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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
E-mail scam of the week
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dear,Sir
I am sending you this e-mail letter because of its urgency,secondly in the next few months from now i will be retiring from active government service and i want to use this fund stated below for investment purposes in your country through your able assistance.i know that this not the legal way of contacting you for a business relationship of this magnitude. but sorry i have to take this step based on the urgency of what i needed from you.
I am Mr.Joseph Diara,The personal assistant to the late wife of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria Mrs Stella Obasanjo who died in spain after surgery a year and 7 months Ago.
I am in possession of her contract money of US$19.3MILLION, This fund is currently in the custody of our paying bank (Central Bank Of Nigeria) awaiting immediate claim.I have concluded every arrangement to make you clam this fund on our behalf as the contractor/Beneficiary who executed the contract at the child welfare Fund housing estate and computer institute in Abuja awarded to her by her husband the president.
Please,If you are serious and interested in handling this transaction from your end, Do notify me by email now for more details. but note that there is no risk attached in this deal.
Note also that i have now been re-deployed to the presidency as special assistant to the president.
Yours Sincerely, Mr.Joseph Diara.
Someone in control of $19.3 million should have better software that perhaps contains spell-check.
Don’t fall for this stuff folks! Banks will not send you unsolicited e-mails telling you that you need to verify your account information. Delete them or forward them to the security of the bank in question.
