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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.
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By What in the...
May 16, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this
Opps….
By atl20g
May 16, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this
HOw can i get on his email list. i wnatto send monney to heem also. i need seple chekc but donnt knuw whet et are.
By zombieboy
May 16, 2007 6:56 PM | Link to this
People who fall for this scam DESERVE IT!!
I hate being the only person who got scammed!!
By Tony
May 16, 2007 7:11 PM | Link to this
People who fall for this type of scam are greedy, stupid or both.
By Apolcalpse_Watcher
May 17, 2007 5:05 AM | Link to this
For anyone on the receiving end of these “419 scam” emails, there are organized groups of people (with time of their hands) who make of sport of frustrating these scammers. text to be lind
By Apolcalpse_Watcher
May 17, 2007 5:06 AM | Link to this
For anyone on the receiving end of these “419 scam” emails, there are organized groups of people (with time of their hands) who make of sport of frustrating these scammers. text to be lind
By Fred
May 17, 2007 6:59 PM | Link to this
People trying to cheat someone who end up being cheated DESERVE IT. Screw them. Folks that get “scammed” by these letters are just scumbags trying to steal who get stolen from. Why waste MY taxpayer dollars trying to go after thieves who are targeting thieves?
Yo Steve, this one is older than the crust on Santa’s underwear. Is it the first time you heard it? Or was it a short week and you had to print something? The only folks who haven’t heard of the Nigerian scams are under the age of 8 or dumber than a box of rocks. I expect better of you, if you are having a short week, contact me, I’ll ghost write something better than this weak crap. Just give me your bank account money so I can transfer the funds into it………
By Fred
May 17, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this
Number Steve, bank account NUMBER, not money. It was a typo. I would NEVER think about the money that was IN your account while I was trying to wire you 50 brazillion dollars………..