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)
< chuckle> Sounds as if you speak from experience there? ;)
Send them to me ;-)
-http://www.all-nettools.com/tools1.htm--
and use the online tools to locate the webmasters e-mail addresses of all the servers in the chain that sent it to you. Then email them the header info, with a complaint. Works great for viri, too...
Saw that too, It was on one of the broadcast network's evening news programs. The scammers changed it to some other African country and made it sound more impressive. This was one poor piece of journalism. When they interviewed the President of the company, he was saying he didn't know how the accountant (the lady) could take all of their money. It was two large transfers. I was about to feel sorry for him but was waiting for the reporter to ask if his company had any safeguards but they never asked. Most companies have rules where a top corporate official needs to approve purchases over a certain amount. It looks like his didn't, the accountant had a free hand. She's on her way to jail but said she's still confident the money will show up. LOL.
Interesting - For about six months or so, I was getting hammered with spam that mostly originated with Yahoo. No address was valid (after a while I checked a couple, figured it couldn't hurt at that point, and they all came back unanswerable), and when I contacted Yahoo directly, they claimed they could do nothing about it. They said that their domain name was being used illegally, but they didn't ask for specific addresses or email forwards or any additional info, which seemed strange to me - you'd think they would want to find out who was abusing their system.
Anyway, it never stopped, I had to block the whole domain name, which of course still allowed me to receive them but they were just dumped into my deleted items file. Finally I just changed email addresses. I have no idea how it started and then snowballed into so many, several a day, of all kinds, ranging from get rich quick offers to life insurance to porn.
Are you a magician? I would like to have seen that.
To me, of course.
Your editing was fine. I was just pulling your leg. Everyone around here says something like that whenever the expression "turn ... into" is used.
If the police ever say around here, "you must turn your guns into the police station," the only response they will get will be, "if we do that there are going to be a lot of police stations."
Hank
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