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! |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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! |
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 |
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~ |
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! |
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 |
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). |
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 |
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~ |
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. |
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 |