Nigerian Scam If you can be a trusted partner,I will make a deal with you. THE DEAL: - We want to transfer the sum or $40 million into your account. This money still lingers in the suspence account of our Apex bank The Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN). - Adequate arrangement has been made to fix a contract which you executed for the government here through my ministry. - We will now use your name or your company's name as the beneficiary contractor that executed the said contract which has duely been completed and commissioned by me committe to proccess the payment of the said sum into the bank account you will provide. - Adequate arrangement has been made for the proccessing and obtaining of all genuine documents including tax clearances and certificates, drug-free certificates and terorism free certificates from the relevant government ministries which will legally back-up the movement of the money into your country. - We offer you a 25% of the total sum as compensation while the rest of it, you will keep for us. Every other risk that could be anticipated is adequately covered as this money hitherto, belongs to nobody as we did that to take care of ourselves. If you can confidentially do this with me, write back to me immediately for full details of the deal. If you prefer oral explanation, forward your private telephone number so that I will call you for oral discussions. Best Regards. Dr. (name omitted on request)
Director - General (D-G) Finance & Accounts and Chairman, Contract Awards Committe, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing Lagos Nigeria.
The name on the above letter has been omitted. It seems that the name used by the sender is actually an esteemed businessman in Rio de Janeiro who does business in Nigeria. We need to remind ourselves that anyone can easily use our name and reputation to operate a scam over the internet. Here is another letter with a little different slant but the same old Nigerian scam.
From: "Williams Nana"
Dear Sir,
I do hope this letter will not come to you as a surprise. It was borne out
of my desire to share a mutual business relationship with you. My name
is Williams Nana, 37years, a Ghana National married with a wife and a
Son. I work as an administrative Secretary to STANDARD SECURITY
FINANCE COY. LTD in Accra-Ghana.
I got your information via the internet while searching for a reliable partner
for this transaction, I decided to contact you believing that by the grace
of God, you will accept to be my partner in this business. I earn a salary
of ¢1.4M - US$200 equivalent monthly. I joined the services of this company in 1991 as an office assistant. I decided to contact you believing that you will accept to be my partner in this business.
I have been working with this company for nine years. Within this period,
I have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads of States
and top government functionaries have been using STANDARD
SECURITIES to move huge sums of money USD, Pound sterling,
French France - (Cash) to their foreign partners. They bring in these
consignments of money cash and secretly declare the contents as
jewelleries, gold, diamond, precious stones, family treasure, documents
etc. Gen. Sani Abacha of Nigeria (dead), Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire
(dead) Foday Sankoy of Siera - Leone. Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria
etc. All these people have hundreds of consignments deposited with
STANDARD SECURITIES. Their foreign partners, friends and relatives,
are claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them are lying here
unclaimed for as much as 15 years. No body may ever come for them
because in most cases, the documents of deposit are never available
to any body except the depositors most of them dead.
Since the inception of the 2000 millennium, STANDARD SECURITIES
MANAGEMENT changed the procedure of claims of consignments.
As soon as you are able to produce all the secret information as contained
in the secret file of any consignment, it will be released to you upon demand. From our record, more than 65 consignments belonging to Gen Abacha/ Mobutu Sese Seko, has been claimed in the past twelve months. This is why I am soliciting for your co-operation and assistance. Gen. Abacha has 36 consignments deposited with several names and codes. 25 have been claimed in the past six months. Since he's dead, his first son is dead in a plane crash, the second son is facing trial for murder and embezzlement in Abuja and Lagos and the family members are under restricted arrest without communication.
I have finished every arrangement for you to come and claim consignment
No 1200 containing USD16M. My duty is to supply you with all the required
information and documents by fax and courier. You will deal directly with the
management. The procedure is simple: - You will apply officially to the
Director of Operations of STANDARD SECURITIES for the release of
consignment No 1200. They will demand some documents and secret
codes. You will then call me; I'll supply you with every detailed information.
fax it to them.
As soon as they confirm it to be correct. They will invite you for the collection.
If you do not want to come to Accra, you can arrange with them to
transfer the consignment to anywhere on agreement. No body will
ever know I am involved in the deal except the Lawyer who will write
an agreement for us.
I'll suggest upon conclusion we share 50 - 50. At the successful conclusion
of the deal, you'll arrange for me and my family to come over to your country.
I assure you that the business have been hatched for (3) three years now,
it is very secured and risk free. You can get back to me on fax or e-mail
providing to me your personal phone and fax numbers for further explanations
and directives on the procedure.
I wait for your immediate response.
Yours Sincerely,
Williams Nana
And yet another Nigerian scam. How do these guys find us?
Dear Sir,
I am MR.IBRAHIM GUEI, the son of late GENERAL ROBERT GUEI Ex-Military
Head of State of Ivory Coast, who was murdered along with the
interior minister on the 19th of September 2002.
.
I contacted you because of my need to deal with persons whom my
family and I have had no previous personal relationships. Since the
murder of my father, I have been subjected to all sorts of
harassments and intimidation with lots of negative reports emananting
from the Government and the Press about my family, the present
Government of LAURENT GBAGBO has also ensured that out bank accounts
are frozen and all assets seized.
It is in view of this that I seek your co-operation and assistance in
the transfer of this sum of Twenty Seven United States Dollars only
(US$27,000,000.00) being the very last of my family fund in my
possession and control. After the murder of my father, the present
Government seized all our properties and froze all our accounts both
local and international.
My only hope now is this cash my father carefully packed and
deposited as Artifacts with a Securty/Finance Company outside Ivory
Coast, this sum of US$27M can easily be withdrawn or paid to a
recommended beneficiary. The security/Finance Company based on my
instructions will release the fund to you. You are to be presented
as my business partner who will be fronting for me in subsequent
ventures and in truth you will be fronting for me in the areas of
business you deem profitable.
To show my preparedness and appreciation to conduct this business
with you, I shall give you and your family US$5.4M of the funds and
20% commission on all proceeds realized from the investment of this
fund. Also, US$1.35M is to be set aside for lany eventual cost that
may occur in the process of this transaction.
Please, I need your full support and co-operation for the success of
this venture. I plead with you to treat as urgent and confidential.
This is a delicate issue, which demands a great decree of secrecy,
have my current political status in mind.
Also, endeavor to contat me through the email address( Ibrahimg2@mail.com)for confidentail reasons
I await your immediate response.
sincerely,
MR.IBRAHIM GUEI .
You can expect to see similar letters coming out of Afghanistan and Iraq. You wonder how anyone could actually believe the Nigerian scam since it has been around so long and has been so well publicized. How could anyone really believe one of these letters? The answer is that greed blinds us to reality. To parapharse PT Barnum, "there's a new sucker signing onto the internet every minute".
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