It would seem that the Nigerian officials in the email below have long withheld funds that are rightfully mine. So, after I give them all my banking information, my social security number, my mother’s maiden name, my blood type and my Myers-Briggs letters, they will send me vast amounts of money to put in my bank account. Isn’t this SO nice of them??
Foreign Operation Dept
Tinubu Square, Lagos
DATE: 24/1/2008.
Our ref CBN/TD/0021/07
Attn: Beneficiary: Fabulous personal start, eh?
RE: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION OF OLD CONTRACT/INHERITANCE ARREARS. We have the pleasure in informing you of an approval obtained today from the president and commander in chief of the armed forces Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The Senate Committee on Contract/Inheritance Payments to pay the entire amount owed and due to you in settlement of fund.
We have noted with concern the wrongful withholding of your long overdue payment by a syndicate of corrupt public officers who made several unsuccessful attempts to divert your funds into their corrupt private accounts overseas. Hmm…check it out – “corrupt”used TWICE in one sentence!
This discovery was made recently by a report submitted to my office by the President and the Senate Committee for the Review of Foreign Debts. Based on this approval, we have already credited the entire sum (how much??? C’mon! Tell me!!) in you favour through our overseas paying bank. Please, kindly reconfirm your details and the Receiving Bank details to confirm with what we have in our records to avoid wrongful diversion.
On behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, we regret all financial losses you may have incurred in the past as a result of official misconduct and we wish to record here our appreciation for the great patience exhibited by you and members of your company in waiting for this payment.
Congratulations!
please contact me in myprivateE-MAIL:stanleyeke000@live.com
Yours truly,
Rev. Stanley Eke
TREASURY CONTROLER
Foreign Operation Dept/Treasury (CBN).
NOTE: That we have made the lodgment of your funds in our overseas correspondence company’s account with the HSBC bank in London for onward transfer to you.
(Smacking hands together) I’m gonna be rolling in it like a little piggy…
Wait. If any of YOU have EVER received an email like this, remember – the money’s MINE!
Snort.
Have you seen the t.v. ad where the guy in a suit and with a briefcase is giving this spiel to a woman on the bus? It’s almost funnier out loud than it is on an email….
I would keep the Myers-Briggs letters under close wrap. Once those get out, they OWN you.
I once was in a business deal with a guy who was going to finance the whole deal. I found out too late that the money he said he had was all from one of these nigerian email scams.
The deal fell through only after I had lost $30 000 because of this fool.
Tim, OUCH, I’m sorry to hear that. My husband was also to reap the benefits of deal we didn’t know would be financed this way and fortunately we hadn’t committed money. Yet. It was close, though.