nose so you reply with dire invective. They know you exist.
Like the old WW1 trenches joke of Tommy Atkins shouting "Fritz" across the divide and when "Fritz" (there must be one) looks over the parapet & shouts "are you calling me?" Tommy fires in that direction. There's more to the joke but I will spare you that.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Sep 02 - 06:48 AM

Moral
never respond.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 07 Sep 02 - 05:55 PM

I've just found a Zimbabwean variation in my mailbox - purporting to be from the son of a black farmers union treasurer and worth 21,5 million, 20 per cent of which are to be going to the person who'll help them move the money out of Zimbabwe. Anyone interested? I'll gladly forward the mail ... But hurry up, or I may have deleted it!


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 02 - 06:02 PM

Amergin, I would guess, is in his mid- to late-twenties. He likes pulling legs. Writes some good poetry too!

A


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 01:29 AM

I responded, directly back to him but not with my bank account info. I called him the Lazy Thief that he was. What is needed, is someone come up with a computer bug, that is sent back to him with a bogus account number, and when he runs the account number to deposit it into his own, it drains his account, and leaves him pennyless.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: GUEST,sadielady
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 09:14 AM

I'm a Nigerian, a very ashamed nigerian. We hear about these things back home, but most of us don't know just how bad it really is. I love the site, it's had me in stitches (yes, even in my shame, i still see the funny side).


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 09:20 AM

sadielady, don't be ashamed. I've gotten such things from people who say that they are in Nigeria, South Africa, Iraq, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. There are those in every country would would cheat others, and there are those who will allow themselves to be cheated.

As a famous man once said, "You can't cheat an honest man." Most Nigerians are honest, just as most Americans, South Africans, Iragis, Dutch, and British are.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 09:21 PM

If that famous man was slightly more literate, he would have said 'You can't cheat A honest man.."
Sorry, Rapaire, you just triggered one of my fetishes.

It isn't a new scam, it's the same old scam with the names changed to protect the guilty.
Just like politics.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: LadyJean
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 12:17 AM

I found an address for the treasury department. I don't know what happens if you send your Nigerian spam to 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov, but I'm assuming they do something.
Of course I have been know to tell the spammers that I forwarded their mail to my cousin/brother/uncle, who works for Interpol. I rather like scamming a scam artist.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 09:59 PM

Gurney's comment about literacy is, I think, a little off the mark.

"If that famous man was slightly more literate, he would have said 'You can't cheat A honest man.."
Sorry, Rapaire, you just triggered one of my fetishes."

In the days of my youth, when English Language was taught as a school subject together with the rules and exceptions to those rules, the above comment would have been correct.
As the "h" in the word honest is silent, then the word is pronounced "onest". As such the word purports to begin with a vowel, necessitating the longer adjective "an" rather than "a".
Oxford English Dictionary is quite clear:
a, an - adjective. Before all consonants except silent H use "a"; "a" history, "a" historian, but "an" hour.
However, on reflection it may, of course, depend upon from whence one originates and the local dialect.
LOL
Colyn.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 12:37 AM

Please send me all your money - or as much as you want to - or can afford.
Nice things will happen to you afterwards.




"If I can help somebody..."


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 04:31 AM

Bonecrusher, I was taught to sound my aitches. All of them.
Mind you, in those days, you didn't question authority. If teacher said it, it was true.
Here in NZ our newsreaders seem to take delight in saying 'an horrific accident' or 'an historical occasion' which jars me because they DO sound the aitch.
Did you know that the editor of the Oxford for many years (if memory serves) was a Kiwi? Perhaps he was trying a covering move.
Don't believe there should be such a thing as a silent aitch, otherwise we would all be saying "an our an' an arf" and then we wouldn't be able to tell Londoners from people.
Why isn't there an H in aitch?

Story from Derek Brimstone.

"'Ow do you spell 'orse?"
"It's not 'orse, James, it's Horse!"
"I SAID, 'ow do you spell 'ORSE!"
"I've told you, James, it isn't 'orse, it's HORSE!"

"I've already got the H down."


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 04:08 PM

In Britain, the only people who aspirate the aitches in "honest" and "hour" are comic characters in Dickens novels.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: wildlone
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 06:09 PM

Church of Life
for online ordination
dave


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Bonecruncher
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 09:01 PM

Hi Gurney
Guess we're a little off topic re pronunciations but I did qualify my last with the remark about one's own locality and local dialect.
Unfortunately in UK the schoolteachers no longer teach the rules of grammar, it being considered necessary only to be expressive! Hence we have the apalling use of English to be seen today. This seems to be compounded be the Spellcheckers on computers which are unable to distinguish between words of same sound but different spelling and meaning.
It is nice to find someone else who has an interest in the correct use of language.
LOL
Colyn.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:33 AM

this mail is from Italy...
   obviously, they want to give me money becouse of my good looks.





Dear Homeowner,



You have been pre-approved for a $402,000 Home Loan at a 3.45% Fixed Rate.

This offer is being extended to you unconditionally and your credit is in no way a factor.



To take Advantage of this Limited Time opportunity all

we ask is that you visit our Website and complete

the 1 minute post Approval Form.



Enter Here



Sincerely,



Esteban Tanner

Regional CEO


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 11:29 AM

Here is a great one I received the other day -

Good Day,
             This is a minor introduction my name is Stephanie age 40 on formal
introduction I will let you know the full name. I am from a royal family my
father was a king although late now my elder brother Albert will succeed him.
             My real essence for sending you this mail is as a result of the
death of my dad who was a king if you reply this mail and you are willing to
assist me with my endeavor to collect some money amounting to
£70,000,000.00 which my father lodged with a security company which I am
still in the process of locating I know for sure that the money is there but I
do not know for now the security company but I promise to find that out very
soon.
            I will need someone to claim it on my family behalf because once a
family member give you the power to act on his or her behalf then you can act
that was the way my father handled his funds if I claim it myself my elder
brother Albert and Caroline my sister investigating me and they will give me a
very minor share from it which I cant stand because as of now they have already
reduced my inheritance.
          Please help me so I can stand my brother and sister have shared
everything and he still has the throne of Monaco for him and my sisters son
would be the next ruler so they have it all planned I need your help please.
Best regards.
Stephanie


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Burke
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:45 PM

I get the feeling that one from Stephanie is a spoof of the scam & not a real scam. It is well done. I usually delete these on sight, I think I'll watch for it.

This One is still one of my favs.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 04 May 08 - 09:25 PM

Amos, I'm trying to convince everyone that I'm 77!

Dave Oesterreich


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 May 08 - 10:02 AM

By responding and asking for any further correspondence to be sent by certified mail the stream of Nigerian scam e-mails cam be cut down significantly.

They seem to tell each other who not to bother with.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: frogprince
Date: 13 May 08 - 10:53 AM

Our local paper just reported that someone in our immediate area actually sent $500.00 to pay the taxes so that the first payment of his multi-millions in lottery winnings could be released. He got suspicious when he promptly got a request for an additional $300.00. He was identified only as to his age, 52, so there's little chance that his problem is senility.


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Burke
Date: 15 May 08 - 11:50 AM

Now they want to help me out! All I need to do is pay for the courier service.


BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION
Metro Plaza, Plot 991/992
Zakari Maimalari Street
Cadastral Zone AO,
Central Business District, Abuja.
Tel: 234 -703-2950066
Fax:234-703-2950067
E-MAIL:britishhighcommision_abuja@yahoo.co.uk


Attention,

The BRITISH High Commission in Nigeria,Benin Republic,Ghana and Burkina-faso received a report of scam against you and other British/US citizens and Malaysia,Etc. whom the country of Nigeria/Benin,Burkina-faso And Ghana have recompensed you due to meeting held with Four countries Government and the world high commissions against fraud activities by the Four country Citizens.

Your name was among those scammed as listed by the Nigeria Financial Intelligent Unit (NFIU). A re compensation has been issued out in ATM CARD to all the affected victims and has been already in distribution to all the bearers. Your ATM card was among those that was reported undelivered as at on Friday and we wish to advise you to see to the instructions of the Committee to make sure you receives your ATM card immediately for your depositing into your account.


NFIU further told us that the use of Nigeria Couriers and the Benin was abolished due to interception activities noticed in the above mentioned courier services in Benin,Nigeria and Ghana and thereby have made a concrete arrangement with the DHL Courier Company for a safe delivery to your door-step once the beneficiary meets up the demand of the conveyance.


We advise that you do the needful to make sure the NFIU dispatches your recompense on Monday. You are assured of the safety of your draft and availability and be advised that you should stop further contacts with all the fake lawyers and security companies who in collaboration scammed you.
Call the secretary Immediately: +234 703 29500 66,


Note: you are to reply this to the office of the consular via   britishhighcommision_abuja@yahoo.co.uk Or officefeedbackbhc@mail2uk.com

Yours in Service,
Bob Dewar
Mr. Robert Scott Dewar CMG
CONSULAR,
British Council logo
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONS
ABUJA


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Subject: RE: BS: Spanking new Nigerian Scam GREAT ONE!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 May 08 - 07:00 AM

surname? info@(name of website) is a surname???

wot a shame we didn't get the first email then we would know whether the deceased person's surname was really was the same.

hmmmmmm, and using the Euro symbol when talking of British Pounds is a tad suspicious.

=======================

SECOND NOTICE from "Michael Graham"

THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION.

We wish to notify you again that you were listed as a beneficiary to the total sum
of ё10,600,000.00GBP (Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand British Pounds) in the
codicil and last testament of the deceased. (Name now withheld since this is our
second letter to you).

We contacted you because you bear the surname identity and therefore can present
you as the beneficiary to the inheritance. We therefore reckoned that you could
receive these funds as you are qualified by your name identity. All the legal
papers will be processed in your acceptance. In your acceptance of this deal, we
request that you kindly forward to us your letter of acceptance, your current
telephone and fax numbers and a forwarding address to enable us file necessary
documents at our high court probate division for the release of this sum of money.
Please contact me via my email so that we can get this done immediately.

Yours faithfully,

Michael Graham
Associate Solicitor.
Tel: +447024053610
Tel: +447031997793
Fax:(44) 0700-597-6560.


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