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Apparently an uncle of mine died last week in Nigeria when his jeep crashed:( However the email informing me of this advised me that I am his sole surviving relative and I stand to inherit 67 million dollars ;)
Unfortunately there are certain administrative difficulties to overcome in order to release the money.:)
The start of great things for me ? Or a lame attempt at advance fee fraud ??? ;)
Scam's been around for years. Lots of suckers even got ------ in (fill in the blanks). Maybe a Dr. something or other has emailed you too, with something similar.. from Nigeria. Looks pretty official! :)
I'm not a financial advisor BTW.
Yeah let me guess, all they want is your bank account details and a sample copy of yor signature !!!
The Nigerian Scam Defined
Common variations on the Scam include "overinvoiced" or "double invoiced" oil or other supply and service contracts where your Bad Guys want to get the overage out of Nigeria; crude oil and other commodity deals; a "bequest" left you in a will; and "money cleaning" where your Bad Guy has a lot of currency that needs to be "chemically cleaned" before it can be used and he needs the cost of the chemicals.
I was reading recently about the office manager of a law firm who fell for the scam and lost a lot of the firm's money. The poor woman's in jail now. Apparently, those kinds of scams are still netting millions every year.
Your uncle and mine were in the same jeep :).
Received this twice at work over the weekend.
Quote:
Tenders Committee
South Africa Department of
Minerals & Energy
Pretoria, South Africa.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT
I am Dr.John Molito, 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 via the internet and I was mandated to seek your confidential co-operation in the execution of the project I am about to describe. 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 bills totalling Sixteen million, two hundred and fifty thousand US dollars (US$16.25M) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account to receive such funds. Moreso, 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.
This amount US$16.25M 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 that SHOULD YOU BE WILLING to assist us in this transaction, your share of the sum will be 25% of the total sum, 70% for us and the rest for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100%-SAFE for all involved. This is possible if on your part , you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Please note that your area of specialisation is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I wish to repose my confidence (which the committee vetoed) in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavour to contact me immediately by phone or fax, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. I want to assure you that my partners and myself are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee that our share will be secure. Please remember to treat this matter as a very confidential matter, because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active government service and.
Due to the funds we borrowed to process this project to this stage, time is of essence because of interest on borrowed funds. Also furnish me with your contact telephone and fax number, so that I can forward to you more information concerning the project.
I await in anticipation of your fullest cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.John Molito.
Very interesting Nix,
But you're only getting $4 million. I told you I stand to get a rather more impressive $67 million - and for absolutely no effort / expenditure on my part.
Will post further news from Barbados when I have any :)
KMIELKE123
a fool and his money are soon to be parted....sorry this is a big hoax...and you are being scammed big time
I wonder if i gave them my account details and they saw the amount of money I had or don't have as is more the case, they might feel pity and make a large donation. LOL
Nix,
I have a better idea - post your account details on this site and see if the members of these forums are as benevolent with their cash as they are with their time / expertise. We could have a new forum Cash Strapped. :)
http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=422
a bit of humour for ya about this....
:)
Rapmaster - that is absolutely classic.
I cannot believe how persistent Dr Ben was.
Very very funny - good find.
I just love the bit in the email Nix posted, where he needs assistance because the Civil Service Code of Conduct doesn't allow him to open an offshore account. Apparently there's nothing in it about stealing 16 million dollars, though :D
Make sure you save all those post cards your Uncle sent you. You will want them as momentos. Sorry to hear you have no family at this sad time, but man are you ever going to have a lot of friends all of a sudden to share your wealth. Don't forget all of us in your - Andrew:extended family" first when you want to share some of it. - Andrew
Am I the only who thinks this post may have wandered just a little off topic ??? :)
Off topic?,,off topic??? Considering this is the "internet" forum,,seems to be right up the ol' ALLEY to me!!! :D :p :D
Wer'e just havin some fun w/this. Besides I'm sure you would know if you had an uncle w/ that much $$$$$$ and not having to horse around on that "pidly little puter your on now" HEE HEE. Like I've said in an earlier post there are no Stupid ??'s, we may just get a little brain dead on ocassion trying to look for the complicated solution instead of the usually easy way out - Andrew
PS Welcome to VDr
Piddly little computer ????
Yeah right,
Best Wishes
KMIELKE123,
Los Alamos Research Dept :) :)
When my company president first received one of these requests a few years ago, we did the "right" thing and forwarded the source to the FBI, Interpol, and a couple of other international investigative and human rights organizations, hoping to at least make possible the apprehension of the individuals who were behind the hoax. Obviously, from this thread (and other common reports), this fraud is still circulating the net, and apparently actually fooling some folks.
The really interesting part of our experience was speaking to both the FBI and Interpol directly... the Nigerian government is actually the sponser of the fraud, so no extredition, nor any punitive activity is likely, since the government both approves and sponsers the activity to begin with. Pretty sorry state of affairs, huh?
Really makes me anxious to donate charitably to those locations in the world. :rolleyes:
Here's an interesting way to cash in on it. :)
https://discussions.virtualdr.com/im.../2002/11/4.gif