WATCH OUT!!
This is a warning to anyone on the Internet who receives any e-mail
containing any or all of the following statements, or words approximating
them:
An address following this very official format:
FROM: *******
TEL: 2663-1-29854386
LAGOS - NIGERIA.
ATTN: President/CEO.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL FINANCIAL PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
US DOLLARS ONLY).
Or alternatively this very friendly format:
This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not
yet met.
Then may follow a real sob-story, containing some of the following
information:
My name is ****, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed
with prostate and esophageal Cancer.
I am a single mother with five children, and since my husband died/was
murdered, I have no way in which to utilize the money that is in my care.
Also included may be a very feasible reason how the money came into the
writer's possession, such as:
My name is ****, son of the previous ruler of Nigeria, Mr/King/Sir ****,
and
he left x million (this is normally an astronomically high figure,
sometimes
in the 60 millions mark or more) before he died/was murdered and I need
someone to assist me in removing the money from the military dictatorship
which rules Nigeria now.
As well as these, there will be a very tempting offer, taking more or less
one or more of the following forms:
On actualisation, the fund will be disbursed as stated below.
1. 30% of the fund will be for you as beneficiary
2. 5% for reimbursement to both parties for incidental expenses that may
be
incurred during the course of the transaction.
3. 65% of the fund will be for me and my colleagues which we intend to
invest in your country with you as my partner.
I am very rich.
This business proposal we wish to intimate you with is of mutual benefit
and
it's success is entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a high
level
of confidentiality as regard this transaction. (Basically, don't tell
anyone else about this!)
..the last of my money which is the huge cash deposit that I have with a
Financial Firm Abroad.
Also note the following:
I will need your name, your address and your bank account number so that
we
may forward the money to you.
Wow! 30% of the huge amount comes to you!
WELL, DON'T DO IT!!! This is the normal form of an e-mail scam which has
being going around for more than twelve years, and was perpetrated by some
people, thought to be from Nigeria, and which so far, through their
crooked
dealings, draining unsuspecting dupes' bank accounts, has netted them
somewhere in the region of $700,000,000, and they are heading swiftly for
the billion mark.
I know many of you who read this will already be aware of the scam and
will
probably think I am a dope for putting it up. But I assure you, there
are
people coming on the Internet every day who are innocents to the
slaughter.
Please don't flame me, as I feel very strongly about these scams.
If you have just joined the Internet, and have received such an e-mail DO
NOT BE TEMPTED to take them up on it.
Remember the old adage; if it sounds too good to be true, then it very
probably is!
Thank you.
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