Have you received something like this?
THE FOLLOWING IS A OPEN "MONEY LAUNDRY" PROPOSAL THAT HAS REACHED MY E-MAIL. DO ANY OF YOU HAVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS KIND OF CRIMINAL METHODS AND HOW TO TRACK THE ORIGIN? ******************************************* De : "george uduak" <g_dk_55@hotmail.com> Para : g_dk_55@hotmail.com Asunto: Partnership Proposal Fecha : Thu, 07 Feb 2002 05:20:34 +0000 Dear Sir/MADAM, REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence. We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said trapped funds. The source of this fund is as follows: During the past Military Regimes here in Nigeria, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contract which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. As a result, the Democratic Government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo deemed it neccessary to set up a Contract Review Panel to investigate and recommend accordingly. After a thorough investigation, we discovered a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria. We (members) have unanimously agreed to transfer part of these funds to a foreign account However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this Panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the Panel to look for an Overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US$26,400,000.00 (Twenty Six Million, Four Hundred Thousand US. Dollars). Adequate logistics and strategies had been worked out to ensure a successful transfer with your maximum co-operation. Hence we are writing you this letter. We have agreed to share the money thus: 1. 25% for the account owner (you) 2. 65% for us (the officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses. We wish to commence the importation business with our own share, please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence and conclude the transfer latest in ten (10) banking days from the date of receipt of the following information through the above e-mail: your current tel/fax number, your name/company name and address. The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively and these will be used to apply for payment and doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this mail as soon as possible. I will bring you into the complete picture of this project when I have heard from you. Yours Faithfully, DR. GEORGE UDUAK _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos es la manera más sencilla de compartir e imprimir sus fotos: http://photos.latam.msn.com/Support/WorldWide.aspx
Cristian Berrio wrote:
THE FOLLOWING IS A OPEN "MONEY LAUNDRY" PROPOSAL THAT HAS REACHED MY E-MAIL. DO ANY OF YOU HAVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS KIND OF CRIMINAL METHODS AND HOW TO TRACK THE ORIGIN?
Generally this is known as the "Nigerian Scam" it has nothing to do with money laundering at all in the end:) just fraud. Some places estimate that over 20 years it has been very lucrative fraud, upwards of $2billion u.s. As to tracking the origin, good luck. it has been going on since the 1980's more or less, and if you get one person, there are plenty to take their place. two places to look at: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ http://www.2bangkok.com/2bangkok/Scams/Nigerian.shtml
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don't know anything about tracking the source of the legality of what is proposed but I do know that a friend of mine got caught up in the exact same scam a couple of years ago, by fax rather than Email. he thought it worth a shot and ended up loosing £2000. he kept putting forward money supposedly for legal documents etc. he eventually pulled out when he was informed that the money was held in a bank in New York and he'd have to pay ten percent of it's value in order to buy an international transfer authorization or something. funnily enough I received the exact same message as the one in quoted below this morning. must be doing the rounds. Adrian Higginbotham. SURFACE (Salford University, Research Focus on Accessible Environments). tel: (44_-161-2954939, fax (44)-161-2955011, Email A.higginbotham@salford.ac.uk textphone (44)-161-2953599. web: http://www.scpm.salford.ac.uk/surface/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Cristian Berrio <cristianberrioz@hotmail.com> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: [Air-l] Have you received something like this?
THE FOLLOWING IS A OPEN "MONEY LAUNDRY" PROPOSAL THAT HAS REACHED MY E-MAIL. DO ANY OF YOU HAVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS KIND OF CRIMINAL METHODS AND HOW TO TRACK THE ORIGIN?
******************************************* De : "george uduak" <g_dk_55@hotmail.com> Para : g_dk_55@hotmail.com
Asunto: Partnership Proposal
Fecha : Thu, 07 Feb 2002 05:20:34 +0000
Dear Sir/MADAM,
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.
We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said trapped funds.
The source of this fund is as follows: During the past Military Regimes here in Nigeria, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contract which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. As a result, the Democratic Government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo deemed it neccessary to set up a Contract Review Panel to investigate and recommend accordingly. After a thorough investigation, we discovered a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria. We (members) have unanimously agreed to transfer part of these funds to a foreign account However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this Panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the Panel to look for an Overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US$26,400,000.00 (Twenty Six Million, Four Hundred Thousand US. Dollars). Adequate logistics and strategies had been worked out to ensure a successful transfer with your maximum co-operation. Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus: 1. 25% for the account owner (you) 2. 65% for us (the officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.
We wish to commence the importation business with our own share, please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence and conclude the transfer latest in ten (10) banking days from the date of receipt of the following information through the above e-mail: your current tel/fax number, your name/company name and address.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively and these will be used to apply for payment and doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this mail as soon as possible. I will bring you into the complete picture of this project when I have heard from you.
Yours Faithfully,
DR. GEORGE UDUAK
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There has been some correspondence on the Nigerian scam on Nettime. I got my first of these back in the mid 90s. I wroite back to 'george' telling him/her he/she is an idiot to believe there's anyone left who hasn't heard about the nigerian scam. Hotmail, eh? sean Sean Cubitt Screen and Media Studies Akoranga Whakaata Pürongo The University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Hamilton New Zealand T (direct) +64 (0)7 856 2889 extension 8604 T/F (department) +64 (0)7 838 4543 seanc@waikato.ac.nz http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film/ Digital Aesthetics http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/digita The Dundee Seminars http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/sean/index.html
A new twist on an old scam: ENRON CHAIRMAN QUITS TO JOIN NIGERIAN FIRM Asks For Your Confidential Assistances, Bank Accounts Numbers http://satirewire.com/news/jan02/scam.shtml
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Steve Jones