Põdi Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Got this in my Inbox today, anybody else seen or received it? ------------------------------------------------- MR. GEORGE EDIALE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES FEDERAL SECRETARIAT IKOYI, LAGOS-NIGERIA. EMAIL: [email protected] DATE: JUNE 05, 2002 Attn: Patrick Gregory ( Dear Sir, RE: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL I am Mr. George Ediale, the Director and Funds Co-ordinator of the Finance/Contract Department of the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES. Terms of Reference. My term of reference involves the financial management and disbursement of proceeds from petroleum products and also the award of contracts to multinational companies. My office is also saddled with responsibility of screening categorization and prioritization of projects embarked upon by this Ministry as well as feasibility study for selected projects and supervising the project consultants involved. A breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of the fourth fiscal quarter of 2000 indicates that this Ministry paid out a whooping sum of US$736M ( Seven hundred and Thirty Six Million United States Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries. The Ministry is now compiling beneficiaries to be paid this second quarter of 2001. The crux of this letter is that the finance/contract department of this Ministry deliberately over-inflated the contract value of the various contracts awarded. In the cause of disbursements, this department has been able to track down the sum of US$41.5M (Forty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) as the over-invoiced sum. This money is now lying and floating in the Ministry's domiciliary account with the Apex Bank, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). My colleagues and I now want to quickly transfer this funds to a safe nominated account for possible investment abroad. We are not allowed as a matter of Government policy to operate any foreign account because of our status as Civil/public servants. Hence the need to solicit for your account to transfer this fund into. We have also evolved a sharing formula as follows: (1) 25% for the foreign account owner (2) 70% for I and my colleagues (3) 5% will be set aside to defray all expenses both locally and internationally during the course of this transaction. Furthermore, we shall be relying on your advice as regards investments of part of our share in any blue-chip Company in your country. Be informed that this business is genuinely and 100% safe considering the high-powered government official involved. Send your private fax, telephone numbers and your mobile telephone if any and same of your Bank and Account number. This is to facilitate easy communication with you. Contact me strictly by email. Looking forward to healthy business relationship with you. Sincerely, MR. GEORGE EDIALE NOTE: PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF THIS MESSAGE, THANK YOU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epsilon 5 Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Yeah right, a government official will have a lycos email adress... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterkist Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 I get about 4 or 5 per month. Each time it's a new name (cut and paste comes to mind). Most are from Nigeria as well. Only one way to deal with those... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kartoffel Posted June 6, 2002 Report Share Posted June 6, 2002 Heck, 99% of my email (hotmail) is junk, i just delete it w/o reading more then the sender and subject if it's junk. Why bother reading junk like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weegee_101 Posted June 7, 2002 Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 Sounds like a big time illegal scam crap. Call your local FBI office and ask them if they want a copy of it. Never know, it may become useful in a current or future investigation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Lindsey Posted June 7, 2002 Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 Is this not the same scam Derek posted a while back where the guy emailed them back with all sorts of questions? Seems like it. Dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Põdi Posted June 7, 2002 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 Did a bit of investigating, there's a whole slew of them and you can read them here some are really quite funny. Yeah I remember the thing SC posted. Similar, but now they seem to be going the 'official' line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Remo Williams Posted June 7, 2002 Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 Hehe! The old Nigerian scam is one of the oldest ones in the book. They use to run it by snail mail before the net and email became really popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted June 7, 2002 Report Share Posted June 7, 2002 my email inbox gets so full of spam, i think itll create a singularity... if we all get sucked into some digital event horizon, you can blame me for not cleaning out my inbox in a timely manner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREG MILLER Posted June 8, 2002 Report Share Posted June 8, 2002 I always get junk in my Yahoo account, and occasionally in my main account. I too just delete if the subject reads spam. I was trying to get a legit copy of Win2k Pro off of ebay and this came across my email box: quote: I've noticed that you bid on microsoft windows 2000 professional. I was wondering if you would like to purchase a back-up copy of the program for $30 on a cdr. The cdr contains full version of windows 2000 professional, it has been tested and works perfectly, and also comes with a functional cd key. You can install this program on as many computers as you want. Free shipping in the usa. If you are interested let me know. -------------------- This email was sent by an eBay member via eBay's email forwarding system. If you reply to the email, your response will go directly to the member and not through eBay. I turned this one into ebay. Man the nerve to even use Ebay's own email system for this crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kartoffel Posted June 8, 2002 Report Share Posted June 8, 2002 That guy was either: a: stupid b: an idiot c: someone who has no idea what copyright laws are d: ... Cant think of any more, but what an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 ahhh yes i wanna revive this old dinosaur. got this email today: quote:Tenders Committee South Africa Department of Minerals & Energy Pretoria South Africa DIRECT PHONE: +871-763591470 DIRECT FAX: +871-763591471 CORPORATE TELEPHONE: +27-736627479 CORPORATE FAX: +27-115076482 STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT I Am DR.GEORGE THEMBA,A native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Executive Director with a South African Government ministry. I am also the Secretary of the Tenders Committee set up by the government to look into contracts under the Department of Minerals and Energy. We got your contact from a close source and I was mandated to seek your Confidential co-operation in the execution of the project I am about to describe. First, I must let you know the major reason for this project. This project will be of great benefit to all parties involved and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction. Within the Department of Minerals and Energy, we (me and four of my colleagues) discovered and we have in our possession as overdue payment totaling Fourteen million, five hundred thousand US dollars (US$14.5M) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund. More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore accounts hence your relevance in the whole transaction. Also we cannot access The funds, because indigenous companies cannot carry out contracts of this magnitude. This amount US$14.5M represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of this Department by a foreign contracting firm, which was over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principle gotten approval to remit by key-tested telegraphic transfer (K.T.T.) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing an application through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you. I have the authority of my partners to propose the following: SHOULD YOU BE WILLING to assist us in this transaction, your share of the sum will be 25% of the total sum, 65% for us and 10% for reimbursable expenses (taxation and miscellaneous Expenses incurred.) This is after all expenses have been refunded and taxes have been paid. The transaction itself is 100%-SAFE for all involved. This is possible if on your part you treat it as confidential and with the utmost secrecy it deserves. Please note that your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. Hope that you will not disappoint us. I want to assure you that my partners and I are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee that the funds will be secure. Please remember to treat this matter as very confidential, because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active government service and will want to retire honorably. DO FURNISH ME WITH YOUR CONTACT PHONE/FAX NUMBERS SO THAT WE CAN PROGRESS FURTHER. I wait in anticipation of your cooperation. Yours faithfully, DR.GEORGE THEMBA ok i really want to screw with these idiots before i turn them in to the FBI... any suggestion? lol anyone know a govt bank acct number? that would be priceless... ooooh or maybe an unlisted number to an FBI branch somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInSpace Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 Some greedly little suckes must be falling for that if it's still around. I recieved this same letter during the past summer via fax at the office I work in. In fact, the office recieved 3 faxes, over time, the one above and two others that were different but similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolferz Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 Looks like the same old Juwannalottamoney Phishing scam. I know of one guy who says he turned the scam around on them. He stated that he had suckered the scammers into sending him some cash. Toss it in the round file or the recycle bin with the rest of the rubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolferz Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 "Stupid is as stupid does my momma always said." > Forrest Gump "There's a sucker born every minute" > P. T. Barnum "If it looks too good to be true, It isn't" > Murphy's laws One would think that Interpol would be working to shut these scammers down. Let's get a mercenary force together and fly over there and greet "them" at the airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 quote:These are old classic scams.really? lol maybe ill send him a bunch of fake numbers... hmmm or maybe the numbers to my ex wifes bank account! woohooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 ummm ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DocHoliday Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Yup, I got a snail mail "from Nigeria" years ago. It was actually on this nice heavy textured paper with an actual logo on it. Pretty convincing. I heard that recently "the wife" of late Arafat is sending out similar "requests" for help transferring funds out of Palestine. It never ends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenth00 Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Hey Greyfox, here's an idea: Get chumy with a high level person in a bank. Then make up a special nonfunctional account number he or someone at the bank would recognize. Give this number to one of these scam spammers. When the shaisters (sp?) run the account maybe he/she could get their account number. And now the beauty part comes in. Take their account number and respond to another scam spammer ad: it's great! Like feeding a dog to a dog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInSpace Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Got this one in the fax at work the other day. Notice there's nothing on the top of this page as to who sent it. They are getting good but you can still tell it's a scam. Scam Letter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grayfox Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 omg blatant scammage... some of this is actually comedic... only bad thing is the ******* has the gall to use a tragedy such as that bombing to try something like this... you should reply with the name heywood jablowmi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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