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Alert! Need Help, possible Scam Artist
e-mail | 10.`18.02

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)


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To: meandog
Without a doubt..... get it the curly salute...
61 posted on 10/18/2002 12:23:53 PM PDT by hosepipe
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To: Dick Bachert
WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT tell them to go F**K themselves.

< chuckle> Sounds as if you speak from experience there? ;)

62 posted on 10/18/2002 12:24:23 PM PDT by FourtySeven
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To: meandog
Back away! A number of weeks ago several articles appeared in the local paper--Spokesman Review--where a number of people in north Idaho and Washington state fell for internet or fax messages about quick get rich schemes coming out of Nigeria. All the people that have fallen for these schemes have lost their savings, jobs, reputations, homes, etc. All the schemes are variation on the same theme--playing on your greed--you put up some money and the financial windfall is "beyond avarice." If she is a colonel's wife and already has a lawyer, don't you think that she has the money and the contacts to place the money in accounts herself? She's already displayed computer knowledge by finding you. If you have any "smarts" at all, you better run for cover.
63 posted on 10/18/2002 12:26:06 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: dirtboy
Talk about overlooking the obvious! I am duely corrected. LOL
64 posted on 10/18/2002 12:26:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: rface
where should I send my bank account numbers to?

Send them to me ;-)

65 posted on 10/18/2002 12:29:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: dighton
I've never gotten one either. Maybe we should start a support group. NNA - Nigerian Neglectees Anonymous.

"Hi, my name is Dighton, and I've been neglected by Nigeria."

66 posted on 10/18/2002 12:31:57 PM PDT by agrace
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To: meandog
This scam was around before wide use of the Internet. I received a snail mail letter version years ago...I turned it into the Post Office.
67 posted on 10/18/2002 12:34:22 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: meandog
If you want to give the propagator of this scam a little grief, save the header info into a file ( just to make it easy to search ) and go here:

-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...

68 posted on 10/18/2002 12:35:52 PM PDT by backhoe
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To: agrace
Hey, this is series.
69 posted on 10/18/2002 12:36:49 PM PDT by ChadsDad
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To: meandog
I get about 10 of these a day. Very annoying.
70 posted on 10/18/2002 12:38:15 PM PDT by Vicki
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To: Vicki
Hmmm, not bad, up to 70 responses so far. Did anyone really believe the original poster was curious about the validity of their Nigerian scam letter? Usually, experienced Net users recognize trolls from the get go. The larger question is: why troll FR? Is it really that slow right now?
71 posted on 10/18/2002 12:44:25 PM PDT by Snerfling
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To: Ingtar
Caught a piece on one of the news programs while flipping channels. A lady at a law firm fell for one of these and ran out of money, she stole more than $300,000 from the firm to keep sending more fees. (I think this one was a mine to be opened.) Yes, there are still people caught by these scams. People who should know better.

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.

72 posted on 10/18/2002 12:53:07 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Dimensio
About a month ago Yahoo was notorious for hosting a domain used by a lot of scammers for hosting their e-mail dropboxes for the scam. It has been speculated that Yahoo was directly profiting from these scams (it is documented that Yahoo profits from criminal activity through their stores).

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.

73 posted on 10/18/2002 12:55:07 PM PDT by agrace
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To: Rocko
I received a snail mail letter version years ago...I turned it into the Post Office.

Are you a magician? I would like to have seen that.

74 posted on 10/18/2002 12:57:18 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: agrace
If your determination of Yahoo's involvement came from a "From" address ending in @Yahoo.com, then they may well have been innocent. The "From" header in e-mail is incredibly easy to forge, and yahoo.com addresses are often chosen. The only real way to determine the source of a message is through the Received: header, which lists the IP address of at least the last mailserver from which the message originated.

On the other hand, if the spammer claimed a contact e-mail address with Yahoo, then Yahoo is responsible for killing the account of the spammer. Unfortunately, it's not yet legal to kill the spammer himself.
75 posted on 10/18/2002 1:09:08 PM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Skywalk
Last one I got I replied saying I required a VERIFIABLE physical address and telephone number prior to doing any business with them. Never DID get a reply and I have the perfect bank account for them to put the money into... it has none of its own now. So they would be able to take nothing out!
76 posted on 10/18/2002 1:11:41 PM PDT by dcwusmc
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To: rface
"where should I send my bank account numbers to?"

To me, of course.

77 posted on 10/18/2002 2:46:45 PM PDT by Tom Jefferson
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To: Hank Kerchief
r u saing mi kopi eddeteng sux?
78 posted on 10/18/2002 2:52:25 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: 3AngelaD
Hilarious!! I can't stop laughing. Great response.
79 posted on 10/18/2002 2:52:31 PM PDT by Tom Jefferson
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To: Rocko
r u saing...

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

80 posted on 10/18/2002 3:05:50 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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