- The proliferation of Nigerian internet email scams continues
to grow. We often receive several a day and the variations of the pitch
arewide-ranging. BEWARE: do not respond or engage any of these emails...many
have lost considerable amounts of money to these crooks.
-
- Below are two examples, the first is a typical con sent
out by a Nigerianor other African hustler, and the second a parody of the
genre by an unknown author forwarded from Scoop Media in New Zealand...
-
- From: Mrs. Mariam Sese Seko
- <mariamsese4@rediffmail.com>
- To:
- Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME.
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:18:41
-
- FROM: MRS. M SESE-SEKO
-
- ATTN: I AM MRS. MARIAM SESE-SEKO WIDOW OF
- LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE-SEKO OF ZAIRE?
- NOW KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC).
-
- I AM MOVED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER, THIS WAS IN CONFIDENCE
CONSIDERING MY
- PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION. I ESCAPED ALONG WITH
MY HUSBAND AND TWO
- OF OUR SONS TIMOTHY AND BASHER OUT OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF CONGO (DRC) TO
- ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE WHERE MY FAMILY AND I SETTLED,
WHILE WE LATER MOVED TO
- SETTLED IN MORROCO WHERE MY HUSBAND LATER DIED OF CANCER
DISEASE.
-
- HOWEVER DUE TO THIS SITUATION WE DECIDED TO CHANGED MOST
OF MY HUSBAND'S BILLIONS
- OF DOLLARS DEPOSITED IN SWISS BANK AND OTHER COUNTRIES
INTO OTHER FORMS OF MONEY CODED
- FOR SAFE PURPOSE BECAUSE THE NEW HEAD OF STATE OF (DR)
MR LAURENT KABILA HAS MADE
- ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SWISS GOVERNMENT AND OTHER EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES TO FREEZE
- ALL MY LATE HUSBAND'TREASURES DEPOSITED IN SOME EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES. HENCE MY CHILDREN
- AND I DECIDED LAYING LOW IN AFRICA TO STUDY THE SITUATION
TILL WHEN THINGS GETS BETTER,
- LIKE NOW THAT PRESIDENT KABILA IS DEAD AND THE SON TAKING
OVER (JOSEPH KABILA).
-
- ONE OF MY LATE HUSBAND'S CHATEAUX IN SOUTHERN FRANCE
WAS CONFISCATED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, AND AS SUCH I HAD TO CHANGE MY
IDENTITY SO THAT MY INVESTMENT WILL NOT BE TRACED AND CONFISCATED. I HAVE
DEPOSITED THE SUM OF EIGHTEEN MLLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS
- (US$18,000,000,00.) WITH A SECURITY COMPANY, FOR SAFEKEEPING.
THE FUNDS ARE SECURITY
- CODED TO PREVENT THEM FROM KNOWING THE CONTENT. WHAT
I WANT YOU TO DO IS TO
- INDICATE YOUR INTEREST THAT YOU WILL ASSIST US BY RECEIVING
THE MONEY ON OUR BEHALF IN
- EUROPE.
-
- I WANT YOU TO ASSIST IN INVESTING THIS MONEY, BUT I WILL
NOT WANT MY IDENTITY REVEALED.
-
- I WILL ALSO WANT TO BUY PROPERTIES AND STOCK IN MULTI-NATIONAL
COMPANIES AND TO ENGAGE
- IN OTHER SAFE AND NON-SPECULATIVE INVESTMENTS. MAY I
AT THIS POINT EMPHASIS THE HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY, WHICH THIS BUSINESS
DEMANDS, AND HOPE YOU WILL NOT BETRAY THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE, WHICH I
REPOSE IN YOU IN CONCLUSION, IN THE EVENT YOU ARE INTERESTED TO ASSIST
US I WILL LIKE YOU TO CONTACT MY LAWYER WHO I HAVE STATIONED IN
- HOLLAND TO WITHNESS THE TRANSACTION TO IS CONCLUTION.YOU
CAN REACH HIM ON IS DIRECT LINE WHICH IS +31-613 688 601 OR VIA MAIL
-
- andrewjacobson@rediffmail.com HIS NAME IS ANDREW JACOBSON
AND
- I HAVE THE FULL TRUST IN HIM.
-
- I SINCERELY WILL APPRECAITE YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AS
- SOON AS POSSIBLE.
- REGARDS,
- MRS M. SESE SEKO.
-
-
- IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED :
- HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
-
- FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
- 202.456.1414 / 202.456.1111
- FAX: 202.456.2461
-
- DEAR SIR / MADAM,
-
- I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY
SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT
SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE.
I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON
TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE
TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.
-
- I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO
SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED
IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING
A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN
THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY
SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY.
-
- IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN
VICE- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE
GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL
REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL
VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO
SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE
OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.
-
- MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN
1991 AT A COST OF SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT
OF THAT COST, THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED
BY HIS PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES,
AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS.
BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE
REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.
-
- MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING
THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE
PETROLEUM ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING
HIM FROM POWER. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO
SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY
COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 -
$200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT.
-
- WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT
BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY
FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE.
OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS
AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE HALLIBURTON
OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE
VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER.
-
- I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO
TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID
IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU
MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL.
-
- I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE
ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE
WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I
ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100%
LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT
OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER.
-
- I PRAY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND OUR PLIGHT. MY FAMILY AND
OUR COLLEAGUES WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL. PLEASE REPLY IN STRICT CONFIDENCE
TO THE CONTACT NUMBERS BELOW.
-
- SINCERELY WITH WARM REGARDS,
-
- GEORGE WALKER BUSH
-
- Switchboard: 202.456.1414
- Comments: 202.456.1111
- Fax: 202.456.2461
-
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