Posted on 10/18/2002 11:43:04 AM PDT by meandog
I received the following over e-mail. I wonder if I could get some help from FReepers in the suspicion that perhaps this is being bantied about....
From the desk of:-
MRS GRACE ITA
C/O Barrister Chike Egobia
Lagos Nigeria
Sir,
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
I am Grace Ita (mrs) widow of the late Col. Kulu Ita the former governor of Kano State of Nigerian. My late husband was one of the victims of the November ADC Aircraft Boeing 722 that crashed in Lagos.
I have just been informed by family attorney Barrister Chike Egobia that my late husband operated a secret account with fictitious name in a Nigeria bank into which total sum of Nineteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($19.5) was transferred and credited in his favour. The attorney now advised me to seek in confidence a foreign account into which this fund could be transferred for disbursement as directed by my late husband in his will.
It has been resolved that 25% will be your share for nominating an account for this purpose and any other assistance you will give in that regard. 10% has been mapped out to payback all local and international expenses, which may be, incurred in the transfer process and 5% has been conceded to the local bank manager here assisting facilitating the transfer.
Finally, 60% will come to myself and my children and good part of this shall be directed towards executing his will which is to buy shares and stocks in foreign country to securities his children’s future to facilitate the conclusion of this transaction if accepted do send to me promptly by fax through family attorney, the following.
1. The account number to be used for remittance
2. Name and address of your bank
3. Fax and telephone numbers, through which you will be contacted
4. Promptly whenever you attorney/ assistance may be required
Please note that i have been assured that the transaction will be concluded in ten (10) banking working days upon my receiving from you the above listed information will commence the process of retrieving the will immediately i hear from you.
May at this point emphasize the high level of confidentiality, which this business demands hope you will not betray the trust and confidence, which is reposed in you. However, you may need to give me sufficient assurance that you will not sit on this fund when it is finally remitted into your account.
Please direct your reply by email to my box in which the family attorney will communicate with him towards effective completion of this transaction.
Regards.
Grace Ita (Mrs)
Great, that means they'll start over.
Everyone else gets Nigerian scam letters, but I never do. It is ruining my self-esteem.
You gotta figure that if there are people dumb enough to be Democrats, then there also must be people dumb enough to give out personal bank information.
You would hope . . .
But that's what makes Rats
Replying to the email is ill advised. Why take a chance on opening the flood gates? Ignore it and delete and block the sender.
My pin numbers and bank accounts.
Nigeria needs our help as does most of the African diaspora.
This is the funniest post of the day. God bless!
Kidding folks, just kidding...
Here's the deal: The scammer tells you that if you help sneak a fabulous sum of money out of Nigeria or some similar third world pesthole, he'll allow a lot of it to stick to your fingers. All he needs is the serial number of YOUR bank account. People who have fallen for this (there was a bunch of them about five years ago, and evidently enough new ones recently to keep this scam running) find their bank accounts have been emptied rather than enlarged. The money might be traced part of the way through one or more foreign banks. It turns out letters sent from foreign countries on impressive looking stationery are fake. The Nigerian authorities are appallingly ineffectual at picking up the investigation; partly because (it is widely suspected) that they either have gotten a share of the loot or they expect you to pay them cash for their efforts, and partly because they don't have a whole lot of sympathy for prosperous Americans in general and especially not for Americans who got ripped off trying to violate the Nigerian banking and tax laws.
You could report this to the FBI and the Secret Service.
Just send in your money and forget about it.
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